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BIOGRAPHIES 



One Thousand Representative Men 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



ABBOT, Francis Ellingwood, son 

of Joseph Hale and Fanny (Larcom) Abbot, 
was born in Boston, November 6, 1836. 

His early education was obtained at 
home, and in the Boston public Latin 
school. Fitting for college, he entered 
Harvard in 1855, and was graduated with 
the class of 1859. He spent three years 
in the Harvard divinity school and Mead- 
ville (Pa.) Theological Seminary. It is a 
fitting tribute to the mother of the subject 
of this sketch that he has filially attributed 
his best education to her early training 
and blessed influence. 

Mr. Abbot was principal of the Mead- 
ville (Pa.) Female Seminary three years 
ending in June, 1S63, while still studying 
for his profession He was ordained min- 
ister of the Unitarian society in Dover, 
N. H., August 31, 1864, and resigned 
April I, 1868, to become minister of the 
Independent religious society in the 
same city. He resigned this position at 
the end of si.K months, because, in conse- 
quence of a famous law-suit (set forth at 
great length in the New Hampshire Re- 
ports, Vol. 53), the new society voted not 
to maintain its own independent position. 
He served as minister of the Independent 
society of Toledo, Ohio, from July, 1869, 
to March, 1873, and editor of the Toledo 
(afterward Boston) " Inde.x " from Janu- 
ary I, 1870, to July I, 1880. He kept a 
classical school for boys in New York 
until September, 1881, and has had since 
that time a "Home for I5oys " in Cam- 
bridge, fitting pupils for Harvard College 
l)y private instruction. 

Mr. Abbot was married in Nashua, 
N. H., August 3, 1859, to Katharine Fear- 



ing, the daughter of David and Susanna 
(Sherman) Loring. Of this union are three 
children living : Everett Vergnies (Har- 
vard 1886), Edward Stanley (Harvard 
1887), and Fanny Larcom Abbot. 

Mr Abbot received the degree of Ph. D. 
from Harvard University in 1881. He 
has published numerous articles, chiefly 
philosophical, in the " North American 
Review," "Christian Examiner," "Jour- 
nal of Speculative Philosophy," London 
" Fortnightly Review," London " Mind," 
etc. He published "Scientific Theism" 
through Little, Brown iS: Co., Boston, and 
Macmillan & Co., London, in 1885 ; three 
editions of this work have already ap- 
peared. 

ABBOTT, JOSIAH GARDNER, who 

traces his lineage back to the first settlers 
of this Commonwealth, was born in Chelms- 
ford, Middlesex county, November i, 1815. 

He is the second son of Caleb and Mercy 
(Fletcher) Abbott, descendants from the 
Puritan George Abbott, who came from 
Yorkshire, England, in 1630, and settled in 
Andover, and William Fletcher, who came 
from Devonshire, England, in 1640, and 
settled first in Concord, and finally, in 1651, 
in Chelmsford. 

After his foundation studies he was fitted 
for college under the instruction of Ralph 
Waldo Emerson. He entered Harvard 
at the early age of twelve, and was gradu- 
ated in the class of 1832. After taking 
his degree, he studied law with Nathaniel 
Wright, of Lowell, and was admitted to the 
bar in 1837. In 1840 he formed a part- 
nersliip with Samuel Brown, which termi- 
nated when he was appointed to the bench 
in i8? = . 



ABBOTT. 



ABBOTT. 



In 183S Judge Abbott was married to 
Caroline, daughter of the Hon. Edward 
St. Loe and Sarah Crease (Stackpole) Liver- 
more, of New Hampshire. Mr. Livermore 
was judge of the supreme court of New 
Hampshire and afterwards member of Con- 
gress from Massachusetts. Their children 
are : Caroline Mercy, Edward Gardner, 
Henry Livermore, Fletcher Morton, Wil- 
liam Stackpole, Samuel Appleton Browne, 
Sarah Livermore, Franklin Pierce, Arthur 
St. Loe Livermore, Grafton St. Loe, and 
Holker Welch Abbott. The first, Brevet- 
Major Edward G. .\bbott, a graduate of 
Harvard of i860, raised one of the first 




JOSIAH G ABBOTT. 

companies sworn into the volunteer service, 
and joined the 2d Massachusetts regiment. 
He was killed at the battle of Cedar 
Mountain. Brevet-Gen. Henry L. Abbott, 
a graduate of Harvard of i860, entered the 
20th Massachusetts regiment as lieutenant. 
He was killed in the battle of the Wilder- 
ness. Capt. Fletcher M. Abbott entered 
the 2d Massachusetts regiment as second 
lieutenant, and served through the war. 
After the war he took a degree of M. D. 
from Harvard. Of these children si.x are 
living: Fletcher Morton, Samuel, a grad- 
uate of Harvard, Sarah, Franklin, a grad- 
uate of Harvard law school, Grafton, a 
graduate of Harvard, and Holker. 



Judge Abbott had just reached his ma- 
jority when he was chosen as representative 
to the Legislature. In 1841 he was elected 
state senator. During his first term in the 
Senate he served as member of the rail- 
road and judiciary committees, and in his 
second term was chairman of the same. 

He is a Democrat, and has always been 
an acknowledged leader in his party. In 
1844 he was a delegate to the national 
Democratic convention at Baltimore, which 
nominated James Iv. Polk , and he has been 
a delegate, either from his district or the 
State at large, to all but two of the national 
Democratic conventions since, and been 
chosen chairman of the delegation for the 
seven last conventions. He has several 
times been chosen the candidate of his 
party for United States senator. 

Judge Abbott was on the staff of Gov. 
Marcus Morton. In 1853 he was a delegate 
to the Constitutional Convention, which 
consisted so largely of men of exceptional 
ability. Upon his retirement from the 
bench, having won an enviable reputation 
for judicial fairness and legal acumen, he 
removed to Boston, where he has since re- 
sided. In 1S74 he was elected member of 
Congress from the 4th congressional tlis- 
trict. He was chosen by his colleagues 
member of the Electoral Commission to 
determine the controverted result of the 
presidential election in 1876. The honor 
paid him was fully justified by the courage 
and ability shown in that trying position. 

From his entrance into professional life, 
Judge Abbott has taken and held a leading 
position, having probably tried as many 
cases as any member of the bar now liv- 
ing. He has great capacity for labor, and 
immense power of application — most im- 
portant qualities in the conducting of 
long and sharply contested jury trials. 

ABBOTT, William, son of Benjamin 
and Mary C. (Chase) Abbott, was born in 
Temple, Franklin county, .Maine, Novem- 
ber 25, 1834. 

His early education was obtained in the 
common schools in Maine till iS5i,when 
his father moved to East Douglas, Worces- 
ter county, Mass., where he attended the 
high school. 

His first business connection was in the 
country store of Jones, Abbott & Co., East 
Douglas. A few years later he formed 
the new partnership of Metcalf & Abbott, 
which continued for three years, when he 
bought out Mr. Metcalf, and for seven 
years conducted the business alone, the 
yearly sales increasing from twenty thou- 
sand to one hundred thousand dollars. .\t 



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ADAMS. 



the end of this time he retired from the 
store and became a dealer in real estate, 
manufacturer of himber, notary pubHc, 
collector and conveyancer. 

On the 3d of July, 1859, Mr. Abbott 
was married to Hannah M., daughter of 
Nelson and Hannah (.Morse) Potter. Their 
children are Nellie F. and Hattie G. Abbott. 

In 1874 Mr. Abbott served in the 
House of Representatives, and in 1879 ^"d 
1880 was a member of the Senate. For 
nine years he was chairman of the board 
of selectmen, assessor and town treasurer. 
He is now one of the trustees of the VVhit- 
insville Savings Bank, and one of the in- 
vestment committee. His present resi- 
dence is East Douglas. 

Mr. Abbott is distinctively a self-made 
man. When he was ciuite young his father 
lost his entire property by fire, and at the 
age of si.xteen he was obliged to make his 
own way in the world and do what he 
could in the way of support of the family. 
His energy overcame all obstacles, and he 
has succeeded in placing himself upon the 
list of successful men in Massachusetts. 

ADAMS, Charles Follen, son of Ira 

and Mary Elizabeth (Senter) Adams, was 
born in Dorchester, Norfolk county, April 
21, 1842. He was the youngest but one 
of ten children, and has now five sisters 
and three brothers living. 

He received a common school education, 
and leaving the grammar school in Dor- 
chester at fifteen years of age, went as 
a boy into the well-known house of N. I). 
Whitney & Co., Boston, to learn the busi- 
ness. He was afterwards salesman in the 
same house, then went into business for 
himself with John D. Clapp, under the 
firm name of j. D. Clapp & Co. In 1872 
he became a partner in the firm of Nichol- 
son & Adams, hair goods for ladies' wear, 
and later on made a change in business to 
that of furnishing supplies for the five, ten 
and twenty-five cent counters that have 
had such a phenomenal run — the firm 
name being Newell, Adams & Co. He 
sold out his interest January i, 18S5, and 
is now doing a manufacturing and com- 
mission business, in addition to his journal- 
istic work. 

At the age of twenty, in August, 1S62, 
he enlisted in the 13th regiment Massa- 
chusetts volunteers, and was in the battles 
of Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chan- 
cellorsville and Gettysburg — wounded in 
the latter and held prisoner for three days, 
when he was re-captured and taken to the 
hospitals in New York and Rhode Island. 
After his recovery he was detailed as ward- 



master in the convalescent hospital at 
Washington, where he remained until his 
term of service expired, in August, 1864. 
He returned home and established the 
business that has since demanded his at- 
tention. The literary portion of his life 
is only his diversion, never interfering with 
his methodical business habits. 




CHARLES F, ADAMS. 

Charles Follen Adams, however, is best 
known from his humorous and dialectic 
poems, he having sprung into recogni- 
tion at once upon the production of his 
'• Leedle Yawcob Strauss." His first effort 
at rhyme was written in 1870, and his first 
dialectic verse, " The Puzzled Dutchman," 
appeared in 1872. From that time he was 
an occasional contributor to Boston papers, 
"Oliver Optic's Magazine," "Scribner's 
Monthly," and others, until 1876, when 
" Leedle Yawcob Strauss" appeared in the 
"Detroit Free Press," since which time 
his poems have appeared in that paper, 
" Harper's Magazine," and other publica- 
tions. The house of Lee & Shepard 
published Mr. .Vdams's first volume of 
poems, entitled " Leedle Yawcob Strauss, 
and Other Poems." His second volume, 
entitled " Dialect Ballads," was published 
by Harper & Brothers, New York (1887), 
being a companion to the former volume. 
Mr. Adams was married in Boston, 



ADAMS. 



ADAMS. 



October ii, 1S70, to Hattie Louise, daugh- 
ter of James and Emily Dorcas (Sneil) 
Mills. Of this union are two ihiklren : 
Charles .Mills and Ella Paige Adams. 

ADAMS, Charles Francis, second 

son of Charles Francis and Abi.gail Brown 
(Brooks) Adams, was born in Boston, Mav 
27, 1835- 

He entered Harvard College in 1S52, 
and grailuateil in 1856. Choosing the law 
for his profession, he entered, as a student, 
the office of Richard H. Dana, Jr., of Bos- 
ton. He was admittetl to the bar Mav 7, 
1858. In February, 1S60, he was admitted 
to practice at the bar of the United States 
Supreme Court. The same year he resigneti 
his military commission which he held as 
adjutant of the 2d regiment, M. V. M., 
with rank of lieutenant. Later, he toi)k a 
trip through the West in company with Sen- 
ator Seward, during which he contributed 
to the New York papers several articles 
upon the political prospects of that region. 

In December, 1861, he was commis- 
sioned as first lieutenant in the ist Mas- 
sachusetts cavalry, and received his com- 
mission as captain in October, 1862. He 
participated in all the actions of his com- 
mand, and was on every march during the 
war. In January, 1864, the comjiany 
which he commanded — company I) — 
re-enlisted as a company, and came home 
on a furlough under his command. They 
were publicly received in Boston, January 
23, with an escort, and were welcomed in 
Faneuil Hall 'with speeches from the gov- 
ernor and other representative men. He 
was finally mustered out of the service 
July, 1865, with the brevet rank of briga- 
dier-general of volunteers. 

He has since devoted his attention 
chiefly to railroad matters. In 1869 he 
was appointeil a member of the board of 
railroad commissioners, and performed con- 
spicuous service for ten consecutive years, 
the last two, '78 and '79, serving as chair- 
man of the board. His reports attracted 
much attention, not only in the state but 
throughout the country, and he speedily 
became recognized as authority on matters 
relating to construction, maintenance, and 
management of railway lines. 

In 187 1, in connection with his brother 
Henry, an author, he published " Chapters 
of Erie and other Essays." In 1882 he 
was elected a member of the board of 
overseers of Harvard College, ami in 1884 
was chosen president of the Union Pacific 
Railway, since which time he has given 
undivided attention to the management of 
this important trunk line ; and while in 



some quarters it has been severelv criti- 
cised, yet the general verdict has been that 
the trust has been executed with rare fidel- 
ity, unquestioned integrity, and with re- 
markable success. 

The -Adams family has long been con- 
.spicuously influential, not only in state but 
in national affairs. From the time when 
Henry Adams received a grant of land 
in Braintree in 1636, and came over from 
Devonshire, England, with his eight sons 
to enter upon his possessions, there has 
not been a weak link in the brilliant chain of 
illustrious and remarkable men — men who 
have left their impress for good upon legis- 
lation, upon diplomacy, ujion all that has 
tended to give character and strength to 
our cherished institutions. 

Mr. .Adams was married in Newport, R. I., 
Nov. 8. 1865, to ^Fary, daughter of E. and C. 
Ogden. Their children are : .Mary, Louisa 
C Elizabeth, John and Henry .\dams. 

ADAMS, Charles R., son of Charles 
and Eliza .Ann .Adams, was born in Charles- 
town, Middlesex county, February 10, 185 (.. 




CHARLES R. AOAMS. 

His early education was received at the 
grammar school, Charlestown, and at 
Wesleyan .\cademy, Wilbraham. 

He early developed musical talents, 
and his first teacher of vocal music was 
Mr. Edwin Bruce of Boston, then after- 



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wards Mme. ArnouU, and for a number 
of years his voice was frequently heard 
in the concert halls of Boston and vicinity. 
During several years he sustained the 
tenor roles in the oratorio performance 
of the Handel and Haydn Society, to the 
satisfaction of the public, upon which Iiis 
hold became very strong. 

Having chosen music as his profession, 
Mr. .\dams studied and traveled with 
Prof. Mulder, formerly one of the profes- 
sors of the Royal Opera, Paris, and ac- 
companied him to Europe. Prior to sail- 
ing for Europe they gave a series of con- 
certs through the United States, which 
were very successful, the tour extending 
to Canada ; and from St. John they sailed 
for Barbadoes, West Indies, giving con- 
certs at all the islands. Mr. .Xdams after- 
wards went to London and Amsterdam, 
meeting at the latter place Professor 
Mulder, who had preceded him thither, and 
with him went on a concert tour through 
Holland, receiving at that time from \'ien- 
na an invitation to sing at the Austrian 
capital, in "Sonnambula" with Mile. Artot 
After learning the opera in three days, 
he made his first appearance in Vienna, 
which was a great success. Subsequently, 
through the influence of his instructor, 
Barbiere, he secured an engagement at 
the Imperial Opera House in Berlin. 

After a tour in Russia, he returned to 
Vienna and accepted a three years' en- 
gagement at Pesth, for the German Opera. 
He a|)peared at the Imperial Opera House 
in Berlin for three consecutive years, and 
the following nine years was the leading 
tenor at the Hofoper, in Vienna. During 
this time he sang in opera two seasons at 
the Covent Garden, London, one season 
at the Scala, Milan, and one at the Royal 
Opera, Madrid, as well as at the principal 
opera houses in Germany. He returned 
to America in 1877, appearing throughout 
the United States in German and Italian 
Opera. 

A few years ago he settled in Boston as 
a teacher of vocal music, in wiiich he has 
been eminently successful, standing high 
in the estimation of the profession and the 
public — a position he has merited by 
years of conscientious study. 

ADAMS, George A., son of Garilner 
and Eunice R. (Darling) Adams, was born 
in Siiringficld, Hampden county, .April 5, 
1850. 

His early education was received in the 
public schools of Franklin, and in the 
private high school at Walpole. He 
fitted for college in Dean ,\cademy, I'rank- 



lin, and entered Tufts in the class of 1873, 
but was unable to complete the course on 
account of a severe accident received in 
college. 

He taught school two years under Prof. 
L. L. Burrington, Goddard Seminary, 
Barre, Vt. ; studied law and was admitted 
to the bar. May 8, 1873, at Dedham, 
Norfolk county ; began practice of law 
in .Vttleborough, July 25, 1873, where he 
has continued in legal practice until the 
present time. 

Mr. .A.dams was married in Franklin, 
November 30, 1871, to Clara I., daughter 
of Horace M. and Sarah M. (Cole) Gowen. 




GEORGE A. ADAMS, 

Of this union were two children : May S. 
and Charles (j. .Adams. 

Mr. .\dams is past noble grand, I. O. 
O. F. ; member of the Knights of Pythias 
and Royal Arcanum, and ist lieutenant, 
company I, 5th regiment Massachusetts 
volunteer militia. 

He has been seven years a member of 
the school board, a portion of that time 
chairman, resigning his position on the 
board in 1880. He was a member of the 
House of Representatives in i8S4and '85 ; 
serving on the committee on probate and 
insolvency in 1884 ; chairman of the 
House committee on labor, and clerk of 
the judiciary committee in 1885. He is 



ADAMS. 



ADAMS. 



at present one of the boanl of selectmen 
of Attleborough, and chairman of the 
board of health. He is also chairman 
of the prudential committee of the fire 
district. In 1872 he cast his first vote 
for U. S. Grant, and has ever since been 
identified with the Republican party. 

ADAMS, George Zaccheus, son of 

Charles and Nancy (Robbins) Adams, was 
born at Chelmsford, Middlesex county, 
April 23, 1S33. 

Previous to the age of fourteen he was 
educated in the public schools of his native 
town, when he went for one year to the 
academy at Westford. At the age of six- 
teen he went to Phillips Academy, An- 
dover, where he remained three years, and 
at which institution he was prepared for 
college. Graduating from Phillips xVcad- 
emy m 1852, he entered Harvard, where 
he graduated in 1856, and then came to 
Boston and entered the office of Mr. Oliver 
Stevens, the present district attorney. 
After remaining there one year he entered 
the Harvard law school, where he re- 
mained one year, and then returned to Mr. 
Stevens's office for three years, and then 
opened an office of his own in Boston, 
where he has practiced ever since. 

He was married September 16, 1861, to 
Joanna F., daughter of Charles and Joan 
F. (Hagar) Davenport. They have three 
children : Georgie F., Walter D. and 
Charles Z. Adams. 

In July, 1882, Mr. Adams was appointed 
by Governor Long special justice of the 
municipal court of the city of Boston, 
and has since been tendered a permanent 
seat upon the bench of said court, which 
he declined. 

Mr. Adams has refused all offices of a 
political nature, preferrmg to devote the 
whole of his time and energy to his pro- 
fession. 

ADAMS, JOHN Gregory Bishop, 

son of Isaac and Margaret Adams, was 
born in Groveland, Essex county, Octo- 
ber 6, 1 84 1. 

He obtained a common school educa- 
tion, and spent the greater part of his boy- 
hood and youth ni that locality. In the 
early summer of 1861 he enlisted in Major 
Ben: Perley Poore's rifle battalion, which 
later became the nucleus of the 19th 
Massachusetts regiment. He served 
through the war, rising to the rank 
of captain. He participated in every 
march, and was engaged in every battle of 
the army of the Potomac in which his 
regiment took part. .Vt Fredericksburg 



he saved the colors of his regiment from 
capture, after eight color bearers had been 
killed. He was twice severely wounded 
in the second day's fight at Gettysburg, 
and while in the advanced lines before 
Petersburg, on the 22d of June, 1S64, he 
was captured with his regiment, and for 
nine months suffered the miseries of a 
southern prison pen. 

.\fter the war he was for some years 
foreman in the factory of B. F. Doak & 
Co-, but on account of failing health re- 
signed that position to enter the inspec- 
tor's office in the Boston Custom House. 
He remained there fifteen months, when 




JOHN G, B, ADAMS. 

he was appointed postmaster at Lynn, 
which office he held eight years. On the 
establishment of the reformatory prison 
at Concord, he was appointed deputy 
superintendent, and in 1885 was made 
sergeant-at-arms for the Commonwealth, 
which important position he now holds. 

Captain Adams was the first recruit 
mustered into Post 5, G. A. R. He was 
three times chosen commander, and was 
one year department commander of Mas- 
sachusetts. He has been for eleven years 
president of the Association of Survivors 
of Rebel Prisons, and is president of the 
board of trustees of the Soldiers' Home. 
He has been connected with numerous 



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local enterprises, having been one of tlie 
incorporators of tiie Lynn Hospital, Lynn 
Electric Light Company, and of the 
Thomson-Houston Electric Light Com- 
pany. 

Captain .\dams was married m Boston, 
April 5, 1866, to Mary E., daughter of 
Benjamin E. and .\lmira Dodge. Of this 
union were two children, both deceased. 

ADAMS, Marshall L., son of John 
and .\bigail ( Sampson ) .\dams, was born 
in Provincetown, Barnstable county, De- 
cember 4, 1842. 

His early educational work was done in 
the Provincetown schools until 1856. He 
attended Paul Wing's Academy, Sandwich, 
and subsequently Frost Academy, Fram- 
ingham, and was graduated from the Cot- 
ting Academy, Arlington. 

Mr. Adams was first connected in busi- 
ness with Fairbanks, Adams & Co., Boston, 
ship brokers. Later on he was with O D. 
Witherell, coal dealer, Boston, and with 
John P. Squire & Co., pork dealers, 
Boston. From 1865 to 1879 he was a 
grocer and ice dealer in Provincetown. 
He is at the present time engaged in town 
business, having always been active in all 
public matters that pertained to the growth 
and development of his native place. He 
was elected selectman, assessor, overseer 
of the poor, 1880, and has held the office 
up to date. He was elected county treas- 
urer November, 1886, and was appointed 
immigrant agent for the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts in 1885. 

He is disbursing agent for Shaw Asylum 
for Mariners" Children, and regent of the 
Mayflower Council, Royal Arcanum. 

He was chairman of the building com- 
mittee of the new town hall, which was 
dedicated August 25, 1886, and in 1889 
was appointed chairman of the committee 
on water supply for Provincetown. 

January 23, 1863, at Boston, Mr. Adams 
was married to Mary A., daughter of Wil- 
liam and Elizabeth Moore. He has one 
son : John Adams. 

ADAMS, William T., son of Laban and 
Catharine ( Johnson ) Adams, was born in 
Medway, Norfolk county, July 30, 1S22. 

He was educated in the public and pri- 
vate schools of Boston and vicinity, and 
when a mere lad displayed a talent for 
writing, his first article being published in 
the " Social Monitor." 

For three years Mr. Adams was the 
master of the " Lower Road " school in Dor 
Chester. In 1846 he resigned his position 
to assist his father and brother in the man- 



agement of the Adams House, Boston. 
Mr. .\dams resumed teaching in 184S, in 
the Boylston school, Boston, becoming the 
master in i860, and on the establishment 
of the Bowditch school, he was transferred 
and held the post of master of that school 
till he resigned in 1865. He then went 
abroad and traveled throughout Europe, 
dating his career as an author from this 
period. 

Mr. Adams's noin de plume, "Oliver 
Optic," originated from his having written 
a poem in 1851 which was published under 
the heading of "A Poem delivered before 
the Mutual Admiration Society, by Oliver 
Optic, M. D." The name "Optic" was 
suggested by a character in a drama at 
theBoston Museum, called "Dr. Optic." 
To this Mr. Adams prefixed " Oliver," with 
no thought of ever using it again. But 
soon after two essays appeared in the 
■• Waverley Magazine," by "Oliver Optic," 
which were so well received that he con- 
tinued to write under this pseudonym until 
it became impracticable to abandon it. 
His books, numbering over a hundred 
volumes, are widely and deservedly known. 

Mr. Adams was married October 7, 1846, 
to Sarah, daughter of Edward and Martha 
( Reed ) Jenkins. Mrs. Adams died in 
1885. Their children are: Alice Marie, 
wife of Sol. Smith Russell, and Emma 
Louise, wife of George W. White, a mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar. Mrs. White died 
in 1884. 

In 1867, Mr. Adams was unanimously 
elected a member of the school com- 
mittee of Dorchester. He served until 
the town was annexed to Boston, and was 
elected a member of the Boston school 
committee and served for ten years. \\\ 
1869 he was elected a member of the 
House of Representatives and served one 
year, and declined a re-nomination. 

In 1870, he went to Europe a second 
time, and three times recently, traveling 
through the countries not previously visit- 
ed, and the books which he has since pub- 
lished show the result of his observa- 
tions. 

AGASSIZ, Alexander, son of Louis 

and Cecile (Braun) .-^gassiz, was born in 
Neufchatel, Switzerland, December 17, 

•'^35- . , . . 

His early educational trammg was re- 
ceived in the gymnasium of his native 
place. He came' to this country in 1849, 
after his father, the celebrated naturalist, 
and entering Harvard College, was grad- 
uated therefrom in the class of 1855. He 
inherited the tastes of his father, and 



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ALUEN. 



])ursued his studies in the Lawrence scien- 
tific school (Harvard) during the years 
1857 to '61 inclusive. 

In 1859 he was engaged with the United 
States Coast Survey ; in 186 1 he was made 
assistant in the Zoological Museum, Cam- 
bridge, and became director of this insti- 
tution in 1874. He was superintendent 
of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Com- 
pany, 1866 to 1S69. He was treasurer 
till 1 87 1, when he was made its president, 
which position he still holds. 

Professor Agassiz was married at Jamaica 
Plain, November 13, i860, to Anna, daugh- 
ter of George Robert and Sarah P. (Shaw) 
Russell. Of this union were three chil- 
dren : George R., Maximilian and Ru- 
dolph L. Agassiz. 

Professor Agassiz has been overseer 
of Harvard College, and is now fellow of 
this institution. 

AIKEN, David, son of Phinehas and 
Elisabeth (Patterson) Aiken, was born at 
Bedford, Hillsborough county, N. H., June 
7, 1804. His early education was obtained 
in a common district school and at Pem- 
broke Academy, under Mr. John Vose, and 
at Phillips Academy, Andover, under Mr. 
John Adams. He entered Dartmouth Col- 
lege, where he was graduated in 1S30. He 
then studied law with Wells & Alvord 
at Greenfield, Mass., and was admitted to 
the Massachusetts bar in 1833 ; was judge 
of the court of common pleas from 1856 

to '59- 

He has been the law partner of Henry 
Chapman, George Grennell, Davis & Al- 
len, Chester C. Conant, and \V. S. B. Hop- 
kins, afterwards with Charles E. Forbes 
of Northampton. He is now partner 
with his st>n, John A. Aiken, but retired 
from active practice when the State sold 
its interest in the Troy & Greenfield antl 
Hoosac Tunnel Railroad — he having acted 
as legal adviser to its manager up to that 
time, in behalf of the Commonwealth. He 
was senator from Franklin county in 1874. 
From the [Promotion of Judge Wells in 
1844 to the present day, with the excep- 
tion of the period he himself was on the 
bench. Judge Aiken has been the acknowl- 
edged leader o^ the county bar. 

He was married in October, 1844, to 
Lydia W., daughter of Col. Spencer and 
Lydia (Bard well) Root, who died in Novem- 
ber, 1846, without issue. His second wife 
was Mary Elizabeth, daughter of John S. 
and Mary Hawley Adams, of Amherst, to 
whom he was married in November, 1848, 
and who died October 28, 1855. His sur- 
viving children are : lohn Adams, Eliza- 



beth P., and Harriet L. .\iken. Two 
younger sons, Edward and David, de- 
ceased. 

ALDEN, Edmund Kimball, son of Dr. 

Ebenezer and Anne (Kimball) Alden, was 
born in Randolph, Norfolk county, April 
II, 1825. He is a lineal descendant in 
the eighth generation, by two family lines, 
of " John " and " Priscilla " of Mayflower 
fame. 

After attending the Randolph Academy, 
he entered Amherst College, where he 
graduated in 1844 ; was then a teacher in 
the Williston Seminary, at Easthampton, 
for a year, and graduated from the Andover 
Theological Seminary in 1848, continuing 
his studies there for a few months as 
Abbott resident. 

From 1850 to 1854 Mr. Alden was pastor 
of the First Church of Yarmouth, Alaine ; 
was pastor of the Congregational church 
at Lenox, from 1854 to 1859; and then 
became pastor of Phillips Church, Boston, 
so continuing till 1876. He received from 
his alma mater, in 1866, the honorary 
degree of I). D. 

Mr. Alden was married April 25, 1850, to 
Maria, daughter of Deacon tJershom and 
Sarah (Hyde) Hyde, of Bath, Me. 

He was a trustee for fourteen j^ears of 
Phillips Academy and the Andover Theo- 
logical Seminary, resigning this trust in 
1 881 ; he has also been a trustee of 
Amherst College since 1873; he is at 
present corresponding secretary, home 
department, of the American Board of 
Commissioners for Foreign Missions, hav- 
ing held the office for thirteen years. 

ALDEN, Lewis, son of Lewis and Abi- 
gail (Belcher) Alden, was born in East 
Randolph, Norfolk county, April 29, 1848. 

He received a common and high school 
education. Between the ages of seventeen 
and twenty-one he worked in the shoe 
factory of L. F. Wilde & Co. Later, for 
nearly five years, he worked for Rufus 
Gibbs & Co., boot and shoe jobbing 
house, Boston — most of the time in charge 
of their factory at South Weymouth. He 
established himself in business in Hol- 
brook, 1878, entering his present factory 
(boots and shoes) 1885. 

Mr. Alden was married in Saugus, June, 
1S74, to Harriet S. Hammond. Of this 
union is one child : Mabel Frances Alden. 

Mr .A-lden is trustee of the Holbrook 
public library. He was largely instru- 
mental in founding the Holbrook Metho- 
dist church, and has been for ten years 
superintendent of the Sunday-school. He 



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ALURICn. 



is always alive and active in promoting the 
temperance cause. He is a director in the 
Holbrook Co-operative Bank, a charter 
member of the Knights of Honor, having 
passed through every grade of office. 

ALDRICH, James MOTT, son of .\rnold 
and DoUee Lang Aldrich, was born in 
Smithfield, Providence; county, R. I., Octo- 
ber 30, 1817. He attended the common 
schools and the academy at LInion Village. 

He studied medicine in the office of Dr. 
J. A. Brown, Providence, R. L, Harvard 
medical school, and iu the Botanic Medi- 
cal College, Cincinnati, Ohio ; and com- 
menced regular practice in Fall River in 
1S43, in which city he has ever since lived. 

Dr. .\ldrich was married in Dedham, 
May 24, 1844, to Mary A. Allen, who died 
in 1857. He was again married, Septem- 
ber 23, 1862, to Louisa G., the daughter 
of Hon. Nathaniel B. and Sarah (Gray) 
Borden, of Fall River. They have two chil- 
dren : Mary L. and Nathaniel B. Aldrich. 

From 1846 to '47 he was editor of the 
"Medical Enquirer." He has been for 
many years president of the Children's 
Home ; was a member of the school board 
fifteen years ; and is president of the Bar- 
nard Manufacturing Company. 

Dr. Aldrich was a strong abolitionist, 
and has been a life-long advocate of total 
abstinence from all intoxicants ; was a 
member of the Society of Friends, but left 
them when their New England yearly 
meeting forbade the opening of their meet- 
ing-houses for anti-slavery gatherings. He 
has been connected with the Unitarian 
society since 187 1. 

ALDRICH, P. EMORY, was born in 
New Salem, Franklin county. His ances- 
tors came from England in 1635, residing 
at first in Dorchester and Brahitree, and 
afterwards settling in Mendon, Worcester 
county. 

After obtaining his early education at 
the public schools, he fitted for college at 
the Shelburne Falls Academy, and in pri- 
vate study mastered a collegiate education. 
He studied law while engaged in teaching 
at the South, and later attended the 
Harvard law school. In 1845 he was 
admitted to the bar in Richmond, Va., but 
the following year returned to Massachu- 
setts, and after studying for si.\ months 
with . Chapman, Ashmun & Norton, in 
Springfield, he was admitted to practice 
in the courts of the State. 

He began practice in Barre, where he 
remained for seven years, for three years 
editing the " Barre Patriot." He was sent 



as a delegate to the Convention of 1853 
for the revision of the state constitution, 
and the same year Governor Clifford ap- 
pointed him district attorney for the mid- 
dle district, which office he held till 1866. 
Removing to Worcester in 1854, he became 
a partner of Hon. P. C. Bacon. In 1862 
he was elected mayor of Worcester, declin- 
ing a re-election. He was sent as a repre- 
sentative to the Legislature in i866-'67, 
and for three years after its organization 
he was a member of the state board of 
health. 

In the cause of temperance and educa- 
tion he has ever taken a lively interest. 
He has been an active member of the 
American Antiquarian Society, and one of 
its council. He has also been a valued 
member of the board of trustees of the 
Worcester County Free Institution of In- 
dustrial Science. 

In 1850 Mr. Aldrich married Sarah, 
daughter of Harding P. Wood, of Barre. 

ALDRICH, Samuel Nelson, son of 

Sylvanus Bucklin and Lucy Jane (Stod- 
dard) Aldrich, was born in Upton, Worces- 
ter county, February 3, 1838. 

His education was conducted at the 
Worcester and Southington, Conn., acad- 
emies, and at Brown Lfniversity, Provi- 
dence, R. I. Subsequently he taught 
schools at LTpton, Holliston and Worces- 
ter, Mass. 

He entered upon the study of law with 
Hon. Isaac Davis and E. B. Stoddard, at 
Worcester, and completed the same at the 
Harvard law school. In 1863 Mr. .\Idrich 
was admitted to the bar, and then com- 
menced practice at Marlborough. Since 
1874 he has kept an office in Boston, 
though retaining his residence in Marl- 
borough and livmg in Boston during the 
winter. 

In the public affairs of Marlborough 
Mr. Aldrich has been prominent ; was for 
nine years on the school committee, was 
four years on the board of selectmen, 
officiating as chairman of both ; has been 
a director of the People's National Bank 
at Marlborough ; president of the Marl- 
borough Board of 'Trade ; president of the 
Framingham & Lowell Railroad (now a 
portion of the Old Colony system), and 
president of the Central Massachusetts 
Railroad. 

In 1879 Mr. Aldrich was elected to the 
state senate, where he served as chairman 
of the committee on taxation, and as a 
member of the committee on bills in the 
third reading, and on constitutional amend- 
ments. In 1880 he was again a member 



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Ar.GER 



of the state senate, serving on the judiciary 
committee. In 1883 he was a member of 
the House, and served on the judiciary 
committee. 

In 1880 he was the Democratic candi- 
date for Congress from the 7th Massa- 
chusetts district. In March, 1887, Mr. 
Aldrich was appointed by President Cleve- 
land, the assistant treasurer of the United 
States at Boston, which position he yet 
holds. Besides this, he is a member of the 
Suffolk bar, is in the practice of his pro- 
fession, and is still president of the Cen- 
tral Massachusetts Railroad. 

Mr. Aldrich married, in 1865, at Upton, 
Mary J , daughter of J. T and Eliza A. 
(Colburn) Macfarland. Thev have a son : 
Harry M. Aldrich, now in Harvard. 

ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey, son of 

Elias T. and Sara (Bailey) .Vklrich, was 
born in Portsmouth, Rockingham county, 
N. H., November 11, 1836. 

He received his early education at the 
common schools in New Orleans, La., 




THOMAS B. ALDRICH. 

and at the Temple grammar school in 
Portsmouth. He commenced a course of 
study preparatory to entering college, but 
having the misfortune, in his fifteenth year, 
to lose his father, he abandoned that pur- 
pose, and entered the counting-room of 
an uncle, a merchant in New York. Here 



he remained for three years, and it was 
during that period that he began to con- 
tribute verses to the New York journals. 
A collection of his poems was published 
in 1855, the volume taking its name from 
the initial poem, " The Bells. " Mr. 
Aldrich's most successful poem, " Babie 
Bell," which was published in 1856, was 
copied and repeated all over the coun- 

His next position was that of proof- 
reader, and then reader for a publishing 
house. He became a frequent contributor 
to the New York "Evening Mirror," 
"Putnam's Magazine," "The Knicker- 
bocker," and the weekly newspapers, for 
one of which he wrote " Daisy's Necklace 
and What Came of It," a prose poem 
which was afterwards issued in a volume, 
and attained a wide popularity. 

In 1856 Mr. Aldrich joined the staff of 
the "Home Journal," continuing in this 
position for three years. He was also 
connected with the " Saturday Press," 
and a frequent contributor to " Harper's 
Monthly," and the "Atlantic Monthly," 
of which latter magazine he has for some 
years been the editor. 

Mr. Aldrich was married in New York, 
November 28, 1865. In 1S66 he removed 
to Boston, where he has since resided. 

The following may be mentioned among 
Mr, Aldrich's best-known writings: "The 
Story of a Bad Boy,"' " Marjorie Daw and 
Other Stories," " Prudence Palfrey," " The 
Queen of Sheba," "The Stillwater Trag- 
edy," " Poems," " From Ponkapog to 
I'esth," "Cloth of Gold and Other Poems," 
"Flower and Thorn," "Babie Bell," 
"XXXVI Lyrics and XII Sonnets," 
" Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book and Other 
Poems," " Mercedes and Later Lyrics," 
and " The Story of a Cat," translated 
from the French. 

ALGER, AlpheuS B., son of Edwin 
A. and Amanda (Buswell) Alger, was 
born in Lowell, Middlesex county, Octo- 
ber 8, 1854. 

His early education was accomplished 
at the public schools of his native place. 
In the Lowell high school he fitted for 
college, and was graduated at Harvard 
with the class of 1875. The same year 
he entered the Harvard law school, and 
a year later continued the study of the 
law in the office of the Hon. Josiah G. 
Abbott of Boston. He was admitted to 
the bar in 1877, and began the practice 
of law in connection with his father's firm. 
Brown & Alger, in the city of Boston, with 
his residence in Cambrid"e. 



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ALLEN. 



I I 



Mr. Alger has been actively identified 
with the Democratic party in politics. 
He has held the positions of chairman 
and secretary of the Democratic city 
committee of Cambridge. He is also a 
member of the congressional district 
committee. In 1SS4 he was chosen alder- 
man, and acted on the committees on 
claims, police, ordinances, and a new 
bridge to Boston. In 1886 and '87 he 
was a member of the Senate, serving as 
chairman on the committee on engrossed 
bills and mercantile affairs, and as member 
of the committees of public service, expe- 
diting legislative business, judiciary, bills 
in the third reading, rules and liquor law. 

He was also a member of the state 
committee sent to the Centennial E.\hi- 
bition at Philadelphia. He is secretary 
and treasurer of the Bay State Club, a 
member of the Middlesex County Demo- 
cratic Club, and of the Newetowne and 
Central clubs of Cambridge. He is a 
popular Mason, being a member of the 
Amicable F. & A. M., Cambridge chap- 
ter, and also of the Boston Commandery. 
He has held the different offices in the 
St. Omer Lodge of Knights of Pythias, 
and Pomonah Tribe of the Improved 
Order of Red i\Ien. 

ALGER, William Rounseville, son 

of Nahumand Catherine Sampson (Rounse- 
ville) Alger, was born in Freetown, Bristol 
county, December 28, 1822. 

He attended the common schools from 
the age of four to ten, then began to work 
for a livelihood ; he worked five years in 
a cotton mill at Hookset, N. H., studied 
attentively in all available hours, educating 
himself in the various branches of an aca- 
demic course. He attended an academy in 
Pembroke, N. H., two years, and one year at 
Lebanon, N. H. He entered the divinity 
school of Harvard University in 1844, and 
was graduated in the class of 1847. He 
was pastor of the Unitarian church in 
Roxbury, from 1S47 to 1855 ; then settled 
in Boston until 1S73; then four years 
minister of Church of the Messiah in New 
York City. He is now engaged in preach- 
ing, lecturing and literary work. 

Mr. Alger was married in Roxbury, 
in September, 1847, to Anne Langdon, 
daughter of Giles and Abigail Harris 
(Langdon) Lodge. Of this union were 
seven children : Henry Lodge, Abby Lang- 
don, Caroline Rounseville, Arthur Marti- 
neau, William Ellerton, Philip Rounseville 
and Anne Langdon. 

He has held many offices and deliv- 
ered many addresses in Masonic bodies. 



and lectured for twenty-five years very 
extensively through the country before 
lyceumsand literary societies. When chap- 
lain of the Massachusetts House of Repre- 
sentatives in 1863, the prayers he offered 
were so much appreciated, that the speaker, 
Hon. Harvey Jewell, had them taken 
down by a stenographer, and the members 
had them published in a volume enti- 
tled " Legislative Prayers," which passed 
through several editions. 

He gave the annual election sermon 
before the Legislature in 1863. He 
gave the Boston Fourth of July ora- 
tion in 1857, which created a sensation 
by its bold treatment of the slavery ques- 
tion. The city government refused the 
usual vote of thanks and request for 
publication. Seven years later, when 
the prophecies of the orator had been 
fulfilled, the city government gave him a 
unanimous vote of thanks and ordered the 
oration printed. 

He has published, besides a multitude 
of articles in reviews, and occasional dis- 
courses, the following books : " Symbolic 
History of the Cross of Christ"; "The 
Poetry of the Orient," a volume of trans- 
lations from the Persian, Arabic and San- 
scrit tongues (four editions); "The Genius 
of Solitude " (eleven editions) ; " The 
Friendship of Women " (eleven editions) ; 
" A Critical History of the Doctrine of 
a Future Life" (fourteen editions) ; "The 
Life of Edwin Forrest, the American 
Tragedian, with a History of the Dramatic 
Art " — two royal octavo volumes. He is now 
preparing for publication a work in two vol- 
umes entitled, " The Greatness of Human 
Nature and the Glory of Human Life." 

ALLEN, Alexander VietsGriswold, 

the son of Rev. Ethan and Lydia Child 
(Burr) Allen, was born in Otis, Berkshire 
county. May 4, 1841. 

His early education was received in the 
public schools of Nantucket. He entered 
Kenyon College, Ohio, 1859, and was grad- 
uated therefrom 1862. He began his 
theological studies in the Theological 
Seminary at Gambler, Ohio, and pursued 
them later on in Andover Theological 
Seminary, graduating therefrom 1S65. 

Mr. Allen was ordained deacon in 1S65 
and priest in 1866. He became rector of 
St. John's Church, Lawrence, the same 
year, this church having been established 
by him as a mission in 1865. 

In 1867 he was called to the profes- 
sorship of ecclesiastical history in the 
Episcopal theological school, Cambridge, 
where he has since remained. 



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ALLEN. 



Professor Allen was married in Cam- 
bridge, 1872,10 Elizabeth. Kent, daughter 
of Rev. Dr. John S. and Mary (Kent) 
Stone. Of this union are two children : 
Henry Van Dyke and John Stone Allen. 

Professor Allen is the author of Prince- 
ton Review Articles, 1882, entitled "Re- 
naissance of Theology in the Nineteenth 
Century," " The Continuity of Christian 
Thought, a Study of Modern Theology in 
the Light of its History," 1S84 (Hough- 
ton, Miftlin & Co.), and "Life of Jonathan 
Edwards," 1SS9 (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.). 

He received the degree of D. D. from 
Kenyon College, 1878, and from Harvard 
College, 1 886. He was elected a member of 
the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1886. 

ALLEN, Charles, son of Sylvester 
and Harriet ( Ripley ) Allen, was born in 
Greenfield, Franklin county, .\pril 17, 1827. 

He was graduated from Harvard in the 
class of 1847. 

He was admitted to the bar in 1850. 

He practiced law in Greenfield until 
1862, and then moved to Boston. He was 
appointed by Governor John D. Long 
justice 'of the supreme judicial court, 
which position he now holds. 

Judge .\llen was reporter of decisions 
of the supreme judicial court from 1861 
to 1867. He was attorney-general of the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1867 to 
1872. In 1880 he was appointed one of 
the commissioners to revise the general 
statutes. 

Judge Allen was never married. 

ALLEN, Charles H., son of Zenas 
and Caroline (Randall) Allen, was born in 
Boston, June 14, 1828. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in the public schools of Boston. 

He began his business life as youngest 
boy in a dry-goods jobbing store. Subse- 
quently he became book-keeper for Fran- 
cis Skinner & Co., commission merchants 
engaged in selling cotton and woolen 
fabrics for manufacturers ; afterward a 
member of the firm of Leland, Allen & 
Bates in the same business. He is now 
president of the Central National Bank of 
Boston, also of the Home Savings Bank. 

Mr. .Vllen was married in New Ipswich, 
N. H., July 2, 1849, to Caroline F., daugh- 
ter of George and Caroline ( Muzzey ) San- 
ders. Of this union are two children : 
Charles F. and Francis S. Allen. 

Mr. Allen was a member of the Mercan- 
tile Library Association and a member of 
its government from 1846 to 1853, being 
elected its president in 185 1 ; member of 



the common council of Boston i867-'68, 
the last year acting as its president ; mem- 
ber of the Cochituate water board of . 
Boston i86g to 1872, serving as presi- 
dent of the board 187 1 and '72 ; member 
of the House of Representatives 1878 
and '80 ; member of the state Senate 1881 
and '82 ; member of the board of aldermen 
of Boston i885-'88 ; elected as chair- 
man of the board in 1886 and again in 
1888. From 1855 to i860 Mr. Allen was 
an active member and lieutenant of the 
famous Boston Light Infantry. 

Mr. Allen has filled a well-rounded 
career of official life, and has honorably 
earned the respite he now claims from 
such responsibilities. In all public emer- 
gencies, however, he is ever ready with 
wise counsel and practical support to lend 
his friendly aid, and the public have come 
to look to him with others as fitting repre- 
sentatives of their sympathy and natural 
almoners of their bounty. 

ALLEN, Charles Herbert, son of 

Otis and Louisa (Bixby) Allen, was born in 

Lowell, Middlese.x county, April 15, 1848. 

He was educated in the public schools 

of his native city ; prepared for college, 




CHARLES H. ALLEN. 

entered Amherst, from which he was gradu- 
ated in the class of 1869, receiving his 
A. M. in course in 1872. 



ALLEN. 



ALLEN. 



His first connection with commercial 
life was in the lumber business, in which 
he has ever since been engaged, under the 
firm name of Otis Allen & Son. 

Mr. Allen was married in Manchester, 
N. H., Nov. lo, 1870, to Harriet C, 
daughter of James and Sarah ]!. (Chase) 
Dean. Of this union were two children : 
Lertha and Louise Allen. 

Mr. Allen is a member of the Masonic 
order; has been a member of the Lowell 
school board ; was a member of the House 
of Representatives in 1881 and '82, serv- 
ing in the two 3'ears on the committee on 
railroads, rules and orders, and bills in 
the third reading (chairman) ; he was a 
member of the state senate in 1SS3, serv- 
ing on the committee on prisons (chair- 
man) and street railway's; he was elected 
to the national Congress in 1884, and re- 
elected in 1886. In 1 888 he declined a 
re-nomination. 

In the forty-ninth Congress Mr. Allen 
served on the committee on Indian affairs; 
in the fiftieth Congress served on com- 
mittee on post-office and post roads — an 
important committee having at its disposal 
sixty millions of money. He was the only 
member from New England on this com- 
mittee. 

It is unfortunate that the demands of 
private business should deprive the Com- 
monwealth of the public services of Mr. 
Allen. Gifted by nature with an address 
and disposition calculated to engender and 
retain friendship, qualified by training in 
college and social life to perform intelli- 
gent public service, blessed with an instinct 
to seek and pursue only honorable methods, 
he is a loss to the State when he refuses to 
accept the honors which his fellow-citizens 
would be only too glad to continue to be- 
stow upon their popular representative. 

ALLEN, Frank Dewey, son of Charles 
Francis and Olive Ely (Dewey) Allen, 
was born in Worcester, August 16, 1850. 

He was educated in the Worcester high 
school ; was graduated from Yale in the 
class of 1873, and from the Boston Univer- 
sity law school in 1875 ; was managing 
clerk in the offices of Hillard, Hyde & 
Dickinson, Boston, remaining with them 
until 1878, when he was admitted to the 
Suffolk county bar. 

Upon severing his connection with 
Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson, he opened an 
ofifice for himself in Boston, where he has 
ever since been located as attorney and 
coanselor-at-law. 

Mr. Allen was married in Lynn, Janu- 
ary 9, 1878, to Lucy, daughter of Trevett 



^L and Eliza (Munroe) Rhodes. They 
have no children. 

In 1884 Mr. Allen organized the Massa- 
chusetts Temperance Home for Inebriates, 
which is located at Lynn. He was made 
its president, which position he still holds. 
He served one year as clerk of the A\'ash- 
ington Street Baptist church, Lynn, when 
he resigned from pressure of other duties. 

He was elected from Lynn to the House 
of Representatives in 1881 and '82, serving 
on the judiciary committee and acting as 
its clerk, also on the committee on the 
removal of Judge Day, the congressional 




FRANK D, ALLEN. 

re-districting committee, and the commit- 
tee on banks and banking. 

He served on the Republican state 
central committee from the ist Essex 
senatorial district for the years 1884, '85 
and '86, and was on the executive com- 
mittee of the same ; was member of the 
governor's Council, 1886, '87 and '88. 

Mr. Allen is well known throughout the 
Commonwealth as a leader in the Republi- 
can party. He has always been a firm 
believer in the "young Republican" ele- 
ment. His political sagacity and judg- 
ment are held in high esteem by men who 
are to-day authority in a political cam- 
paign. He is an able speaker, and has been 
often called to deliver Memorial Day ad- 



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ALLEN. 



dresses, as well as being appointed to 
stump during state and national cam- 
paigns. In behalf of the Plymouth Woolen 
Company he argued in favor of the con- 
stitutionality of the "act permitting mu- 
nicipal officers to authorize manufacturers 
to ring bells and use whistles and gongs 
for the benefit of their workmen." 

As counsel for the Lancaster Bank, he 
succeeded in recovering the securities 
stolen from its vaults. He organized the 
Lynn Electric Lighting Company under 
the Thomson-Houston patents, and is still 
one of its directors. 

ALLEN, Frederick Slocum, son of 

Holden and Mary Devoll (Slocum) Allen, 
was born in Westport, Bristol county, 
December 25, 1837. 

His early educational advantages were 
limited to the district schools of Fairhaven. 

Before he was quite seventeen years of 
age, he shipped on a whaling voyage to 
the .Arctic Ocean, and sailed from New 
Bedford, November 3, 1856, in the ship 
"Saratoga" — Frederick Slocum, master. 
He was connected with the whaling busi- 
ness some three years and a half. This 
business he left in i860. As his father held 
a commission as pilot for the ports of 
Buzzard's Bay, he then assisted him in that 
business as boat-keeper for about ten 
years, as also previous to his whaling 
voyage, some five years. He then spent 
considerable time and money in improv- 
ing windlasses. Several models were on 
exhibition a-t the National Museum at 
Washington. 

For several years he has been quite 
actively engaged in town affairs, and for 
fourteen years he has held a commission 
as justice of the peace. He has given 
special attention to the saving of life from 
shipwreck, and in 1887, at the Interna- 
tional Maritime E.xposition at Havre, 
France, he was awarded a silver medal 
for a reversible life-boat. 

Mr. Allen was married in Martha's 
Vineyard, November, 1S60, to Florencia 
C. Austin. They have one son: Frederick 
.-Vllen. His residence is Cuttyhunk Island, 
Dukes County. 

ALLEN, HORACE C, son of Stephen 
M. .-Mien, was born at Jamaica Plain 
(Boston), July 27, 1855. 

His preparatory studies were pursued 
in the common schools. He was gradu- 
ated LL.P). from the Harvard law schocjl 
in 1S76; then became associated with 
Nathan Morse, Boston. He was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in 1S77. Later, he 



became law partner with Mr. Morse, under 
the firm name of Morse &: Allen, with 
whom he still remains in practice of the law. 

Mr. Allen was married in Brunswick, 
Me , April 28, 1881. to Grace D., daughter 
of Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain. 

Mr. Allen is a member of the Boston .\rt 
Club, Boston .\thietic Association, and Cur- 
tis Club. In jSSS and '89 he was elected 




HORACE G ALLEN 

a member of the Boston common coun- 
cil, and in the latter year, after a protracted 
contest, was chosen president of that bodv, 
January i ith. In this responsible position 
he has displayed marked ability, and has 
already acquired a reputation for tact and 
fairness greatly to his credit. His resi- 
dence is in Roxbury. 

ALLEN, JOSEPH HENRY, was born 
August 21, 1820, in Northborough, Wor- 
cester county, where his father (Joseph, 
born in Medfield, 1790, on the old home- 
stead at Castle Hill, occupied since 1649 
and still by the Allen family) was settled 
as minister of the town in 1816, and remain- 
ed pastor of the First Parish till his death 
in 1873. His mother (Lucy Clark, born in 
Hingham, 1791, diedi866) was daughter of 
Prof. Henry Ware of Harvard University 
( 1 805-1 845). He is seventh in descent, 
by the maternal line, of a series of Massa- 
chusetts Congregational ministers, includ- 



ALLEN. 



ALLEN. 



IS 



iiig Thomas Clark, Chelmsford ; John 
Hancock, Lexiimton ; Nicholas Bowes, 
Bedford ; Jonas Clark, Lexington ; Henry 
Ware, Hingham: Joseph Allen, Northbor- 
ough. The Allen family has been remark- 
able for the number of teachers and 
preachers born to the blood. 

The early education of the subject of 
our sketch was received in district schools 
and country occupations until the age of 
thirteen. He entered Harvard College at 
sixteen, having had little or no regular 
preparatory instruction, and was graduated 
in 1840, third in his class — the first rank 
being held bv Prof, [ohn B. Henck, the 




JOSEPH H ALLEN. 

second by Judge George P. Sanger. 
Graduating from the Harvard divinity 
school in 1843, he was settled as minister 
of the Third parish in Roxbury (Jamaica 
Plain), 1843, in Washington, D. C., 1847, 
and in Bangor, Me., 1850. Leaving Ban- 
gor in 1857, he was till 1863 engaged in 
private instructitju at Jamaica Plain, then 
till 1866 in a parish charge in North- 
borough ; since 1S67 he has resided at 
Cambridge. 

He was for twelve years (until its dis- 
continuance at the end of 1869) connected 
with the "Christian Examiner" as literary 
editor, editor-in-chief, and joint proprie- 
tor ; then for eight years engaged in pri- 



vate tuition, and in editing the "Allen & 
Greenough Classical Series " (Ginn & Co., 
Boston). In 1877 and '78 he had charge 
of the Unitarian church at Ann Arbor, 
Mich., and was then appointed lecturer on 
ecclesiastical history in Harvard Univer- 
sity, which post he held till 1882. In 
1883 and '84 he was engaged in profes- 
sional work in Ithaca. N. Y., spent part of 
1885 in California, and has since 1887 
been editor of the " Unitarian Review " 
(George H. Ellis, Boston). He was, in 
August, 1881, delegate of the American 
and of the British and Foreign Unitarian 
Associations, at the session of the supreme 
consistory of the Unitarian churches of 
Hungary, held in Kolozsvar (Klausenburg), 
Transylvania. 

Besides various fugitive addresses and 
reviews, including a series of articles on 
national questions written for the "Chris- 
tian Examiner" during the civil war, his 
published volumes are : "Ten Discourses 
on Orthodoxy" (1S49, second edition, 
1889), "Memorial of Hiram Withington" 
(1849), "The Great Controversy of States 
and People " (1851), " Hebrew Men and 
Times, from the Patriarchs to the Messiah " 
(186 1, second edition, with critical intro- 
duction, 1879, Roberts Brothers), " Frag- 
ments of Christian History to the Found- 
ing of the Holy Roman Empire" (1880), 
" Our Liberal Movement in Theology " 
(1882), " Christian History in Its Three 
Great Periods" (3 volumes, 1883), "Out- 
line of Christian History, A. D. 50-1880" 
(1884), and the "Allen & Greenough 
Classical Series." 

Prof. Allen was married in May, 1845, 
to Anna Minot Weld, a descendant of 
Thomas Welde, first minister of Roxburj', 
and sister of the late Hon. Stephen M. 
Weld. Of this union are five children : 
Richard Minot (Ames, Neb.), Gardner 
Weld (M. D., Boston), Russell Carpenter 
(El Cajon, So. California), Lucy Clark 
(Mrs. Charles S. Gage), and Mary Ware. 

ALLEN, MONTRESSOR TYLER, son of 
George W. and Mary L. (Tyler) Allen, 
was born in Woburn, Middlesex county, 
May 20, 1844. 

His education embraced the instruction 
and training of public schools, Warren 
Academy, private tutors, a special course 
in Boston University, and a full legal 
course in the Boston University law 
school, having been graduated from the 
latter institution in the class of 1878. 

From 1867 to 1870 Mr. Allen was en- 
gaged in mercantile work at Woburn. 
Previous to this, he had seen a short term 



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ALLEN. 



ALLEN. 



of service in the 5th Massachusetts regi- boyhood, the subject of this sketch fol- 
ment, 1864. Upon being admitted to lowed the pursuits of his ancestors, and 
the bar in 1870, he opened an office in laid the foundation of a vigorous con- 
Boston, where he is at present engaged stitution. Three years of his minority 
in practice, still retaining his residence in were spent in a Wal'tham cotton mill, where 
Woburn he acquired a knowledge of textile manu- 

facture ; he also received a good common- 
school education in the public schools, a 
family school kept by Rev. Joseph Allen 
at Northborough, and Northfield Aca- 
demy. 

Having chosen to become a teacher, he 
continued his studies in the Bridgewater 
state normal school, and Rensselaer Poly- 
technic Institute at Troy, N. Y. He after- 
wards taught in the various public schools 
of Mansfield, Northborough, Northfield 
and Shrewsbury, until the spring of 1848, 
when he was appointed by Horace Mann, 
of the state board of education, to take 
charge of the model department of the 
nurmal school at West Newton. This 
position he filled with marked ability for 
nearly si.x years, when he established 
in connection with Rev. Cyrus Pierce, 




MONTRESSOR T. ALLEN. 

Mr. Allen'was married in Boston, in 
June, 1865, to Julia Frances, daughter of 
John and Ruth ( Magoun ) Peasley. They 
have no children. 

Mr. Allen was a member of the House 
of Representatives 1888 -'89, serving the 
former year on the House committee on 
finance, the joint committee on e.xpentli- 
tures, and in the latter as chairman of the 
House committee on railroads, perform- 
ing conspicuous service in the support 
and successful passage of the many im- 
portant measures reported by that com- 
mittee. 

He is a member of Mt. Horeb lodge of 
Masons, Woburn, and has served on the 
local board of registrars of voters for five 
years. 

ALLEN, Nathaniel Topliff, son of 

Ellis and Lucy (Lane) Allen, was born in 
Medfield, Norfolk county, Sept. 29, 1823. 
His native homestead farm has been owned 
and tilled by seven generations of Aliens, 
noted for longevity, sterling common-sense, 
and there, during his 




NATHANIEL T, ALLEN. 

father of .American normal schools, the 
institution of which he is now principal 
— the West Newton English and classical 
school. 

Mr. Allen has been one of the most pro- 
gressive antl successful educators of the 



ALLEN. 



ALLEN. 



17 



last half-century, always advocating the 
liberal and thorough education of both 
sexes, and ready to introduce into his own 
school whatever proved to be sound in 
theory and useful in practice. This school, 
with its industrial dejiartnient at the home- 
stead in Wedfield, draws students from a 
wide region — the last enrollment showing 
boys and girls from seventeen of the 
United States, from Cuba, Buenos Ayres, 
Spain and Italy. 

During a busy life in the class-room, 
Mr. Allen has held many otiier positions of 
responsibility and trust ; he has been pres- 
ident of the board of direction of Pomroy 
Newton Home for Orphans and Der.titute 
Girls ever since it was founded, si.xteen 
years ago ; he was trustee of the Boston 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a 
member of the committee of examination 
in natural science at Harvard. 

In 1869 Mr. Allen went abroad, and 
spent about two years in studying the 
school systems of England, Scotland, Ire- 
land, France, Italy, Austria, and, in par- 
ticular, what is now included in the German 
Empire. This he did under the authority 
of the United States government, having 
been appointed an agent of tiie commis- 
sioner of public education, by Hon. Henry 
Barnard. The results of his observations 
of the secondary schools, gymnasia, real- 
and volks-schulen of Prussia, Saxony, and 
Nassau are preserved in a valuable report 
published and distributed by order of the 
secretary of the interior. 

Mr. Allen was married March 30, 1853, 
to Caroline Swift, daughter of James Nye 
and Rebecca (Freeman) Bassett, of Nan- 
tucket ; and of their children, Fanny Bas- 
sett, Sarah Caroline, and Lucy Ellis are 
living ; Nathaniel Toplift, their son, died 
in 1865. 

Mr. Allen was a Garrisonian abolitionist, 
and an officer of the society when in 
those days it cost something to be identi- 
fied with men of their belief. He was 
many times mobbed in their company, 
and naturally became an early member of 
the Free Soil party. He is at present a 
director m the American Peace Society, 
and president of the Newton Woman's 
Suffrage Association. 

ALLEN, Richard Beman, son of John 

and May (Eagan) Allen, was born in Tewks- 
bury, Middlesex county, January 25, 185 1. 
He was educated in the common schools 
of Tewksbury and the Lowell Business 
College. He began business as clerk in a 
grocery store ; remained in the business 
three years, and then learned a trade — 



watchmaker and jeweler ; was a member 
of the firm of Cluin & Allen for three 
years ; sold out, and became a member of 
the firm of Allen Brothers. 

Mr. Allen was married in Lowell, October 
14, 1S84, to Annie, daughter of Peter and 
Bridget Angulin Sheehan. Of this union 
are three children •. Mary, Julia, and Ger- 
trude Allen. 

Mr, .iVllen is a member of the board of 
trustees of Ancient Order of Foresters ; 
Y. M. C. L. A. ; vice-justice Order Iron 
Hall ; member of the Middlesex Mechanic 
Association, and of the Democratic city 
committee ; was member of the Lowell 
common council 1887 and 1888, and was 
a member of the House of Representatives 
in 1889, serving on committee on public 
charitable institutions. 

Mr. .\llen, while not desiring publicity, 
has many times been honored by his fellow 
citizens by their endorsement at the polls ; 
and to his quiet but effectual work is due, 
in a great measure, much of the success 
of his party in the "Spindle City." He 
is a firm believer in clear and honorable 
methods of political work, and has the 
respect of all classes, regardless of their 
party affiliations. 

ALLEN, Stillman Boyd, son of Hor- 
ace O. and Elizabeth Allen, was born 
September 8, 1830, at Waterborongh, York 
county, Maine. 

He received his education in the acad- 
emies at North Yarmouth, Kennebunk 
and Alfred, Maine. In September, 1853, 
he was admitted to the bar, and practiced 
law in Maine until May, 1861, when he 
removed to Boston, and two years later 
became associated with the Hon. John D. 
Long, who subsequently retired from the 
firm upon his election as governor of the 
State. He is now the senior member 
of the law firm of Allen, Long & Hemen- 
way (Governor Long since his retirement 
from congressional life having resumed 
his former relations). Mr. Allen has been 
largely engaged in jury trials, and has the 
reputation of winning for his clients the 
largest verdicts against railroads and other 
corporations ever rendered in this country. 

Mr. Allen was married at Kittery, Maine, 
September 7, 1854, to Harriet S., daughter 
of Joseph and Mary Seaward. Their 
children are : Willis Boyd Allen, who 
was a partner in his father's firm for six 
years and has since been engaged in liter- 
ary pursuits, and Marion Boyd Allen. 

In 1876 -'77 Mr. Allen represented the 
city of Boston in the House of Represen- 
tatives, serving the first year upon the 



ALLEN. 



ALLEY. 



judiciary committee. The following year 
he was chairman of the committee on 
probate and chancery. In 1877 he con- 
ducted an examination, made by the Leg- 
islature into alleged abuses existing in 
the state reform school, which resulted 
in an entire change in the management of 
that institution. 

For three years Mr. Allen was president 
of the Mercantile Library Association of 
Boston. He is prominent in Odd Fellow- 
ship and Masonry. He is still engaged 
in a most successful practice of the law, 
where he has attained and earned distinc- 
tion among the foremost men of the pro- 
fession in the State. 

ALLEN, Thomas, son of Thomas and 
Anne C. (Russell) Allen, was born October 
19, 1849, at St. Louis, Mo. 

He was educated at the high school, 
Pittsfield, Mass., at the Williston Seminary, 
Easthampton, and then entered the Wash- 
ington University, St. Louis, Mo., after 
which he studied art at the Royal Academy 
of Fine Arts, at Diisseldorf, Germany, 
where he graduated from the master class 
in 187S, and afterward studied three years 
in France. 

He first exhibited his work in New York, 
at the National Academy of Design, in 
1877, and has been represented in the 
National Academy at almost every exhi- 
bition since then. In 1882, and several 
times since, he exhibited pictures at the 
Paris Salon. 

He returned to this country in 1882, 
and in 1884 was made an associate of the 
National Academy of Design. In 1880 
he was elected a member of the Society of 
American Artists. His specialty is land- 
scape and animal painting. 

After nearly ten years of foreign study, 
he opened his studio in the Pelham Studio 
on Boylston Street, Boston ; not finding 
it sufficiently commodious, however, and 
meeting with marked success as a painter, 
he purchased a house on Commonwealth 
Avenue, in 1883, for a permanent home, 
and there built a large studio at the top of 
the house which he now occupies. 

Mr. Allen was first married in 1880, in 
Northampton, to Eleanor G., daughter 
of Prof. J. D. and Louisa (Goddard) 
Whitney of Cambridge, who left him one 
child : Eleanor \\'hitney Allen. In 18S4, in 
Boston, Mr. Allen married Alice, daughter 
of Hon. Ambrose A. and Maria ( Fletcher) 
Ranney, of Boston. Their only child is 
Thomas Allen, Jr. 

Mr. Allen is president of the Paint and 
Clay Club, vice-president of the Boston 



Art Club, patron of the Metropolitan 
Museum, N. Y., and a member of the 
permanent committee of the School of 
Drawing and Painting at the Boston 
Museum of Fine Arts. 

He is a great grandson of the Rev. 
Thomas Allen, the first minister in Pitts- 
field, who is known as the "fighting 
parson," and grand nephew of the Rev. 
William Allen of Northampton, author of 
"Allen's Biographical Dictionary." His 
father, who died at Washington, D. C, 
while representing in Congress the 2d 
district of Missouri, had a national repu- 
tation as a scholar and statesman, finan- 
cier and philanthropist. 

ALLEN, William, son of William Allen, 
was born at Brunswick, Cumberland 
county, JNIaine, March 31, 1822. He is a 
grandson of the Rev. Thomas Allen, the 
"fighting parson" of the noted Berkshire 
militia, who performed such conspicuous 
service under General Stark of Revolution- 
ary fame. His father was a clergyman of 
Pittsfield, a scholar of eminence, and at 
one time president of Bowdoin College. 

After obtaining his preliminary edu- 
cation at the public schools, Mr. Allen 
fitted for college at Phillips Academy, 
Andover, and at the North Yarmouth 
Academy, in Maine, and entered Bowdoin 
College in 1834. After a few months spent 
at Bowdoin he went to Amherst, where he 
graduated in 1842. He began the study 
of law at the Vale law school, continuing 
it later at Northampton, where he was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1845, and where he 
has since resided. 

In 1880 Mr. .Allen was made associate 
justice of the superior court, which high 
office he now holds, abundantly justifying 
the judicious selection of Governor Long, 
to whom he was indebted for the ele- 
vation. 

ALLEY, JOHN B., son of John and 
Mercy (Buffum) Alley, was born in Lynn, 
January 7, 1817. He belongs to one of the 
oldest Essex county families, and is de- 
scended from Hugh Alley, who, with his 
brother John, settled in Lynn in 1634. 

He received his education in the public 
schools of his native town, and at the age 
of fourteen was apprenticed to a shoe 
manufacturer, and at nineteen received the 
gift of his time. Soon after the close of 
his apprenticeship he went to Cincinnati 
and there purchased a flat-boat, which he 
loaded with merchandise and carried to 
New Orleans, and the success of this en- 
terprise laid the foundation of his fortune. 



AMES. 



AMES. 



19 



At the age of twenty-one he returned to 
Lynn and began the manufacture of shoes. 
In five years, at the age of twenty-six, he 
was the owner of one of the largest enter- 
prises in a city full of active, shrewd men 
with whom he had entered on a race for 
wealth. In 1847 he established a house in 
Boston for the sale of hides and leather. 
At various times he has been the senior 
partner in the firm of Alley, Choate & 
Cummings, the firm of John B. Alley & 
Co., and later in the firm of Alley Brothers 
S: Place, in which the two sons of Mr. Al- 
ley and Mr. Place were the partners. In 
1886 this last firm was dissolved, and after 
a business career of forty-eight years Mr. 
Alley retired. 

After his retirement, Mr. Alley went on 
a European tour, taking the first vacation 
in a life of seventy years. In his earlier 
years, before the birth of what was called 
the Free Soil party in 1S48, he was at- 
tached to the Liberty party, having inher- 
ited anti-slavery sentiments from his father 
(a member of the Society of Friends), and 
this sentiment never abated until, by the 
proclamation of President Lincoln, the 
slaves were made free. 

In 1857, during the administration of 
Governor Boutwell, he was one of the exe- 
cutive council. In 1S52 he was in the 
state Senate, serving as chairman of the 
committee on railroads. In 1853 he was a 
member of the Constitutional Convention, 
and for several years was an active and 
influential member of the Republican state 
central committee In 1858 he was chosen 
representative to Congress, serving four 
terms, during two of which he performed 
the duties of chairman of the committee on 
post-office and post-roads. His services in 
Congress covered the whole period of the 
war. Since his retirement he has been en- 
gaged with others in large railroad enter- 
prises in the West and South, and is largely 
connected with land property in New Mex- 
ico. 

He was married at Lynn, September 15, 
1 84 1, to Hannah M., daughter of William 
and Hannah (Breed) Rhodes. Their chil- 
dren are : Emma R., Marv F., John S. 
and William H. Alley. 

AMES, Frank M., son of Oakes and 
Eveline (Gilmore) Ames, was born in North 
Easton, Bristol county, August 14, 1833. 

He was educated at Leicester and An- 
dover academies. Upon leaving school 
he entered into the employ of the well- 
known firm of Oliver Ames & Sons, where 
he remained several years, and became 
practically acquainted not only with the 



mechanical part of manufacturing shovels, 
but also with the details of an extensive 
business. 

In 1858 he removed to Canton to take 
control of the business of the Kinsley 
Iron & Machine Company. At the present 
time he is one of the chief owners in that 
corporation. He is also president of the 
Lamson Consolidated Store Service Com- 
pany. 

He has, in addition to other business, 
been largely interested in railroads, and 
was for several years sole trustee and man- 
ager of the New Orleans, Mobile & Texas 
Railroad. He also owns and manages a 
large plantation of about twelve thousand 
acres, on the Mississippi River, directly 
opposite the city of New Orleans, where 
he has each year from thirteen hundred 
to fifteen hundred acres of land cultivated 
with sugar-cane, and a large area with 
rice, while the remaining portion is used 
for grazing purposes. 

He has been active in public life. He 
was sergeant-major and quartermaster of 
the ' 2d battalion infantry, which after- 
wards became the 4th regiment, of which 
he was also major. In 1869, and again 
in 1882, he was elected by his fellow-towns- 
men of Canton — where he still retains his 
legal residence — as representative to the 
General Court, where he served on the 
committee on railroads. In 1884 he was 
elected to the Senate, and served on the 
committee on drainage and on manufac- 
tures, and was chairman of the special com- 
mittee on metropolitan police for the city 
of Boston. In 1884 he was a delegate 
to the national Republican convention at 
Chicago. 

AMES, Oliver, son of Oakes and 

Eveline ( Gilmore ) Ames, was born in 
Easton, Bristol county, February 4, 1831. 
He passed the usual public school course 
of his native town, and prepared for col- 
lege in the academies at No. Attleborough 
and Leicester. His college course — a 
special one — was taken at Brown Univer- 
sity, Providence, R. I. 

He began business life as an employee 
in the shovel works of Oliver Ames & 
Sons. He afterwards went on the road as 
traveling agent for the firm, of which he 
soon became an active partner. 

While engaged in the never-ceasing 
round of cares that are incident to the 
carrying on of immense manufacturing 
establishments, Oliver Ames has always 
fdund time in which to serve his fellow- 
citizens in public matters, y^hether state, 
county, municipal or social. 



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AMES. 



ANDREW. 



He has been twelve j'ears a member of 
the Easton school board ; two years in 
the state Senate (iSSo and 'Si) ; four 
years lieutenant-governor (1S83 to 'S6), 
and governor of the Commonwealth three 
years, 1S87, '88, and '89. 

Governor Ames has served in the Massa- 
chusetts volunteer militia as 2d lieuten- 
ant, adjutant, major and lieutenant-colonel. 
He has been for many years president and 
director of various railroad, manufactur- 
ing and mining corporations and banking 
institutions. He is actively connected 
with a number of benevolent societies and 
has a membership in many social and po- 
litical clubs. 




OLIVER AMES. 

Governor Ames was married in Nan- 
tucket, March 14, i860, to Anna Coffin, 
daughter of Obed and .\nna \V. Ray, and 
adopted daughter of William Hadwen of 
Nantucket. Of this union are six chil- 
dren : William Hadwen, Evelyn, Anna Lee, 
Susan Evelyn, Lilian and Oakes Ames. 

Governor Ames's summer residence is at 
North Easton. In winter he resides in 
Boston, dispensing royal hospitality at 
his palatial residence on Commonwealth 
Avenue. 

Massachusetts is indeed fortunate in 
the possession of a long, unbroken line of 
chief magistrates, all conspicuous to a 



greater or less degree for ability, rare exe- 
cutive management, polite culture, and all, 
fortunately for her fame, men of unblem- 
ished personal integrity. Governor Ames 
has worthily maintained the high prestige 
enjoyed by his predecessors, and has by 
his judicious appointments, unfailing ur- 
banity and faithful attention to the details 
of his office, proved the wisdom of the 
great body of his fellow-citizens who have 
insisted upon his retaining so long the 
position he has so signally honored, 
both at home and in other cities 
where he has been called upon to repre- 
sent the dignity and character of the Old 
Bay State. 

ANDREW, JOHN FORRESTER, the son 
of Hon. John A. Andrew, the illustrious 
"War Governor" of Massachusetts, was 
born in Hingham, Plymouth county, No- 
vember 26, 1850. 

His earlier studies were pursued in the 
Boston public schools. His college life 
was passed at Harvard, graduating in 
1872, and again from the law school in 
1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk 
county bar the same year, and has since 
practiced law in Boston. 

Mr. Andrew is noted for his active work 
in all benevolent institutions, holding the 
offices of president of the Massachusetts 
Infant Asylum, president of the Society 
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 
president of the Home for Aged Colored 
Women, and trustee of the Asylum for 
Feeble-minded Youth. He is an active 
member of the New England Historic 
Genealogical Society. 

He has been repeatedly called to legis- 
lative work, having been elected to the 
lower branch of the Legislature in 1880, 
1S81 and 1SS3, serving on the judiciary 
and other committees ; member of the 
committee on the revision of the stat- 
utes in 1882. He was elected to the 
State Senate in 1884 by the Republican 
party ; and in 1885 was re-elected to the 
same office by the Democrats, where he 
served on the judiciary committee, and 
committee on street railways. 

He was delegate to the national Repub- 
lican convention of 1884 ; but in the 
heated political campaign of the same 
year he went on the stump in support of 
the Democratic ticket, and was president 
of the Young Men's Independent Club of 
the city of Boston. In 1886 he was 
Democratic candidate for governor of 
Massachusetts, receiving 112,883 votes, 
his opponent having 122,346. He was for 
three years commissioner of parks for the 



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citv of Boston, having been first appointed 
in 1885. 

In 1889 Mr. Andrew was elected to 
Congress from the 3d Massachusetts dis- 
trict, on the Democratic ticket. The vote 
stood John F. Andrew, Democrat, 16,338 ; 
Alanson W. Beard, Republican, 14,780 ; 
Henry VV. Shugg, Prohibitionist, 283. 

Mr. Andrew was married in Boston, 
October 11, 1883, to Harriet, daughter of 




JOHN F ANDREW. 

Nathaniel and Cornelia (Van Rensselaer) 
Tha\'er. Their children are : Cornelia 
Thayer and Elizabeth Andrew. 

ANGELL, George Thorndike, son 

of Rev. George and Rebekah Angell, was 
born at Southbridge, Worcester county, 
June 5, 1823. 

His early education was received in 
various schools of Massachusetts, Vermont 
and New Hampshire. He entered Brown 
University in 1842, removing to Dart- 
mouth College 1843, graduating in 1846. 

After graduating he taught school in 
Boston, and at the same time studied law 
with Hon. Richard Fletcher, judge of the 
Massachusetts supreme court. Subse- 
quently he studied in the offices of Hon. 
Charles G. Loring, Boston, and at Harvard 
University law school. He was admitted 
to the Boston bar in 185 1, and formed a 
partnership with Hon. Samuel E. Sewall, 



Boston, which lasted tliirteen years, at the 
end of which time he became senior part- 
ner of the firm of Angell &: Jennison, 
P>oston, continuing in this relation several 
years. 

In 1864, two years before the founding 
in .Vmerica of any society for the preven- 
tion of cruelty to animals, he gave by will 
a large portion of his property to be used 
after his death in carrying humane educa- 
tion into schools and Sunday-schools. 

In 1868, with the aid of others, he 
founded the Massachusetts Society for 
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 
the second incorporated society of its kind 
in America. He drew its act ot incorpor- 
ation and constitution and the state laws 
under which it acts, and was elected its 
first president, which office he has held for 
over twenty years. In the same year he 
started and edited "Our Dumb Animals," 
the first paper of its kind in the world, 
and printed two hundred thousand copies 
of its first number. 

In 1869 he visited England, induced 
the Royal Society there to start a paper 
similar to his own, and with the aid of the 
Baroness Burdett-Coutts, to establish the 
Ladies' Humane Educational Committee, 
of which she is president, and which has 
done a vast educational work in Great 
Britain. He also visited the continental 
societies, and was the only American rep- 
resentative at the World's Congress in 
Zurich, Switzerland, 1869. 

In the fall of 1870 he went to Chicago, 
and spent nearly six months founding the 
Illinois Humane Society. Since 1870 he 
has devoted to this work most of his time, 
and much money, giving addresses before 
legislatures, universities, colleges, schools, 
conventions of teachers and clergy, union 
meetings of churches, etc., and personally 
helping establish humane societies as far 
south as New Orleans, and as far west as 
Dakota. 

In 1874 he was elected a director of the 
American Social Science Association, and 
from that time to 1881 gave much atten- 
tion to the labor question, and the growth 
and prevention of crime — particularly 
crimes against public healtli in the sale of 
poisonous and adulterated foods and other 
articles. He succeeded in 1S81 in obtain- 
ing a congressional report on this subject, 
embodying a vast amount of evidence he 
had gathered, and caused over a hundred 
thousand copies of it to be distributed in 
this country and Euroi>e. 

In 1882, with another gentleman, he 
founded "The Parent American Band of 



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ANGELL. 



ASPINWALL. 



Mercy," of which he has since been presi- 
dent, and from which have been formed 
nearly seven thousand branches in the 
United States, Canada, and elsewhere,- 
numbering about half a million mem- 
bers. 

In the winter of 1885-86, during sixty- 
one days, he addressed the large public 
schools of Boston on kindness to animals. 
Millions of copies of his various writings 
have been distributed in this country, 
Great Britain, and elsewhere, and trans- 
lated into other European languages. 
The paper "Our Dumb Animals," which 
he still edits, goes monthly to from five to 




GEORGE T ANGELL. 

twelve thousand editors in this country 
and British America, and to humane 
societies over the world. In i88g he 
founded " The American Humane Educa- 
tion Society," the first society of its 
kind in the world, and procured from 
the Massachusetts Legislature an act of 
incorporation, giving it power to hold half 
a mdlion dollars free from taxation. To 
this society he gave property valued at 
several thousand dollars, and was elected 
its first president. Mr. Angell, though 
not a rich man, has invariably refused all 
pecuniary compensation. 

He was married at Lynn, November 7, 
1872, to Mrs. Eliza A. Martin, daughter 



of Warren and Lucy A. Mattoon of North- 
field. They have no children. 

ARNOLD, William F., son of Alfred 
and Bethiah ( Alden ) Arnold, was born in 
Enfield, Hampshire county, September 20, 
1815. 

He drew his education from the public 
schools, and one year's attendance at a 
select school. He began his business 
career by engaging in mercantile pursuits 
in Williamsburg in 1834, remaining until 
1836. He then removed to Enfield, 1837, 
and from Enfield to Northampton, 1839, 
where he carried on the same business un- 
til 1881. He is at present city auditor of 
Northampton. 

Mr. Arnold was married in Williams- 
burg, May 8, 1S39, to Florella, daughter 
of Jonathan and Betsey (Warren) Warner. 
Of this union are three children : Jonathan 
Warner, Mary Gertrude and Charlotte Al- 
den Arnold. 

Mr. Arnold has held commissions in the 
militia as adjutant, lieutenant and captain ; 
and justice of the peace, clerk of the town 
of Northampton seventeen years, member 
of the Legislature from the ist Hamp- 
shire district, 1858, 1S59, 1868, 1870, 1871, 
and 1872 ; a member of the school board 
six years. In 1859 he was a member of 
the committee selected by the House of 
Representatives for revising the public 
statutes of the Commonwealth. 

ASPINWALL, WILLIAM, was born in 
London, England, February 16, 1819. He 
was the only son of Col. Thomas Aspin- 
wall, who was United States Consul at 
London from 1815 to 1853, when he was 
removed by President Pierce to make room 
for his political supporter, George N. Sand- 
ers, afterwards a noted secessionist. His 
grandfather was Dr. William Aspinwall, of 
Brookline, a noted patriot who took a part 
with the Brookline minute men in attack- 
ing the British troops on their retreat from 
Concord, April 19, 1775. 

Mr. .\spinwall is a direct descendant of 
Peter .Aspinwall of To.xteth Park, near 
Liverpool, England, who came to America 
in 1630, settled in Dorchester, but removed 
to Muddy River (Brookline) in 1650, and 
built in 1660 the old house which still 
stands on Aspinwall Avenue, opposite St. 
Pauls Church. 

Mr. Aspinwall was educated in a private 
boarding-school at Hammersmith, near 
London, till he was fourteen years of age. 
He then came to America with his father 
and family. He entered Harvard College 
in August, 1834, and was graduated in 



ASPIXWALL. 



ATKINSON. 



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1838. He studied law two years at Cam- 
bridge under Professors Joseph Story and 
Simon Greenleaf, and received the degree 
of LL.H. in 1840. He studied one year in 
the office of Franklin Dexter and George 
W. Phillips, and was admitted to the bar in 
1 841. From that time to the present he 
has been engaged in his profession. 

In January, 1S48, Mr. .^spinwall married 
Ari.xene Southgate, third daughter of 
Richard King Porter of Portland, Maine, 
a nephew of Rufus King, United States 
senator from Massachusetts, afterwards 
from New York, and minister to the 
Court of St. James. He has three children 




WM. ASPINWALL. 

living : a daughter, now the wife of Dr. 
\V. B. Trull, and two sons, Thomas and 
William Henry Aspinwall, both doing busi- 
ness in Boston. 

Since 1847 Mr. Aspinwall has been a 
legal resident of Brookline. He has always 
taken an active part in the affairs of the 
town, as well as in state and national pol- 
itics. Beginning his political life as a 
Whig, he became in 1852 a member of the 
Whig state central committee, and in 1855 
and 1856 was its chairman. 

Mr. .Aspinwall lias been repeatedly called 
by his town to fill the various municipal 
offices. He was town clerk from 1850 to 
1852. He represented the town in the 



House of Representatives 185 1 and 1S52, 
and in the Constitutional Convention of 
1853. He was senator from Norfolk 
County in 1854, and trial justice for Brook- 
line from 1857 to i860, when he resigned. 
He has held the offices of selectman, 
assessor, water commissioner, and trustee 
of the public library. Of the latter board 
he is now chairman. 

Mr. Aspinwall was an ardent supporter 
of the government during the civil war, 
and called the first meeting in Brookline 
to aid in its vigorous prosecution. He 
served two years on the military commit- 
tee of the town, and was at the same time 
secretary of the Massachusetts Rifle C'lub, 
at whose headquarters in Boylston Hall 
many officers were educated and several 
regiments were recruited and drilled. The 
^Vhig party having ceased to e.xist, Mr. 
.Aspinwall from 1861 to the present time 
has acted with the Democratic party, and 
has stood high in its councils. He has 
been many years a member of the state 
committee, and from 1872 to the election 
of (;overnor Gaston, was chairman. He re- 
signed his membership in 1888. He has 
received the nomination of his party for 
Congress, and was nominated for presi- 
dential elector by the Democrats of the 
9th congressional district in 1888. 

Mr. Aspinwall has brought to all the 
positions which he has been called to fill, a 
highly disciplined and well furnished 
mind. In public debate few men are his 
equal in the clear, accurate and forcible 
presentation of a subject, nor can he be 
excelled in the adroitness and power with 
which he convinces, and frequently even 
compels active support from, his opponents. 

He is a genial host, and pre-eminently 
a gentleman of the old school, a man of 
genuine and distinguished ability. 

ATKINSON, Edward, -son of Amos 
and .Anna (ireenleaf (Sawyer) .\tkinson, 
was born in Brookline, Norfolk county, 
February 10, 1827. 

He received his education in private 
schools. August 8, 1842, he entered the 
commission house of Read & Chadwick, 
Boston, as a boy, remaining there five 
years, where he received an excellent old- 
time training, such as obtained before the 
day of porters and janitors, in every line 
of work, from that of building fires and 
sweeping lofts, and packing goods, to con- 
fidential clerk. In 1848 Mr. Atkinson 
became clerk and subsequently treasurer 
of various manufacturing companies, in 
which occupation he remained until 1877. 
He was subsecjuently made president of 



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ATWOOD. 



ATWOOD. 



the Boston Manufacturers' Mutual Fire 
Insurance Company, which position he 
still holds. 

(Jctober 4, iS55.at IJrookline, Mr. Atkin- 
son married Mary C, daughter of Charles 
and Caroline (Penniman) Heath. He has 
seven children living. 

In 1887 he was appointed b_v President 
Cleveland special commissioner to report 
upon the status of bi-metallism in Europe. 
He was one of the founders of the New 
England Emigrant Aid Society, one of the 
founders and is now director of the Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology. He is 
an honorary member of the Phi Beta 
Kappa (Harvard University), member of 
the American Academy of Arts and Sci- 
ences, fellow of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science, member 
and corresponding secretary of the Ameri- 
can Statistical Association, member of the 
International Statistical Institute, Cobden 
Club of Great Britain, the Unitarian Club 
of Boston, etc. He has received the degree 
of LL. D. from the University of South 
Carolina and Ph. D. from Dartmouth. 

Mr. Atkinson has been a prolific writer 
on economic questions, and is an ardent 
advocate of a currency based wholly on 
bullion of full value, dollar for dollar ; he 
holds that the most effective method of 
protecting and promoting home industry, is 
to remove all obstructions to commerce 
with other nations which the necessity of 
the country for a customs revenue will per- 
mit. He holds that the highest-priced 
labor is the cheapest, because most effec- 
tive. He is not afraid of the so-called 
pauper labor of Europe, but agrees with 
Daniel Webster that there are a consider- 
able number of undesirable kinds of work 
that we cannot afford to take up ourselves, 
when the so-called pauper laborers of 
Europe can be so readily hired to do them. 

ATWOOD, Harrison Henry, son of 

Peter Clark and Helen M. (Aldrich) At- 
wood, was born in North Londonderry, 
Windham county, Vt., August 26, 1863. 

The public schools of Charlestown and 
the Phillips school, Boston, gave him his 
school-day training, He first started to 
earn a livelihood in the office of Godfrey 
Morse and John R. Bullard, counselors-at- 
law He afterward studied architecture 
and served four years in the office of S. J. F. 
Thayer, working a year and a half in the 
office of George A. Clough, after he had left 
the city architect's office. He has practiced 
his profession in Boston about seven years. 

Mr. Atwood has served three years, 
1S87, '88, '89, as member of the House of 



Representatives, being appointed to the 
committees on state house, litiuor law, mer- 
cantile affairs and cities. In May of the latter 
year he qualified as architect for the city 
of Boston, a position to which he had been 
appointed by Mayor Hart He was first 
alternate delegate from the 4th congres- 
sional district to the national Republican 
convention at Chicago, 1888. 

He is a member of the Masonic frater- 
nity, also of the I. O. O. F. He has been 
a member of the Republican ward and 
city committee of Boston for five years, 
serving as secretary three years, and has 
been two years a member of the Republican 
state central committee. He is unmarried. 

ATWOOD, Simeon, son of Simeon 
and Ruth Atwood, was born in Wellfleet, 
Barnstable county, July 27, 1825. 




SIMEON ATWOOD. 

He obtained his education in the com- 
mon schools of those days. Leaving 
school, he followed the sea for a time. In 
1850 he began his business life in the stove 
and hardware trade, Wellfleet. In 1852 
he was with Knowles, Dyer iS; Co., grocers, 
his father being one of the firm. In 1864 
the company was dissolved, and he carried 
on the business, taking his brother, E. T. 
Atwood, into the firm. These relations 
continued till 1877, when he sold his interest 
to his brother In 1882 he again bought 



AVERV. 



AVERV. 



25 



out the business, takinic in his son-in-law, 
William H. Tubman, the firm name being 
Simeon Atwood iv: Co., the present title. 

Mr. Atwood was married in Wellfieet, 
December 5, 1848, to Mercy Waterman, 
daughter of Joseph and Abigail Higgins. 
Of this union was one child, Mary Steele 
Atwood (now Mrs. Tubman.) 

In i860 he was member of the House of 
Representatives, serving on the committee 
on valuation. In 1861 he was appointed 
deputy collector of the port of Wellfieet, 
serving until December i, 1877. 

He was one of the charter members of 
the W'ellfleet Savings Bank, organized in 
1863, and treasurer till 1870. He has 
since been director, and its president since 
1887. He is director in the Barnstable 
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, having 
been chosen in 1862 ; also director in the 
Wellfieet Marine Insurance Company. He 
has held a commission as justice of the 
peace since 1882. He is a deacon antl 
clerk of the First Congregational church. 

AVERY, WINSLOW W., son of Ebe- 
nezer and Rosamond (Spaulding) Avery, 
was born in Montpelier, Washington coun- 
ty, Vt., April 22, 1836. 

The district school and Washington 
County (Vt.) Academy gave him his early 
educational training. He began life as 
a page and reporter's attendant in the 
Vermont Legislature, carrying copy to 
the printers of the " Legislative Journal," 
and distributing daily papers to members ; 
afterwards served seven years' apprentice- 
ship in the printing business, in the office 
of the "Vermont Watchman," Montpelier, 
Vt. In 1861 he was promoted to the 
management of that establishment, and 
during the trying period of the war, and 
in the absence in Congress of the proprie- 
tor of the paper, Mr. Avery discharged 
his arduous duties with fidelity and 
acknowledged ability. 

In January, 1866, he removed to Plym- 
outh, purchased the weekly newspaper, 
"The Old Colony Sentinel," which he suc- 
cessfully published, and in 1872 consoli- 
dated that paper with the " Old Colony 
Memorial," forming a partnership with 
C. C. Doten, under the firm name of 
Avery & Doten, continuing to the present 
time. In 1889 he was appointed post- 
master of Plymouth by President Harriscjn, 
and is rendering the public most efficient 
service. 

Mr. Avery was first married in Williams- 
town, Vt., September 2, i860, to Martha 
Eliza, daughter of David and Betsey 
(Olds) Burnham. Of this union were four 



children : Elmer Ellsworth, Martha Eliza 
(tleceased), David Ebenezer, and Herbert 
Winslow (deceased). His second marriage 
was with Mary .\balana, daughter of Free- 
man and Hannah (Freeman) Landers. 
Their children are ; Martha Eliza, Marcel- 
lus Chandler, Hannah Freeman (deceased), 
and Ebenezer Freeman (deceased). 

Mr. Avery was charter member of Saga- 
more Encampment No. 45, I. O. O. F., 
holding the office of chief patriarch ; 
chaplain and member of Mayflower Lodge 
No. 54, 1. O. O. F., and chairman of its board 
of trustees for several years ; charter mem- 
ber of Plymouth Bay Lodge K. of H. and 
its dictator ; Plymouth Rock Lodge, I. O. 




WINSLOW W. AVERY. 

G. T. ; United Order Pilgrim Fathers ; 
member of the Methodist-Episcopal church 
from early life, holding all the offices in 
the church and ' Sunday-school, being 
a working and influential member of 
the committee which had in charge the 
construction of the beautiful Memorial 
Methodist church in Plymouth. For many 
years he has served upon the board of 
trustees of the Plymouth Five Cents Sav- 
ings Bank. 

Mr. Avery was representative to the 
general court in 1880 and '81, rendering 
faithful and valuable service upon the 
committees to which he was appointed. 



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BABBITT. 



BABSON. 



BABBITT, Nathan S., son of Snell and 
Jael (Edson) iJabbitt, was born in Hancock, 
Berkshire county, August 30, 1812. His 
father was a studious and prominent medical 
practitioner. His mother was also a native 
of Berkshire, whose family is of Welsh ex- 
traction, and is descended from Edward 
Bobbitt, who settled in Taunton in 1643. 
The descendants have changed the orthog- 
raphy of the patronymic. The Babbitt fam- 
ily in Massachusetts has furnished the pro- 
fessional and artistic walks of life with many 
able representatives. The line has been 
conspicuous for its many eminent physicians 
and surgeons. Isaac Babbitt, the inventor 
of the anti-friction "Babbitt-metal," is a 
member of this family. He made the first 
Britannia ware in this country in 1831, \n 
Taunton. His great metallic production 
dates from 1839. 

The preparatory education of Mr. Bab- 
bitt was received at the academy at South 
Adams. Cut off from a college course by 
lack of means, he entered at once upon his 
preparatory work for the medical prof ession. 

He studied one year with Dr. H. M. \\'ells 
of Windsor, then with his father, and also at- 
tended the usual course of lectures at the 
Berkshire Medical school, from which he 
was graduated M. D. in 1833, at the age of 
twenty-one years. Hisdegreewasconferred 
by Williams College, of which the Berkshire 
school constituted the medical department. 
The degree of A. M. was subsequently 
awarded Dr. Babbitt by the same college. 

Locating in South Adams, after gradua- 
tion, he speedily gained a wide and success- 
ful practice, which he prosecuted until 
1846, when he removed to North Adams. 
For upwards of thirty years he has been 
studiously devoted to his profession, and is 
to-day the acknowledged leader of the 
medical fraternity in his vicinity. 

The excavation of the Hoosac Tunnel 
was attended by many accidents to the 
workmen employed therein. Their fre- 
quent and severe injuries imperatively de- 
manded the presence of a skilled surgeon, 
whose cool judgment and prompt action 
should be adequate to all emergencies. Dr. 
Babbitt was engaged by the Tunnel com- 
pany, and for more than twenty years his 
services were often under requisition. 
Prior to his settlement in Adams, patients 
who needed surgical treatment sought it at 
the recognized centres of professional skill. 
Since then his eminent abilities have ren- 
dered such recourse unnecessarv. 



In 1837 Dr. Babbitt was elected a fel- 
low of the Massachusetts Medical Society. 
He was the first president of the Northern 
District Medical Association. 

In 1835 Dr. Babbitt was married to Ann 
Eliza, daughter of Thomas Robinson, of 
Adams. 

BABCOCK, James Francis, son of 

Archibald D. and Fanny F. (Richards) Bab- 
cock, was born in Boston, February 23, 
1844. 

His early education was accomplished at 
the Quincy grammar school and at the 
English high school in Boston, where he 
graduated in i860, and at once entered the 
chemical department of the Lawrence Sci- 
entific school of Harvard University. Com- 
pleting the course of study in 1862, he at 
once commenced the profession of analyti- 
cal chemist, which he has practiced in Bos- 
ton to the present time, frequently being 
engaged as chemical expert in patent cases 
and in capital trials in this and other states. 

On the 25th of May, 1865, in Boston, 
i\Ir. Babcock was married to Mary Porter, 
daughter of Walter and Mary (Watson) 
Crosby. Their children are : Walter C, 
Frank C, and Marie Babcock. 

Mr. Babcock was appointed state assayer 
by Governor Gaston in 1875, and re-ap- 
pointed by successive governors for ten 
years. He was appointed milk inspector 
for the city of Boston in 1S85, and contin- 
ued to the year 18S9. His official reports 
on milk, butter, etc., form valuable contri- 
butions to the literature of these subjects. 
From 1870 to 1875 he was professor of 
chemistry in the Massachusetts College of 
Pharmacy, and in the Boston Lhiiversity 
from 1875 to 1880. 

Prof. Babcock is a popular iyceum lec- 
turer upon scientific subjects, and is the 
inventor of the chemical fire engine and 
the Babcock fire extinguisher. 

BABSON, FiTZ James, son of Joseph 
and Mary Babson, was born in Gloucester, 
Essex county, February 14, 1828. 

From the public schools of his native 
town he passed to the Murray Institute 
Academy, where he remained until the age 
of fourteen. At the age of sixteen he was 
apprenticed to a master carpenter, with 
whom he served, four years. Commencing 
business as contractor and builder at the 
age of twenty-one, he continued in this 
line until the breaking out of the war of 
the rebellion. 



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BACON. 



27 



Enlisting in the 23d re.Ofiment of Massa- 
chusetts volunteers, he served three years 
with this regiment, until 1864, as second 
lieutenant, lieutenant and captain. In 
1864 he recruited the 25th unattached 
compau}'. United States infantry, to which 
he was assigned, with the rank of captain, 
and with which he served until the close 
of the war. He was commander of Colonel 
Allen Post, G. A. R., 1868 and 1869, the 
first two years after it was instituted. 

In 1858 and i860 he represented his 
district in the lower branch of the Legisla- 
ture. He was inspector of customs and 
lioardiuLi-officcr for the district of Glouces- 




FITZ J, BABSON. 

ter from 1865 to 1869, and collector of 
customs for the same district from May, 
1869, to November, 1885, holding commis- 
sions from Presidents Grant, Hayes, and 
Arthur. 

He is an active member of the order of 
F. & A. M., having served as master for 
eight years. He has been identified with 
all progressive movements in his native 
city and district, and is always alert in guard- 
ing the American fishing interests. He 
was made president of the National Fishery 
Association in 1886, and still holds the 
position. He prepared and presented most 
of the documentary and oral testimony for 
the United States before the Halifax Com- 



mission, also the report to the state de- 
partment of his voyage on the " Kear- 
sarge," inspecting the Dominion shore fish- 
eries, and assisted in the compilation and 
presentation of the report on the Fortune 
Hay outrage on American fishermen. 

His continued defense of the marine 
interests of New England from foreign ag- 
gression and adverse legislation has given 
him a national reputation, and to his pub- 
Ushed articles on matters connected with 
the Atlantic fisheries, the weight of author- 
ity. He has always been an intense Repub- 
lican and protectionist, and insists upon 
■'America for the Americans." 

Mr. Babson was first married, August 19, 
1850, in Gloucester, to Sarah E., daughter 
of Joseph and Sarah Procter. His second 
marriage was in Middlefield, July 14, 1885, 
to Mary Jane, daughter of Jonathan and 
Mary (Sophia) McElwain. His children 
by first marriage are : Mary, Anna Procter, 
and Fitz James Babson, Jr. 

BACON, Edwin Munroe, .son of 

Henry and Eliza Ann (Munroe) Bacon, 
was born in Providence, R. I., October 20, 
1844. His father was an eminent univer- 
salist clergyman, who died in Philadelphia 
when he was a lad of twelve years. 

His early education was mainly received 
ill private schools in Providence, Philadel- 
|)hia, and Boston. He finished his studies 
Ml an academy at Fo.xborough, a private 
and boarding school which flourished for 
many years under James L. Stone as prin- 
11 pal, and which fitted many boys for 
college. 

At the age of nineteen he became con- 
nected with the " Boston Daily .\dvertiser " 
as a reporter, Charles Hale at that time 
iieing chief editor of the paper. He re- 
mained with the "Advertiser" for several 
years, and then left its employ to take the 
editorship of the " Illustrated Chicago 
News," in Chicago, 111., an enterprise which 
enjoyed a very brief but honorable career. 

From Chicago he returned East, and in 
the spring of 1868 became connected with 
the " New York Times," first as assistant 
night editor, subsequently becoming night 
editor, and later, managing editor. He 
was fortunate in securing employment on 
the "Times" staff during the life of Henry 
J. Raymond, its founder. Under him and 
the late S. S. Conant — general news edi- 
tor during Mr. Raymond's later years — he 
learned the journalist's trade thoroughly. 
He was made managing editor by John 
Bigelow, who became editor of the 
"'i'imes" soon after the death of Mr. 
Raymond. 



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BACON. 



BACON. 



In 1S72 Mr. Bacon resigned his position 
on the "Times "on account of ill-health 
produced b}- over-work, and returned to 
Boston. Subsequentl)- he joined the staff 
of the " Advertiser " as general news editor, 
after representing it in New York for some 
months as its special correspondent there. 
In 1873 he became chief editor of the 
" Bo.ston Globe," and conducted it as an 
independent journal. Resigning in 1878, 
he returned to the " Daily Advertiser," 
assuming the duties of managing editor. 
In the winter of 1883, upon the retirement 
of Edward Stanwood, chief editor, Mr. 
Bacon came into full editorial charge of 
the paper, and in the summer of 1884 he 
was made associate editor with Professor 
Charles F. Dunbar. In January, 1886, he 
retired from the "Advertiser," when the 
paper passed into the control of new hands, 
and in May, 1886, was made chief editor 
of the " Boston Post," when this journal 
was purchased by a number of gentlemen 
known in politics as Independents. Under 
the editorship of Mr. Bacon the " Post " has 
steadily grown in public favor, and has 
secured a permanent position among the 
daily papers of the first class in the 
country. The present management in- 
tend to maintain a high standard of in- 
dependent journalism by treating all 
political and other questions of public 
interest with fairness, frankness, and pro- 
priety, and to continue to advocate with 
the same energy and persistency it has 
displayed in the past, tariff and adminis- 
trative reforms until they are finally estab 
lished. 

Mr. Bacon has done much work as a 
special correspondent. Early in his career 
he wrote for several western journals ; for 
several years he served as Boston corre- 
spondent of the " New York Evening 
Post;" he was a special correspondent of 
the " New York Times " in Boston from 
1873 until his assumption of the editorship 
of the " Boston Post," and he was the reg- 
ular Boston letter-writer of the " Spring- 
field Republican " in the summer of 1879 
and that of 1886. 

He has compiled several books in Bos- 
ton. He is the author of "King's Dic- 
tionary of Boston" (1883) — now "Bacon's 
Dictionary of Boston" (Houghton, Mifflin 
& Company, 1886), and is the editor of 
" Boston Illustrated " (Houghton, MifBin 
& Company). 

On the 24th of October, 1867, at Somer- 
ville, Mr. Bacon was married to (lusta E., 
daughter of Ira and Hannah Hill. He 
has one child, Madeleine L. Bacon. 



BACON, JOSEPH Newman, son of 

Joseph and Beulah Crafts (Fuller) Bacon, 
was born in Newton, Middlesex county, 
January 25, 1813. 

On his father's side he is descended from 
William Bacon, who settled in Salem in 
1640. His wife traces her genealogv in a 
direct line from the Woodward family, who 
as long ago as 1681 owned and occupied 
the homestead located in Newton High- 
lands. 

He attended the common schools until 
the age of thirteen, when he went for two 
terms to Marshall S. Rice's private acad- 
emy for boys, at Newton Centre. Several 




JOSEPH N BACON, 

years later he attended Phillips Academy, 
Andover, for a short time. 

In 1835 he bought out his father's in- 
terest in a general store in Newton, in 
which business he remained until 1846. 
He then engaged in buying and selling 
real estate. In 1856 he was elected presi- 
dent of the Newton National Bank, and in 
1858, president of the Newton & Water- 
town Cas Light Company, which positions 
he still holds. 

Mr. Bacon was married in Newton, 
April 17, 1845, to Sarah Anna, daughter of 
Elijah Fuller and Anna (Murdock) Wood- 
ward. Of this union were four children : 
Anna Woodward (deceased), Sarah Emma, 



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Joseph Herbert (deceased), and William 
Francis Bacon. 

In addition to the offices named, Mr. 
Bacon has been director of the Citizens' 
^lutual Insurance Company from its com- 
mencement ; trustee of P>uphrates College, 
Harpoot, Turkey, and deacon of the Eliot 
Congregational church. 

In 1838 Mr. Bacon made a prospecting 
tour West, as far as Cincinnati and Louis- 
ville, doing half the distance by coach, 
canal and steamboat, and decided that the 
East was more desirable for residence. 

In politics he was a Whig until 1848, 
when he voted for Martin Van Buren and 
Charles Francis .\dams, as a " Conscience 
Whig." He became a Republican in 1856, 
when that party absorbed the " Conscience 
Whigs." He has ever voted the Republi- 
can ticket, with the single exception of 
1884, when distrust of the Republican 
candidate for president led him to vote 
with the Prohibitionists. 

Mr. Bacon has erected several fine 
blocks of buildings that add much to the 
beauty and valuation of his native place. 
He is conservative in his action, and what- 
ever offices he has held have come to him 
entirely unsolicited. He has never been 
swept into the whirl of active struggle for 
political preferment, chiefly from his dis- 
like of the questionable methods and prac- 
tices frequentl)' associated with it. 

BAILEY, Dudley Perkins, the .son of 

Rev. Dudley P. Bailey, a Baptist clergy- 
man, was born in Cornville, Somerset 
county, Maine, October 24, 1843. He 
received his elementary education in the 
district schools of Hartland and Monson, 
Maine, and also at Monson Academy. In 
the summer of 1864 he entered Waterville 
College, now Colby University, and gradu- 
ated with the class of 1867. 

He then commenced the study of law 
with Hon. William L. Putnam at Portland, 
Maine, and continued with him till 1870, in 
May of which year he opened an office for 
the practice of law at Freeport, Maine, 
having been admitted to the bar at Port- 
land, .\pril 28, 1870. 

In October, 1870, he removed to Port- 
land, and practiced law there until March, 
1872 ; he then opened a law office in 
F2verett and also subsequently in Boston, 
both of which he still retains. 

He was a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives in 1886 and 1887, and served 
as House chairman of the committee on 
ta.xation both years ; also served on the 
committee on probate and insolvency in 
1887. , 



Mr. Bailey has never married. He is a 
member of the Palestine Lodge F. & A. 
M., Everett and Tabernacle Chapter of 
Royal Arch Masons, Maiden. 

He has been treasurer of the F'irst Bap- 
tist church in Everett since 1878, member 
of the school board of Everett, 1873-74, 
1876-80, and from 1882 until the present 
time. He has been chairman of the same 
from 1886. He is a trustee of Everett 
public library, and has been secretary of 
the board since 1878. 

In 1868 Mr. Bailey was awarded the first 
prize offered by the American Free Trade 
League to the undergraduates of .\merican 




DUDLEY P. BAILEY. 

colleges for the best essay in favor of free 
trade. 

He was formerly (1867-72) connected 
with the " Portland Press," and has been 
an occasional contributor to various other 
newspapers. He is also author of various 
articles, mostly financial, for magazines : 
first in the " American Exchange and Re- 
view " of Philadelphia, and afterwards in 
the " Banker's Magazine " of New York. 
.-Vmong these may be mentioned : " Public 
E.xpenditure, Debt and Taxation ; " " Paper 
Money and Commerce in Russia ; " " Na- 
tional Banks or a National Bank ; " " His- 
torical Sketch of Banking in Massachu- 
setts ; " The Currencv and Commerce of 



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BAKER. 



Cuba ; " " The Credit Institutions of 
Italy ;" and a series of articles giving an 
extended account of " The Clearing- House 
System," with statistics of nearly all the 
clearing houses in the world, 'i'hese ar- 
ticles on the clearing houses have attracted 
the attention of financial writers both at 
home and abroad. Besides magazine 
articles, he is the author of the historical 
sketch of the town of Everett in " Drake's 
History of Middlesex County ; " also of the 
part relating to clearing houses in " Bolles' 
Practical Banking." 

BAILEY, George W., son of Job and 
Lydia ¥. Bailey, was born at Scituate, 
Plymouth county, August i, 1830. 

He received his early education in the 
common schools of his native town, attend- 
ing summer and winter up to the age of 
twelve, then from twelve to sixteen years 
the winter terms only. He afterwards 
went one term to a private school. 

In 1854 Mr. Bailey went into partner- 
ship with Howard Vinal in the boot and 
shoe manufacturing trade at Scituate. 
Upon the retirement of Mr. Vinal in 1855. 
he carried on the business alone until 
January i, 1856, when he took George 
Leonard, Jr., of Boston, into partnership, 
the firm then becoming Bailey & Leonard. 
From 1858 to 1875 Jotham W. Bailey 
was a partner, under the firm name of (i. 
W. & J. W. Bailey. Since the latter date 
Mr. Bailey has carried on the business by 
himself. 

He was elected a member of the scho<.)l 
board in 1885, and still serves in that 
capacity as chairman. 

Mr. Bailey has been deacon of the Bap- 
tist church at Scituate thirty-three years, 
treasurer for twenty years, and chairman 
of the executive committee. 

He was married at Scituate, November 
26, 1856, to Hannah W., daughter of James 
S. Briggs, a former ship-builder of Scituate. 
He has only one son surviving, Herbert IS. 
Bailey of Wollaston. 

BAKER, Edwin, son of Roswell and 
Bathsheba Baker, was born in Hawley, 
Franklin county, January 18, 1S43. 

He was brought up on a farm, and re- 
ceived his education in district and select 
schools, and at Kimball Union Academy, 
Meriden, N. H. 

At the age of nineteen he enlisted in 
the 5 2d regiment Massachusetts volunteers, 
and served under General Banks in the 
Louisiana campaign. 

In 1864 he entered the emplov of Dr. 
A. H. Taylor, in Shelburne Falls, as drug 



clerk. Three years later he purchased the 
business, and has conducted it as his own 
since that time. 

Mr. Baker is a prominent and leading 
citizen, and has held important offices in 
the town, and been honored with such 
business positions as director in the Shel- 
burne Falls National Bank, trustee in the 
Shelburne Falls Savings Bank, and trustee 
and treasurer of Arms Library. 

For sixteen years Mr. Baker was super- 
intendent of the Congregational Sunday- 
school in Shelburne Falls. He is a Free 
Mason, being a member of Mountain 
Lodge, F. & A. M. He has served this 




EDWIN BAKER 

lodge in various capacities, and for four 
years was worshipful master. From 1882 
to 1885 he was district deputy grand master 
of the 14th Masonic district. 

He was a member of the lower branch 
of the Legislature in 1885 and 1886, and 
served upon the public health and Hoosac 
Tunnel committees. In 1889 he repre- 
sented Franklin district as State senator, 
and was a member of the committee on 
public health, agriculture, and engrossed 
bills, being chairman of the latter. 

On the first day of August, 1867, Mr. 
Baker was married to Emma Isabel, daugh- 
ter of Edward and Hannah Bannister of 
Leeds, Yorkshire County, England. 



BAKER. 



BAKER. 



BAKER, John 1., son of Joseph and 
Lucy (Bisson) Haker, was born in Beverh', 
Essex county, August i6, 1812. 

He left school at twelve and one-half 
years of age, and after a two years' engage- 
ment in a store in Salem and Beverly, he 
served a fourteen months' apprenticeship 
at shoe-making, and was connected with 
that business for nearly twenty years. He 
has also been engaged in rubber manufac- 
ture and in mercantile affairs, and has done 
an extensive business as surveyor, and in 
the settlement of estates. 

Mr. Baker's proverbial characteristic of 
fair and equitable dealing was early devel- 




JOHN I. BAKER. 

oped, and he was frequently called upon to 
act as adviser or arbitrator in complicated 
and important cases. His business of later 
years has been largely in real estate. 

He very early took an active interest in 
public affairs, and has performed long and 
conspicuously honorable service therein in 
town, county and state. He was town 
clerk of Beverly at twenty-three years of 
age, and for nearly twenty years thereafter, 
serving also as selectman for nearly one- 
half that time. In 1847 he was chosen 
county commissioner, also in 1850 and '53. 

Mr. Baker has a phenomenal record of 
service in the state Legislature, having oc- 
cupied a seat in the House of Representa- 



tives in no less than eighteen different 
sessions, being a member in 1840, '45, '46, 
'47, '52> '56, '<'S. '66, '69, '71, '75, '78, '79, 
'80, '81, '82, '83, and '84. He enjoyed the 
distinction for eight years of being the sen- 
ior member in service, and in consequence 
he has been obliged to call the house to 
order, and preside during the organization 
on those occasions. He was a member of 
the State Senate in 1863 and '64 ; council- 
or with Governor Banks in i860, and with 
C'rovernor Andrew in 1861 ; took a promi- 
nent part with the former in settling the 
long vexed question of the Rhode Island 
boundary, and was in intimate and active 
co-operation with the latter in fitting out 
all the Massachusetts troops in the first 
year of the war ; and after leaving the 
official councils, continued in similar fel- 
lowship with Governor Andrew in all the 
subsequent work of the war. 

In legislative work i\Ir. Baker served on 
many important committees, often as chair- 
man. The railroad committee received a 
good share of his service, and he labored 
earnestly in bringing about the establish- 
ment of a board of railroad commissioners. 

He was largely instrumental in establish- 
ing the present system of state valuation 
and taxation, and is still interested in state 
charities and prisons ; believes in female 
suffrage ; is a radical temperance man and 
])rohibitionist ; member of the congrega- 
tion of the First Baptist society, Beverly ; 
was an early abolitionist, and of the anti- 
slavery wing of the Whig party ; was an 
active and prominent organizer of the Re- 
publican party, associated in his labors 
with John .\. Andrew. 

Mr. Baker continued in full fellowship 
with the Republican party until 1870, 
since which time he has acted independently, 
or with the Prohibition party ; in 1875 he 
was the Prohibition candidate for gover- 
nor. In 187S, '79, and '82 he supported 
General Butler for governor. In 18S3 he 
was appointed by General Butler, who that 
year occupied the gubernatorial chair, as a 
member of the harbor and land commission, 
which position he still holds, having been 
re-appointed at the expiration of each term 
of his service of three years by Governors 
Robinson and Ames. 

Mr. Baker was many years chairman of 
the Beverly board of selectmen and of the 
school board ; is president of Liberty Ma- 
sonic Association ; of Odd Fellows' Hall 
Association ; of the Beverly Gas Light 
Company ; of the Beverly & Danvers 
Street Railway Company , of the Beverly 
co-operative store, and vice-president of 



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BAKER. 



BAKER. 



the Beverly Savings Bank. He takes a 
lively interest in the history and the pedi- 
gree of the early families of Beverly and 
vicinity, and continues an active and un- 
wearied promoter of the grovVth and pros- 
perity of the town which has so uninter- 
ruptedly given him so flattering a support 
at the polls. His sagacity and wide ac- 
quaintance with the prominent legislators 
indifferent parts of the State has had no little 
influence in keeping historic Beverly still 
undivided and in the enjoyment of all its 
town privileges, and with its property un- 
impaired. 

B.AKER, Nathan Babbitt, the son of 

Joel Baker, was born July 20, 1841, at West 
Hawley, Franklin county. 

He received his early education in the 
common schools in Savoy until 1858, when 
he was sent to Athol, where he attended 
the high school for one year, at the same 
time supporting himself by sawing wood 
mornings and nights. He was then called 
home to assist his father on his farm. In 
i860 he was hired out to a farmer in 
Cheshire for si.x months, and in the follow- 
ing year to a farmer in Hawley. 

Mr. Baker is now a farmer at Savoy 
Centre, being much interested in agricul- 
tural pursuits. He is a member and vice- 
president of several agricultural societies. 
His valuable services as an expert have 
frequently been called into requisition at 
agricultural fairs. 

He is a member of the town school 
board, and has been frequently elected to 
represent the Republican party of his dis- 
trict at conventions and county nomina- 
tions. 

He enlisted August, 1862, in company 
E, 5 2d Massachusetts volunteer militia, 
which was raised in Greenfield, and was 
honorably discharged in the fall of 1863. 
His health, however, was very seriously 
impaired, and he is one of those who to- 
day are suffering physical disability, oc- 
casioned by constant exposure and arduous 
service in the army. 

Mr. Baker was married at Savoy Centre, 
October 28, 1868, to Sarah Abbie, the only 
daughter of Harman Snow, of that town, 
by whom he had five children : Walter 
Joel, who died in 1884, aged ten years, 
Sarah .\bbie, .\ngie Mary, Nellie Bell, and 
Ada Hannah Baker. 

He has been prominentlv identified with 
the Grand Army for several years, served 
in 1888 on the staff of Department Com- 
mander Walker, was re-ap]5ointed by De- 
partment Commander Goodale for 1889 as 
aide-de-camp and assistant inspector. 



It is a singular fact, and one probably 
without a parallel in army history, that Mr. 
Baker was permitted to enlist while suffer- 
ing at the time from a disability which 
should have at once disqualified him from 
active service. His ambition to serve in 
the war led him to conceal his inability to 
raise his arm to a level with his shoulder, 
and this defect was not discovered until at 
an inspection at Port Hudson his superior 
officer tossed him a musket which he was 
unable to properly catch. It was too late, 
however, to prevent his continuing in ac- 
tive and honorable service. 

BAKER, Smith, son of Smith and Mary 
(Smith) Baker, was born in Bowdoin, 
Sagadahoc county, Maine, February 18, 
1836. He was graduated from the Bangor 
(Maine) Theological Seminary in i860, 
and was settled over the Congrega- 
tional churches of Orono and Veazie, 
Maine, until 1871, when he became the 
pastor of the first Congregational church, 
Lowell. 

Mr. Baker has always taken an active 
interest in Sunday-school work ; the school 
connected with his church is one of the 
largest in New England. He has been a 
member of all the international Sunday- 
school conventions, and for several years 
past has been a member of the national 
executive committee. He is also chair- 
man of the Sunday-school committee of 
the national council of Congregational 
churches. 

Mr. Baker is a frequent contributor to 
various religious publications, and since 
the re-crganization of the " Golden Rule," 
has edited the Sunday-school lesson for 
that paper. In this work is seen the same 
pithy terseness of expression which char- 
acterizes his sermons. He has published 
two small books of " Talks to Young Men 
and Young Women." 

Mr. Baker's pastorate in Lowell has been 
phenomenally successful. No less than 
twelve hundred have united with the church 
since his acceptance of its pastoral charge. 
The new and elegant place of worship has 
a seating capacity of thirteen hundred, and 
is admirably adapted to modern church 
work. Mr. Baker has been instrumental 
not only in preventing all dissensions, 
but in unifying the sentiment of his 
people. His is distinctively the " People's 
Church." 

Mr. Baker was married September 13, 
i860, to Isabella A., daughter of .\lvah and 
Elizabeth Ditson, of Northumberland, Vt. 
The wife and one son, Alvah S. Baker, are 
living. 



BALDWIN. 



BALDWIN. 



BALDWIN, John Stanton, son of 

John Denison and Lemira (Hathaway) 
Baldwin, was born in New Haven, New 
Haven county, Conn., January 6, 1834. 

He attended the public schools of Con- 
necticut, the Hartford high school, and 
finished with the state normal school. 
He had fitted for Yale College, but was 
obliged to relinquish his college course, 
from lack of funds. 

Mr. Baldwin learned the printer's trade 
in Hartford, and was first called, at the age 
of nineteen, to the business which he has 
ever since followed, when his father became 
editor and proprietor of the " Boston Daily 
Commonwealth." He was placed in charge 
of the business office, where he remained 
five years. These were the years of the 
execution of the infamous "fugitive slave 
act " which stirred Massachusetts to its 
centre. The " Commonwealth " was the 
organ of the men who bitterly opposed 
this act, and its ofifice was the daily rendez- 
vous of such men as Theodore Parker, 
Charles Sumner, Richard H. Dana, Jr., 
Wendell Phillips, Henry Wilson, Dr. Samuel 
G. Howe, \\'illiam Claflin, John A. Andrew, 
Anson Burlingame, and others illustrious 
in the history of the anti-slavery agitation 
in Massachusetts. It was amid these as- 
sociations that Mr. Baldwin became a 
voter and formed the convictions which 
shaped his subsequent political course. 

In 1859 he was associated with his 
father and- brother in the publication of 
" The \\'orcester Daily Spy," and is now 
the senior proprietor and editor of that 
paper. 

Mr. Baldwin was captain in the 51st 
Massachusetts regiment, where he served 
during the war of the rebellion ; was a 
member of the House of Representatives 
from Worcester, 1871 and 1872 ; has been 
common councilman and member of Wor- 
cester school board ; is a member of the 
Church of the Unity, Worcester, and su- 
perintendent of its Sunday-school. He is 
also connected with several social and 
charitable organizations. He is a mem- 
ber of the Worcester Club, the Quinsiga- 
mond Boat Club, the Massachusetts Club, 
the Grand Army of the Republic, the 
Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and 
the Society of the Army of the Potomac. 

Mr. Baldwin was married in Worcester, 
October 19, 1863, to Emily, daughter of 
Albert and Mary (Eaton) Brown. Of this 
union are si.x children : Mary Eleanor, 
Robert Stanton, Alice Hathaway, John 
Denison, Henry Brown, and Emily Clinton 
Baldwin. 



BALDWIN, William Henry, son of 

Henry and Mary (Brackett) Ualdwin, was 
born in Brighton [now Boston], October 
20, 1826. 

He received his educational training in 
the public and private schools of his native 
place. His first business experience was 
with the firm of Kelly & Spring, dry goods, 
Brighton, with whom he remained about 
four years ; next with James M. Beebe & 
Co., importers and dry goods jobbers, Bos- 
ton, and afterwards with Gannett, Balch & 
Co., in the same business in the same city. 
Mr. (iannett was a former partner in the 
firm of James M. Beebe it Co. Mr. Bald- 
win remained with this firm until A[)ril, 
1850, when the firm of Baldwin, Baxter & 
Curry was organized, importers and job- 
bers of woolens. In 1S58 Mr. Baxter died, 
and the business was continued under the 
firm name of Baldwin & Curry until July, 
1865, when Mr. Baldwin disposed of his 
interest in the concern and engaged in the 
dry goods commission business, in which 
he remained until April, 1868. 

In the winter of 1867-68 it was decided 
to resume the work of the Boston Young 
Men's Christian Union — organized 1851, 
incorporated 1852 — which had been 
interrupted and temporarily discontinued 
on account of the civil war. At a meet- 
ing of the life-members and friends of this 
organization, held April 15, 1868, a board 
of government was elected, the choice 
being made of Mr. Baldwin, without 
previous consultation with him as to the 
use of his name, as president of the board. 
Mr. Baldwin, after some hesitation — being 
then in active business — accepted, with 
the full intention of re-engaging in business 
at the close of the Union year ; but he 
became so deeply interested in the work 
of the Union, its growth and success, 
that he has remained in the position of 
president for the period now covering 
over twenty-one years. The membership 
of the Union April i, 1889 (date of last 
annual report), was 5,165. 

Mr. Baldwin has been actively identi- 
fied with many organizations and societies 
in Boston — religious, philanthropic, and 
others. 

At the present time he is president of 
the " Children's Mission to the Children of 
the Destitute," Boston ; director in the 
" Massachusetts Society for the Prevention 
of Cruelty to Animals ; " director in the 
'' Old Boston School Boys' Association ; " 
trustee Franklin Savings Bank, vice-presi- 
dent of the Unitarian Church Tem]ierance 
Society (National) ; also a member of the 



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BALDWIN. 



BALL. 



Boston Memorial Association, and of the 
Bostonian Society. He was one of the 
founders of the Unitarian Club, and a 
member of its council the first seven years; 
he has always taken a deep interest in the 
work of the Sunday-school ; was for sev- 
eral years president of the Unitarian Sun- 
day-school Society, and for twenty-five 
years superintendent of the Sunday-schools 
connected with the Church of the Unity 
and the Church of the Disciples, Boston. 

Mr. Baldwin has always taken a lively 
interest m the political welfare of his city, 
state and nation, from a sense of religious 
duty, without being able to give that 




WILLIAM H, BALDWIN, 

amount of time which would have been 
required to fulfill the duties connected 
with public official positions. He has 
always been a strong advocate of our pub- 
lic schools, and for several years served as 
member of the Boston school board. Dur- 
ing the civil war he was a member of the 
war relief committee of the old ward 
eleven, Boston, which rendered important 
service to the families of those who were 
engaged at the front in the defense of the 
Union. 

Mr. Baldwin was married in Boston, 
June 17, 1851, to Mary Frances Augusta, 
daughter of Jonathan and Nancy (Aklrich) 
Chaffee of Boston. Of this union were 



nine children : Mary Chaffee, Maria Jose- 
phine, Harry Heath, Frank Fenno, Fanny 
Aldrich, William. Henry, George Storer, 
Robert Collyer, and Richard Brackett 
Baldwin. 

BALL, PhINEHAS, son of Manassah S. 
and Clarissa (.Andrews) Ball, was born in 
Boylston, Worcester county, January 18, 
1824. 

The common schools of his native town, 
with a short attendance at Berlin Academy, 
gave him his educational training up to 
1840, when he learned from an uncle the 
rudiments of surveying, which was the 
starting point of his after education in 
civil engineering. His later education has 
been obtained in the field, in actual con- 
tact with the practical work, and by per- 
sonal private study of various works on 
engineering, mostly relating to water-works 
and sewers. 

He began his business life by associat- 
ing himself with Klbridge Boyden, archi- 
tect, Worcester, under the firm name of 
Boyden & Ball, architects and civil 
engineers. This partnership continued 
until i860. Since that date he has carried 
on the business of civil engineering in the 
city of Worcester, doing general work up 
to 1865, but after that time engaged al- 
most wholly by the city until 1872. Since 
the latter date he has been engaged a large 
part of the time in the construction of 
water-works, and consulting on plans of 
water-works and sewers for towns and 
cities, chiefly in the State of Massachu- 
setts. He has also the management and 
direction of the Union Water Meter Com- 
pany. 

Mr. Ball married, in Marlborough, De- 
cember 21, 1S4S, Sarah Augusta, daugh- 
ter of William and Rebecca (Howe) Holy- 
oke. Of this union were two children : 
Allard Holyoke (deceased), and Helen 
Augusta Ball. His second marriage oc- 
curred November 29, 1865, in Lancaster, 
with Mary Jane, daughter of Benj. B. and 
Mary (Carter) Otis. 

Mr. Ball was a member of the common 
council, Worcester, i862-'63 ; mayor of 
Worcester, 1865 ; water commissioner from 
1863 to 1867 ; and city engineer from 1867 
to 1872. 

He was clerk of the Worcester County 
Mechanics' Association from 1857 to 1865, 
and treasurer seven years during the time, 
and was afterwards director, vice-president 
and president of the association for short 
terms; was for seventeen years one of the 
vice-presidents of the Mechanics' Savings 
Bank, and for seven years the president of 



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the Worcester county conference of Uni- 
tarian ciiurclies. 

Mr. Ball has taken out a number of 
patents, chiefly relating to water meters 
and water-works fixtures. He has been 
president of the Union Water Meter Com- 
pany since its incorporation, November 9, 
■1868. 

BALLIET, Tho.MAS M., son of Nathan 
and Sarah (Minard) Balliet, was born at 
Mauch Chunk, Carbon county. Pa., of 
Huguenot descent, March i, 1852. 

He received his early education at the 
public schools, and entered Franklin and 
Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., where he 
was graduated in 1876, with the highest 
honors of his class. In September, 1877, 
he entered the divinity school at Yale 
College, and continued the study of theol- 
ogy for two years. Before entering college 
he taught in ungraded schools for two 
years, and for one )'ear was teacher of 
mathematics in an academy at Lehighton, 
Pennsylvania. 

Immediately after graduating from col- 
lege, he was chosen principal of the high 
school and superintendent of schools in 
Bellefonte, Pa., which position he held till 
he entered the divinity school, and two 
years later, on leaving the divinity school, 
he was elected teacher of Latin and Greek 
at the state normal school at Kutztown, 
Pa. At the end of two years he resigned, 
to accept the position of county superin- 
tendent of schools of Carbon county, Pa., 
devoting considerable time to lecturing 
upon educational subjects before teachers' 
conventions throughout the state. At the 
expiration of his three years' term he 
declined re-election and went to Chicago, 
where he taught for a term in the Cook 
county normal school, conducting teach- 
ers' institutes in the western states, and 
lectured at teachers' conventions. In 1885 
he was elected superintendent of schools 
in Reading, Pa., and re-elected in 1887. 
At the same time he was also elected pro- 
fessor of logic, psychology, and pedagog- 
ics, in Haverford College, Philadeljihia, 
but declined the election. In October, 
1887, he v/as elected superintendent of 
schools in Springfield, and entered upon 
the duties of the office April i, 1888. He 
has also had charge of the department of 
psychology at the Saratoga summer school 
since 1885, and of the same department 
at the Glens Falls, N. Y., and at the Penn- 
sylvania summer schools for 1888 and '89. 

Mr. Balliet has obtained a wide reputa- 
tion through papers he has read before the 
State teachers' associations of Massachu- 



setts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Con- 
necticut, New York and Pennsylvania, and 
through his lectures before educational 
conventions in Iowa, Illinois, Pennsylva- 
nia, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and 
all the New England states but Maine. 

BANCROFT, WILLIAM AMOS, son of 
Charles and Lvdia Emeline (Spaulding) 
Bancroft, was born in Groton, Middlesex 
county, April 26, 1855. 

He attended the public schools and the 
Lawrence Academy, located in his native 
town. He became a student for two years 
at Phillips Academy, E.xeter, N. H., and 
from this institution he was graduated in 
1874. In the same year he went to Cam- 
bridge to live, and entered Harvard Col- 
lege. From childhood he took an active 
part in athletic sports, and, while in col- 
lege, was the captain and stroke oarsman 
of the famous Harvard L'niversity crews 
ol '77, '78 and '79. Graduating from col- 
lege with his class in 1878, he entered the 
Harvard Law school, and subsequently 
the law oflice of district attorney William 
B. Stevens. He was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in 1S81, having previously opened 
a law office in Boston with his classmate, 
Edward F. Johnson, now mayor of Woburn. 

After the practice of the law for several 
years, in 1885 he entered the street rail- 
way business as superintendent of the Cam- 
bridge railroad. This position he held at 
the time of the strike of the six hundred 
employees in 1887, and was charged with 
the duty of re-organizing the service of 
the road. So energetically did he proceed 
in hiring new men and in running the cars, 
that, in fourteen days, all of the twentv- 
two lines were in full operation. After the 
consolidation of the various street railways 
of Boston into the West End Street Rail- 
way, he was, in 1888, appointed road-mas- 
ter and given charge of the two hundred 
and thirty miles of track operated by the 
company. 

While practicing law he was a corre- 
spondent of several Boston and New A'ork 
papers, and also devoted considerable time, 
from 1879 to 1884, to "coaching" the 
Harvard crews. 

While a freshman at college, Mr. Ban- 
croft joined the state militia, in the spring 
of 1S75, as a private in company K (after- 
wards company B), 5th regiment, and, 
after filling the positions of corporal and 
sergeant, was elected second lieutenant in 
1877, first lieutenant in 1878, and captain 
in 1879. He was elected colonel of the 
regiment February 7, 1882, and still holds 
that commission. Under his administra- 



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BANKS. 



tion, the regiment has steadily gained in 
proficiency, and, in 1889, was detailed by 
the commander-in-chief, on account of its 
military excellence, as escort to the state 
delegation at the centennial celebration at 
New York, of Washington's inauguration 
as president of the United States. In 
this duty the regiment acquitted itself with 
much credit, and was in numbers nearly 
eight hundred strong — the largest regiment 
that has ever left the State before or since 
the civil war. 

Having been elected a member of the 
common council of Cambridge for the 
year 1882, at the state election of that 




WILLIAM A, BANCROFT. 

year, Mr. Bancroft was elected a represen- 
tative to the General Court from the Old 
Cambridge district, and was returned at 
the two subsequent elections. During his 
three years' service in the Legislature he 
was House chairman of the military com- 
mittee, and also of the committee on 
library ; was clerk of the street railway, 
and the finance committees ; and was a 
member of the committee on probate and 
chancery, and of bills in the third reading. 
On the i8th of January, 1879, he was 
married to Mary, daughter of Joseph and 
Catherine (Perry) Shaw, of Boston. He 
has three children : Hugh, Guy and Cath- 
erine Bancroft. 



BANKS, Nathaniel Prentiss, son of 

Nathaniel Prentiss and Rebecca ( Green- 
wood) Banks, was born in Waltham, Mid- 
dlesex county, January 30, 1816. 

After receiving a common school train- 
ing, when about ten years of age he 
worked as bobbin boy in a cotton factory 
of which his father was superintendent. It 
was in this factory that the first cotton 
cloth was made that was manufactured in 
the United States. He subsequently learn- 
ed the trade of machinist in the machine 
shop of Kendall & Wallace, Waltham, and 
with Coolidge, Sibley & Treat, Stony Brook. 

His leisure hours were employed in 
study. He early developed an aptitude for 
speaking, and was engaged in lecturing 
while but a youth. He became editor of a 
local paper, and was concerned in news- 
paper ventures both in Waltham and Low- 
ell. He has ever been a diligent student, 
and his attainments in the modern lan- 
guages, in history, politics and science have 
contributed not a little to the marked suc- 
cess which hascharacterizedhis publicutter- 
ances during his long and eventful career. 

He was married in Waltham, April 11, 
1847, to Mary, daughter of Jeduthan and 
Sarah (Turner) Palmer. Of this union 
were four children, of whom three are liv- 
ing — Joseph W., a civil engineer, settled in 
the west ; Mary Binney, wife of Rev. Paul 
Sterling, and Maud Banks, who has so suc- 
cessfully devoted herself to histrionic art. 
Miss Banks inherited her dramatic tastes 
from her father, who fifty years ago faced 
the footlights as an amateur. In 1837 he 
enacted the part of " Claude Melnotte " 
with marked acceptance. 

Choosing the profession of law, he pur- 
sued his legal studies in the office of Rob- 
ert Rantoul, Jr., and was admitted to the 
bar, but never practiced much in the courts. 
His first public service was as inspector in 
the Boston custom house. In 1849 he was 
elected to the Legislature. He was chosen 
speaker of the House in 1851 and 1852. 
In 1853 he was elected to a seat in the 
state Constitutional Convention, and was 
made president of that body. 

He joined the Native American party, 
was elected to Congress in 1853 as a coali- 
tion Democrat, and in the next Congress 
was re-elected by the American party, and 
chosen speaker of the National House of 
Representatives, after an unparalleled and 
exciting contest, lasting over two months, 
and resulting in the casting of one hundred 
and thirty-two ballots ere the dead-lock 
was broken. As a speaker of the House 
he has had but few equals. 



BARKER. 



BARKER. 



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Having been elected governor of Massa- 
chusetts in 11S57, he resigned his seat in 
Congress. He ser.ved three years as gover- 
nor — 1858, '59 and '60. In i860 he acce])t- 
ed the position of president of the Ilhnois 
Central Railroad, succeeding Captain (sub- 
sequently General) George B. McClellan. 

When the civil war opened, Governor 
Banks was commissioned a major-general of 
volunteers, and assigned to the command 
of the 5th corps in the army of the Poto- 
mac. General Banks's corps was ordered 
to the front August 9, 1862, and immedi- 
atelv participated in active service in the 
battle of Cedar Mountain, where it held its 
position against a largely superior force. 
Later, in the same year. General Banks 
was placed in command of the defenses of 
Washington, and subsequently assigned to 
the command of the expedition to New 
Orleans, and succeeded General Butler in 
the command of that department. During 
his command of the department of the 
Gulf, he endeavored to re-organize the 
civil government of Louisiana. The Red 
River expedition, undertaken in opposition 
to his remonstrances, proved a disastrous 
enterprise, but some of the best military 
critics exculpate General Banks from all 
blame for the result. He was relieved of 
his command in May, 1864; resigned his 
commission, and returned to Massachusetts, 
and was again elected to Congress from his 
old district. He was re-elected to the suc- 
cessive Congresses until 1877, failing only 
in 1872, when he allied himself to the for- 
tunes of Horace Greeley, the nominee of 
the Democratic party for the presidency 
for that term. In Congress he served a 
long time as chairman of the committee 
on foreign relations. Since his retirement 
from congressional service, he has served 
as United States marshal, having been 
appointed by President .\rthur, and served 
until the administration of President Cleve- 
land. 

In 1888 he was once more elected to 
Congress from his old district. General 
Banks is now over seventy-three years of 
age — the oldest living ex-governor of 
Massachusetts. The Commonwealth has a 
warm place in her heart for her former 
chief magistrate — for his ability displayed 
in his long service has been as conspicuous 
as his integrity has been untarnished. 

BARKER, Henry, son of Asa and 
Nancy (Jones) ]5arker, was born in North 
Chelmsford, Middlesex county, September 
16, 1811. 

His educational advantages were quite 
limited, and left him a thirst for knowledge 



which it was a pleasure to him to gratify 
in after years, gradually adtling to the 
stock he had acquired in the too brief at- 
tendance at a country school. 

His father was a practical stone-cutter, 
as well as contractor, enjoying the confi- 
dence of Boston capitalists of that day, and 
the son was called when quite young to 
render such assistance as was possible in a 
boy who had just entered his teens. He 
commenced as a tool sharpener, and fol- 
lowing through the various gradations of 
the trade of stone-cutting, at the age of 
eighteen he had left home and entered the 
employ of Richards &: !Munn, in Boston, 




HENRY BARKER. 

at that time one of the leading firms in the 
granite business in that cit)', and also in 
Quincy, and soon became one of the most 
expert workmen of the day. He was 
always foremost in originating and adopt- 
ing new and improved methods in connec- 
tion with the business in which he had 
grown up, persevering in some instances, 
notwithstanding determined opposition that 
would have discouraged a man with less 
faith in his work, and without confidence 
that truth would in the end prevail. Under 
such circumstances, he was the fir.st to dis- 
cover and apply to the manufacture of 
granite paving-blocks, the shapes and sizes 
substantially the same as in use at the 



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BARKER. 



BARKER. 



present day, required by the progressive 
ideas of street construction. He was thus 
instrumental in retaining for the Massa- 
chusetts quarries an industry that at one 
time seemed hkely to be diverted to other 
sections and other materials.- 

In 1834, having taken the contract to 
cut the eight columns for the Court House 
located in Court Square, Boston, he may 
be said to have entered into permanent 
business at this time. In 1836 he formed 
a partnership with Abel Wright, to which 
were afterwards admitted his two brothers, 
Charles Barker — subsequently in charge 
of the branch established in Philadelphia 
— and Cieorge Barker, in charge of the 
branch at Gloucester (Lanesville), under 
the firm name of Barker, Wright & Co. 
Upon the withdrawal of Mr. Wright in 
1864, the firm name was changed to H. 
Barker & Brothers. 

During the period from 1866 until his 
decease he was associated with his three 
sons, under the firm name of Henry Barker 
& Sons. This firm was ultimately the 
successor to all the others with which he 
was connected, excepting that at Philadel- 
phia. 

Mr. Barker was married in Boston, May 
4, 1837, to Elizabeth, daughter of Amos 
and Lucy (Brigham) Smith. Of this union 
were three children : Henry F., who died 
March 2, 1878, in the thirty-ninth year of 
his age, while serving a term as senator 
from the ist Norfolk district ; George A., 
who represented the towns of Quincy and 
Weymouth in the Legislature of 1883, and 
William P. Barker, the last two surviving 
him. After his marriage, he took up his 
abode in Quincy, where he continued to 
reside for the remainder of his life. 

He was often called to serve his fellow- 
citizens in positions of responsibility and 
trust, having been elected six years a 
member of the school committee, five 
years a member of the board of managers 
of Adams Academy, a member of the 
board of trustees of the public library, 
from its foundation in 1871 to the date of 
his decease, and representative in the Legis- 
lature from the town of Quincy for the 
years 1865 and 1869. He was deeply in- 
terested in the reforms that were agitating 
the years of his early and middle life, 
taking advanced ground on the side of the 
anti-slavery and temperance causes, and 
the leading lecturers on these reforms 
often shared the hospitality of his roof. 

In politics, having cast his first vote for 
the Whig candidates, of the w-isdom of 
whose protective policy he was fully con- 



vinced, he afterwards left this party to 
join in the Free-Soil movement, and was an 
earnest advocate of its principles. He be- 
came a Republican on the organization of 
that party, to which he was always loyal, 
and upon whose success he firmly believed 
the welfare of the nation depended. 

Mr. Barker was held high in the esteem 
of the citizens of Quincy, respected and 
beloved by all who knew him, and was a 
recognized friend of his employees and of 
the poor and afflicted. He died at Quincy, 
July II, 1889. 

BARKER, James Madison, son of 

John \'. and Sarah (Apthorp) Barker, was 
born in Pittsfield, Berkshire county, Octo- 
ber 23, 1839, where he still resides. 

He received his early training in the 
public schools of Pittsfield, including the 
high school ; attended private school in 
Pittsfield, Hinsdale Acadeni}-, Hinsdale, 
and Williston Seminary, Easthampton. 
He entered Williams College in 1856, and 
was graduated in the class of i860. 

Choosing the profession of law, he pur- 
sued his legal studies in the Harvard Law 
school, 1862 and '63. Admitted to the 
bar, he became a law partner with Charles 
N. Emerson, Pittsfield, in 1863. This 
partnership continued until 1865, when he 
became associated with Thomas P. Pin- 
gree, and this relation continued until the 
appointment of Mr. Barker as associate 
justice of the superior court of Massachu- 
setts, which position he still holds. 

Mr. Barker was married in Bath, Steuben 
county, N. Y., September 21, 1864, to 
Helena, daughter of Levi Carter and Pa- 
melia Nelson (Woods) Whiting. Of this 
union were seven children : Ohve Pame- 
lia, Sarah Elizabeth, Helen ^^'hiting (de- 
ceased), Daisy (deceased), Mary Phillips, 
John, and Alice Whiting Barker. Mrs. 
Barker died April 11, 1S89. 

Judge Barker is trustee of Williams Col- 
lege and of Clarke Institution for Deaf 
Mutes. He was a member of the House 
of Representatives 1872 and '73. In 1874 
and '75 he was commissioner to inquire 
into the expediency of revising and amend- 
ing the laws of the State relating to taxa- 
tion and exemption therefrom. He was 
commissioner to consolidate the public 
statutes in 1881 and '82. 

In 1 880 he was a delegate to the national 
Republican convention at Chicago, Illinois, 
and there won a reputation for staunch 
and fearless independence, through his de- 
termined efforts, with others of the Massa- 
chusetts delegation, to secure a civil ser- 
vice plank in the party platform, against 



BARKER. 



BARRETI'. 



39 



the wishes of the spoilsmen. It was in 
this fight that Mr. Flanaghan of Texas 
asked in all innocence his since famous 
question, " What are we here for if not for 
spoils ? " 

As a judge, at nisi prius, he has made an 
admirable record, and his rulings have had 
their full share of success upon appeal. 

BARKER, William, Jr., son of Wil- 
liam and Susannah (Potter) Barker, was 
born in Dartmouth, Bristol county, De- 
cember 25, 1820. 

Availing himself of the advantages of 
the public schools, he finished his scho- 
lastic training at the Friends' Boarding 
School, Providence, R. I. 

From the age of si.xteen he was employed 
for four years as an apprentice in the tan- 
ning, currying and shoe business ; then 
worked at the shoe business till the year 
185 1. That year he was chosen clerk, treas- 
urer and collector of taxes for the town of 
Dartmouth. He held these offices for six- 
teen consecutive years. In 1852 he was ap- 
pointed justice of the peace and deputy 
sheriff. The latter office he has held 
twenty-five years. His occupation at pres- 
ent is varied: he is employed as auctioneer 
and appraiser ; engaged in settling estates, 
or as ju.stice of the peace, and is also inter- 
ested in farming. 

Mr. Barker is a Republican in politics, 
and was chosen to serve his representative 
district in the Legislature of 1868, '70 and 
'71. He was a member of the state 
Senate in 1882. His residence is North 
Dartmouth. 

Mr. Barker was married in Fairhaven, 
September 22, 1842, to Mary, daugh- 
ter of Caleb and Hannah M. N. (Davis) 
Slade. Of this union is one child, Mary E. 
Barker, now wife of Captain Alden T. Pot- 
ter of Dartmouth. 

BARNARD, LEWIS, son of Captain 
Lewis and Bathsheba (Lovell) Barnard 
was born in Worcester, May 15, 1816. 
After the usual preliminary education, he 
passed through the high school in Temple- 
ton, and the Leicester Academy, and when 
twenty-three years old began business in 
Springfield, where he remained till 1842. 

In 1847 he returned to Worcester, where 
he has since remained, being successively 
connected with H. H. Chamberlain, Ceorge 
Sumner, and Otis E. Putnam, in the dry 
goods business. 

During his residence in Worcester he has 
been on the board of aldermen for five 
years, and was in the House of Represen- 
tatives from 1870 to 1873, acting upon the 



railroad committee in 1872. and as chair- 
man of the insurance committee in 1873. 
He has been a director in the City Bank 
since 1855, and was a director in the Bay 
State Fire Insurance Company during its 
existence. For five years he was a direc- 
tor in the Manufacturers' Insurance Com- 
pany, a trustee of the IVIechanics' Savings 
Bank for eight years, and a director in the 
Boston, Barre & Gardner R. R. for six 
years. 

During sixty years he has been inti- 
mately associated with the city of Worces- 
ter, his only residence away from the city 
being a short season in Springfield, and 
two years in Europe, and through the entire 
period his name has been identified with, 
and his influence felt in, every progressive 
movement. 




LEWIS BARNARD. 

September 2, 1839, Mr. Barnard married 
Mary A., daughter nf Roland and Annie 
(Clark) Parkhurst. Their children are ; 
John Clark, Mary P'lora and Helen Jose- 
phine Barnard. 

BARRETT, LAWRENCE, was born in 
Boston, .\pril 4, 1S38, of Irish parentage, 
and his earliest connection with the stage 
was as call-boy in a Pittsburgh theatre. 
In 1853 he appeared in the "French 
Spy " at Detroit, Mich., remaining there 
one year, playing indifferent parts. The 



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BARRETT. 



BARRETT. 



two following years were spent in St. 
Louis, Chicago, and other western cities. 
His first api)earance in New York was at 
the Chambers Street Theatre, December, 
1856, as "Sir Thomas Clifford" in "The 
Hunchback." Mr. Barrett accepted the 
offer of Mr. Burton, and opened at his new 
Metropolitan Theatre, supporting Charlotte 
Cushman, Edwin Booth, and other promi- 
nent actors. In 1858 he joined the com- 




LAWRENCE BARRETT. 

pany of the Boston Museum as leading 
man, but for the four following years was 
seen in New York at the ^Vinter Garden, 
making steady progress and playing many 
parts. 

At the outbreak of the civil war Mr. 
Barrett accepted a captaincy in the 28th 
Massachusetts infantry, where he served 
with credit until his resignation, August 8, 
1863. 

After the war he was engaged at the 
Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, and 
subsequently at Washington. .During this 
engagement began an acquaintance which 
ripened into friendship with the martyred 
President, Mr. Carfield, who at that time 
was a young congressman from Ohio, with 
Mr. Lincoln, and other great statesmen of 
that stirring era. 

From Washington he returned to Phila- 
delphia and subsequently to New York, 



where he was engaged by Mr. Booth to 
play " Othello " to his " lago." Mr. Barrett 
then accepted a partnership in the manage- 
ment of the Varieties Theatre in New Or- 
leans, playing leading parts and meeting 
with great success. In 1864 he purchased 
" Rosedale " from Lester Wallack, and 
after acting its leading character for a while 
at New Orleans, made his first tour as a 
star actor. 

In 1867 he visited England, meeting 
there Charles Dickens, Mr. Fechter, and 
renewing an old acquaintance with Charles 
Mathews, and the other principal actors 
of that day in London. He re-visited 
England in 1868, '81, and '83, playing in 
the principal cities, and being most favor- 
ably received. 

In 1868 he went to California and took 
the active management of the California 
Theatre, which had been built for him, at 
a salary of eighteen thousand dollars a 
year. During the twenty months of his 
management of this noble theatre, which 
had cost half a million dollars to build, the 
success was unprecedented. In 1870 he 
opened at Niblo's Garden, New York, later 
playing wdth Mr. Booth in opposite charac- 
ters in Booth's Theatre. He produced 
" \'orick's Love " at the Park Theatre, 
New York. His most recent successes have 
been as " Lanciotto " in " Francesca di 
Rimini," " Rienzi," " Pendragon," " The 
Blot on the Scutcheon," and " Ganelon." 

Mr. Barrett has been essentially a scholar, 
a man of wide cultivation, an indefatigable 
student of his art, and resistless in his am- 
bition. His wonderful industry has gone 
hand in hand with a large and liberal cul- 
tivation of his dramatic instinct, and to-day 
Mr. Barrett stands an honorable and con- 
spicuous figure among the leaders of his 
profession. 

Mr. Barrett was married September 4, 
1859, in Boston, to Mary F., daughter of 
Philip J. and Mary F. Mayer. They have 
three daughters : Mary Agnes, now the 
Baroness von Roder, Anna Gertrude, who 
married Charles J. Anderson, brother of 
the celebrated actress, Mary Anderson, and 
Edith M. Barrett. 

BARRETT, ROSWELL, son of Oliver 
and Lucy (Fairbanks) Barrett, was born in 
Bolton, Worcester count v, December 16, 
1819. 

He attended only the district schools 
until he was twenty years of age. He 
then availed himself of the advantages of 
a private academy for five months. 

He began his life work as teacher in the 
common schools, continued in the profes- 



BARRETT. 



BARROWS. 



41 



sion for twenty-five years, and is at present 
engaged in surveying, conveyancing and 
farming. 

Mr. Barrett was married in IJaltimure, 
Md., May 2, 1S54, to Sarah J., daugliter of 
Asa and Sally (Bennett) Barrett. They 
have one child : Ella V. Barrett. 

Mr. Barrett has been superintendent in 
Sabbath-schools twenty-five years ; dea- 
con in First Congregational church (Uni- 
tarian) twenty-seven years ; member of 
school board twenty five years ; justice of 
the peace twenty-eight years ; parish treas- 
urer twenty-two years ; town treasurer 
eight years, and selectman and assessor 
four years. 

His residence is Bolton, on the old Bar- 
rett homestead on " Long Hill," owned 
and occupied by the Barrett family for the 
last one hundred and fifty-two years. He 
is a lineal descendant in the fourth gener- 
ation from the Concord Barretts, and in 
the seventh from the Barretts who came 
here from England. 

BARRETT, WILLIAM E., son of Augus- 
tus antl Sarah (Emerson) Barrett, was born 
in Melrose, Middlesex county, December 
29, 185S. After passing through the public 
schools of his native town, and Claremont, 
N. H., and the high school of Claremont, 
he fitted for and entered Dartmouth Col- 
lege, graduating in 1880. Immediately 
upon graduation he turned his attention 
to journalism, and at once accepted his 
first position, upon the " St. Albans Daily 
Messenger," St. Albans, Vermont. 

For two years he retained his connec- 
tion with this paper, and in 1882 associated 
himself with the "Boston Advertiser." 
For four years he was the Washington cor- 
respondent of the "Advertiser," making 
for himself such a favorable reputation, 
that in 1886, when the paper was without 
a head, he at once was appointed as its 
editor and publisher. At present he holds 
the positions of president of the Advertiser 
Newspaper Company, and publisher of the 
" Advertiser " and " Evening Record." 

In 1888 Mr. Barrett was chosen repre- 
sentative to the General Court from the 
nth Middlesex district, being re-elected 
in 1889, when he was made speaker of the 
House, by a vote of 213 to i scattering. 

He is a member of various business cor- 
porations, and a member of the Masonic 
bodies of Melrose. He was clerk of the 
committee to investigate the Southern 
outrages, while in Washington, where his 
journalistic training made him of especial 
value ; and much of the success which 
attended that work was due tu the untir- 



ing energy which he e.\erted, and to the 
tact which he exhibited in sifting the facts 
presented, and arriving at the truth. 

On the 2Sth of December, 1887, at Clare- 
mont, N. H., Mr. Barrett was married to 
.■\nnie L., daughter of Herbert and .-Mice 
(Sulloway) Bailey. .\ son was born March 
10, 1889, William E. Barrett, Jr. 

BARROWS, William, was born in 
New Braintree, Worcester county, Septem- 
ber 19, 1815. He is a descendant in the 
seventh generation from Pilgrim stock. 
The original ancestor of the Barrows fam- 
ily in this country, John Barrowe, came 
from Yarmouth, England, to Salem, in 
1637. His son, Robert Barrowe, built at 
Plymouth, in 1679, and the house is yet 
standing. Then followed George Barrow, 
then Samuel Barrow, Noah Barrows, Wil- 
liam and William, Jr., the subject of this 
sketch. A farmer's son, the eighth of ten 
children, he received the ordinary common 
school education, interwoven with farm 
work and rural sports. He fitted for col- 
lege at Phillips Academy, Andover, and 
was graduated at Amherst College in 1840. 
Immediately he became a family tutor on 
a plantation in Virginia, and, in 1841, 
opened an English and classical school in 
St. Louis, Mo. In 1843 he commenced 
theological studies in the Union Seminary, 
New York. In 1845 he was ordained to 
the ministry (Congregational), and installed 
in Norton. In 1850 he was installed over 
the church in Grantville, now Wellesley 
Hills. Thence he removed, in 1856, to 
become pastor of the Old South church, 
Reading. In 1869 he was made secretary 
of the Congregational S. S. Publishing 
Society, and filled this office until 1873, 
when he was elected to the secretaryship 
of the Home Missionary Society. 

Since he closed that work, in 1880, he 
has devoted himself mainly to the educa- 
tional and religious wants of our frontier, 
having made in all eleven extensive tours 
over the border. He is now in his third 
year as financial agent for Whitman Col- 
lege, in the State of Washington. Dr. 
Barrows has lectured extensively on pre- 
historic history of America, and on the 
colonial and pioneer history of the U^nited 
States, and has written much on these sub- 
jects for various periodicals. His pen has 
been somewhat active on books in his leis- 
ure hours. In 1869 he published "Twelve 
Nights in the Hunters' Camp ;" in 1875, 
"The Church and her (Tiildren ;" in 1882, 
" Purgatory Doctrinally, Practically and 
Historically Opened ;" in 1883, "Oregon ; 
the Struggle for Possession;" in 1887, 



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BARRUS. 



BARTLETT. 



" The Indian's Side of the Indian Ques- 
tion," and " The United States of Yester- 
day and of To-morrow." 

He was one of the live founders, and for 
seven years one of the editors, of the 
" Congregational Review." 

He came from following the plough to his 
course of study, and by his own labor paid 
all his educational expenses. He has been 
singularly vigorous, not having lost six 
Sabbaths from the pulpit from illness dur- 
mg his entire professional life, nor has he 
been without full stipulated employment, 
as pastor or secretary or agent, for one 
hour from the beginning of his public life. 
His rare good health he attributes to farm 
and garden work and frecjuent field sports. 
He has camped all the way from New 
Brunswick to the head-waters of the Col- 
umbia — his last vacation being eight hun- 
dred miles in the saddle in the Rocky 
Mountains. Dr. Barrows agrees devoutly 
with old Hugh Latimer in his sermon 
before the Sixth Edward on field sports : 
" It is a worthy game, a wholesome kind 
of exercise and much commended in 
Phisicke." 

Dr. Barrows has been twice married. 
His first wife was Lucia A. Case, of Bland- 
ford, to whom he was married in June, 
1845. His second marriage was with 
Elizabeth Adams Cate, of Cambridge. Of 
the latter union were three sons and one 
daughter. 

BARRUS, ALVAN, son of Levi and 
Almeda (Stearns) Barrus, was born in Go- 
shen, Hampshire county, October 14, 1831. 

He gleaned his early education from the 
public schools of his native town ; worked 
on the home farm till twenty-one, peddled 
milk in Holyoke one year, after which sev- 
eral years were spent in the manufacture 
of bench and moulding planes, at Goshen, 
in connection with his brother, Hiram 
Barrus. In 1859 he sold out the business 
and made a connection with A. W. Crafts, 
opening a country store at Goshen. 

In August, 1862, he entered the army, 
served his enlistment, and was discharged 
in November, 1864, returning to the old 
homestead, where he has since turned his 
attention to agricultural pursuits. 

Mr. Barrus was married in Reading, 
June 29, 1869, to Emeline P., daughter of 
John and Sarah (Parker) Wakefield. Of 
this union are two children : Lena W. and 
George Levi Barrus. 

Mr. Barrus has been frequently called 
to serve his town in the various offices ; 
he was sent to the state Legislature in 
1879 — House of Representatives — and 



was a member of the state Senate in 1883 
and '84. He is justice of the peace ; was 
three years member of the state board of 
agriculture, from which he was elected a 
member of the board of control of the 
Massachusetts Experiment Station, Am- 
herst, serving as secretary of the board. 
He succeeded in incorporating the Hillside 
Agricultural Society at Cummington, in 
18S3, since which time he has been its 
president. He has held no military office 
except to act for a short time as hospital 
steward at Marine Hospital, Baltimore, 
where soldiers were brought with small- 
pox. He has long served on the parish 
committee of the Congregational society 
of Goshen, and as selectman of the town 
fifteen years. 

Mr. Barrus is at present engaged in de- 
veloping a spodrumene mine, located on 
his farm, from which the rare earth lithia 
is manufactured. The reduction is done 
entirely in Europe. This industry is a 
novelty in Massachusetts. 

BARTLETT, Nathaniel Cilley, son 

of Thomas B. and Victoria E. W. (Cilley) 
Bartlett, was born in Nottingham, Rock- 




NATHANIEL C BARTLETT, 



ingham county, N. H., June 22, 1858. He 
is grandson of Judge Bradbury Bartlett 
of Nottingham, N. H., a distinguished 
member of the bar in that state. 



BARTLETT. 



BARTLETT. 



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He attended two years in the primary 
schools, six years in the Winter Street 
grammar school, and four years in the high 
school, Haverhill, and four years at Har- 
vard College. He was graduated from 
Harvard in 1880, with the degree of A. B., 
with honorable mention. 

He founded the " Derry News," a 
weekly newspaper, at Derry, N. H., De- 
cember, 1880, and conducted it one year as 
eilitor, publisher and pro|3rietor. This 
paper still continues publication and has 
been a success from the first. 

In September, 1S82, Mr. Bartlett was 
admitted as an attorney-at-law to practice 
in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
and at once opened a law office in Haver- 
hill, where he is now engaged in his pro- 
fession. 

Mr. Bartlett is unmarried. He was 
superintendent of schools of Nottingham, 
N. H., 1881 and '82. He is a member of 
the Republican city committee of Haver- 
hill, upon which committee he has served 
for three consecutive years. 

In April, 1888, he was appointed by 
Governor Ames a master in chancer)' for 
the county of Essex. 

He is at present chancellor commander 
of Palestine Lodge No. 26, K. of P., and 
junior sagamore of Passaquoi Tribe No. 
27, Improved Order of Red Men. 

Mr. Bartlett is a grandson of the late 
Col. Joseph Cilley, of Nottingham, N. H., 
who was a United States senator, one of 
the original abolitionists, and a battle- 
scarred veteran of Lundy's Lane, and 
whose brother, Hon. John Cilley, was con- 
gressman from Maine in 1838, and a man 
widely known throughout the country. 

BARTLETT, SIDNEY, son of Zaccheus 
and Hannah (Jack.son) Bartlett, was born 
in Plymouth, Plymouth county, February 
13, 1799. He was a lineal descendant of 
Robert Bartlett, who came to Plymouth 
only three years after the first settlers set 
foot on Plymouth Rock. 

He received his early education in the 
schools of his native town, and at the age 
of nineteen years was graduated from Har- 
vard College in the class of 1818. 

.\fter graduation Mr. Bartlett studied 
law with Hon. Lemuel Shaw, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1821. He was at once 
taken into partnership with his instructor, 
and the two were associated together 
until Mr. Shaw was raised to the position 
of Chief Justice of the supreme judicial 
court. 

Mr. Bartlett early became one of the 
leaders of the Suffolk bar, anil for manv 



years was recognized by the su[)reme 
court of the United States as one of the 
ablest, if not the ablest, of the distinguished 
lawyers of the country who appeared be- 
fore that tribunal. He was thoroughly 
read in the literature of his profession, and 
as a legal reasoner, grasping legal prin- 
ciples and applying them to the facts of 
the case in hand, he was without a superior 
in this country. 

Mr. Bartlett was a member of the Legis- 
lature in 1 85 I, and a member of the Con- 
stitutional Convention of 1853. In 1855 
Harvard conferred upon him the degree of 
LL. 1). 

The extraordinary length of Mr. Bart- 
lett's career is forcibly brought home to 
the minds of the legal fraternity, by the 
fact that while he was at the bar, the mem- 
bership both of the supreme court of the 
United States and of the supreme court of 
Massachusetts was twice renewed. 

Mr. Bartlett was married in Boston, 
October 8, 1828, to Caroline, daughter of 
John and Mary (Tewksbury) Pratt. Of 
this union were four children : Sidney, Jr., 
(deceased), Francis, Louisa C. and Anna 
(;. Bartlett (deceased). 




On the 6th of March, 1889, this wonder- 
ful life came to a close. He died as he 
had lived, at the head of his profession. 



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BARTOL. 



BASSETT. 



respected and revered by his legal asso- 
ciates and the people of the Common- 
wealth. 

BARTOL, Cyrus Augustus, son of 

George and Ann ((iiven) Bartol, was born 
in Freeport, Cumberland county, Maine, 
April 30, 1S13. 

After obtaining the early mental train- 
ing furnished by the common schools, he 
prepared for college in the Portland high 
school. He entered Bowdoin College, and 
was graduated therefrom in the cla.ss of 
1832. He subsequently studied theology 
in Cambridge, and was graduated from the 
divinity school in 1835. 

In 1837 he was settled associate pastor 
with Rev. Charles Lowell, D. D., of the 
West Church (Lidejiendent) in the city of 
Boston, of which he became the pastor in 
1861. He has endeared himself to a large 
constituency by his faithful labors and 
philanthropic work. 

Dr. Bartol has published " Discourses on 
the Christian Spirit and Life " (Boston, 
1850, 2d edition revised, 1854); "Dis- 
courses on Christian Body and Form " 
(1854); "Picture of Europe Framed in 
Ideas" (1855); "History of the West 
Church and its Ministers " (1858); " Church 
and Congregation" (1858); "Word of the 
Spirit to the Church" (1859); "Radical 
Problems" (1872); "The Rising Faith" 
(1874); " Principles and Portraits" (1880). 
He has also published many occasional 
essays and some poetry. Dr. Bartol's 
writings aref ull of rich and quaint imagery, 
and are deeply religious, but more ethical 
and social in character than controversial. 

Dr. Bartol was married in Boston, Feb- 
ruary 7, 1S38, to Elizabeth, daughter of 
Dr. John Clarke and Hepzibah (Swan) 
Howard. They have one child, Elizabeth 
Howard Bartol. 

BARTON, Leonard, eldest son of 
Benjamin and Sarah (Parsons) Barton, was 
born in Bernardston, Franklin county, 
December 21, 1814. He is lineally descend- 
ed from Samuel Barton, who removed from 
Framingham to O.xford early in the eigh- 
teenth century. 

When he was about ten j-ears of age, his 
father removed iiis family to a farm in the 
adjoining town of Clill, on the localit}- where 
Captain Turner made his famous attack 
upon the Indians. His education, beyond 
the common school, was obtained in the old 
academies at Monson, Deerfield, Shelburne 
Falls and Brattleborough. 

During some fourteen years of his early 
life he spent a part of the time in school 



teaching in this State, Connecticut, and 
for about a year in Michigan. For about 
eighteen years he was one of the selectmen 
and assessors of the town, and for most of 
that time chairman of the board. He has 
been one of the superintending school com- 
mittee of the town for upwards of twenty- 
five years, and for several consecutive years 
held the office of town clerk and treasurer. 

In 1870 he was chosen to represent his 
district in the House of Representatives, 
and served in the Legislature of 1S71, and 
again in 1881. 

His main business is, and always has 
been, that of a farmer, besides holding 
offices in several banks of the neighboring 
towns. 

He has never married. 

BASSETT, Samuel, son of Samuel 
and Elizabeth (Scott) Bassett, was born in 
Boston, in November, 1804. 

He was educated in the Boston public 
schools ; learned the trade of sail-maker, 
which vocation he afterwards followed on 
his own account, and as one of the firm of 
Bassett & Thayer. 

Mr. Bassett was married in Westbor- 
ough, in 1830, to Julia Ann. daughter 
of Elijah and Hannah Burnap. Of this 
union were five children : Celadon, Julia 
A., Clarissa, William S. and Samuel B. 
Bassett. 

Mr. Bassett removed to Chelsea in 1838, 
where he has ever since resided. He was 
elected town clerk in 1849, and was annu- 
ally re-elected till 1857, when the city was 
organized, and he was elected city clerk, 
continuing to hold this office till 1884, 
when he declined re-election. He was 
also chosen city treasurer and collector, 
serving until 1875, when he declined fur- 
ther service in that capacity. Seldom has 
a public officer held such positions for so 
many years-, or been so much beloved. 
His face had so long been a familiar one 
at the Citv Hall that it seemed an indis- 
pensalile feature, and the people and the 
city government would gladly have con- 
tinued him in some office connected with 
city business, had he not modestly but 
resolutely insisted that younger men should 
now assume the burdens he had so consci- 
entiously and faithfully borne. His elec- 
tion to the various offices had always been 
without opposition, and he was often sig- 
nificantly designated as the " unanimous 
S. B." He was a father to the orphan and 
a counselor and friend to the widow. 
Every mayor and member of the city gov- 
ernment during his long term of office- 
holding had reason to be grateful to him 



BASSEIT. 



BATCHELDEK. 



45 



for information furnished and for kindly 
and thouglitful suggestions. 

During the civil war he was an active 
friend of the soldier and his family. In 
every position he was a trusted public 




SAMUEL BASSETT. 

servant. During ten vears he was one of 
the assessors, and thus became familiar 
with the value of property, as well as 
boundaries and titles. 

He was the first treasurer of the Chelsea 
Savings Bank, elected in 1854, serving 
until his declination in July, 1874, and for 
many years was one of the trustees. He 
was an active member and e.xecutive officer 
of the "Ornamental Tree Society," which 
has added so much to the beauty of Chel- 
sea's streets. 

This tribute is inserted here, without the 
knowledge of Mr. Bassett, as his fellow- 
citizens feel that it is his due that he 
should appear in, as he has most emphati- 
cally been, "One ok a Thousand." 

BASSETT, William Garry, the son 

of Manning B. and Julia A. (Tyler) Bas- 
sett, was born at North Haven, New Haven 
county. Conn., January 31, 1843. 

He received his early education in the 
district schools of his native town, then at 
Hudson River Institute, Claverack, New 
York. He was prepared for college at 
Hopkins grammar school, New Haven, 



Conn. Entering Yale College in 1861, he 
remained until 1863. 

His first connection in business was as a 
lawyer in Easthampton, Mass., in 1867, 
which profession he followed in that town 
until 1883, when he removed his office to 
Northampton. 

In 1S78 he was appointed judge of the 
probate court for Hampshire county, the 
duties of which office, with his practice of 
law in Northampton, fully occupy his time. 
In 1874 he was elected as representative 
to the Legislature. 

He was master of the Ionic Masonic 
Lodge at Easthampton. His present resi- 
dence is Northampton. 

Judge Bassett was married at Easthamp- 
ton in July, 1881, to Mary B., the daugh- 
ter of Rev. Aaron M. and Zeruiah E. 
(Gould) Colton of Easthampton. They 
have no children. 

BATCHELDER, CARLOS, son of Kim- 
ball and Armenia (Stearns) Batchelder, 
was born in Conway, Franklin county, 
January 16, 1829. His early education 
was confined to the district school and 
academy. 

At the age of twentv-five he engaged in 
farming and dealt quite extensively in live 
stock. He is now president and director 
of the Conway National Bank, county 
commissioner, insurance agent, and pur- 
chaser of railroad supplies. 

Mr. Batchelder was married in Buckland, 
May 28, 185 1, to Minerva A , daughter of 
William and Eunice (Sherman) Forbes. Of 
this union were four children : \Villiam 
K., Frederick C, Minnie E., and Carrie 
Batchelder (the last two deceased). 

Mr. Batchelder has filled the various 
municipal offices in the gift of his fellow- 
townsmen, has been assessor and select- 
man ten years, and county commissioner 
fifteen years. He represented his district 
in the House of Representatives 1870. 
He is a notary public, trustee of Conway 
Savings Bank, and also of the Conway 
public library. 

His church connections are with the 
Congregational society, of which church 
he is treasurer and member of prudential 
committee. 

BATCHELDER, JOHN HENRY, son of 
Henry and Abigail (Mann) Batchelder, was 
born in Beverly, Esse.x county, January 
16, 1817. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in the public and private schools of his 
native town, and at the Theological Insti- 
tute, New Hampton, N. H. He entered busi- 



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BATCHELLER. 



BATES. 



ness life as a clerk with J. G. .S: W. Kit- 
tredge, coal and iron merchants, Lowell. 

Afterwards he was messenger in the 
Merchants Bank, Boston, and later on was 
engaged in trading with the Indians in the 
northwest territory. He finally studied for 
and adopted the profession of dentistry, 
and has been in successful practice for 
many years. 

Dr. Batchelder was married in Wisconsin 
Territory, October 22, 1839, to Jane Reed, 
daughter of Klisha and Mary Butler (Bass) 
Smith, of Boston. Of this union were 
six children : Henry E., Frank L., Florence 
P., Elizabeth W., (now wife of Charles S. 
Osgood,) Nelly A., (now wife of John T. 
Hassam,) and Jennie P. Batchelder. Mrs. 
Osgood and Mrs. Hassam are the only sur- 
viving children. 

Dr. Batchelder has been president of the 
American Academy of Dental Science, 
president of the Massachusetts Dental So- 
ciety, and fellow of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science. 

He was a member of the board of alder- 
men for the city of Salem four years, three 
years president of the board, and a portion 
of the time acting mayor. He was also 
member of the common council five years, 
chairman of the board of health three 
years, and member of the school board of 
Salem. 

He was member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives i866-'67. 

The family of Mrs. Batchelder were of 
the Hanover branch of the Smith family. 
Of this branch were Admiral Joseph Smith, 
U. S. N., Albert Smith, M. C, and Lieuten- 
ant William B. Gushing, U. S. N. 

BATCHELLER, BROOKS TRULL, son 
of Joseph and Hannah (Trull) Batcheller, 
was born in Billerica, Middlesex county, 
January 7, 1813. Joseph Batcheller, his 
father, was captain in the war of 1812, re- 
ceiving his commission from Governor 
Brooks, in whose memory the name of 
"Brooks" was given the subject of this 
sketch. 

His early education was obtained in the 
public schools. 

His first connection in business was as 
proprietor of a stage line from Boston to 
Lowell. Later he became interested in 
stabling and livery business, in Boston, 
under the firm name of Wildes & Batchel- 
ler. 

Mr. Batcheller was married in Boston, 
August 13, 1838, to Rachel, daughter of 
John and Rachel (House) Dodge, (Edge- 
comb, Maine). Of this union were four 
children : Rachel A., who died in infancy, 



Abby A., who died in Providence, R. L, in 
1880, Warren M., and Lizzie M. Batcheller. 

Mr. Batcheller is trustee of Lexington 
Ministerial Fund, and vice-president and 
director of Lexington Savings Bank. In 
1866 he was one of the Boston assessors, 
he residing at the time in that city. He 
was a member of the state Senate from 
the 6th Middlesex district, in 1874. 

He has retired from active business and 
resides in Lexington. 

BATES, ARLO, son of Niran and Susan 
(Thaxter) Bates, was born in East Machias, 
Washington county, Maine, December 16, 
1850. 

His early education was secured in the 
schools of his native place, where he fitted 
for college. He was graduated from 
Bowdoin in the class of 1876. During his 
college course he was a portion of the 
time engaged in teaching. In his senior 
year Mr. Bates edited the " Bowdoin 
Orient," and coming to Boston in the fall 
of his graduating year, entered upon his 
career as a man of letters, caring more for 
the work itself than for the rewards or 
honor it might bring. He has been suc- 
cessful, but his success has only shown 
what talent, industry and patience will 
accomplish. Mr. Bates's ideals are high, 
and it cannot be said that he has ever 
aimed at mere popularity. He is a con- 
scientious and independent writer, and by 
discipline has laid the foundation for a 
future of high rank as a writer of fiction. 

After settling in Boston, for two years, 
1878 and '79, he edited the " Broadside," 
an independent political sheet, writing also 
occasionally for the magazines. In 1880 
he took the editorial chair of the " Sunday 
Courier," which he still holds. 

Besides his regular journalistic work, he 
has contributed to the " Boston Adver- 
tiser," " Providence Journal " (as regular 
correspondent), and " Literary World," 
writing for the latter at one time a column 
called " A Bookworm's Waymarks ;" also 
to the "Century," " Lippincott's," " Scrib- 
ner's," "Wide Awake," "Outing," "St. 
Nicholas," and others. 

Mr. Bates's first book was " Patty's Per- 
versities " (1881) in an anonymous " Round 
Robin Series," his other volumes thus far 
being "Mr. Jacobs" (1883), a parody 
which ran through eight editions, " The 
Pagans" (1884), " a" Wheel of Fire" 
(1885), "Berries of the Brier" (ij86), 
a book of poems, " Sonnets in Shadow " 
(1887), "A Lad's Love," same year, 
"Prince Vance" (with Eleanor Putnam), 
and "The Philistines," both in 1888. 



BATES. 



BATES. 



47 



In addition to these works Mr. Bates 
has printed in the " Courier " two serial 
stories, " Mona and Hiio " and "The Ties 
of Blood." In 1886 he edited "Old 
Salem," a book left unfinished by his wife at 
her death. In many ways ^Ir. Bates'scareer 
is representative and in all ways interesting 
and encouraging to younger authors. 

Mr. Bates was married in Brunswick, 
Me., September 5, 1882, to Harriet L., 
daughter of George L. and Abba (Thomp- 
son) Vose. Her pen name (Eleanor Put- 
nam) is familiar to litterateurs. Her 
"Woodland Wooing," published since her 
tleath, is a book of great charm and beauty. 
Mrs. Bates died March 13, 1886, leaving 
one son, Oric. 

BATES, Theodore Cornelius, son 

of Elijah and Sarah (Fletcher) Bates, was 
born in North Brookfield, Worcester coun- 
ty, June 4, 1843. 

His early education was received in the 
common and high schools of his native 
town, and at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, 
N. H. In the latter school he fitted for 
college, but did not take up his college 
connection, going into business instead. 

He was in business in Boston until 1876, 
since which time he has been engaged in 
Worcester in the manufacture of corsets 
(The Worcester Corset Company), retain- 
ing his residence, however, in North Brook- 
field, the town of his birth. 

Mr. Bates was married in North Brook- 
field, December 24, 1868, to Emma Fran- 
ces Duncan of that town, daughter of 
Charles and Tryphosa (Lakin) Duncan. 
Of this union is one child, Tryphosa Dun- 
can Bates, born in North Brookfield, April 
14, 1876. 

Mr. Bates has been quite a prominent 
factor in the recent history of the Repub- 
lican party in this State, being continually 
called upon to serve his town, county, anil 
state in some official and political capac- 
ity. He was a member of the House of 
Representatives from North Brookfield in 
1879, servmg on the celebrated retrench- 
ment committee He was also chairman 
of the committee on claims, on the part 
of the House. He was member of the 
Senate in 1883, serving as chairman on 
railroad, prison, and state-house commit- 
tees. He declined a unanimous renomi- 
nation both to the House and Senate on 
account of his numerous business engage- 
ments. He is now, and has been for sev- 
eral years, chairman of the executive 
committee of the Re|5ublican state central 
committee, declining the chairmanship of 
the committee, as he could not devote the 



necessary time to it. He has been chair- 
man of the e.xecutive committee of the 
M'orcester county Republican committee 
for many years, and has been an energetic 
leader and a strong support in the building 
up and maintaining the powerful influence 
so long exerted by that county in all mat- 
ters relating to the affairs of the Common- 
wealth. 

While a member of the House in 1879 
he was never absent from his seat when a 
vote was taken. The same applies to his 
service in the Senate in 1883 — he never 
missed a vote during the entire seven 
months of that memorable " Butler " year, 
when the Legislature did not adjourn until 
the last week in July. 

He was elected as a delegate to the 
national Republican convention, held in 
Chicago, in 1884, for the 9th or the 
Worcester congressional district. 

He was elected by the Legislature a 
state director of the Boston & Albany 
Railroad Company in 1880, and served in 
that capacity until the Commonwealth sold 
its stock in that corporation. He was 




THEODORE C. BATES. 

appointed by Governor Oliver Ames a 
member of the state board of health, and 
is now a member of that board. 

He was appointed by President Ha)"es 
commissioner for the State of Massachu- 



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BAXTER. 



BEALS. 



setts for the proposed World's Fair in 1883, 
of which General U. S. Grant was elected 
president ; and Mr. Bates was elected as 
a member of the e.xecutive committee 
from New England. 

He has been for many years prominently 
identified with the great manufacturing 
interests of Massachusetts and New Eng- 
land, being a director in several large cor- 
porations, and for several years he has 
been president of the Corset Manufactur- 
ers' Association of the United States. 

He has ever been one of the foremost 
in any matters relating to the public wel- 
fare of his native town He was especi- 
ally interested and largely influential in 
the founding of the free public library 
and reading room. He is chairman of 
the board of trustees of this institution, 
and for its maintenance, in addition to 
numerous other contributions, he donated 
to the town his salary while in both 
branches of the Legislature. He took a 
very active part in the early promotion of 
the North Brookfield Railroad, as clerk 
and director, which positions he now holds ; 
and probably the railroad would never 
have been constructed but for his untiring 
energy and personal work. He was chair- 
man of the committee elected by the town 
to publish the town history of North 
Brookfield. This work, which is acknowl- 
edged by the highest authorities to be one 
of the best of its kind ever published, was 
completed and published in 1887, and 
reflects great credit upon all engaged in its 
compilation and production. It is a most 
thorough and critically accurate \vork ; it 
was several times rewritten and a large part 
of it revised and reprinted at great expense, 
and occupied ten years in its preparation 
and completion, and it is regarded as a 
model town history of New England. 

True to his friends, loyal to his party, 
ardently devoted to his native town, he 
has been a conspicuous and faithful mem- 
ber of that great body of intelligent citi- 
zens who control the destinies of the State. 

BAXTER, George Lewis, son of 

William \V. and Ann E. (Weld) Baxter, was 
born in Quincy, Norfolk county, October 
21, 1842. 

In the public schools of his native town 
he fitted for Harvard College, where he 
graduated in 1863, and immediately began 
to teach in a private school in Boston. 
From April to December, 1864, he was 
principal of the Reading high school, and 
then accepted the position of principal of 
the high school at Plymouth, which he 
held till July, 1867, when he became prin- 



cipal of the high school of Somerville, a 
position which he still occupies. 

On the 1 8th of July, 1872, Mr. Baxter 
was married, in Somerville, to Ida F., 
daughter of William and Sarah E. L. 
(Berry) Paul. They have one child, Clrey- 
ory Paul Baxter. 

.Mr. Baxter has been associate corporator 
and trustee of the Somerville Savings 
Bank since its incorporation. He is secre- 
tary of the John Abbot Lodge A. F. & 
A. M., and of the Somerville Chapter of 
R. A. Masons. 

BEALS, ELIAS S., was born in Wey- 
mouth, Norfolk county, October 20, 1814. 
He is the son of Lewis and Sarah S. 




ELlAb S BEALb 

(Harding) Beals, and is descended in 
direct line from John Beal, who came from 
England in the " Diligent," arriving in Bos- 
ton, .\ugust 10, 1638. 

Mr. Beals had no early educational ad- 
vantages other than what the common 
schools of those days offered. When a 
boy he worked at masonry with his father, 
for three years. .\t eighteen years of age 
he learned shoe-making, and for a few 
years worked at cutting and making 
shoes for neighboring manufacturers. His 
first speculative venture was a trading 
voyage South, with a cargo of boots and 
shoes consigned to him, or sold him on 



BEALS. 



BEALS. 



49 



credit, for the southern market. His ven- 
ture was successful, and the fact of his 
being a young, inexperienced man, with- 
out capital, shows the confidence reposed 
in his mtegrity. 

Upon his return to Weymouth he began 
in a small way the manufacture of boots 
and shoes, and soon connected with this 
industry a small store of general merchan- 
dise. Later on he built a factory at Tou- 
cey's Corners, and continued as manufac- 
turer and merchant till 1849, when he 
connected himself with others in a jobbing 
boot and shoe trade in New Orleans. 
Some two years later he returned to Wey- 
mouth, built a large factory, and carried 
on an e.xtensive business, catering princi- 
pally to the southern trade. When the 
war of the rebellion destroyed his trade, 
he gave up manufacturing. In 1850 Mr. 
Beals met with misfortune in his business 
affairs. He at the time obtained a full 
and free discharge from all liabilities, but 
he never considered an equitable adjust- 
ment finally made until in 18S5, when, 
again becoming prosperou.s, he of his own 
free will repaid, with interest, the amount 
left in his hands as working capital by 
those to whom he was some thirty-five 
years ago indebted. It is a striking evi- 
dence of the changes which occur in busi- 
ness affairs, that among the forty firms to 
whom he desired to send his check, only 
one man was found living and doing busi- 
ness who was in active business at the time 
of his embarrassment in 1850. 

Mr. Beals served as selectman in Wey- 
mouth 1855 and '56 ; has been a director 
at different times in two national banks, 
and has been for several years president of 
the North Weymouth Improvement Asso- 
ciation. In 1859 he was a member of the 
State Legislature, and assisted in the re- 
vision of the laws of the Commonwealth 
which were published as " The General 
Statutes of the Commonwealth of IMassa- 
chusetts." In 1862 he was appointed 
internal revenue assessor for the second 
district of Massachusetts, and was after- 
wards appointed to travel as special agent 
for the treasury department to instruct 
internal revenue officers in the discharge 
of their duties ; serving in these two offices 
over five years. 

In 1888 he presented North Weymouth 
with a beautiful public park. In 1878 he 
made a tour through Europe, and while on 
the trip contributed a series of letters to 
the "Weymouth Gazette." 

He is now senior member of the boot 
and shoe house of Beals, Torrey & Co. of 



Milwaukee and Boston, and is a director 
in the National Mortgage and Debenture 
Co. of Boston ; and he also acts under his 
si.xth commission as justice of the peace, 
having been first appointed in 1850. 

Mr. Beals was married July 27, 1837, to 
Betsey, daughter of Ancil and Eliza Bur- 
rell of Weymouth. Of this union were 
five children : Augustus, Elizabeth, Frank, 
James and Mary S. The first four are 
now living. 

BEALS, John Murray, was born in 

Stoughton, Norfolk county, March 24, 
1847. His family removed to Braintree 




JOHN M. BEALS. 

when he was one year old. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of Braintree. 

At the time of the outbreak of the war 
of the rebellion, although he was too young 
to enlist, yet, filled with the spirit of pat- 
riotism, he accompanied company C, 4th 
regiment, as drummer boy, from Braintree 
to Boston. 

At the age of sixteen he entered the 
wholesale boot and shoe store of Holbrook, 
Hobart iV: Porter, in Boston, and afterwards 
was with Nelson Emmons & Co., with whom 
he remained until the great fire in that 
city. Soon after he formed a co-partner- 
ship with J. Anson Guild, of Brooklyn, and 
since that time has been engaged in the 
leather business, with offices in Boston. 



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BEARD. 



BELCHER. 



He was married to Eliza A. Follansbee, 
in Boston, January i, 1873, who died 
August 16, 1888, and had one child, Her- 
bert N. Seals, who died in its sixth year. 

Mr. Beals has sought no public nor polit- 
ical office, but has been one of the auditors 
of the town for twelve years, which office 
he now holds, and is also one of the trus- 
tees (elected by the town) of the public 
library. He takes great interest in public 
affairs, and is strongly identified with 
everything that pertains to the welfare and 
prosperity of Braintree, and is considered 
as one of the leading young men of that 
vicinity. 

BEARD, Alanson Wilder, son of 

James and Chloe Bartlett (Wilder) Beard, 
was born in Ludlow, Windsor county, Vt., 
August 20, 1825. His parents removed to 
Stockbridge, in 1835, where he was bred 
to a farmer's life. His educational train- 
ing was obtained in the public schools and 
at home. From seventeen to twenty-one 
years of age he taught public and private 
schools. 

He began business life as proprietor of 
a country store at Pittsfield, Vt., in the 
spring of 1847 ; sold out his interest in 
April, 1853 ; removed to Boston and en- 
tered into the wholesale clothing business 
in September of the latter year, as sales- 
man for Whiting, Kehoe & Galloupe. 
Leaving them, he commenced a business 
on his own account in the spring of 1856, 
and continued in wholesale clothing till 
1879. He is now interested in the clothing 
business, with stores in Lowell, Lawrence 
and other places. 

Mr. Beard was married in Wayland, 
November 27, 1S48, to Mary Calista, 
daughter of Harvey and Sophia (Roberts) 
Morgan. Of this union were three children : 
James Wallace (deceased), Amherst Wilder 
(deceased), and Charles Freeland Beard. 

Mr. Beard has been a greater portion of 
the time since 1847 in public life. He held 
various town offices in Pittsfield, Vt., from 
1847 to 1853 ; was postmaster from 1S4S 
to 1854 ; member of Republican state 
central committee of Massachusetts, 1864, 
'65, '66, '83 and '84; chairman, 1875 and 
'76, and again in 1885 ; member of House 
of Representatives from Brookline in 1870 
and '71, and from Boston in 1884 and '85 ; 
chairman of committee on mercantile 
affairs, 1870; of prisons, 187 1 ; ta.xation, 
1884, and of finance, 1885. He was a 
member of the finance committee all the 
years while a member of the House. 

Mr. Beard is identified with the law 
passed in 1881 exempting real estate mort- 



gage notes from taxation, having com- 
menced the agitation in the Legislature of 
187 1, and followed it up with successive 
Legislatures. 

He was delegate to the national Repub- 
lican convention in Chicago, in 1868, also 
in 1 888 ; member of the committee on plat- 
form, and one of the sub-committee to 
draft the same, in 1888. He was collector 
of the port of Boston four )-ears, having 
been appointed in 1878. He was state 
treasurer of the Commonwealth, 1886, '87 
and '88, when he declined the re-nomina- 
tion to the office. 

Mr. Beard has been a staunch Republican 
since the formation of the party. As a 
party leader, he is wise in counsel, original 
in conception, shrewd in management, and 
fearless in execution of those plans which 
he believes will result in prosperity to the 
city, the state and the nation. 

BELCHER, Orlando F., son of Wil- 
liam B. and Esther G. (Fuller) Belcher, 
was born in North Chelsea, Suffolk county, 
October 15, 1844. His education during 




his early years was limited to the common 
schools of his native place. 

He began business life as a manufacturer 
of boot-heels. His genius took a mechani- 
cal turn, and he soon became the patentee 
and manufacturer of the Belcher automatic 



BELLAMY. 



BENNETT. 



cartridge loader, which in 1886 was 
-sold to the United States Cartridge Corn- 
pan 3-. 

For tlie past twenty years Mr. Belcher 
has been active in the development of vari- 
ous real estate interests on the northerl}- 
shore of Boston Harbor. Eighteen years 
ago he purchased the tract of land in W'm- 
throp now known as Cottage Park, and 
began to improve the same in 1881. Later 
he bought the famous General William F. 
Bartlett estate, near by, and the Beacon 
Villa property. These three properties are 
said to be the finest in Winthrop, specially 
adapted for sites intended for sea-shore 
resorts. These unique watering-places are 
only twenty-five minutes' ride from the 
heart of the city, and bid fair to become 
attractive and permanent residences of 
great value, it being the intention of Mr. 
Belcher to solicit and welcome the patronage 
only of those who would make the resort, 
in every respect, unexceptionable. 

Mr. Belcher was married in \Vinthrop, 
October 16, 1883, to Lizzie D., daughter of 
Nathaniel and Lois L. (Whittier) Lunt. 

BELLAMY, Edward, was born in Chi- 
copee Falls, Hampden countv, March 26, 
1850. 

His early education was received in the 
common and high schools of his native 
place, but his education proper, that which 
prepared him for his life work, was obtained 
by unlimited miscellaneous reading. His 
only attendance at any academic or colle- 
giate institution was one term at LTnion Col- 
lege, 1867-8. Leaving this institution, he 
spent a year in Europe. On his return he 
studied law m the office of Leonard & 
Wells, Springfield, and was admitted to the 
Hampen county bar in 187 1. 

But while he saw fit to enrich his educa- 
tional store with one of the learned profes- 
sions, his tastes were foreign to the practice 
of law. His was pre-eminently the author's 
vocation. In i87i-'72 Mr. Bellamy was 
outside editorial contributor to the " New- 
York Evening Post ; " editorial writer on 
the staff of the " Springfield Daily L'nioii," 
i872-'77, and with an associate he founded 
the "Springfield Daily News" in 1880. 

The genius of Mr. Bellamy is best shown, 
however, in his works of fiction, to which 
he is now devoting his time. As a writer 
of novels, and a general magazine contribu- 
tor, he has suddenly come to the front, and 
earned an enviable position in public ap- 
preciation. His principal works are : " .Y 
Nantucket Idyl " (G. P. Putnam's Sons), 
"Dr. Heidenhoff's Process" (D. .Apple- 
ton & C-"o.), " .Miss Ludington's Sister," 



and " Looking Backward " (Ticknor & 
Co.). 

.Mr. Bellamy was married at Chicopee 
Falls, May 30, 1881, to Emma A. Sander- 
son, and has two children. 

BENNETT, James W., son of Nathaniel 
G. and Sallie L. Bennett, was born at 
Newmarket, Rockingham county, N. H., 
March 21, 1833. 

He obtained a country school education 
in the towns of Stratton and Epping, N. H. 
Afterwards he attended Franklin grammar 
school, Lowell. 

-Yfter working a short time for other 
firms, he, in .\ugust, 1848, went into the 




JAMES W. BENNETT. 

enijiloy of .\braham Matthews, a carpenter 
in the city of Lowell. He ne.xt went into 
business as partner with Mr. Matthews, 
.\pril 4, 1858, staying with him till .August 
12, 1858; then went into business alone, at 
his present location, as contractor and 
builder, and continued there until May, 
1 88 1, when the firm of J. W. Bennett & Co. 
was formed, by the addition of George A. 
Bennett, his brother, and Fred W. Bennett, 
his son. The present business of the firm 
is contracting and building, and agents for 
the materials of the New England Felt 
Roofing Company, for Lowell and vicinity. 
Mr. Bennett's first marriage was in March, 
1857. His second marriage, March, 1S74, 



5^ 



BENNETT. 



BENT. 



was with Josephine A., daughter of John 
S. and Sylvia E. Bassett. Their children 
are Fred W. and Ethel F. Bennett. 

BENNETT, JOSEPH, son of William 
and Charlotte Bennett, was born at 
Bridgton, Cumberland county, Maine, May 
26, 1840. 

He received his early education at the 
district school in Sweden, Maine, and pre- 
pared for college at the Bridgton Academy 




JOSEPH BENNt I 

and the Boston Latin school. He entered 
Bowdoin College with the class of 1864, 
withdrawing in Junior year, and subse- 
quently receiving from the college the 
degree of A. B., out of course. 

After studying law in the office of Asa 
Cottrell, in Boston, he was admitted to the 
Massachusetts bar in 1866, circuit court 
bar in 1868, and to the United States 
supreme court in 18S2. He has practiced 
law in Boston since 1866, and is special 
justice of the Brighton district municipal 
court. 

Mr. Bennett was married April 26, 1866, 
at Boston, to Elizabeth R., daughter of 
John and Mary (Harding) Lafavour. They 
have three children; Joseph I., Frederick 
S. and Mary K. Bennett. 

In 1879 Mr. Bennett was elected a mem- 
ber of the House of Representatives. In 
1881-82 he was a member of the State 



Senate, being made chairman of the com- 
mittees on taxation, election laws, and 
division of the State into congressional dis- 
tricts. He also served upon committees 
on probate and chancery, and judiciary. 
Mr. Bennett has been a member of the 
Boston school board, and for several years 
a member of the school committee of Brigh- 
ton, one of the trustees of the Holton lib- 
rary, and trial justice in Middlese.\ county at 
the time of the annexation of Brighton to 
Boston. 

BENT, George C, was born in Lud- 
low, Windsor county, Vermont, July 17, 
1848. His childhood was principally spent 
in the neighboring town of Cavendish, as 
a farmer's son. He early showed remark- 
able fondness for study, but how to ac- 
quire the means to fulfill his youthful 
ambition for a liberal education was the 
problem that confronted him. 

Having passed the public schools, at the 
age of eighteen he began teaching in the 
common schools of his state. He was 
eminently successful. By teaching, and 
performing whatever of manual labor 
came to hand during vacations, he man- 
aged to attend an academy six months in 
each year until he had fitted himself for 
college. This academic education he re- 
ceived from Black River Academy, Lud- 
low, Green Mountain Institute, Woodstock, 
\'ermont, and Dean Academy, Franklin, 
Mass. He graduated from the last named 
with the class of 1871. 

He was at once elected president of the 
Dean Alumni Association, and two years 
later delivered the commencement day ora- 
tion at this institution. He was admitted 
to Tufts College, but having received an 
offer to take charge of the high school at 
Machias, Me., he accepted, and thus lost 
the opportunity of a college training. He 
remained in charge of the Machias high 
school four years, a full measure of suc- 
cess attending his efforts. In 1875 he 
resigned this position, and came to Boston, 
where he entered upon the study of law, 
with Heman W. Chaplin. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar, 1S76. He then 
moved to Cambridge and opened law 
offices both in Boston and Cambridge, 
where he has continued in practice. 

Mr. Bent has always been prominently 
identified with the Republican party. He 
has repeatedly served the city of Cam- 
bridge as chairman of the ward and city 
committee, and as member of the com- 
mon council i88o-'83. He served in the 
General Court for three years, i8S4-'5-'6, 
representing ward two, Cambridge, with 



BICKNELL. 



BICKXELL. 



53 



no loss of reputation as a faithful public 
official — always serving on important com- 
mittees. 

He is a prominent society man, being a 
member of Amicable Lodge F. &: A. M., 
St. .\ndre\v's R. A. Chapter, Boston Coun- 
cil Royal and Select Masters, Royal Ar- 
canum, American Legion of Honor, Ancient 
Order United Workmen, Order of United 
Friends, Cambridge Benevolent A.ssocia- 
tion, and Mass. Tribe of Improved Order 
of Red Men. 

Mr. Bent was married in 1875 to Mat- 
tie .\., daughter of Rev. N. C. Hodgdon. 

BICKNELL, Albion Harris, son of 

Nehemiah B. and Louisa (Drew) Bicknell, 
was born in Turner, Androscoggin county, 
Maine, March 18, 1837. 

His early education was received at the 
public schools, and, as soon as circumstan- 
ces would permit, he devoted himself to 
the profession of an artist with all the zeal 
which had been gathering through years 
of earnest desire, and with a success which 
very soon demonstrated his choice to have 
been almost a necessity of nature. 

On the 20th of July, 1875, he was mar- 
ried, in Somerville, to Margaret Elizabeth, 
daughter of Oliver W. and Sarah (Simp- 
son) Peabody. At present he resides in 
Maiden. 

When only twenty years of age, Mr. 
Bicknell was well established in Boston as 
a portrait painter, but desire for studying 
art in foreign countries induced him to 
go abroad, and in 1861 he crossed the 
Atlantic, and entered the studio of Thomas 
Couture and L' Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 
where he remained an earnest student for 
two years, and afterwards spent two years 
in visiting art centres of Europe, and in 
the pursuance of his studies. In 1864 he 
returned to America and again opened a 
studio in Boston. 

Among the many well-known portraits 
which he has painted may be mentioned 
those of Horace Mann, Henry Wilson, 
Anson Burlingame, Chief Justice Isaac F. 
Redfield, Lot M. Morrill, the latter for the 
treasury department at Washington, and a 
duplicate of the same for the state capitol 
of Maine, where also may be seen his full 
length portrait of Abraham Lincoln. " Lin- 
coln at Gettysburg " and " The Battle of 
Lexington " are, perhaps, among the best 
known of Mr. Bicknell's historical pictures 
— the former containing twenty-two life- 
size portraits in full length. Through the 
generosity of the Hon. Fl S. Converse this 
painting is now the property of the Maiden 
public library. 



Mr. Bicknell is also well known as a 
landscape painter, etcher, and worker in 
black and white. In 1882 a special exhibi- 
tion of his works was given in the rooms 
of the Society of Artists, London, and the 
well deserved honorary degree of \. M. 
was conferred upon him in 1S84 liy the 
Colby LTniversity. 

BICKNELL, THOMAS Williams, son 

of Allen and Harriet Byron (Kinnicutt) 
Bicknell, was born in Barrington, Bristol 
county, R. I., September 6, 1834. 

Mr. Bicknell's education was obtained 
in the public schools of his native State 
until he was sixteen years of age. In 1850 
he entered Thetford Academy, Yt., then 
under the principalship of Hiram Orcutt, 
LL. I),, and was graduated from this insti- 
tution, with the Greek oration, in the class 
of 1853. He entered Amherst College the 
same year, but at the close of his first year 
went West, teaching one year in Illinois, 
and returning East, taught a high school 
in Rehoboth, for two years. In 1857 Mr. 
Bicknell entered the sophomore class of 
Brown University, and was graduated 
with the degree of A. M., in i860, under 
the presidency of Rev. Dr. Barnas Sears. 

In 1859 Mr. Bicknell was elected from 
his native town to the Rhode Island Legis- 
lature, and served in that body during his 
senior year in Brown L'niversity. In i860 
he was elected principal of the high school, 
Bristol, R. I., occupying that position five 
years, and afterwards holding the position 
of principal of Arnold Street grammar 
school. Providence, four years. 

In 1S69 he was appointed commissioner 
of the public schools of Rhode Island, and 
held the office until 1875. His power was 
immediately felt in the state, and sweep- 
ing reforms without revolution, a rapid ad- 
vance in public sentiment, favoring liberal 
legislation and increased appropriations, 
were the immediate results of his adminis- 
tration. 

In 1875 Mr. Bicknell founded and be- 
came the editor of the " Journal of Educa- 
tion," and with this he established and 
published the " Primary Teacher," " Good 
Times," and the bi-monthly international 
magazine, " Education." All these educa- 
tional works are having to-day a most 
successful mission in their peculiar field. 
The bureau of education, now in charge of 
Dr. Hiram Orcutt, was established by Mr. 
Bicknell in 1876. 

He has been president of the American 
Institute of Instruction, National Council 
of Education, National Teachers' Associa- 
tion, Rhode Island Sunday-school Union, 



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BIDWELL. 



BIGELOW. 



Boston Sunday-school Superintendents' 
Union, Massacliusetts Sunday-school As- 
sociation, New England Sunday-school • 
Union, International Sunday-school Union, 
Bicknell Family Association, Interstate 
Commission on Education, Chautauqua 
Teachers' Reading Union, and the New 
England Publishing Company. 

He was a member of the General Court 
of 1S89, chairman of House committee on 
education, serving as a member also of 
the committee on woman suffrage. 

Mr. Bicknell was married in Rehoboth, 
September 5, 1S60, to Amelia Davie, 
daughter of Christopher and Chloe (Car- 
penter) Blanding. Of this union was one 
child : Martha E. Bicknell. His residence 
is Boston, where he is engaged in import- 
ant financial interests. 

Mr. Bicknell has been actively identified 
with the Republican party since its forma- 
tion in 1856. He has been engaged in 
educational work in all its departments as 
a teacher, school officer, editor, writer and 
lecturer, since 1854, and has advocated 
and been a leader in most of the advanced 
educational movements of the day. 

In church and Sunday-school work he 
has been equally prominent and influential, 
taking advanced grounds in the liberal 
Congregational movements of the last 
ten years. His advocacy of temperance, 
woman suffrage, and other reforms has 
been vigorous, intelligent and sincere. 

BIDWELL, Marshall S., son of Bar- 
nabas and Betsey (Curtis) Bidwell, was 
born August 24, 1824, at South Tyringham, 
now Monterey, Berkshire county. 

After a common school education he 
continued his studies at the Lenox Academy, 
and began mercantile life in 1S46, since 
which time his attention has been divided 
between farming and various mercantile 
pursuits. 

On the 23d of November, 1845, at Mon- 
terey, Mr. Bidwell was married to Anna A., 
daughter of Samuel and Amelia (Bigelow) 
Tibballs, who died November 4, 1856. 
Their children were : Hattie A., Amelia A., 
and Sarah Louisa Bidwell. On the 5th of 
January, 185 8, Mr. Bidwell was again mar- 
ried to Sophia P., daughter of John L). and 
Luna S. (Welch) Bidwell. Their children 
are : William S., and Orlando C. Bidwell. 
The last four are still living, Hattie A. 
dying in 1866, aged twenty years. 

For many years Mr. Bidwell has held 
various town offices in his native place, 
Monterey, where he still resides, and is at 
present chairman of the board of selectmen. 
He also represented his district in the Gen- 



eral Court in the year 1881, and has been 
an ardent laborer with the Y. M. C. A., and 
an earnest supporter of religious and phil- 
anthropic institutions. 

He is a descendant of the Rev. Adonijah 
Bidwell, first pastor of the church at Mon- 
terey. He is the heaviest tax-payer in his 
town, his property being largely invested 
in real estate. 

BIGELOW, Henry Jacob, son of the 

late Jacob Bigelow, M. D., of Boston, and 
Mary (ScoUay) Bigelow, was born in Bos- 
ton, March 11, 18 18. 

He received his early training at the 
Boston Latin school, and having completed 
his preparatory course, entered Harvard 
College, from which he graduated with the 
class of 1837. Under his father's direction 
he began the study of medicine, attending 
also the regular medical course at Harvard 
LTniversity. At the expiration of three 
years, his health becoming injured by close 
application to study, he visited Europe, 
but returned in 1841 to receive the degree 
of M. D. He went back to Europe after 
receiving his diploma, and remained three 
years, spending the greater part of the 
time in Paris. He visited other important 
centres of medical instruction on the con- 
tinent and in Great Britain, and made a 
trip to the East. 

Returning to Boston in 1844, he was 
appointed the following year a teacher in 
surgery in the Tremont Street medical 
school, succeeding to the vacancy caused 
by the resignation of Dr. Reynolds. This 
position he held until the school was united 
with the medical school of Harvard Uni- 
versity. In 1846 he was appointed sur- 
geon to the Massachusetts General Hos- 
pital, and after forty years of service, 
resigned his position in 1886. In 1849 he 
was appointed professor of surgery and 
clinical surgery in Harvard University, 
filling the chairs for nearly twenty years 
without an assistant, and remained as pro- 
fessor of surgery until 1884. 

Dr. Bigelow's attainments in medical 
science have won for him membership in 
many leading American and European 
societies. As a writer. Professor Bigelow's 
influence has been far-reaching and effec- 
tive. He made the original announcement 
of the discovery of modern antesthesia, in 
1846, and was always an advocate of the 
claims of Dr. Morton, deciding the ques- 
tion " What constitutes Dr. Morton's dis- 
covery?" by a reference to scientific 
precedent. 

Dr. Bigelow was the author of various 
mechanical appliances which have been 



BIGELOW. 



lilLL. 



55 



adopted by the medical profession and by 
various leading hospitals ; among which 
are a lithotrite and evacuator, an operating 
chair and an autopsy table. 

The following are among the best known 
of Dr. Bigelow's publications, and mostly 
relate to novelties : — " Manual of Orthope- 
dic Surgery " (1845) ; " Fragments of Med- 
ical Science and Art" (1846); "Insensi- 
bility during Surgical Operations pro- 
duced by Inhalation " (Boston Medical 
and Surgical Journal, 1846) ; "On a New 
Physical Sign, a Clicking in the Throat " 
(Ibid. 1847); " Anjesthetic Agents, their 
modes of Exhibition and Ph)-siological 
]':ffects" (Trans. Am. Med. Ass., 1848); 
" Etherization. A Compendium of its 
History, Surgical Use, Dangers and Dis- 
covery " (1S4S) ; "On the Employment 
of a New Agent in the Treatment of 
Stricture of the Urethra" (B. M. & S. J., 
1849); "Dr. Harlow's Case of Crowbar 
Injury to the Head" (Phila. Med. Jour., 




HENRY J. BIGELOW, 

1S50) ; " Rhigolene, a Petroleum Naph- 
tha for producing Anaesthesia by Freez- 
ing " (B. M. & S. J., 1S66) ; "New 
and Successful Operation for Un-united 
Fractures, with Cases" (Ibid. 1867) ; "Ni- 
trous Oxide Gas for Surgical Purposes in 
1848" (Ibid. 186S) ; 'Fracture and Dis- 
location of the Hip" (Boston, 1869); 



(187.) 
leged 
1S72); 
ter to 



" Medical Education in America. Address 
before Massachusetts IMedical Society" 
Death by Chloroform and Al- 
Death by Ether" (B. M. & S. J., 
Alleged Death from Ether ; Let- 
Editor British Medical Journal " 
(Ibid. 1S73) ; " Turbinated Corpora Caver- 
nosa " (Ibid. 1875) ; "The True Neck of 
the Femur ; its Structure and Pathology " 
(Ibid. 1875) ; "Centennial Article on the 
Discovery of Ana;sthesia, in ' A Century 
of American Medicine,'" (Phila. 1876) ; 
" New Methods and Treatment of Ex- 
trophy of the Bladder and Erectile Tu- 
mors" (B. M. & S. J., 1876); "Lithola- 
paxy" (Boston, 1878); " Litholapaxy ; 
an Improved Evacuator " (B. M. & S. J., 
1 880) ; "The Code of Ethics adopted by 
the Massachusetts Medical Society ; A 
JMinority Report" (Ibid. 1880) ; "A Sim- 
plified Evacuator for Litholapaxy " (Ibid. 
1883); "A Radical Cure for Umbilical 
Hernia" (Ibid. 1889); "Fees in Hospitals" 
(Ibid. 1889) ; "An Old Portrait of a Sur- 
geon" (Ibid. 1889). 

BILL, LEDYARD, son of Gurdon and 
Lucy (Verrington) Bill, was born in Led- 
yard. New London county, Conn., May 14, 
1836. 

He obtained a common school and aca- 
demic training. At the age of sixteen he 
traveled in Canada and the United States, 
selling books ; located in the book-pub- 
lishing business in Louisville, Ky., in 1857 ; 
on the breaking out of the civil war his 
business was destroyed and he went to 
Cleveland, Ohio ; thence to New York, 
where he remained until 1872, engaged 
in publishing. 

On June 12, 1872, he married, in Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., Sophie, daughter of Ralph and 
Adaline E. (Bigelow) Earle. They have 
three children : Frederick L., Bertha E., 
and Lucy S. Bill. 

Mr. Bill settled in Paxton in 1874, where 
he has since resided. 

Town business employs such of his time 
as is not given to leisure or authorship. 
He has written several works, the latest 
being a history of Paxton. 

In 1864 Mr. Bill was commissioned 
lieutenant in the Howitzer battery of the 
nth brigade of the National Guard, 
was commissioner to 
Hamburg, 1862 ; ten 
school board of Pax- 
ton, and ten years chairman of the 
board of selectmen ; and has also served 
as one of the overseers of the poor. At 
the last election he declined further town 
office. 



New York. He 
the World's Fair, 
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BILLINGS. 



lilKD. 



BILLINGS, Gilbert M., son of Wm. 

L. and Eunice E. (Kelly) Billings, was 
born in Blackstone, Worcester county, Feb- 
ruary 1 8, 1853. He went to Milford when 
nine years of age, attended the public 
schools and graduated from the high school 
in 1869. He passed an examination for 
Brown University, but illness prevented 
his attendance. 

He spent several months in a general 
store at Elizabethtown, N. Y., after which 
he was a book-keeper one year at the boot 
factory of Underwood, Sons & Fisher, in 
Milford, until the firm gave up business. 
For a )^ear he was clerk in a shoe store in 
Fitchburg, and afterwards book-keeper 
four years for the firm of Clement, Col- 
burn & Company, in Milford, followed by 
six years at the factory of Houghton, 
Coolidge & Company. 

In 1882 Mr. Billings, in company with 
Charles A. King, started the " Milford 
Gazette." In 1885 he purchased the inter- 
est of Mr. King, and has since conducted 
the business alone with success. 

He was married in Milford, November 
26, 1874, to I-klith L., daughter of George 
B.Blake. They have one son: George W. 
Billings. 

Mr. ]5illings has served two terms as 
trustee of the public library, and has been 
through the presiding officer's chair in 
local lodges of Knights of Honor, Royal 
Arcanum, and Eastern Associates. 

BILLINGS, Sanford Waters, son of 

Sanford and Caroline Davis (Waters) Bill- 
ings, was born in Sharon, Norfolk county, 
October 3, 1834, on the homestead farm, 
which has been held in unbroken succession 
by his paternal ancestors for over a hun- 
dred and twenty-five years. He comes of 
sturdy old New England stock, and on the 
maternal side is descended from Governor 
Bradford of colonial fame. 

He received his early education at the 
schools of his native town, fitted for college 
at the Opalic Institute at .\ttleborough, 
graduating at .Amherst College in 1859. 
The following year he began teaching, 
organizing the Stoughtonham Institute, 
which he carried on with success until the 
establishment of the free high schools in 
Sharon and the neighborhood, when he 
was made principal of the Sharon high 
school, which position he still occupies. 

He was always active in literary and 
debating circles. In Amherst he was a 
member of the Phi Beta Kappa, and presi- 
dent of the Athenian Society, and has re- 
mained president of the class of 1S59 ever 
since graduation. 



Besides his immediate occupation, he 
finds time to devote to town affairs, having 
acted on the school committee for more 
than twenty years, as justice of the peace 

— appointed by Governor Andrew in 1861 

— as moderator at more than fifty town 
meetings, and as representative in the 
state Legislature in 1873 and '74, where 
he served on the committee on education. 
He introduced the bill authorizing cities 
and towns to provide free text-books in the 
public schools, and was instrumental in 
securing the provision of the law in his 
native town. 

He is an active worker in church affairs, 
serving as superintendent of the Con- 
gregational Sunday-school for twenty years, 
and for several years he was president of 
the Norfolk County Temperance Union. 
He has long been a member of the Repub- 
lican town committee, and was for many 
years its chairman. 

On the 17th of June, 1862, at Sharon, 
Mr. Billings was married to Elizabeth, 
daughter of Lewis and Anna (Pierce) Morse. 
Their two living children are : .-^bbie Caro- 
line and Osmond Jesse Billings. 

Mr. Billings is endeared to hundreds of 
his former pupils, to whom he has been 
not only instructor, but, also, counselor 
and friend. 

He is a most ardent friend of the soldiers 
of the Grand Army, and expresses, by both 
word and act, the high estimation in which 
he holds their patriotic service. 

He is pre-eminently a leader in all the 
educational and moral measures in the 
town of Sharon, easily holding such a 
position by reason of natural endowment 
and Christian training. 

BIRD, Francis William, .son of George 

and Martha (Newell) Bird, was born in 
Dedham, Norfolk county, October 22, 1809. 

He attended the public schools of Ded- 
ham until 1824, then Day's Academy, 
Wrentham, Isaac Perkins, preceptor. Here 
he fitted for college, entered ISrown L^ni- 
versity, 1827, and was graduated in the 
class of 1 83 1. 

He began business as a paper maker in 
1S33. This industry he has followed and 
done much to develop, continuing in the 
same to the present time. He has associ- 
ated with himself various partners at 
different times, but always held control of 
the business, and in 1882 the firm became 
F. W. Bird & Son. Their mills are at East 
Walpole, where Mr. Bird now resides. 

Mr. Bird was first married in Providence, 
R. I., January i, 1834, to Rebecca Hill, 
daughter of Benoni and Amy (Brown) 



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BIRD. 



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Cooke, who died Feb. 5, 1835. He again 
married, June 20, 1843, in Boston, Abby 
Frances, "daughter of Joseph R. and Mary 
(Reynolds) Newell. Of this union were 
six children : Frances Newell, F. W., Jr. 
(deceased 1874), Mary Reynolds, Charles 
Sumner, Caroline Augusta and Rebecca 
Hill Bird. 

Mr. Bird was a member of the House of 
Representatives, 1847, '48, '67, '77, and '78 ; 
a member of the state Senate 1871. He 
was a member of the Executive Council 
with Governor Boutwell, 1852, and Gover- 
nor Andrew, 1863, '64 and '65. He was 
especially active in matters that pertained 




FRANCIS W. BIRD, 

to the general public policy; fought Know- 
nothingism with a will in 1854 ; was stren- 
uously opposed to the Hoosac Tunnel 
scheme. He has been a typical independ- 
ent "in his political associations. He was 
a Whig till 1846 ; a Conscience A\'hig till 
1848 ; Free Soiler till 1856 ; Re|niblican 
till 1872; Liberal Republican till 1874, 
and Independent Democrat to date. 

Mr. Bird was a member of the Massachu- 
setts Constitutional Convention, 1853. He 
has ever been a man of great nervous en- 
ergy and strong individuality. He has the 
courage of his convictions, and always 
moves in accordance with their promptings. 
He is a man very widely known in com- 



mercial and politica. circles, and probably 
has enjoyed the friendship of as many 
of the leading men of the State as any living 
man. Not a stain rests upon his character, 
not a suspicion attaches to the sincerity of 
his purpose. Outliving most of his com- 
rades who have made the State so illustri- 
ous by their wise counsel and patriotic 
labors, he still takes a keen and lively in- 
terest in all that tends to keep Massachu- 
setts in the van of every philanthropic 
cause and movement towards true reform. 

BIRD, Samuel Bradford, son of 

Ebenezer and Sally (Knowlton) Bird, was 
born in Ashby, Middlesex county, Septem- 
ber 3, 1831. 

He availed himself of the advantages of 
the common schools to gain a good English 
education, and was enabled to fit himself 
for a teacher of district schools. He taught 
during the winter months for six years, 
when he chose farming as his future voca- 
tion. 

Mr. Bird was married in Boston, Novem- 
ber 28, 1 86 1, to Sarah Ann, daughter of 
Ashbel and Laura (Nichols) Howe. They 
have no children. 

Mr. Bird has been member of the Fram- 
ingham school board twelve years ; mem- 
ber of the board of selectmen ten years, 
six years chairman ; member of board of 
assessors twelve years, during nine of which 
he acted as chairman ; president of Mid- 
dlesex South .Agricultural Societ)- four 
years ; member of board of agriculture 
nine years ; director of South Framingham 
National Bank, until he resigned to be- 
come director of the Framingham National 
Bank, which position he now holds ; vice- 
president of the Savings Bank ; director 
and treasurer of the Framingham Union 
Street Railway Company, a road built and 
equipped largely by the efforts and influ- 
ence of Mr. Bird ; treasurer of the town of 
Framingham the past four years ; trustee of 
the public library ; member of the Republi- 
can state central committee two years ; 
has presided at the town meetings, with 
few exceptions, for the last fifteen years. 

He was representative to the General 
Court 1886 and '87. Mr. Bird is an active 
business man, holds various trust funds, 
commands the respect of his townsmen, 
and is keenly alive to the interests of Fram- 
ingham, his present residence. 

BIRD, Warren A., son of Charles and 
Caroline F. (Frost) Bird, was born in Cam- 
bridge, Middlesex county, October 14, 1837. 

His early education was acquired in 
the common schools of Somerville and 



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msiiop. 



BLEAKIE. 



Natick, and his first business occupation 
was tliat of a dealer in coal, and this busi- 
ness he has continued without change to 
the present time. 

On the 8th of July, 1862, Mr. Bird was 
married in Framingham, to Elvira A., 
daughter of George L. and Patience Ann 
(Langley) Sleeper, who died leaving him 
two children : Alice and Edith J. Bird. 

Mr. Bird has been active in social and 
political life, as well as an enthusiastic 
business man throughout his career. For 
three years he was one of the selectmen of 
Natick, where he at present resides. 

In 1876, '77, and '83 he represented the 
town in the House of Representatives, 
performing diligent and valuable service on 
the committees to which he was appointed. 

BISHOP, Robert Roberts, son of 

Jonathan P. and Eliza (Hartling) Bishop, 
was born in Medlield, Norfolk county, 
March 31, 1834. The family moved from 
Connecticut to Massachusetts, and Mr. 
Bishop's father was a prominent lawyer in 
Norfolk county. 

Mr. Bishop was fitted for college at 
Phillips Academy, Andover, then under 
the charge of Dr. Samuel H. Taylor. 

Ill health, however, prevented him from 
entering college, and subsequently his plans 
for the future were changed, and he entered 
the law office of Brooks & Ball, Boston. 
With this firm, and subsequently with the 
Hon. Peleg W. Chandler, supplemented by 
a regular course at Harvard law school, 
he received his legal education. He was 
graduated from the law school in the class 
of 1857, and spent a year in the office of 
Mr. Chandler, having been admitted to the 
Suffolk bar soon after graduation. 

A year later he opened an office in 
Boston on his own account, and, in 1861, 
formed a law partnership with Thornton 
K. Lothrop, under the firm name of 
Lothrop cS: Bishop. This partnership was 
afterwards enlarged by the admission of 
Arthur Lincoln, as junior partner, and con- 
tinued until 1879, when it was dissolved. 

Mr. Bishop was married in HoUiston, 
December 24, 1857, to Mary H., daughter 
of Elias and Persis (Daniels) Bullard, of 
HoUiston. Of this union are three chil- 
dren : Robert R., Jr., Elias B. and Joseph 
T. Bishop. 

In 1863 Mr. Bishop removed to Newton, 
his present residence. In 1874 he was a 
member of the House of Representatives. 
He declined a re-election. In 1878 he was 
a member of the state Senate, and again 
in 1879, '80, '81 and '82. At the opening 
of the Senate in 1880, he received a unani- 



mous election as president, and was re- 
elected in 1881 and '82. 

Mr. Bishop's law practice has been con- 
cerned largely with important railroad liti- 
gation. He was for three years engaged 
in the notable case of the " Berdell Bonds," 
involving twenty millions of dollars, and 
in the organization, by the bond-holders, 
of the New York & New England Rail- 
road. 

In 1875 Mr. Bishop was appointed one 
of the water commissioners for the con- 
struction of the water-works of the city of 
Newton. 

He has served on the Newton school 
board, and was a delegate to the national 
Republican convention at Chicago, in 1884. 

In 1882 Mr. Bishop was a candidate for 
governor, but was defeated by General 
Benjamin F. Butler. In 1888 he was 
appointed an associate justice of the supe- 
rior Court of Massachusetts, which position 
he still holds. 

BLEAKIE, Robert, son of John and 
Mary (Ma.xwell) Bleakie, was born in 
Hawick, Roxburgshire, Scotland, August 
1, 1833. He came to this country in 1847, 
with his father, who left Scotland under 
an engagement with the Amesbury Manu- 
facturing Company, of Amesbury, to start 
there the making of fancy cassimeres. 

Even at that early age of fourteen he 
had acquired a fair knowledge of weaving, 
having gone all through the training of 
bobbin-winding and power-loom weaving, 
and served an apprenticeship as a hand- 
loom weaver. So he readily went to work 
under his father, on the power looms at 
the Amesbury mills, and at this work he 
remained until 1852, when, having reached 
the age of eighteen, and his father giving 
him his liberty, he left home and found 
employment at $i.oS per day, at the Elm 
Street mill in Providence, R. I. He re- 
mained here until, in 1858, his abilities were 
recognized by John W. Stitt & Co. of New 
York, by whom he was engaged to manage 
their two factories at Franklin, N. J., where 
he made a great success and was highly 
appreciated by both employers and em- 
ployees. In i860 he received and ac- 
cepted a tempting offer to return to Rhode 
Island. 

The civil war breaking out shortly 
after disturbed this new arrangement, and 
Mr. Bleakie was for the time being left 
without employment. Nothing daunted, 
and having saved a few thousand dollars 
from his earnings, he hired a cotton-bat- 
ting mill in Tolland, Conn., had it fitted as 
a one-set woolen mill, and started in busi- 



BLEAKIE. 



BLISS. 



59 



ness for himself. Fortune smiled upon 
his enterprise, and men having capital 
were an.xious to co-operate with him in 
manufacturing. A number of Providence 
business men united to build a larsre woolen 




ROBERT BLEAKIE. 

mill, now known as the Riverside mill, of 
which Mr. Bleakie was to have the man- 
agement, and receive one-third of the 
profits. Before this was completed, how- 
ever, he became weary of the amount of 
red tape involved, and the slow progress 
made, and being offered the management 
of the Hyde Park Woolen Company's mill 
at Hyde Park, he accepted the position, 
which he retained until 1873, when that 
mill was destroyed by fire. For the next 
two years he was employed as an expert, 
visiting and inspecting a number of mills 
in New England, till, in 1875, the founda- 
tion of the present firm of R. Bleakie &: 
Co. was laid by Robert Bleakie, John S. 
Bleakie (his brother) and C. F". Allen 
associating themselves together and taking 
the Webster mill, Sabattus, Maine, subse- 
quently adding the Amesbury mills, and 
finally, in 1878, purchasing and greatly 
enlarging the Hyde Park Woolen Com- 
pany's property. Probably no woolen 
manufacturing concern occupies a stronger 
or better position in the market than this 
company. 



Mr. Bleakie is emphatically a self-made 
man, having, without friends or influence 
other than such as he made for himself, 
advanced from a bobbin-boy to the envi- 
able position he now holds among our 
most successful manufacturers. 

His own eventful career has made him 
an intelligent and earnest advocate of 
reform in, and reduction of, the present 
protective tariff, his letters in advocacy 
thereof, published during the last presiden- 
tial campaign in the " Boston Herald " and 
other papers, being yet fresh in the recol- 
lection of many. 

Mr. Bleakie's abilities have frequently 
been recognized by his associates and fel- 
low-citizens. At the present time he is 
president of the Hyde Park Savings Bank, 
also of the Hyde Park Water Company, 
chairman of the Hyde Park board of select- 
men, vice-president of the Massachusetts 
Tariff Reform League, and one of the 
executive officers of the Woolen Goods 
Association of New York Citv. 

Mr. Bleakie was married in Shady Lea, 
R. L, December i, i86o, to Isabella, daugh- 
ter of John and Elizabeth (Kidder) Hen- 
derson, who died December, 1880. Of 
this union were five children : Mary Eliza- 
beth, Robert Charles (deceased), Bessie 
B., William, and Isabella Bleakie (deceased). 
He was again married October 12, 18S2, 
at Attleborough, to Mary A., daughter of 
Abner and Emily L. Wetherell. They 
have one child : Eugene W. Bleakie. 

BLISS, William Dwight Porter, son 

of Rev. Edwin E. Bliss, D. D., and Isa- 
bella H. (Porter) Bliss, was born in Con- 
stantinople, Turkey, August 20, 1856. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing at home, and in Robert College, Con- 
stantinople. He subsequently attended 
Phillips Academy, Andover, one year, 
then entered Amherst College, from which 
he was graduated in the class of 1878. 
He then studied for his chosen profession 
in Hartford Theological Seminary. 

He was first settled in charge of the 
Fourth Congregational church of Denver,, 
Col. Ill health forcing him to resign his 
pastorate there, he was next called to the 
Congregational church in South Natick. 
He then withdrew from the communion of 
the Congregational church and entered 
the Episcopal church, being first stationed 
at Lee. He afterwards became rector of 
Grace church. South Boston, which posi- 
tion he still holds. 

Mr. Bliss was married in London, Eng- 
land, June 30, 1884, to Mary Pangalo of 
Constantinople, daughter of John Pangalo 



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BLODGETT. 



liLODGETT. 



of Athens, Greece, and Eliza (Blunt) Pan- 
galo, daughter of the English consul at 
Salonica. Of this union were two chil- 
dren : Zoe Pangalo, and Enid Bouterweck 
Bliss. 

Mr. Bliss has been master workman of 
the Knights of Labor Assembly in Lee, 
and represented them at the Cincinnati 
convention of the Union Labor party, Feb- 
ruary 22, 1887. In 1887 he was nominated 
lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts by 
the Labor party, but immediately resigned. 
He was president of the Ministers' Eco- 
nomic Society, Boston ; was the first chair- 
man, and is now secretary, of the Society of 
Christian Socialists of Boston, and editor 
of the " Dawn," a paper devoted to their 
interests. 

In early life Mr. Bliss was devoted to the 
study of literature, poetry, and philosophy, 
leading his class in college in that depart- 
ment. 

He became interested in social problems 
when settled as a minister in the manufac- 
turing town of South Natick in 1885, and 
has since followed this line of thought and 
work. He has written frequently for the 
" Andover Review," the " Christian Union," 
etc., and has lectured before economic and 
religious bodies upon what he deems the 
vital questions of the hour. 

BLODGETT, CALEB, son of Caleb 
and Charlotte (Piper) Blodgett, was born 
in Dorchester, Grafton county, N. H., 
June 3, 1832. 

His early education was obtained in the 
common schools and the academy in Ca- 
naan, N. H., to which place his parents 
removed in 1834. He fitted for college 
mainly at Kimball Union Academy, Meri- 
den, N. H., under Dr. Cyrus S. Richards. 
He entered Dartmouth College in 1852, 
and was graduated in 1856. For two 
years thereafter he was engaged in teach- 
ing in the high school in Leominster, 
Mass. He read law in the office of Bacon 
& Aldrich, in Worcester, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in that city in February, 
i860. 

His first connection in business was in 
the practice of law at Hopkinton, as a 
partner of Henry L. Parker, a college 
class-mate. Later he removed to Boston, 
and was associated with Halsey J. Board- 
man in the same profession, from Decem- 
ber, i860, to January 16, 1882, when he 
was appointed by Governor Long an asso- 
ciate justice of the superior court, which 
position he now holds. 

He was married at Canaan, N. H., 
December 14, 1865, to Ro.xie I!., daughter 



of Jesse and Emily A. (Green) Martin, and 
has one child : Charles M. Blodgett. He 
has one brother, Isaac N. Blodgett, who is 
one of the justices of the supreme judicial 
court of New Hampshire. 

He was made president of the Phi Beta 
Kappa Society in Dartmouth College in 
1886, and in June, 1889, received from his 
a/ma mater the honorary degree of LL. D. 
Not the least of the honors, however, that 
have crowned his life is the estimation in 
which he is held by those who have prac- 
ticed before his court, and have received at 
his hands the imjjartial distribution of 
justice which should ever characterize an 
upright judge. 

BLODGETT, Percival, son of N. 
French and Dolly A. Blodgett, was born 
in Orange, Franklin county, July 18, 
1S41. 

He attended the common schools of that 
town until twelve years old, then only in 
winter until fifteen. Attended the Athol 
high school one term and Phillips Academy, 
Andover, two years. When he was sixteen 
years of age he taught his first school. 
He followed teaching until he entered 
business life at Templeton, March, 1865, 
when he formed a partnership with A. S. 
Dudley, under the firm name of Dudley & 
Blodgett, and carried on the business of a 
general country store for five years. The 
partnership was then dissolved, and Mr. 
Blodgett continued the business on his own 
account. He has done a large and lucra- 
tive business, and has, besides his employ- 
ment in trade, done something in convey- 
ancing, settling estates, etc. 

Mr. Blodgett was married in Orange, 
May I, 1S67, to Georgia A. Worrick, daugh- 
ter of Philbrook and Dorothy A\'orrick. 
Mrs. Blodgett died January 17, 1S79, leav- 
ing one daughter, Clrace E. Blodgett, bom 
April 28, 1870. i\Ir. Blodgett's second 
marriage was with S. Isabelle Chamberlain 
of Templeton. 

He is a Republican, and chairman of the 
Republican town committee ; postmaster 
si.xteen years, until the incoming of the 
Cleveland administration. For twenty con- 
tinuous years he has been member of the 
school board, for thirteen years town treas- 
urer, and seven years selectman and chair- 
man of the board. His church con- 
nections are with the Trinitarian parish, 
of which he is an active working mem- 
ber. He is trustee of the Boynton free 
public librarv, and president of the board. 
He was representative to the General 
Court in 1889, from the second Worcester 
district. 



BLOOD. 



BOND. 



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BLOOD, Charles Erastus, son of 

Leonard and Abiirail Blood, was born at Pep- 
perell, Middlesex county, March 19, 1825. 

He received his early education in the 
common schools of his native place. His 
first business connection was with Metcalf 
& Fisher, manufacturers of straw goods, 
of Medway village, in 1S44. From this 
place he went to New York City. Here, 
and on Long Island, he remained until 
I S49, when he removed to Ware village, 
and was there engaged in the straw business 
till 1875, when he l)ecame interested in the 
drug business, his present occupation. 

He has been overseer of the poor in 
Ware twelve years, selectman two years, 
member of school board five years. For 
the last fourteen years Mr. Blood has been 
special county commissioner of Hampshire 
county. He has served on the board of 
assessors one year, and since 1874 has 
acted as treasurer of the South Mutual 
Protection Association. 

His church connections are with the 
Congregational church of Ware village, 
where he now resides. 

Mr. Blood was married in Milford, in 
185 1, to Mary B., daughter of Josiah and 
Anna (Corbett) Perry. He has four chil- 
dren : Charles F., George F., Gertrude P., 
and Mary E. Blood. 

BOARDMAN, HalSEY J., son of Na- 
thaniel and Sarah (Hunt) Boardman, was 
born May 19, 1834, in the town of Nor- 
wich, Windsor county, Yt. 

In the common schools of his native 
town he fitted himself for higher educa- 
tional work, entered Thetford Academy, 
from which he was graduated valedictorian 
of his class, in 1854. He entered Dart- 
mouth College the same year, graduating 
with high honors in 1858. 

He entered the law office of Norcross & 
Snow, Fitchburg, changing subsequently 
to the ofifice of Philip Sears, Boston. He 
was admitted to the Suffolk county bar in 
1S60, commencing the practice of the law 
in Boston, in July of the same year. His 
first connection in business was as senior 
partner in the law firm of Boardman & 
Blodgett, Boston, the firm name remain- 
ing the same until the junior partner, Caleb 
Blodgett, was made judge of the superior 
court. Stephen H. Tyng was a subse- 
quent partner, also Frank Paul, the present 
firm name being Boardman & Paul. 

Latterly, owing to defective sight, he 
has found it necessary to throw off much 
of the labor incident to the legal profes- 
sion, and, while seeking relief in various 
manufacturing and railroad interests, has 



been repeatedly called by his fellow-citi- 
zens to participate in the councils of the 
Commonwealth. 

From 1862 to 1864 he held the appoint- 
ment of commissioner of the board of en- 
rollment, under President Lincoln, for the 
4th congressional district. He was also 
chairman of the ward and city committee 
in 1874, president of the common council 
in 1875, Republican candidate for mayor 
in the same year, representative to the 
General Court in i883-'85. He was elected 
to the Senate in 1887 and '88, serving 
as president both years. He is a prom- 





HALSEY J BOARDMAN. 

inent member of the New England His- 
toric Genealogical Society. His business 
relations have made him influential as a 
railroad official, being president of the 
Duluth & Winnipeg Railroad, and director 
of several others. 

In Boston, November 6, 1862, Mr. 
Boardman was united in marriage with 
tleorgia M., daughter of George and Maria 
C. (Moseley) Hinman. Their children are 
Flora M. and Millie I. Boardman. 

BOND, George William, son of 

George and Ann Sigourney • (Hamniatt) 
Bond, was born in Boston. June 22, 181 1. 
He is a lineal descendant of William Bond, 
who came from England to this country 
and settled in \\'atertuwn, in 1649. A trace 



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BOND. 



BOND. 



of French blood flows in his veins, derived 
from Andrew Sigourney, one of the early 
French Huguenot settlers in Massachusetts. 
On the maternal side he is a descendant 
from John Rowland, one of the Pilgrims 
who crossed the Atlantic in the historical 
"Mayflower." George Bond, the father 
of the subject of this sketch, was born in 
Boston in the same house which his life- 
long friends, Amos and Abbott Lawrence, 
afterwards occupied for business purposes. 
He began business as an auctioneer and 
commission merchant in company with 
Samuel Whitwell, under the firm title of 
AMiitwell & Bond. The new house rose to 
remarkable distinction, being widely known 
in mercantile circles throughout this and 
other countries. 

George William Bond received his edu- 
cation in private schools until he had 
attained his tenth year. He then entered 
the Latin school. When his course in that 
school was nearly complete, he was sent to 
the school at Roundhill, Northampton, then 
kept by Dr. Joseph G. Cogswell and George 
Bancroft. There he remained two years. 
In 1827 he entered the store of Daniel 
Denny & Co., dry goods jobbers, Boston, 
and, in 1832, was admitted to partnership 
in the house of Whitwell, Bond & Co. 
While in the former employ, he familiar- 
ized himself with the handling of wools. 
Similar opportunities presented themselves 
in his new place, and in connection with 
other houses succeeding them. In 1S47 
he abandonee^ the dry goods business and 
commenced that of wool broker, a pursuit 
in which he is still occupied. 

In 1874 Mr. Bond received the honorary 
degree of A. M. from Harvard College, " in 
recognition," as President Eliot remarked 
at the time, "of his public spirit, and of 
his thorough knowledge of the important 
industries of wool growing and wool manu- 
facturing." 

Mr. Bond is recognized as the first and 
standard authority on all practical questions 
relating to the wool business in the L'nited 
.States. His thorough knowledge of the 
subject led to his being consulted b\' the 
National Association, of Wool Manufac- 
turers, in forming the tariff on wool in 
1867. 

In 1S69 Mr. Bond communicated to the 
National Association an elaborate paper in 
explanation of the system adopted by him 
in his classification of wool. This was 
published in the first volume of the " Bulle- 
tin " of that Association. A final report 
from Mr. Bond on the standard samples of 
wool, addressed to the Hon. George S. 



Boutwell, secretary of the treasury, was, by 
his permission, published in volume iii. of 
the " Bulletin " of the association. Another 
most important paper was read by Mr. 
Bond before the Boston Society of Natural 
History, in 18S7, on the " Origin of Merino 
Sheep." This appeared in volume vii. 
" Bulletin." Mr. Bond has held the posi- 
tion of chairman of the committee on sta- 
tistics in the above association. 

Mr. Bond was married in Boston, Julv 
II, 1833, to Sophia Augusta, daughter of 
Henry K. and Maria R. (Craycroft) May. 
Mrs. Bond died in 1841, leaving three sons 
and one daughter: George, William Sturgis, 
Henry May and Sophia E. (now Sophia E. 
"SMieelwright). George was in partnership 
with his father until 1871, when he removed 
to Philadelphia. Henry May and William 
Sturgis were graduated from Harvard Col- 
lege in 1859 and 1862, and joined the Union 
army. Henry was wounded in the battle 
of the Wilderness, and subsequently by 
Mosby's guerillas. The latter wound 
proved fatal. William is now in partner- 
ship with his father. In 1843 Mr. Bond 
married Louisa C. Greenwood, of Boston, 
by whom he became the father of five 
children, none of whom are now living. 

BOND, Nelson Freeman, son of 

Benjamin and Arethusa (Bowen) Bond, was 
born in Ware, Hampshire county, January 

9. 1839- 

Passing through the common schools 
and high school of Ware, he fitted for col- 
lege in Monson Academy, in 1858, '59 and 
'60. He entered .Amherst College in i860, 
and left in October, 1861, entering the 
army, enlisting in company D of the 31st 
regiment, Massachusetts volunteers. He 
rose from a private through the various 
grades to that of captain and brevet- 
major. His military service was chiefly 
confined to Louisiana, Alabama, and 
F'lorida. 

He was wounded June 14, 1863, at the 
siege of Port Hudson, La., by a minie- 
ball through the right lung, and for a long 
time was not expected to survive. 

After the war, he engaged in raising 
cotton in Alabama, 1866 and '67, but re- 
turned North in the spring of 1868, on 
account of ill health. 

He entered the employ of J. Cushing & 
Company, wholesale and retail flour and 
grain dealers, Fitchburg, in April, 1870. 
In June, 1S76, he formed a partnership, 
under the firm name of Bond, Baker & 
Co., grain dealers, Waltham. This part- 
nership continued three years. He was 
then clerk for si.\ years for the parties who 



BOOTH. 



BOOTH. 



purchased the business. He returned to 
Fitchburg, March, 1885, and ha.s been 
cashier for J. Gushing & Company to date. 




NELSON F. BOND. 

Major Bond was married in Paxton, 
September 3, 1868, to Maria E., daughter 
of Justus and Sarah E. (Jennison) Shaw. 
Of this union were three children : Vinnie 
Arathusa, Frederic Sylvester and Ben- 
jamin Walter Bond. (The last two de- 
ceased.) 

Major Bond has been a member of the 
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the 
United States since May 2, 1883. He has 
served three years on the school board of 
Fitchburg, and was in 1889 one of the 
representatives from Fitchburg to the 
Legislature, serving upon the committee 
on education. 

BOOTH, Edwin Thomas, son of Junius 

Brutus and Mary Ann (Holmes) Booth, 
was born in Bel .^ir (Harford county) near 
Baltimore, November 13, 1833. He was 
named Edwin Thomas as a compliment to 
his father's friends, Edwin Forrest and 
Thomas Flynn. He was the seventh of 
ten children, and became early associated 
with his father in the vicissitudes of the 
career of thVt wonderful and eccentric 
actor. 

Most of his boyhood was spent at his 
father's town residence in Baltimore. Ed- 



win and his brothers ingeniously trans- 
formed a spacious arbor, situated upon the 
grounds, into a theatre, where, assisted by 
the future comedian and brother-in-law, 
John S. Clarke, they performed, before 
select juvenile audiences, classic and roman- 
tic dramas, with the female element rigor- 
ously ehminated. 

On the loth of September, 1849, Mr. 
Booth made his first appearance on any 
stage in the character of "Tressel," in 
Cibber's version of Richard HL at the 
Boston Museum, undertaking the part to 
help out the prompter, to whom it was 
usually assigned in connection witli his 
other stage duties. 

His first appearance on the Philadelphia 
stage was on May 22, 1850, as " Wilford " 
in " The Iron Chest." It was in this part, 
also, that he appeared first in New York 
City, September 27, 1850, at the National 
Theatre. At the same theatre, in 185 1, his 
father being ill, he suddenly and promptly 
took the place of the elder tragedian, and 
for the first time in his life enacted Richard 
III. This effort, remarkably successful for 
a comparative novice, was hailed as the 
indication of great talent, and as the 
augury of a brilliant future. In 1852, ac- 
companying his father and his elder brother, 
J. B. Booth, Jr., he crossed the Isthmus 
and played in a variety of engagements in 
California. In 1854 he was a member of 
a dramatic company, including the popu- 
lar actress. Miss Laura Keene, as leading 
lady, that took a trip to Australia. Return- 
ing to California in 1856, he came East, and 
first appeared at the Front Street Theatre, 
Baltimore, and then made a tour of all the 
cities of the South, being everywhere well 
received. In 1857 he appeared at the 
Boston Theatre as " Sir Giles Overreach" 
in a " New Way to Pay Old Debts," and 
his great success on this occasion, always 
regarded by him as the turning point in 
his career, determined him to persist in 
the resolute endeavor to win the first 
place as a tragic actor. His life since 
then has been marked by many vicissi- 
tudes of personal e.xperience, and by 
fluctuations of fortune, but it has been one 
of lofty purpose and continuous advance- 
ment. 

On July 7, i860, he married Mary Dev- 
lin, of Troy, N. Y., who died at Dorchester, 
Mass., February 21, 1863, leaving a daugh- 
ter, Edwina. Mr. Booth, subsequently, on 
the 7th of June, 1869, married Mary J\Ic- 
Vicker, the daughter of a Mrs. Runnion, 
who became the wife of James H, Mc- 
^'icker of Chicago, a prominent actor and 



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BORDEN. 



manager. Mrs. Booth died in New York 
in 1 88 1, leaving no children. 

In 1862 Mr. Booth made a trip to Eng- 
land, appearing in London, Liverpool, and 
Manchester, and on returning to America 
became the manager of Winter Garden 
Theatre, New York, remaining associated 
with the house until its destruction by fire 
in 1867. Here he produced, on a magni- 
ficent scale, "Hamlet," "Othello," "Mer- 
chant of Venice," "Richelieu," and other 
plays, and was the recipient of a gold 
medal presented by the leading citizens of 
New York, in commemoration of the, at 
that time, remarkable achievement of run- 
ning " Hamlet" for one hundred consecu- 
tive nights. He was afterwards associated 
with the Walnut Street Theatre in Phila- 
delphia. 

Li April, 1S65, the appalling tragedy at 
Washington compelled Mr. Booth to leave 
the stage, and it was then his wish and 
purpose never to return to it. In 1866, 
however, persuaded by his friends, he re- 
appeared as " Hamlet " in the Winter 
Garden Theatre in New York, and was once 
more welcomed to professional life by a 




EDWIN T. BOOTH 



most enthusiastic and sympathetic greet- 
ing. In 1869 he opened the new Booth 
Theatre, which had been built for him tlie 
previous year in New York City. This he 



managed until 1874, when it passed out of 
his possession. In 1876 he made a tour of 
the South; in 1880, and again in 1882, he 
visited Great Britain and Germany, and 
was there received with extraordinary 
enthusiasm. In 1883 he returned home 
and resumed his starring tours in America. 

He has published an edition of his prin- 
cipal plays in fifteen volumes, the te.xt cut 
and adapted by himself for stage use, with 
introductions and notes by William Winter, 
the well-known dramatic critic of the " New 
York Tribune." • 

Mr. Booth is still in the zenith of his 
strength. He lives to lead the American 
stage of to-day with the same power as of 
old, and the glory of having given a series of 
the grandest pageants, graced by the pres- 
ence of some of the most celebrated actors 
that have ever been seen in this country, 
will be linked inseparably with the renown 
of Edwin Booth, when his biographer shall 
come to write the true story of his career. 

BORDEN, Philip D., son of Thomas 
and Lydia (Durfee) Borden, was born in 
Tiverton, Newport county, R. I., May 11, 
1816. 

His early education was obtained in the 
common schools of those days, by three 
months' attendance in the winter, and he 
was employed in the summer as cabin-boy, 
cook, and deck-hand, with his father until 
April, 1830, when he entered the service of 
the Annawan Manufacturing Company, and 
remained there until November, 1832. He 
attended school three months during the 
winter of i832-'33. In the spring of 1833 
he went to work for C. M. Coggeshall, cash- 
ier of the Union Bank, R. I., and divided 
his time between the bank, and the lum- 
ber yard of Cook, Borden & Co., of which 
iMr. Coggeshall was a partner. There he 
remained until the fall of 1834. January 
I, 1835, he entered the employ of Holder 
Horden, to go to the American Print W^orks, 
whose property at that time belonged to 
the Fall River Iron Works Company, but 
is now a separate corporation. Later he 
changed from the Print Works to the Fall 
River Iron Works Company Rolling and 
Nail Mill as superintendent, and remained 
there until December 31, 1874, as superin- 
tendent, assistant treasurer, and treasurer 
— a term of just forty years. 

From January, 1S75, to August, 1879, he 
spent his time in comparative leisure, 
though much time was spent, in connection' 
with the water board, of which he was 
chairman, and other occupations. He was 
ajipointed as a member of the water board 
in the spring of 1871, and served in that 



BORDEN. 



BOTTUM. 



65 



capacity until September 6, 1882, when lie 
resigned. The council voted not to accept 
his resignation, but Mr. Borden declined 
to further act. He was a member of the 
board of aldermen for 1864 and '65, declin- 
ing to be a candidate for another year, as 
his other duties demanded his time. 

Mr. Borden was married October i, 1838, 
in New Bedford, to Sarah Freeman, daugh- 
ter of Samuel and Betsey (Willcox) Bennett 
of Fall River. Of this union were eight 
children, of whom only three now survive : 
Thomas S., Philip D., Jr., and Frank Bor- 
den. His first wife died August 3, 1858. 
He was again married May 23, 1872, to 




PHILIP D BORDEN. 

Caroline, daughter of Benjamin and Ruth 
Seabury of Westport. 

Mr. Borden was a director in the Meta- 
comet National Bank from its first forma- 
tion in 1853 until 1880, when he resigned 
on account of his not being qualified by 
the financial circumstances which he, with 
others, was called to pass through in Fall 
River. He was a director of the R. Bor- 
den Manufacturing Company from its first 
organization up to 1S80. He had in pre- 
vious years been a director in the Fall 
River Iron Works Company, American 
Print Works, Annawan Manufacturing 
Company, and other corporations. He is 
now treasurer of the .\merican Linen Com- 



pany, to which position he was elected in 
August, 1879, and is a director in the B. 
M. C. Durfee Safe Deposit and Trust Com- 
pany. 

In 1843 he was appointed by the pro- 
bate court as associate trustee of the estate 
of William Valentine, with Jefferson Bor- 
den (deceased), and is now acting as sur- 
viving trustee. This has been quite a 
large estate, and from its accumulation 
there have already been considerable 
amounts divided among the several wards 
as they have attained their majority. 

BOTTUM, John Bennett, son of 

Samuel Adams and Leonora (Porter) Bot- 
tum, was born in Northampton, Hampshire 
county, July 7, 1852. 

.\fter an early educational training in 
the common schools of Northampton, and 
under private instruction, Mr. Bottum 
studied law with .\llen & Bond, of North- 
ampton ; the former, now Judge William 
Allen of the supreme judicial court, the 
latter, district attorney for the northwest- 
ern district in this State. After a prepara- 
tory course in law, he entered Columbia 
College law school. New York City, from 
which he was graduated in the class of 
1874 ; was admitted to practice in all the 
courts of the state of New York, in the 
spring of 1874, and in June of the same 
year was admitted to the Massachusetts 
bar. 

He began practice at once, in North- 
ampton. In 1875 he entered a partnership 
under the name of Bond Bros. & Bottum, 
which continued until the death of one of 
the members in 1882. Since that time he 
has practiced alone. 

He has frequently acted as district attor- 
ney pro tern, during the absence of the 
office incumbent. He was chairman of the 
Republican county and senatorial commit- 
tees in Hampshire county for several years, 
and is now chairman of the Republican 
city committee, Northampton ; was a 
member of the House of Representatives 
1886, '87, '88 and '89, serving on the fol- 
lowing committees : probate and insol- 
vency, bills in the third reading, judiciary, 
and rules, and in i88g was House chairman 
of the committee on mercantile affairs. In 
1886 he was on the joint special committee 
to sit during the recess, to consider and 
report to the ne.xt General Court such 
recommendations and changes as it might 
deem advisable or necessary in the judicial 
system relating to the inferior courts of 
the Commonwealth. In 1887 he was a 
member of the House committee to the 
centennial of the adoption of the Constitu- 



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BOURNE. 



BOURNE. 



tion of the United States at Philadelphia, 
and in 1S89 was House chairman of the 
centennial committee to New York, at the 
centennial of Washington's inauguration. 

Mr. Bottum has alwavs been a student 
of national affairs ; is a staunch supporter 




JOHN B, BOTTUM 

of protection to American industries and 
markets, and an opposer of free trade. He 
was active and a welcome speaker in the 
last presidential campaign, and did his full 
share in presenting the claims of the Re- 
publican party to the suffrage of his fellow- 
citizens in the State. 

BOURNE, JONATHAN, son of Jonathan 
and Hannah (Tobey) ]5ourne, was born in 
Sandwich, Barnstable county, March 25, 
181 1, the tenth of a family of eleven chil- 
dren. His father, a sturdy New England 
farmer, trained his sons to habits of indus- 
try, and taught them lessons of self-reliance. 

At the age of seventeen Mr. Bourne 
went to New Bedford, and entered the 
store of John B. Taylor, remaining nine 
months, and then spent the winter months 
in attendance at the village school in his 
native town. The next spring he attended 
the school of B. F. Fry, New Bedford ; 
then found employment in the grocery 
store of John Webster, with whom he sub- 
sequently entered into partnership. He 
soon after purchased Mr. Webster's inter- 



est and managed the business alone until 
1838, when he st)ld out the business, his 
whaling investments having become sufift- 
ciently important to demand his full atten- 
tion. Devoted to his business, he rapidly 
increased its volume, until he became at 
one time the individual owner of more 
whaling tonnage, probably, than any other 
man in the country, if not in the world. 

During the late civil war, when other 
owners, disheartened, were selling their 
vessels to the government, Mr. Bourne 
not only retained his property, but, with 
his usual pluck and sagacity, bought five 
new vessels, and prosecuted the business 
with redoubled vigor. 

Although always interested in politics, 
first as a Whig and then as a Republican, 
Mr. Bourne never sought any political 
office. He was, however, repeatedly called 
upon to serve his fellow-citizens in posi- 
tions of responsibility and trust. Decided 
in his views, and fearless in expressing 
them, he often met with opposition, but 
never tailed of an election when a candi- 




JONATHAN BOURNE. 

date. He served three years as alderman 
of New Bedford, and five years in the 
executive councils of Governors Robinson 
and Ames. 

Mr. Bourne was three times chosen 
delegate to the national Republican con- 



BOUTWELl.. 



BOUTWELL. 



67 



ventions, and at Chicago, in i860, was tine 
first of the Massachusetts delegation to 
abandon Seward, and cast a vote for Abra- 
ham Lincoln. For five terms of two years 
each he was elected by the Legislature a 
state director of the Western (now the 
Boston & Albany) Railroad. Upon the 
death of John A. Parker, Mr. Bourne was 
chosen as his successor in the directory of 
the Merchants' Bank of New Bedford, and 
upon the death of Charles R. Tucker, in 
1876, was made president of the bank, 
which position, together with that of presi- 
dent of the Bristol County Fire Insurance 
Company, he held until his death, which 
occurred in New Bedford, August 7, 
1889. 

Mr. Bourne made good use of the limited 
school advantages he enjoyed in early 
days, and fitted himself for the practical 
side of business life in which he held such 
high rank. His success was due to tireless 
industry, financial integrit)^ personal at- 
tention to details, probit}^ and to a cour- 
age tempered b}- caution. Possessed of 
strong individuality, quick and self-reliant, 
he was ever just in his decisions and 
thoughtful of those connected with him 
in social and business relations. 

BOUTWELL, George S., son of 

Sewall and Rebecca (Marshall) Boutwell, 
was born in Brookline, Norfolk count)-, 
January 28, 1818. He is a lineal descend- 
ant of James Boutwell, who immigrated 
from the neighborhood of London, Eng- 
land, becoming a " freeman " in Lynn 
in 1638, and of John Marshall, who arrived 
in Massachusetts by the ship " Hopewell," 
1634, and settled in Boston. 

Mr. Boutwell's early educational train- 
ing was received in the public schools. In 
his thirteenth year he was employed as a 
clerk in a country store at Lunenburg and 
remained four years. He subsequently 
taught school in a country district in the 
town of Shirley. At eighteen he began 
the systematic study of law, putting him- 
self under the tuition of an attorney, and 
employing all available time in pursuance 
of his object ; he also re-commenced the 
study of classics under the direction of 
Dr. A. B. Bancroft. He was admitted to 
the Boston bar in 1853. He delivered his 
first public lecture before the Groton Ly- 
ceum at the age of nineteen. In 1840 he 
publicly advocated the election of Van 
Buren to the presidency. At the age of 
twenty-one he was chosen a member ot 
the school board of Groton. In 1841 he 
was elected a representative to the Cieneral 
Court, and served in the subsequent 



legislative sessions ot 1842, '43, '44, '47, 
'48, '49, and '50. 

Official positions were crowded upon his 
acceptance. Between 1842 and 1850 he 
was railway commissioner, bank commis- 
sioner, commissioner of Boston Harbor, 
and a member of special state committees 
on insanity, and public lands of Maine. 
He was governor of Massachusetts in 1851 
and '52. In 1853 he was made a member 
of the state board of education, and 
retained his connection with the board for 
ten years, and for five years discharged 
the duties of secretary. 

From 1851 to i860 he was one of the 
overseers of Harvard College. In 1856 
he was elected a member of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences ; and in 
1 86 1 a member of the Phi Beta Kappa of 
Cambridge, and delivered the commence- 
ment oration in that year. He was a 
member of the Peace Congress in 1861 ; 
delegate to the Chicago conventions of 
i860 and 1880 ; was elected a delegate to 
the Baltimore convention of 1864, but 
declined the appointment. He organized 
the department of internal revenue, and 
served as commissioner until 1863, when 
he resigned to take his seat in Congress. 
During the 38th, 39th, and 40th Congresses 
he served on the judiciary committee and 
committee on reconstruction, and for a 
time was chairman of the latter. 

In 1869 he was appointed secretary of 
the treasury of the United States, and in 
the administration of President (irant 
rendered most valuable service to the 
nation. He originated the plan of refund- 
ing the public debt, and began himself the 
work of refunding, wdiich has been so suc- 
cessfully pursued by his successors. In 
1873 he was elected to the United States 
Senate in place of the lamented Henry 
Wilson, and served four years. In 1877 
he was appointed commissioner to revise 
the statutes of the United States, which 
work was completed in 1878. In 18S0 he 
was designated by the president as attor- 
ney to defend the government before the 
international commission created to dis- 
pose of claims of citizens of France against 
the United States, and of citizens of the 
United States against France. The claims 
against the United States amounted to 
thirty-five million dollars, only six hundred 
and twenty-five thousand of which were 
allowed. His five annual reports of the 
state board of education are worthy of 
mention, also his commentary on the school 
laws of Massachusetts, and his volume on 
educational topics and institutions. In 



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BOWDITCH. 



BOWDITCH. 



1863 he published a treatise on the inter- 
nal revenue and excise system of the 
United States, which is still an authority 
in the department. In 1869 a volume of 
his speeches was published. He is also 
the author of a volume, "Why I am a 
Republican," published in 1884, and re- 
printed in 1888. In 1887 he published a 
small volume entitled " The Lawyer, States- 
man and Soldier." 

He was married to Sarah Adelia, daugh- 
ter of Nathan Thayer, of Hollis, N. H., 
July 8, 1841. Hischildren are : Georgianna 
A., born May 18, 1S43, and Francis M. 
Boutwell, born February 26, 1847. 

Few citizens of Massachusetts have been 
called upon to occupy more responsible 
and influential positions in public life than 
Gov. Boutwell, and certainly there are none 
now living of her honored sons who have 
brought to the fulfillment of their official 
duties greater energy of spirit, purity of 
character, or loyalty to imposed trust, than 
has this widely-known and universally- 
respected representative of the old Bay 
State. His record is his own best eulogium. 

BOWDITCH, Henry Ingersoll, son 

of Nathaniel and Mary (Ingersoll) Bow- 
ditch, was born in Salem, Essex county, 
August 9, 1808. His father was the trans- 
lator and commentator of the " Mccanique 
Celeste" and his mother was the only 
daughter of Captain Jonathan Ingersoll, 
both parents being natives of Massachu- 
setts. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in a Salem private school, and later 
in the Boston Latin school. He was 
graduated from Harvard College, in the 
class of 1828, and from the medical de- 
partment of Harvard University in 1832. 

Desirous of familiarizing himself with 
the most advanced medical science of the 
old world, he repaired to Europe after his 
graduation, and spent over two years in 
Paris, under the tuition of Professor Louis 
particularly, and of other adepts in physic 
and surgery. 

Returning to his native land. Dr. Bow- 
ditch began practice in Boston. For sev- 
eral years he was Jackson professor of 
clinical medicine in the Harvard medical 
school ; has also been physician to the 
Massachusetts General Hospital and to the 
City Hospital, and consulting physician in 
the Carney Hospital, Boston. During the 
civil war he held the office of surgeon of 
the board of enrollment in the fourth dis- 
trict of Massachusetts. In 1876 he was 
elected to the presidency of the American 
Medical Association, and presided at its 



meeting held at Chicago, in |une, 1877, 
on which occasion he delivered the open- 
ing address. He was for many years chair- 
man of the Massachusetts state board of 
health after its organization in 1870. Sub- 
sequently he was a member of the national 
board of health. 

To the literature of his profession Dr. 
Bowditch has been a frequent contributor. 
"Thoracentesis," a paper read before the 
New York Academy of Medicine, April, 
1870, received high commendation from 
the most eminent practitioners. 

More than a quarter of a century ago 
Dr. Bowditch began to devote himself to 
the study of diseases of the chest, and 
was impressed with the conviction that it 
would be possible to relieve cases of effu- 
sion into the pleural cavity bv drawing oiT 
the fluid. He adopted Dr. Morrill Wyni^an's 
method of so doing — by a very small 
tube with a suction pump fastened to it. 
The success of this line of treatment was 
immediate and permanent. Immediate 
relief usually followed the operation, and 
never any disastrous results. Thoracen- 
tesis is now regarded in Europe and 
America as a legitimate, safe and neces- 
sary procedure. That such is the case is 
largely due to the success of Dr. Bow- 
ditch's operations, and the earnestness with 
which he has pressed the importance of it 
upon the medical fraternity. 

Dr. Bowditch has devoted much time to 
the study of consumption, its natural 
history and pathology, and the best means 
of checking its ravages. In 1862, in an 
address before the Massachusetts Medical 
Society he announced his discovery that a 
residence on or very near damp soil in 
New England is apt to cause consumption. 
Three years afterward Dr. Buchanan, of the 
local government board of England, found 
that a large district which had been sub- 
drained had less consumption than previ- 
ously. 

In another very important department 
of medical literature, Dr. Bowditch is 
among the pioneers of America — that of 
preventive medicine and hygiene. His 
" Public Hygiene in America " has been 
published at Boston and London, in book 
form. 

Having accidentally seen from the head 
of State Street the "Garrison mob (1835), 
led by gentlemen of respectability and 
standing," for the purpose of putting 
down free speech in behalf of liberty, he 
immediately joined the ranks of the Aboli- 
tionists, and continued with them until 
slavery was crushed by the civil war. 



BOWERS. 



BOWKER. 



69 



Dr. Bowditch was married at New York, 
on the 17th of Jul)', 1838, to Olivia, 
daughter of John and Elizabeth Yardley, 
of London, Englan.d. Of this union are 
four children : Nathaniel, Olivia, Edward 
and Vincent Yardley Piowditch. Nathaniel 
fell in the war while leading a cavalry 
charge at Kelly's Ford, Virginia. 

BOWERS, Walter Prentice, son of 

Charles Manning and Ellen Augusta 
(Damon) Bowers, was born in Clinton, 
Worcester county. May 19, 1855. 

He was graduated from the high school 
in Clinton in March, 1872 ; entered Har- 
vard medical school, Boston, 1876, and 
was graduated in the class of 1879. 

Previous to his medical course in Har- 
vard University he had served as an apothe- 
cary's clerk in Clinton, and from July, 
1874, until the store changed proprietors, 
was in charge of a branch store of the 
same house, established in Leominster. 
He then took charge of a drug store owned 
by Andrew (ieyer in Wenham, which he car- 
ried on until he entered the medical school. 
' Dr. Bowers was married in Clinton, Jan- 
uary 28, 1880, to Helen Matilda, daughter 
of Alfred A. and Matilda A. (Boynton) 
Burditt. They have no children. 

Dr. Bowers, in 1880, was appointed first 
assistant physician in the Worcester Lunatic 
Hospital, but after one year was obliged 
to resign on account of ill health. He 
holds appointments as local medical exam- 
iner for several life insurance and benefit 
companies, viz.: Northwestern Mutual, 
.'i'^tna, Connecticut Mutual, Equitable, 
Hartford Life and Annuity, Royal Arcan- 
um, A. O. U. W., the United Order of the 
Pilgrim Fathers, and the Royal Society of 
Good Fellows. In March, 1889, he was 
elected selectman of Clinton, and he has 
been for several years secretary and direc- 
tor of the Twenty-five Associates of Clinton. 

BOWKER, ALBERT, son of John Pear- 
son and XLu'v (Baker) Bowker, was born 
in Walpole, Norfolk county, December ir, 
1815. He was bereft of his mother at the 
age of four years, and he spent the days 
of his childhood and youth in the home of 
his maternal grandparents. 

He was educated in the common district 
schools of his native place, in select schools, 
Medway, Holliston, Andover, and under 
private tutors. 

Not the least of his advantages was the 
inspiration he received from his member- 
ship of a small club of young men, meeting 
for mutual improvement, each one of whom 
was obliged to prepare and read a written 



dissertation to be criticised by the others. 
Some men since widely known were mem- 
bers of this club, of which Bishop Field 
was president. 

Mr. Bowker taught school in Needham ; 
studied to fit himself for the work in the 
Teachers' Seminary, a branch of Phillips 
Academy, Andover ; was next engaged as 
principal of the village school in Dorches- 
ter Lower Mills (now part of Boston), to 
which place he was invited by the Rev. 
John Codman, D. D. 

As a teacher he was successful. In six 
months he was elected usher of the Eliot 




ALBERT BOWKER, 

school, Boston, and, in 1.^,57, at his major- 
ity, he was made principal of the Lyman 
school, East Boston. In 1S45, after eight 
years of service, Mr. Bowker resigned his 
position, purposing to retire from active 
public pursuits. 

Soon after Mr. Bowker had attained his 
majority, he invested largely in the stock 
of the East Boston Company, and received 
the primary dividend of lands. He also 
became the proprietor of one-fourth of the 
capital stock of the Boston " Evening and 
American Traveller." He was also active 
as one of the founders of Hyde Park, one- 
fifth of the stock of which he owned. 

In 1846 and '47 he represented his dis- 
trict in the House of Representatives. In 



^o 



BOWLES. 



BOYDEN. 



184S he was chosen treasurer of the East 
Boston Savings Hank, wliich position he 
resigned in 1880 — he still remaining a 
trustee. 

In 185 1 Mr. Bowker was elected presi- 
dent of the North American Fire Insurance 
Company, and unanimously re-elected 
thirty-six years, resigning the position 
December 21, 1887. He was president of 
the Boston Board of Underwriters, also of 
the East Boston Trade Association and of 
the board of directors of the East Boston 
Ferries. In 1861, '62 and '(i(> he served in 
the Boston common council. 

In the rebellion, and in the war in South 
America between Paraguay, Uruguay, the 
Argentine Republic and Brazil, he held a 
controlling interest in eleven out of six- 
teen steamers in which he was a partial 
owner. 

Of self-made, self-educated men, Mr. 
Bowker is certainly one worthy of study 
and imitation. He has been a successful 
business man — successful with one excep- 
tion, and that, incident to the great fire of 
Boston, 1872, in which he lost all his insur- 
ance stock in seven of the largest dividend 
paying companies in that city. 

Mr. Bowker was married in East Boston, 
June 22, 1843, to Sarah, daughter of Ben- 
jamin and Henrietta (Knowlton) Lamson. 
Of this union, the two living children are 
Sarah Fitz and Mary Frances Bowker. 

Mr. Bowker's residence is in East Bos- 
ton, overlooking the bay, where arrive and 
depart the magnificent fleet of steamers 
known as the Warren Line, so called from 
the founder, Oeorge Warren, a fellow-mem- 
ber of that early club, with Edwin P. Whip- 
ple, the distinguished essayist and lecturer, 
Daniel N. Haskell, of the " Boston Tran- 
script," Bishop Field, et al., to whose exam- 
ple, association and inspiration Mr. Bowker 
is wont cheerfully and gratefully to ac- 
knowledge indebtedness. 

BOWLES, Samuel, son of Samuel and 
Mary Dwight (Schermerhorn) Bowles, was 
born in Springfield, Hampden county, 
October 15, 1851. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in the public and private schools of 
his native city. This was supplemented 
by two years' study and travel in Europe, 
and two years' special course at Yale Col- 
lege. As a youth he also traveled ex- 
tensively in this country. His degree 
of .\. M. was conferred by Amherst College. 
But the most valuable part of his educa- 
tion was the training in journalism which 
he received from his father ; and he was 
fully prepared when the time came to 



take up and carry forward the work of his 
predecessors. 

Mr. Bowles began business life in 1S73, 
as an assistant in the editorial department 
of the "Springfield Republican." In 1875 
he became its business manager, and at 
the death of his father (1878) he became 
editor-in-chief and publisher, which posi- 
tion he still holds. 

He is the third " Samuel Bowles " that 
has successfully presided over the leading 
journal of Western Massachusetts — three 
generations of sires and sons. Their sym- 
pathies have always been with the funda- 
mental principles of the Republican party, 
and its predecessor, the Whig, but they 
have been distinguished by their independ- 
ent attitude on political questions. The 
" Springfield Republican " has always held 
country above party, and clearly shown 
the mission of independent journalism. 

Mr. Bowles, as a citizen, possesses the 
confidence and esteem of his fellows, but 
has never allowed himself to be caught in 
the whirl of political ambitions. The only 
public office he has accepted is that of 
director of the Springfield City Library 
Association. 

Mr. Bowles was married in Concord, 
June 12, 1884, to Elizabeth, daughter of 
Ebenezer Rockwood and Caroline D. 
(Brooks) Hoar. Of this union is one son: 
Samuel Bowles, Jr. 

BOYDEN, Albert Gardner, .son of 

Phineas and Harriet (Carroll) Jiovden, was 
born in South Walpole, Norfolk county, 
February 5, 1827. 

He attended the common district school 
in summer till ten, and in winter till seven- 
teen years of age. He worked on the farm 
and in his father's blacksmith shop, until 
he had mastered the trade, at twenty-one 
years of age, and in the meantime had 
taught school in the town of Foxborough, 
three winters. He was graduated from the 
state normal school, Bridgewater, Novem- 
ber, 1849 ; taught grammar school in 
Hingham, in the winter of 1849 and '50. 

He became assistant teacher in the state 
normal school, Bridgewater, in 1850, and 
held the position until 1853 ; was principal 
of the English high school, Salem, three 
years ; sub-master in Chapman grammar 
school, Boston, one year ; first assistant 
again at Bridgewater normal school 1857 
to i860 ; and was then appointed principal 
of the school, which position he has since 
filled in a faithful and pre-eminently able 
manner. 

Mr. Boyden was married in Newport, 
Maine, November 18, 1851, to Isabella 



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BOVNTON. 



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Wliitten, daughter of Thomas and Martha 
Louisa (Whitteii) Clarke. Of this union 
were two chiitlren : Arthur Clarke Hoyden, 
A. M., teacherof history and natural science, 
Bridgewater normal school, antl Wallace 
Clarke Boyden, A. M., teacher of mathe- 
matics, Williston Seminary, Easthamjnon. 
Mr. Hoyden has been clerk of Central 
Square Congregational society since 1863 ; 
trustee of Hridgevvater Savings Bank; presi- 
dent of Plymouth Coimty Teachers' Asso- 
ciation ; president of Mas.sachusetts School- 
masters' Club ; vice-president of American 
Institute of Instruction ; secretary of 
National Council of Education ; and presi- 
dent of Old Colony Congregational Club. 
He received the honorary degree of A. .M. 
from Amherst College in 186 1. 

Under Mr. Boyden's management the 
normal school has enjoyed an enviable 
reputation with the friends of education. 
The quality of the teaching force sent out 
each year from this training school will 
bear comparison with that from any insti- 
tution of the kind in the country. 

BOYNTON, EleazAR, son of Eleazar 
and Sally (Blatchford) Boynton, was born 
September 29, 1824, in Rockport, Essex 
county. 

His early education was obtained in the 
natural course of attendance upon the 
public and private schools of his native 
village, supplemented by instruction at 
Phillips Academy, Andover. 

At twenty-one years of age Mr. Boyn- 
ton came to Boston and commenced his 
life work with Boynton & Miller, of which 
firm Hon. Nehemiah Boynton was the 
senior partner, wholesale grocers and ship 
chandlers, Mr. E. Boynton becoming a 
partner in 1849. The firm was subse- 
quently changed to Boynton & Hervey, 
Mr. E. Boynton and A. F. Hervey compos- 
ing the firm, and yet again in 1855 to N. 
Boynton & Co., the subject of this sketch 
being a member of the firm. In 1868 the 
Hon. Nehemiah Boynton died, and Mr. 
Eleazar Boynton has from that time been 
the senior partner — the firm name still 
remaining the same — N. Boynton & Co. 
They have in late years added an import- 
ant feature to their business, and their 
house is now one of the largest dealers in, 
and manufacturers of, cotton duck in the 
country. 

Mr. Boynton was married in Boston, 
October 9, 1852, to Mary, the daugh- 
ter of Simeon and Sally (Plummer) Chad- 
bourne. They have four children : Mary 
Dodge, Edward P., Nehemiah (the present 
popular pastor of the Union Congrega- 



tional church, Boston), and Elizabeth I,. 
Boynton. 

Mr. Boynton's predilections and training 
led him early to take active work in benev- 
olent and religious circles. He was a 
valued member of the Mt. V^ernon and 



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ELEAZAR BOYNTON. 

Edwards Congregational churches in Bos- 
ton while he worshiped m that city, and 
has been an active and influential member 
of the Mystic Congregational church in 
Medford since his residence there. 

His fellow-citizens of that historic town 
have bestowed upon him many an ofliciai 
honor. He, in turn, has always been loyal 
to them and their interests, and notably of 
late years he has been honorably conspicu- 
ous in contributing largely by his wisdom, 
his experience in public affairs, and his 
wide acquaintance with the leading citizens 
of the Commonwealth, to the prosperity 
and integrity of the town he loves so 
well. 

Mr. Boynton was a member of the school 
committee of Boston while he lived in that 
city, and was likewise an active member 
of the same committee when he moved to 
Medford. He was a member of the board 
of selectmen in 1861, when the war of the 
rebellion commenced, and chairman of the 
board in 1862, and to him is largely due 
the credit Medford has enjoyed as one of 



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BRACKETT. 



the most loyal communities at that critical 
time in the history of the nation — that 
town contributing the first quota of men 
to join the Union army, while the last 
company mustered out of active service 
was largely composed of her brave sons. 

He represented the town in the House of 
Representatives in 1865, and the ist Mid- 
dlesex district in the Senate in 1885 and 
'86. He is vice-president and trustee of 
the Medford Savings Bank, director of the 
Blackstone National Bank of Boston, presi- 
dent of the United States Cotton Duck 
Manufacturers' Association, and the U. S. 
Cotton Duck Dealers' Association, and 
president of the Russell Mills of Plymouth. 

The names Boynton, Boyington, and 
Byington are one. The Boynton family 
have held six reunions, and their directory 
contains the addresses of 4000 names. The 
Boynton baronets and peers of England 
shdw an unbroken line of pedigree for 
thirty generations. 

BRACKETT, JOHN QuiNCY Adams, 
son of Ambrose S. and Nancy (Brown) 
Brackett, was born in Bradford, Merrimack 
county, N. H., June 8, 1842. 

He attended the public schools until 
seventeen )-ears of age, when he entered 
Colby Academy, New London, N. H., 
where he was graduated in 1S61. An offer 
of an appointment to West Point was de- 
clined, and he entered Harvard College, 
where he displayed marked ability, being 
chosen class orator in his senior year, and 
was graduated in the class of 1865. He 
took his law course at Harvard, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1868, where 
he has since continued to practice. He 
was partner with Hon. Levi C. Wade from 
iSySto '80 — since which time he has been 
associated with Walter H. Roberts, under 
the firm name of Brackett & Roberts. 

He was married in Arlington, June 20, 
1878, to Angle M., daughter of Abel (1. 
and Eliza A. (Boles) Peck. Of this union 
were born four cliiklren, two of whom, 
John Gaylord and Beatrice Brackett, are 
living. 

In 187 1 Mr. Brackett was made presi- 
dent of the Mercantile Library Association 
of Boston, and again m 1882. In 1874 he 
was appointed judge advocate on the staff 
of General I. S Burrill, ist brigade Massa- 
chusetts volunteer militia, and held that 
position until the re-organization of the 
militia in 1876. 

He has evinced great interest in political 
affairs from boyhood, and since 1868, as a 
Republican, his voice has been heard in 
every state and national campaign. He 



was one of the promoters of the Young 
Men's Republican movement in 1877, and 
presided at the first public meeting held 
under its auspices in Faneuil Hall. 

He was a member of the Boston com- 
mon council in 1873, '74, '75, and '76, and 
was president of that body the latter 
year. He was elected a member of the 
House of Representatives for 1877, and 
re-elected each year for four years, serv- 
ing as chairman of the committees on 
labor and taxation the first year, and 
reporting the bill for the formation of 
"Ijuilding associations" or co-operative 
banks. The beneficent results of this law 
are due in a great measure to the subse- 
(juent efforts of Mr. Brackett. In 1878 
he was chairman of House committee on 
probate and chancery. In 1879 he was 
House chairman of the committee on 
retrenchment. In 1880 he was one of the 
four leading candidates for speaker, and 
served as House chairman of the commit- 
tee on harbors and public lands, and as a 
member of the committee on rules and 




JOHN Q, A. BRACKETT. 

orders. He held the same positions the 
succeeding year, and was also a member of 
the special committee on the revision of the 
statutes. In 1884 he was again a rinember 
of the House, and was appointed chairman 
of the judiciary committee and a member 



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of the committee on rules and orders. In 
1885 he was elected speaker of the House 
by a vote of 217 to 15. Probably no 
speaker was ever put to a more severe test 
in Massachusetts than that which Mr. 
Brackett encountered the first year — that 
of the famous filibustering movement 
against the metropolitan police bill. By 
his firm action and spirited determination, 
the bill was reached and jxissed, and both 
parties accorded him much praise for his 
ability in presiding over this stormy debate. 
He was unanimously renominated by the 
Republicans and was re-elected speaker in 
1886. He was elected lieutenant-governor 
in 1886, and re-elected in 1887 and 1888. 
Uurmg July and August of 1888 he was 
acting governor during the illne.ss of Gov- 
ernor Ames, and in that capacity in Sep- 
tember visited Columbus, Ohio, with the 
staff and special legislative committee, 
most creditably representing his state at 
the centennial of the settlement of Ohio. 
Owing to the governor's illness, he was 
also acting governor during a part of the 
year 1889, and as such represented the 
Commonwealth at the dedication of the 
Pilgrim monument at Plymouth, and at the 
reception of President Harrison in Boston, 
as well as on many other public occasions. 
He was elected governor in 1889. 

BRADFORD, EDWARD STANDISH, son 
of S. Standish and Dorcas Brown (Lock- 
wood) Bradford, was born in North Provi- 
dence, R. I., December i, 1842. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in the University grammar school. 
Providence. He fitted for Brown Uni- 
versity, but owing to ill health did not 
enter, but traveled abroad until improved 
health enabled him to return and begin a 
business career in the house of Bradford, 
Taft & Co., woolens. Providence, R. I. He 
was subsequently connected with Samuel 
Slater & Sons, Webster, and in 1878 was 
elected treasurer of the Hampden Cotton 
Mills. 

In 1885 he retired from active business, 
and resides in Springfield. 

Mr. Bradford was married in Provi- 
dence, R. I., April 28, 1868, to Mary, 
daughter of Horatio Nelson and Sarah 
(Tiffany) Slater. Of this union were four 
children . Horatio Nelson Slater, Edward 
Standish, Jr , Dorcas Lockwood, and Sarah 
Tiffany Bradford (deceased). 

Mr. Bradford, while living in Rhode 
Island, was identified with the militia of 
the state ; was chairman of the board of 
selectmen of Webster, Mass., 1871, '72, and 
'73 ; director of Chapin National Bank, 



Springfield ; director of the Hampden 
County Musical Association ; was member 
of the Springfield common council, 1886, 
'87 and '88, and is now mayor of Spring- 
field. He is first vice-president of the 
\\'inthrop Club, and director in the Con- 
necticut Valley Historical Association, and 
chairman of the finance committee of the 
thirst Baptist society. 




EDWARD S BRADFORD. 

Mr. Bradford has traveled e-\tensively in 
the old world, and has been a studious 
observer of its customs, as well as a critical 
student of its history. 

On his paternal side he is a lineal de- 
scendant of Governor Bradford and Miles 
Standish, and on his maternal side, of 
Roger Williams, of Rhode Island colonial 
fame. 

BRADFORD, ISAAC, son of Captain 
Isaac Bradford of Du.xbury, and Sarah 
(Beckford) Bradford of Salem, Esse.x coun- 
ty, was born in Boston, November 15, 1834. 
He is a lineal descendant in the eighth 
generation from (Governor William Brad- 
ford of the Plymouth Colony. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in the public and private schools of 
Boston, the famous school at Brook Farm 
under Dr. Ripley, George P. Bradford's 
school. Concord, and the English high 
school, Boston 



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BRADLEE. 



His entry into business life was as assist- 
ant on the "American Kphemeris and Nau- 
tical Almanac," under the direction of the 
navy department, October i, 1850. In 
1854 he left to follow the sea, but returned 
four years later and resumed his connection 
with the " Nautical Almanac ; " resigned in 
the spring of 1865 to engage in mining in 
Colorado, going out as superintendent of a 
Boston compan_v, taking a party and wagon- 
train of machinery from the terminus of 
the railroad in Central Iowa across the 
plains ; returned to Cambridge in 1868 ; 
was subsequently employed by the United 
States Coast Survey to perform the exten- 
sive astronomical and telegraphic time 



r 




ISAAC BRADFORD, 

computations of the trans-continental longi- 
tude campaign of i86g, between Cambridge 
and San Francisco. 

He served in the common council of Cam- 
bridge 1870, was re-elected, but resigned 
to accept position as chief-of-police ; was 
elected mayor of Cambridge 1873, serving 
four consecutive terms ; was Democratic 
candidate for Congress 1878; moved to 
Exeter, N. H., 1879, to take charge of a 
paper mill ; returned to Cambridge in 1884, 
where he has since resided. He is at present 
engaged on the " Nautical Almanac," 
besides making calculations for the greater 
part of the almanacs of the country — 



work he has carried on continuously since 
1857, his first almanac being that printed 
in the Cambridge directory for 1852. He 
is also at present chairman of the board of 
registrars of voters in Cambridge. 

During the war he sought to serve in the 
navy, but upon official request of the de- 
partment, he remained attached to the 
" Nautical Almanac." He was in charge 
of the home military organization as cap- 
tain, and was placed in command of the 
state arsenal at Cambridge during the 
draft riot of 1864. 

He is an active Mason, and was master 
of .Mt. Olivet Lodge 1871 and '72. 

This expert mathematician, after leaving 
the guidance of his revered teacher, Thomas 
Sherwin (Boston English high school), 
fortunately enjoyed unusual advantages in 
pursuing his special work in the higher 
mathematics, under the distinguished pro- 
fessor, Benjamin Pierce (Harvard Univer- 
sity), who had been called to the position 
of consulting astronomer to the " Nautical 
.■\lmanac." To him, Mr. Bradford was as- 
signed as special assistant. At the same 
time Mr. Bradford was privileged to attend 
the elective course in mathematics at the 
University. 

.Mr. Bradford was married in West Med- 
ford, .\pril 30, 1862, to Jane .\nn, daughter 
of William and Jane .\nn (Hutchings) 
Davis, of Boston. Of this union are two 
children : Ellen Hutchings and Isaac 
Bradford. 

BRADLEE, JOHN WALTER, son of John 
D. and Catherine C. ( Trinv) liradlee, was 
born in Milton, Norfolk county, March 17, 
1841. 

The public schools and Milton .\cademy 
gave him his educational training. 

Before his majority he started in the 
nursery business, but at the breaking out 
of the war of the rebellion, he enlisted in the 
38th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers. 

He has been a deputy sheriff of Norfolk 
county, auctioneer and real estate agent; 
chairman of the board of selectmen, asses- 
sors and overseers of the poor, for ten 
years. He was for a long time a member 
of the school board and a trustee of the 
cemetery. 

Mr. Bradlee was married in Milton, 
November i, 1866, to Nellie Marion, daugh- 
ter of Leonard and Lydia T. (Blaney) 
Morse. Of this union are six children : 
J. Walter, Charles, Nellie Marion, Eva 
Morse, Leonard Morse and Roger William 
Bradlee. 

Mr. Bradlee has held the chairmanship 
of the Norfolk county Republican com- 



i:ra1)LEE. 



BRAULEE. 



■5 



mittee for ten years past; was active in the 
organization of the Norfolic Ckib, and has 
held the chairmanship of its executive 




J. WALTER BRADLEE, 

committee since its formation; organized 
Huntington F. Wolcott Post No. 102, G. 
A. R., of Milton, and was its first com- 
mander; he was also commander of the 
Norfolk county division, G. A. R.; member 
of the Royal Arcanum; member of Cypress 
Commandery Knights Templar; represent- 
ed the 4th Norfolk district in the Legis- 
lature in 1884 and '85, serving as House 
chairman of the committee on prisons. 

Mr. Bradlee comes of good Puritan stock, 
being a descendant of the old iNIilton family 
of Captain John Bradlee of revolutionary 
fame. His maternal ancestors were of the 
Bradford family. True to his antecedents, 
he has always taken an active interest in 
all that pertains to the welfare and pros- 
perity of his native town, and has done 
much towards maintaining its high stand- 
ard as one of the most attractive of the 
many outlying residential suburbs of the 
city of Boston. 

BRADLEE, Nathaniel J., son of Sam- 
uel and Elisabeth Davis (Williams) Brad- 
lee, was born in Boston, June i, 1829, and 
died in his native city, December 17, 1S88. 
His father was a well-known merchant of 
Boston. His maternal grandfather, Caleb 



Davis of Boston, was the first speaker (jf 
the Massachusetts House of Representa- 
tives. 

Mr. Bradlee received his early education 
at Chauncy Hall school, from which insti- 
tution he was graduatetl in 1S46. 

He then entered the otfice of George 
M. Dexter, architect, of Boston, where he 
remained until 1856, when he became that 
gentleman's successor. 

In April, 1869, he was appointed by the 
municipal government of Boston to super- 
intend and take charge of the removal of 
the Hotel Pelham. The work was success- 
fully accomplished, and attracted such 
wide attention, that accounts of the way in 
v/hich it was done were published in sev- 
eral of the English, French, and German 
newspapers. 

In 1874 Mr. Bradlee was appointed con- 
sulting architect to the commission for the 
Danvers Insane Asylum. He was also 
tlie architect for over five hundred build- 
ings in the city of Boston, including the 
edifices of the New f^ngiand and LInion 
Mutual Life Insurance companies, the .Suf- 
folk Savings Bank and the Young Men's 
Christian Union, the buildings of the City, 
Market, Traders', Third National, and 
Commonwealth banks ; many large stores, 
warehouses, blocks and private residen- 
ces ; and the Second, South Congrega- 
tional, and Bullfinch Street churches. 

In August, 1875, he served upon the 
committee appointed by the secretary of 
the treasury to examine and report upon 
the condition of the new Chicago custom 
house. Secretary Bristow accepted the 
recommendations of the commission, and 
directed the supervising architect of the 
treasury to take down the parts of the 
structure they had condemned, and to pro- 
ceed with the reconstruction at once. 

With the water supply of the city of 
Boston Mr. Bradlee's name must be per- 
manently identified. He was elected the 
member-at-large of the city water board 
for two years in 1865, and was afterwards 
re-elected for five terms consecutivel}'. He 
resigned the ofifice during his last term of 
service, on account of the severe pressure 
of his business. During 1868, '69 and '70, 
he was president of the water board. It 
was during this period that the reservoir 
on Chestnut Hill was constructed. The 
largest basin m this receptacle was desig- 
nated by the board the Bradlee basin, out 
of compliment to him. 

In 1868 he published a remarkably able, 
accurate and detailed hist<iry of the intro- 
duction of pure water into the citv of Bos- 



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BRAGDON. 



ton, with a description of the Cochituate 
water-works. 

He was the executor and trustee of a 
large number of estates, and held a very 
large amount of trust property, being 
trustee for over forty persons. 

He was a member of the commission 
appointed by the supreme court in rela- 
tion to the location of the union station at 




NATHANIEL J BRADLEE, 

Worcester. His associates were the late 
Chief Justice George '1". Bigelow, and the 
late Governor Onslow Stearns of New 
Hampshire. 

Mr. Bradlee was president of the Massa- 
chusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 
the Franklin Savings Bank, and Boston 
Storage ^^'arehouse Company ; one of 
the trustees of the New England Trust 
Company, and the Safe Deposit and Trust 
Company. He was also director in the 
Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance 
Company, Boston & Maine Railroad, East- 
ern Railroad, Maine Central Railroad, the 
New England Mutual Life Insurance Com- 
pany, and president of the Adamanta Man- 
ufacturing Company, the Massachusetts 
Title Insurance Company, the Chauncy 
Hall school, and the Ro.xbury Club. 

In 1876 he was the candidate of the citi- 
zens and on the Republican ticket for 
mayor. In 1887 he was nominated by the 



citizens" committee for the mayoralty, but 
declined the nomination. 

Mr. Bradlee was married April 27, 1856, 
to Julia R., the daughter of George F. 
Weld, formerly a merchant of Baltimore. 
She died August 11, 1880. He married 
again, December 29, 1881, Anna M., 
the daughter of Josiah H. Vose, of Rob- 
binston, Maine. 

In the death of Mr. Bradlee the city of 
Boston lost an enterprising, public spirited 
and loyal son, the business community a 
model of probity and intelligent adminis- 
tration of sacred trusts, social life a con- 
spicuous and ever welcome guest, and the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts one of her 
most modest — yet representative — sons. 

BRADY, Philip Edward, son of 

Philip and Ruse (Goodwin) Brady, was 
bt)rn in Attleborough, Bristol county, 
August 16, 1859. He received his early 
education in the common schools of his 
native town, graduating from the high 
school in the class of 1877. 

Upon leaving school he entered a large 
jewelry manufacturing establishment in 
Attleborough, with the intention of fol- 
lowing that business, but a favorable op- 
portunity presenting itself for studying 
law, for which he always had a prefer- 
ence, he entered Harvard University law 
school in the fall of 1879, and graduated 
with the class of 1882, of which he was the 
youngest member, and received the degree 
of LL. B. He then entered the law office 
of George A. Adams, of Attleborough, and 
was admitted to the Boston bar in the 
spring of 1883. 

Mr. Brady made a trip to Europe in the 
early part of 1885, on which occasion he 
traveled through Great Britain and France, 
and obtained a very good insight of the man- 
ners and customs of the mother country. 

Upon his return to the States, in the fall 
of the same year, he opened a law office 
in North Attleborough, where he practiced 
until July, 1886, when President Cleveland 
appointed him postmaster of Attleborough, 
when he removed to that town, continuing 
his practice there while attending to the 
duties of his official position. 

Mr. Brady is president of the High 
School Alumni Association, to which he 
was elected in 18S7. 

BRAGDON, Charles Cushman, .son 

of Rev. Charles P. and Sarah (Cushman) 
Bragdon, was born in Auburn, Cayuga 
county, N. Y., September 6, 1847. 

He attended the public schools of his 
native town, and afterwards fitted for col- 



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lege at the preparatory school of the 
Northwestern University, Evanston, 111., 
where he graduated in the class of 1865, 
subsequently receiving the degree of A. M. 

He was at one time associated with 
Alfred L. Sewell on " The Little Corporal," 
a child's monthly magazine published in 
Chicago, 111. ; taught in the academy at 
Elgin, III, in 1863 and '64 ; served nine 
months in the 134th Illinois infantry, in 
1864 ; returned to college and graduated 
as above. He taught two years in Dick- 
inson Seminary, Williamsport, Pa., four 
years in Wesleyan College, Cincinnati, O.; 
studied in Europe nearly two years ; taught 
Latin, Greek, and Cerman in Jennings 
Seminary, Aurora, III., thence came to 
Auburndale, Mass., to take the position of 
principal of Lasell Seminary for young 
women, which position he still holds, and 
where he has been eminently successful. 

Mr. Bragdon was married in Williams- 
port, Pa., June 30, 1869, to Kate, daughter 
of John and Catharine (Tubbs) Ransom. 
Of this union are two children : Kate 
Belle and John Ransom Bragdon. 

BRALEY, Henry King, son of Samuel 
T. and Mary A. P.raley, was born March 
17, 1850, in Rochester, Plymouth county. 




HENRY K. BRALEY. 

His early education was obtained in the 
common schools of his native place. 



Rochester Academy, and Pierce Academy, 
Middleborough. Later, he taught school 
for several years and studied law with 
Hon. Hosea Kingman, Bridgewater, and 
was admitted to the Plymouth bar, Octo- 
ber, 1873. 

He liegan the practice of law at Fall 
River, December, 1873, in partnership with 
Nicholas Hatheway (Hatheway cS: Braley). 
This relation continueil three years. In 
1876 he formed a law partnership with M. 
Cr. B. Swift, which has continued to date 
(Braley & Swift), in Fall River. 

Mr. Braley was married in Bridgewater, 
April 29, 1875, to Caroline W., daughter 
of Philander and Sarah T. Leach. 

Mr. Braley was city solicitor in 1874, and 
mayor of Fall River, 1882 and 1883. He 
is one of the vice-presidents of the Chil- 
dren's Home, Fall River, director of Globe 
Yarn Mills, clerk of Border City Manufac- 
turing Company, and trustee of Fall River 
Savings Bank. 

He is past grand master I. O. O. F. of 
Massachusetts. 

BRALEY, Thomas ElwoOD, son of 
Russell and Mehetabel (Williams) Braley, 
was born in Rochester, Bristol county. 
May 3, 1833. 

The district schools furnished his means 
of early education. This he supplemented 
by a course in a commercial college. In 
1866 he engaged in the wholesale and re- 
tail tobacco business, and the manufacture 
of cigars in New Bedford, — the firm name 
being S. S. Haswell & Co. 

In 1870 he engaged in the retail grocery 
and provision business in the same cit)-, 
under the firm title, T. E. Braley & Co. 

He is now employed in farming and 
poultry raising, and in company with two 
brothers, engaged in the raising of cran- 
lierries. This is carried on as a special 
industry, by the making of " cranberry 
bogs " on an extensive scale. He is 
also interested in orange raising in Flor- 
ida. 

Mr. Braley was married in Fall River, 
September 5, i860, to Elizabeth, daughter 
of Silas and Mehetabel (Ashley) Williams. 
They have no children. 

Mr. Braley has been president of the 
Farmers' Club, a member of the Acushnet 
school board six years, and a justice of 
the peace since 1878. 

He followed the sea from 1852 till 1865, 
chiefly in the whaling industry. In 1854 
he was shipwrecked, the vessel being a 
total loss. After fitting up the boats, the 
survivors started for the Kinsmill Islands, 
and not finding them, kept on for forty- 



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BRECK. 



nine days, until they made the Ladrone 
Islands. 

He is an active Mason, and has been 
Knight Templar twenty years ; a " liberal " 
in religion, and a Republican in politics. 

He has been earnestly solicited to take 
some of the highest offices in the gift of his 




town, but has invariablv declined such 
honors. 

BRECK, Charles, son of Edward and 
Sarah (Vose) Brack, was born in Medlield, 
Norfolk county, January ii, 1798. His 
early education was the best which the 
common schools afforded eighty-five years 
ago. After three years spent at farming, 
his first employment was as a wool puller 
at which he worked for nineteen years'. 
For four years following he worked at 
tanning, and has since been occupied in 
Milton at farming, surveying, and en- 
gaged in the business of various town 
offices. 

In Quincy, on the 2d of May, 1827, Mr. 
Breck was married to Mary A., daughter 
of Joseph and Dorothy (Spear) Pjlanchard. 
This union continued for more than fifty- 
one years. Their two children are: Mary 
E. and Charles E. C. Breck. 

In 1837 Mr. Breck was elected one of 
the board of selectmen. For thirty-four 
years he was town treasurer. These, with 



other town offices, he held for fifty-one 
years, when, having passed his ninetieth 
year, he retired from office with the thanks 
of the town for his long continued and 
faithful service. For si.xteen years he filled 
the office of clerk, collector and treasurer 
of the First Congregational church of Mil- 
ton, and for thirty-eight years he has held 
the office of director and agent of the 
Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance Compan}', 
which position he still retains. 

In 1825 Mr. Breck joined the Masonic 
order, lived through the anti-masonic 
furore without losing his faith in its princi- 
ples, saw it revived to more than its ancient 
glory, presided over what are now two of 
the most flourishing lodges in the state, 
and still retains his interest and well- 
grounded belief in its permanency. He 
represented the town of Milton in the lower 
branch of the Legislature in 1841 and 
1842. 

Mr. Breck has been for many years clerk 
of the "Society in Milton for apprehend- 




CHARLEi BRECK 

ing Horse Thieves," one of the most 
unique organizations in the State. There 
are only two in existence, the other being 
located in Dedham. The Milton society 
was founded in 1819, and every horse that 
has been stolen from any member since 
the formation of the society has been 



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recovered without additional expense to 
the owner. 

Until sixty years ago, Mr. Brack, as was 
the custom of the time, was addicted to 
the use of rum and tobacco. Then he 
abandoned their use altogether, and thinks 
he has lived longer and been able to do 
more and harder work without them than 
wt)uld have been possible by their aid. 
Valuable personal experience has made 
him an absolute temperance advocate, and 
he says of these principles that one thing, 
at least, is sure — if they have not pro- 
longed his life, they have not killed him. 

BREEN, John, son of Patrick and 
Margaret (Helfernan) Breen, was born in 
Tipperary, Ireland, June 20, 1842. His 
parents were in comfortable circumstances 
at the time of his birth, but four years 
later were evicted from their farm, owing 
to religious and political disturbances that 
were presaging the troublous times of the 
Irish movement of 1848. 

The family came to America in 1847, 
and after a few years' residence in other 
places, settled in Lawrence, April, 1853. 

Mr. Breen attended the public .schools, 
and subsequently fitted for college in a 
private school. He entered St. Charles 
College, Kllicott Mills, Maryland, but on 
account of ill health he was forced to leave 
college without completing his course. 
He made subsequent attempts to retrieve 
what he had lost, by attending another 
private school, and finally took a course in 
Comer's Commercial College in the city of 
Boston. He has since done what he could 
to supplement his school work, by study 
and application. 

He was an enthusiastic Fenian, and after 
his graduation from Comer's, while em- 
ployed as book-kee]3er in the commission 
house of E. H. Walker &: Co., he was 
ordered to Ireland by General Thomas F. 
Burke, a leader in Fenian circles. He 
went in December, 1867, and evading the 
strict surveillance of the detectives, reached 
Liverpool in safety. He followed his 
instructions faithfully, there, in Manches- 
ter, and in Dublin, where he went to pre- 
pare the people of Ireland for their part 
in the insurrection already planned. The 
treachery of Corydon, the informer, ren- 
dered all his plans abortive, and after per- 
sistent efforts and many dangerous devices 
to release a companion imprisoned in Dub- 
lin (Daniel Donovan of Lawrence), he 
gave up the fruitless attempts and returned 
to America in 1868. 

Soon after his return he entered the 
undertaking business with a very limited 



capital, but he had determination and 
integrity. These have in the end proved 
paying capital, and he enjoys a compe- 
tency he has justly earned. 

Mr. Breen was married at Boston, 
April I, 1872, to Nancy Jane, daughter of 
Daniel G. and Roxanna (Tuttle) Brackett 
of Danville, N. H. Of this union are 
three children : Charles Francis, John 
Joseph, and Margaret Mary Breen. 

Mr. Breen's interest in public affairs 
soon brought him into the domain of poli- 
tics. He was a member of the common 
council in 1876 and '77, but resigned the 
latter year to take an appointment on the 




JOHN BREEN 

board of fire engineers. He was elected 
mayor of Lawrence for the 3-ears 1882, '83, 
and '84, thus enjoying the distinction, it 
is claimed, of being the first Catholic or 
Irish-born mayor of any city in New 
England. Notwithstanding many adverse 
circumstances causing a general business 
depression during his term of service. 
Mayor Breen's three years of administra- 
tion were marked by ability, and have left 
their traces on the city's growth and pros- 
perity that will long proclaim him one of 
the city's most energetic and praiseworthy 
public servants. Mr. Breen is one of the 
vice-presidents of the Irish National 
League in this state ; chairman of the 



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BRINE. 



board of water commissioners, elected in 
1884, and member of the scliool board 
since 1887. 

BRICKETT, Benjamin Franklin, son 

of Franklin and Mehitabel \)it\v ( P>radley) 
Brickett, was born in Haverliill, Essex 
county, April 10, 1846. 

He was educated in the public schools, 
Phillips Academy, Exeter, where he was 
fitted for college; entered Dartmouth in 
1863, and was graduated therefrom in the 
class of 1867. 

Choosing the profession of law, he passed 
the usual preliminary studies, was gradu- 
ated from the Harvard law school, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1869. He then 
taught school two years in Glendale, Ohio. 
He returned to Haverhill, in 1872, and 
commenced the practice of his profession, 
in which he is still successfully engaged. 

Mr. Brickett was chairman of the ])emo- 
cratic city committee from 1882 to '86; 
city solicitor, Haverhill, 1883, '84 and 85; 
a member of the school committee from 
1876 to '82 ; he has been closely identified 
with the politics of city and state, and is 
one of the most promising young Demo- 
crats in Essex county. 

Living in a strongly Republican city, Mr. 
Brickett has been at a decided disadvan- 
tage in gaining political preferment, but his 
efforts in behalf of his party, and in defence 
of his principles and convictions, have 
gained him prominence and distinction in 
the state. 

Mr. Brickett was married in Great Falls, 
N. H., July 25, 1889, to E. Jennie, daugh- 
ter of George and Eliza (Ricker) Guptill. 

BRIGHAM, Lincoln Flagg, son of 

Lincoln and Lucy (Forbes) Krigham, was 
born in Cambridgeport, Middlesex county, 
October 4, 1819. 

After obtaining his early education at 
the public schools, and fitting for college, 
he entered Dartmouth in 1838, graduating 
in 1842, and immediately entered the 
Harvard law school, where he graduated 
in 1844. He then studied law in the office 
of John H. Clifford and Harrison G. O. 
Colby, of New Bedford, where he was 
admitted to the bar in Bristol county court 
of common pleas in 1845. 

He formed a law partnership in New 
Bedford, with John H. Clifford, which 
lasted till the latter's election as governor 
of Massachusetts, when Mr. Brigham was 
appointed district attorney for the southern 
criminal district, which office he held for 
six years. LTpon the organization of the 
superior court, in 1859, Mr. Brigham was 



made an associate justice and appointed 
Chief Justice in 1869, an office which he 
now holds. 

On the 20th of October, 1847, at New 
Bedford, Judge Brigham was married to 
Eliza Endicott, daughter of Thomas and 
Sylvia (Perry) Swain. Their children are : 
Thomas Swain, Lincoln Forbes, Clifford, 
and Augustus Perry Brigham. 

BRINE, William Henry, was born in 

Boston, September 23, 1841. He was the 
second child of Robert and Ellen Ann 
(Rowe) Brine, who were the parents of ten 
children, of whom nine are still living. The 
senior Brine and wife celebrated their 
golden wedding in 1S88. Their children 
were all educated in the public schools of 
Cambridge, where Mr. Brine was a pupil at 
the Putnam school. 

In 1855, when about fourteen years of 
age, Mr. Brine entered the employ of Jon- 
athan Wheeler, a dealer in dry goods in 
East Cambridge, on a salary of one dollar 
per week. Alert and obliging, the boy 
soon became a salesman, and he soon 
transferred his connections to the well- 
known dry goods firm of Hogg, Brown & 
Taylor, of Boston, where close attention to 
the particulars of the business gave him the 
mastery of every detail and a comprehen- 
sion of its scope and possible extension. 

In i860 Mr. Brine accepted a responsi- 
ble situation with the business of John 
Harrington, of Somerville, with whom in 
1 86 1, hardly twenty years of age, he became 
a partner. The young firm, united with 
\V. L. Lovell, purchased the stock and stand 
of John Holmes & Co., in the city of Bos- 
ton, where they established the business 
which has since proved so large and suc- 
cessful. 

In 1S84, after a prosperous career of 
over twenty years, the firm of John Har- 
rington & Co. was dissolved by the retire- 
ment of Mr. Harrington. Mr. Brine, in 
connection with John Henry Norcross, of 
the long established house of Lewis Cole- 
man & Co., then formed the firm of Brine & 
Norcross. 

In 1884 Mr. Brine visited Europe in the 
interest of the house, and established busi- 
ness connections with F^nglish and conti- 
nental manufacturers, which have proved 
of great advantage. 

Mr. Brine was married in East Cam- 
bridge, September 26, 1865, to Hannah 
South wick, daughter of John and Cornelia 
(Devine) Cannon, of Cambridge. He 
now resides in Somerville, and has a family 
of six children : Henry Clinton, now a 
merchant in Cambridge, Ellen, Blanche, 



BROOKS. 



BROOKS. 



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William Percival, Alfred, and Franci-s, all 
of whom have attended, or are at present 
pupils in the public schools. 

Politically, Mr, Brine has always acted 
with the Republican party, and rather than 
accept any office himself, has preferred to 
promote the advancement of others to sta- 
tions of power and influence. He was for 
many years treasurer of the Middlesex 
Club. He served twelve years as a trustee 
of the Somerville public library. Daily 
engaged with the details of a large and 
prosperous business, faithful in the dis- 
charge of all social and business obligations, 
Mr Brine yet finds time to make a cordial 
and practical response to the calls of phil- 
anthropy, and to join with his fellow-citi- 
zens in measures that tend to promote 
good government. 

BROOKS, Francis (Francis Boott 
Brooks until 1854), son of Edward and 
Elizabeth ( Boott) Brooks, was born in Med- 
ford, Middlesex county, November i, 1824. 

Mr. Brooks comes of a line rich in his- 
toric associations, his ancestors being iden- 
tified with the leaders of public and social 
life for many generations. Thomas Brooks, 
the first of the name in New England, 
came from Suffolk, England, and settled 
in Watertown, where a lot was assigned 
him in 1631. In 1660 he bought some 
four hundred acres of the famous Cradock 
farm located in the town of Medford. His 
descendants were conspicuous in their 
service to the state, and in their contribu- 
tions to philanthropic and educational 
enterprises which tended to the up-build- 
ing of the infant colony. Governor John 
Brooks was a striking example of the 
best product of Massachusetts soil, and 
from 1752 to 1763 performed the duties 
of chief magistrate of the Commonwealth 
with the same fidelity and patriotic devo- 
tion as he displayed in his participation in 
the battle of Lexington, and in his intimate 
connection with General Washington's 
military life. Still later the social stand- 
ing of this family was emphasized by the 
marriage of two sisters of Edward, the 
father of Francis Brooks, to Edward Ever- 
ett and Charles Francis Adams. 

Mr. Brooks was first married May 6, 
1850, to Mary Jones Chadwick, who died 
March 14, 1851. His second marriage 
occurred November 29, 1854, with Louise, 
daughter of Henry and Mary Ann (I)avis) 
Winsor. Of this union were six children: 
Fanny, Edward, Henry, Frederic, Eliza- 
beth Boott, and Louise Winsor Brooks. 

In 1862 Mr. Brooks represented the 
town of Medford in the lower branch of 



the Legislature. Mr. Brooks was sent with 
Edmund Dwight to distribute the Boston 
French relief fund among the peasantry 
in the neighborhood of Paris after the 
Franco-Prussian war of 187 1. 

BROOKS, Phillips, .son of WiUiam 
Gray and Mary Ann (Phillips) Brooks, 
was born in Boston, December 13, 1835. 

He received his early education at the 
common and high schools of Boston, where 
he fitted for Harvard College, from which 
he graduated in 1855, subsequently study- 
ing theology at the Protestant Episcopal 
Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Va. 

In 1859 he was ordained and became 
rector of the Church of the Advent, in Phil- 
adelphia. Three years later he took charge 
of the Church of the Holy Trinity, in that 
city, which position he occupied until 1869, 
when he became rector of Trinity Church, 
Boston, with which he is still identified. 

1 )r. Brooks has risen to one of the 
most prominent positions in the Episcopal 
church. He has declined many calls to 
other churches since he became rector of 
Trinity Church in Boston — -in 1881 to 
the Plummer professorship in Harvard 
College, and later the ofiice of assistant 
bishop of Pennsylvania, to which he was 
elected in 1866 — wisely preferring to re- 
main in his Boston parish, where he has 
become a power that may justly be said to 
be unrivaled in the church. 

His present church edifice, noted through- 
out the United States for its unique archi- 
tecture and fine interior decorations, was 
constructed at a cost of more than half a 
million dollars. In its pulpit the figure of 
Dr. Brooks has become one of the most 
familiar sights of Boston, and the immense 
auditorium is constantly thronged with an 
eager and expectant audience, in culture 
and intelligence second to none in the 
country. 

Dr. Brooks has published many of his 
sermons and lectures, among the most 
popular of which may be mentioned : 
" Our Mercies of Re-occupation " (Phila- 
delphia, 1865) ; "Addresses by Bishops 
and Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church" (Philadelphia, 1869) ; "The Liv- 
ing Church " (Philadelphia Protestant 
Episcopal Book Society, 1869); "Ser- 
mon preached before the Ancient and 
Honorable Artillery Company of Bos- 
ton" (Boston, 1872) ; Address delivered 
May 30, 1873, at the dedication of An- 
dover (Mass.) Memorial Hall (Andover, 
1873); "Lectures in Preaching," delivered, 
before the Yale divinity school (New York, 
1877) ; "The Influence of Jesus," Bohlen 



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BROWN. 



lectures, delivered in Philadelphia in 1879 
(New York, 1879) ; " Pulpit and Popular 
Skejjticism " (New York, 1879); "Candle 
of the Lord," and twenty other sermons 
(New York, 1883); "Twenty Sermons" 
(New York, 1886); "Tolerance," two lec- 
tures to divinity students (New York, 
1887). 

BROOKS, William Henry, son of 

Reuben P. and Margaret (Kliot) ISrooks, 




S., Eliot Palmer and Mary F. Brooks. His 
present wife, Jennie, was daughter of Ed- 
win and Maria (Adams) Chase. The issue 
of this marriage were two children : 
Rachel and Chase Brooks. 

Mr, Brooks was city solicitor of Holyoke 
for three years, 1881, '82 and '83. In '1884 
he was nominated for mayor by the Re- 
publicans, and defeated by James E. 
Delaney, the Democratic candidate, by a 
small majority. 

BROWN, Edwin, son of Albert and 
Mary Blair (Eaton) Brown, was born in 
Worcester, March 24, 1844. 

In i860 he began his business life in the 
City Bank, AVorcester. From 1862 to '63 
he served in the late civil war as a private 
soldier in company C, 51st regiment, Mas- 
sachusetts volunteers, returning to the City 
liank as book-keeper, and remaining there 
until 1867. 




:S^f^ML 



WILLIAM H, BROOKS. 

was born at Schuyler's Lake, Otsego 
county, N. Y., January 5, 1855. 

He was given his early mental training 
principally at home. He fitted for college 
at the Clinton Liberal Institute, Clinton, 
N. Y., entered Dartmouth College in 1872, 
and was graduated in the class of 1876. 
He then studied law with Warren C. 
French, of Woodstock, Vt.; formed a law 
partnership with Edward W. Chapin, of 
Holyoke, in 1878 ; continued these rela- 
tions until 1882, when he withdrew from 
the law firm. Since the dissolution of 
the law partnership he has been in busi- 
ness for himself as practicing attorney, 
Holyoke, where he now resides. 

In October, 1877, he was 'married to 

Mary French, of Woodstock, Vt., who died 

, in June, 1S82. She was the daughter of 

Warren C. and Sarah (Steele) French. Of 

this union were three children : William 




EDWIN BROWN 

From 1867 to '6.S he was teller in the 
Worcester National Bank, afterward becom- 
ing assistant cashier in the City National 
Bank, which position he held until 1871. 

From 187 1 to '80 he was one of the 
firm of T. K. Earle & Co., manufacturers 
of machine card clothing. 

He is now treasurer and manager of the 
T. K. Earle Manufacturing Company, 
W'orcester. 



BROWN. 



BROWN. 



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Mr. Brown was married in Worcester, 
June 12, 1872, to Mariana Mifflin, daut,'hter 
of Timothy Keese and Nancy Sliove 
(Hacker) Earle. Of tinis union are Earle, 
Edwin Hacker, Caspar Mifflin, and Lloyd 
Thornton Brown. 

BROWN, Jeremiah, .son of .Vsa and 

.Sarah (Cook) Broun, was born in Hadley, 
Hampshire county, .\pril 7, 1836. He is 
of sturd)' New Entjland stock, being de- 
scended from one of the earhest settlers of 
Hadley. \\'hen he was only three years 
old, his parents removed to the city of 
Northampton, where he received his early 
education in its public schools. On leaving 
school he learned the trade of ma.son, and 
has, for many years, been a prominent con- 
tractor and builder, the head of the firm of 
Brown & Bailey. 

In 1862 Mr. Brown enlisted in the 5 2d 
regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, and 
faithfully served his full term of service. 
Upon his discharge from the army, he 
returned to Northampton, and, in renewed 
connection with his partner, William .\. 
Bailey, has devoted himself closely to his 
business. 

Mr. Brown has been more or less promi- 
nently associated with the city government 
ever since its charter. He was for many 
years either councilman or alderman, and, 
in December, 1888, was elected mayor of 
the city. He is a Democrat in politics, 
bemg very strongly opposed to monopolv 
and class legislation. 

Mr. Brown was married in Springfield, in 
January, 1863, to Martha, daughter of Syd- 
ney Barber. Of this union are two chil- 
dren. 

BROWN, ORLAND J., son of Harvey 
and Lucina (Fuller) Brown, was born in 
Whitingham, Windham county, Vermont, 
February 2, 184S. 

He availed himself of every advantage 
offered by the public schools, and supple- 
mented this by attendance at Power's 
Institute, Bernardston. He began teach- 
ing in the public .schools at the age of six- 
teen ; taught and studied alternately from 
that time until he began the practice of 
medicine and surgery at Adams, in January, 
187 1. He removed to North Adams in 
March, 1872, where he has practiced con- 
tinuously to the present time. 

Dr. Brown was first married November 
22, 187 1, to Eva M., daughter of William 
and .-Vmelia (Blakeslee) Hodskins. Of this 
union was one child, William O. Brown, 
the mother dying at his birth, October 14, 
1873. Dr. Brown's second marriage, Sep- 



tember 13, 1876, was with Ida M., daughter 
of Homer and Martha (Phelps) Haskins. 
She died in 1881, having borne him two 
children, .Agnes O. and Ida M. Brown (the 
latter dying in infancy). Dr. Brown was 
again married, December 16, 1884, to Alice 
T., daughter of Edward and Celestia 
(Stevens) Stowell. 

Dr. Brown has been assistant surgeon of 
the 2d regiment, Massachusetts volunteer 
militia since 1878. He has been deacon of 
the First Universalist church since 1885, and 
superintendent of the Sunday-school since 
1872, besides holding various other church 
offices. He has been one of the medical 




ORLAND J. BROWN. 

examiners for Berkshire county since 1882 ; 
health officer of North .-Ydams most of the 
time since 1880 ; member of the House of 
Representatives in 1889, serving on the com- 
mittee on public health ; vice-president of 
the Union Medical Associatum of Benning- 
ton Co., Vt., and Berkshire Co., Rensselaer 
and Washington counties, N. Y. ; member 
of the Massachusetts Medical Society ; 
member of the Massachusetts Medico- 
Legal Society, also a member and presi- 
dent of the Medical .Association of North- 
ern Berkshire, and is ex-president of the 
Berkshire District Medical Society. He 
belongs to the order of F. & A. M. and 
several benevolent organizations. 



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BROWNE. 



BRUCE. 



Dr. Brown received his medical educa- 
tion first in the University of Vermont, 
taking his degree, M. D., in 1870. He 
subsequently has taken courses of study 
at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 
New York, and at Rush Medical College, 
Chicago. He has been a very busy and 
successful practitioner, e.xcelling particu- 
larly in treatment of diseases of women 
and children. He accredits his unimpaired 
constitution to his being early in life accus- 
tomed to the physical labors and exercise 
incident to farm life. 

BROWNE, CaUSTEN, youngest son of 
William and Sarah Justice (Mclntire) 
Browne, was born in Washington, 1). C, 
October 9, 1828. He is of old Massa- 
chusetts descent on his paternal side, the 
first American ancestor, Nicholas Browne 
of Droitwich, England, having settled in 
Reading in 1638, whence the family were 
transplanted in 1742 to Newburyport, where 
it has been largely and creditably repre- 
sented ever since. 

Mr. Browne's father took up his resi- 
dence in Washington in 181 2 while yet a 
boy, and there married a Maryland lady. 
It was in this city that Mr. Browne re- 
ceived his early education, mainly from 
George J- Abbott, a highly esteemed 
teacher of that day, and at the age of fif- 
teen he entered tlie sophomore class of 
Columbian College near the city. Here he 
remainetl two years and then entered the 
service of the United States Coast Survev, 
in which he remained until he became of 
age. 

On his twenty-first birthday he went to 
live in New York City, and immediately 
commenced the study of law, partly in the 
office of the late Charles M. Keller, one of 
the leading patent lawyers of the country, 
and partly under the direction of William 
Curtis Noyes, who enjoyed at that time 
the reputation of being the leading equity 
lawyer of the New York bar. In the 
spring of 1852 Mr. Browne was admitted 
to practice in New York. 

At Washington, June 2, 1852, he was 
married to Katharine Eveleth, eldest 
daughter of General William (U. S. Ord- 
nance) and Sarah (Eveleth) Maynadier. 
Of this union were five sons : Alexander 
Porter, who is his father's law partner, 
William Maynadier, Henry Rossiter Worth- 
ington, Causten, and James Maynadier. 

In October, 1852, Mr. Browne removed 
to Boston, where he has since resided. 
Very soon after establishing himself in 
Boston, he set himself about discharging 
the debt which every lawyer is said to owe 



to his profession, by writing a treatise on 
the construction of the statute of frauds, a 
branch of the law of contract. The sub- 
ject was one of uncommon intricac\" and 
difificulty, but the favor with which Mr. 
Browne's treatise was received, and which 
it has ever since enjoyed at the hands of 
professional critics, leaves no doubt of the 
quality of the work. It was published in 
1857, and has passed through four editions 
since that time. With the exception of 
this work, Mr. Browne has confined himself 
to the practice of his profession, having at 
no time held or sought political or mercan- 
tile office of any kind. While the circum- 
stances of his early professional study gave 
a predominance in his practice to the pat- 
ent law, he has devoted considerable atten- 
tion to the kindred subject of cop\'right, 
and is a recognized authority thereon. 

Mr. Browne is a member of the Episco- 
pal church, and actively interested in its 
affairs. He has also taken much interest 
in the Citizens' Association of Boston, of 
which he is now vice-president. He was 
for several years president of the Boston 
Bar Association. He is a member of the 
Union and St. Botolph clubs. 

BRUCE, Alexander Bern, son of 

David and Jemima (Bern) Bruce, was born 
September 17, 1853. 

Receiving his early educational training 
in the common schools of ,\ndover, he en- 
tered the employ of J. P. Kent, cracker 
baker, Lawrence, Mass., at the age of fif- 
teen, as a boy, and worked his way up to 
be foreman of that concern. Upon the 
death of Mr. Kent, he formed a partnership 
with the son of the deceased, under the 
firm name of Kent & Bruce, and has since 
continued the business, which has grown to 
be one of the largest of its kind in the 
state. 

On the 24th of September, 1870, at Law- 
rence, Mr. Bruce married Mary, daughter 
of William and Mary (Coojier) Mitchell, by 
whom he has one son : David Bruce. 

Mr. Bruce is a member of Phoenician 
Lodge of Masons, Mt. Sinai Lodge Royal 
Arch Chapter, Bethany Commandery, K. T., 
Aleppo Temple, Nobles Mystic Shrine, 
Royal Good Fellows, Lawrence Lodge, B. 
P. O. E. (first exalted ruler), and has been 
past grand of Lawrence Lodge, I. O. O. F., 
and past chief patriarch Kearsarge En- 
campment. He is also a director in Odd 
Fellows' Hall Association, and a member of 
the Alma and Home clubs of Lawrence. 
He is president of the Merrimac Valley 
Felt and Wool Company of Lawrence, and 
is a director in the New England North 



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^\'estern Investment Company, and also a 
director in the Merchants National Bank, 
Lawrence. He was a member of the board 
of aldermen of the city of Lawrence in 
1884, mayor of the city in 1S86, and re- 
elected in 1887. 




ALEXANDER B. BRUCE. 

Mr. Bruce is essentially a self-made man, 
having by his own individual efforts risen 
from comparative obscurity to a most prom- 
inent place among the leading business 
men of Lawrence. He has twice served 
the city as chief e.xecutive, an honor sel- 
dom conferred upon one so young, and was 
eminently successful in administering the 
duties of that office. He has always been 
a staunch Democrat in politics, but his 
election in both instances has been secured 
by the votes of the business men of Law- 
rence, regardless of party lines. 

BRUCE, George Anson, son of 

Nathaniel and Lucy (Butterfield) Bruce, 
was born in Mount \'ernon, Hillsborough 
county, N. H., November 19, 1839. 

He fitted for college at the .\ppleton 
.■\cademy. Mount Vernon, N. H., and was 
graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 
1861. He immediately began the stutly of 
law. 

In 1862 he entered the service of the 
Federal army as ist lieutenant, 13th New 
Hampshire volunteers, served as aid, judge 



advocate, inspector and assistant adjutant 
general on staff duty. He served through 
the war, and was mustered out of service, 
July 3, 1865. 

He returned home, scarred, but victori- 
ous?, and honored by three distinct brevet 
promotions. The first was for service at 
Petersburg in 1864; the second, that of 
major, for gallant conduct at the capture 
of Fort Harrison the same year, and the 
third, that of lieutenant-colonel, for dis- 
tinguished services in connection with the 
capture of Richmond, April 3, 1865. 

.\fter his return to civil life, Mr. Bruce en- 
tered again into the study of the law, under 
the direction of his old preceptors in Low- 
ell, but kept his residence at Mount ^'ernon. 
N. H. In the spring of 1866 he was elect- 
ed to the Legislature of New Hampshire, 
an event peculiarly creditable to his stand- 
ing in the community, as he was the first 
and only Republican ever elected from that 
district. 

.Admitted to the bar at Lowell, October, 
1866, he began the practice of his pro- 



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GEORGE A BRUCE 

fession in Boston in 1867. There he has 
since established himself in a most honor- 
able place among the leaders of the legal 
fraternity, securing a large clientage and 
lucrative practice. He continued to reside 
in Boston until 1874, when he removed to 



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BRYANT. 



the adjoining- city of Somervilie, where he 
still resides. 

Mr. Bruce was mayor of Somervilie in 
1877, '80 and '81, and a member of the state 
Senate in 1882, '83 and '84, being president 
of the Senate the latter year. 

Since his retirement from active political 
life, he has given his time and energies to 
the more important cases which from year 
to year come before the Legislature. His 
long and varied experience while a member, 
his wide acquaintance with public men, his 
sagacious reading of human nature, make 
him a powerful ally and a formidable 
antagonist. He has the reputation of be- 
ing successful in nearly every cause in 
behalf of which he has appeared before a 
legislative committee. 

iSIr. Bruce was married in Groton, in 
1870, to Clara M., daughter of Joseph F. 
and Sarah (Longley) Hall. 

BRYANT, Napoleon Bonaparte, 

was born at East Andover, Merrimack 
county New Hampshire, February 25, 
1825. His mother was of revolutionary 
stock, and of one of the oldest families in 
town. 

Mr. Bryant availed himself of the limited 
educational advantages offered by the dis- 
trict school of his native place, subse- 
quently attending for a portion of a term 
the high school at F'ranklin. His ambition 
for study was greater than his means for 
its gratification. 

His first commercial transaction was in 
borrowing enough money at the age of 
fourteen to defray the expense of an entire 
term at Boscawen Academy, giving his 
note therefor, which he paid with interest 
at the end of three years. Drifting about 
a term at a time among the various acade- 
mies in the state, at Concord, Claremont, 
Gilmanton and New London, he entered 
New Hampton, and then perfected his 
collegiate equipment, so that he entered 
the sophomore class at Waterville College, 
Maine, a year in advance of his fellows. 

At the academies and in college he de- 
veloped an intense passion for debate, and 
took a leading part in all the lyceums at 
home and the societies connected with 
the various institutions of learning he at- 
tended, to which he undoubtedly owes 
much of the freedom and ease that have 
since characterized his oratorical efforts. 

At twenty-two he entered the office of 
an eminent law firm — Nesmith & Pike — 
at Franklin, and after something less than 
two years' hard study went to the Harvard 
law school, from which he graduated in 
1848 ; was admitted to the bar of Grafton 



county at the November term of the same 
year, and having opened an office at Bris- 
tol in that county, in November, 1848, 
upon his admission, entered upon the active 
practice of his profession. 

At twenty-five he was elected one of the 
commissioners of the county of Grafton, 
and held the office for three years, being 
chairman of the board two years. At 
twenty-nine he was appointed prosecuting 
attorney for that county, and discharged 
his duties with marked efficiency. In 
1853 he removed from Bristol to' Plym- 
outh ; and from that time he was en- 
gaged on one side or the other of nearly 




NAPOLEON B, BRYANT. 

every important cause there tried by the 
jury. 

In 1S55 Mr. Bryant removed to Con- 
cord, and entered into partnership with 
Lyman T. F'lint. 

Mr. Bryant prior to 1856 had acted with 
the Democratic party, in whose faith he had 
been reared, but in that year he supported, 
by voice and vote, the nomination of John 
C. Fremont, effectually speaking in all the 
large towns, and in nearly every county in 
the state. In 1857 he represented the 
city of Concord in the New Hampshire 
Legislature, was re-elected in 1858 and '59, 
serving as speaker the last two years. In 
i860 he was at the Chicago convention as 



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BUCHANAN'. 



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a substitute delegate, working strenuously 
and effectively for the nomination of Mr. 
Lincoln. He stumped the state for him, 
and after his election removed to Boston. 
He was a delegate to the Baltimore con- 
vention in 1864, a firm supporter of Mr. 
Lincoln's renomination and a strenuous 
opponent of Andrew Johnson for the 
second place on the national ticket. 

He delivered the centennial oration in 
his native town in 1S79. Since he has re- 
sided in Massachusetts he has refused to 
hold any political office whatever, and has 
only interested himself in politics by mak- 
ing speeches during the state and national 
campaigns. 

From the time of his taking up his 
residence in Boston, until 1887, he devoted 
his time almost entirely to an extensive 
and constantly increasing general practice 
in the several counties in East Massachu- 
setts, in both the state and federal courts, 
and not infrequently has been called to his 
old circuit in New Hampshire when he 
could spare the time. 

Mr. Bryant was married at the age 
of twenty-four to Susan M., the daugh- 
ter of Abraham Brown of Northfield, 
N. H., by whom he has three surviving 
children. 

He retired from business in April, 18S7, 
and is known m both public and private 
life as a most genial and courteous gentle- 
man. 

BUCHANAN, JOSEPH RODES, son of 
Dr. Joseph and Nancy Buchanan, was 
born in Frankfort, Franklin county, Ky,, 
December 11, 1814. At the age of sev- 
enty-four he is still in his prime as to 
health, vigor, and application, editing 
"Buchanan's Journal of Man." 

His father's death in 1829 left the son 
to maintain himself unaided. As a printer, 
teacher, and medical student, he took an 
original course, and began in 1S35 the 
career of public teacher, devoting himself 
to his life work, the consummation of 
physiology, by ascertaining the une.x- 
plained functions of the brain and nervous 
system, founding his labors on the theory 
of Gall and Spurzheim, which he subjected 
to years of patient analysis and criticism, 
rejecting errors and adding important dis- 
coveries. His study of comparative devel- 
opment was superseded in 1841 by the 
discovery of the impressibility of the brain, 
and the power of affecting the brains of 
intelligent persons so as to determine the 
location of their various functions. Li 
1842 he published his explanation of the 
brain, showing the psychic and physiolog- 



ical functions of all parts, a condensed 
statement of which he gave in his " Sys- 
tem of Anthropology" in 1854. Having 
graduated from the medical department of 
the Louisville Universit)', he presented his 
discoveries to the faculty and authorities 
of the university for examination, and on 
the first presentation of his subject he was 
sustained by Professor Caldwell of his 
alma mater, and subsequently by Robert 
Dale Owen, and his experiments were 
repeated by eminent scientists in this coun- 
try and Europe. 

In the winter of i842-'43 Dr. Buchanan 
presented the subject in New York, and 
received the endorsement of a committee of 
eminent men, the late William Cullen Bry- 
ant being chairman. The same year a 
committee of physicians in Boston pub- 
lished a report of experiments signed by 
their secretary. Dr. Bowditch, showing a 
successful demonstration of the new sci- 
ence. A few months later the faculty of 
the State Universitv of huliana, under 




J. RODES BUCHANAN. 

President Wylie, made a report of wonder- 
ful experiments on the brain by Dr. Bu- 
ghanan, and their high estimate of the 
importance of the new science. The next 
year he was cordially endorsed by a large 
meeting in Boston, and specially eulogized 
by its chairman, Rev. John Pierpont. At 



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BUCHANAN. 



BUCKINGHAM. 



this time he gave many experimental illus- 
trations of the science of psychometry, 
which he discovered in 1842. Its princi- 
ples are fully set forth in his " Manual of 
Psychometry," published in 1885, and now 
in its third edition. 

In 1846 Dr. Buchanan, finding the med- 
ical profession averse to his investigations, 
joined with the liberal physicians in Cin- 
cinnati in establishing a new school, the 
Eclectic Medical Institute, which origi- 
nated the independent eclectic party in the 
profession. Dr. Buchanan was made dean 
of the faculty, and his new physiology 
was the most striking novelty of the insti- 
tution. In 1857 he left Cincinnati to 
attend to the interests of his family estate 
in Kentucky, and during the war and the 
year succeeding was chosen chairman of 
the Democratic state central committee, 
and originated the measures which pro- 
duced tranquillity and harmony between 
the conflicting parties. His policy was so 
highly appreciated that he was nominated 
b)' eminent citizens as a candidate for the 
office of governor, but declined the nomi- 
nation. 

In 1877 he took a position as professor 
in the Eclectic Medical College of New 
York, which he held for four years, during 
which time the growth of the college was 
phenomenal. 

He is widely known as a medical re- 
former, and was the first to procure the 
admission of female students to a medical 
college. In 1862 he published "The New 
Education," now in its fourth edition, 
which proposes a complete revolution in 
educational methods. Of this work an 
able author. Rev. B. F. Barrett, says : " I 
regard it as by far the most valuable work 
on education ever published." He has 
also published " Therapeutic Sarcognomy," 
e.xhibiting the relations of the soul, brain, 
and body, and the new system of practice 
based upon its principles, which he teaches 
in his Boston " College of Therapeutics." 
Professor Winterburn and others who have 
attended his lectures recognize him as 
" the highest living authority on the psy- 
chic functions of the brain." The aim of 
Dr. Buchanan's " Journal of Man " is to 
give the world the results of his labors, 
and to apply to social progress the theo- 
ries of his philosophy. In 1883 he was 
chosen president of the proposed " Ameri- 
can University," to be located in Boston, 
and has since proposed the establishment 
of a medical college of high order to em- 
body the most recent developments of 
advanced science. 



In the winter of 1841 he married Anne, 
daughter of Judge Rowan of Louisville, 
who had represented Kentucky in the 
United States Senate. Three sons and a 
daughter are living from this union. 

In 1881 he married, for his second 
wife, Mrs. C. H. Decker, who has be- 
come distinguished in the practice of 
psychometry. 

BUCKINGHAM, Samuel Giles, son 

of Deacon Samuel and Joanna Matson 
Buckingham, was born in Lebanon, New 
London count v, Conn., November 18, 
1812. 

His great -ancestor in this country was 
Thomas Buckingham, one of the original 
members of the New Haven colony, and 
he comes down by direct descent from 
"Minister Buckingham" of Saybrook, 
Conn., one of the two moderators of 
the Saybrook Synod of 1808, and one 
of the two rectors of Yale College during 
the sixteen years it was located at Say- 
brook. Governor Buckingham, the "war 
governor " of the state of Connecticut, was 
his brother. 

After the usual course in the public 
schools, he entered the academy at Plain- 
field, Conn., where he fitted for college and 
was graduated at Yale in the class of 1833. 
He immediately entered the Yale Theologi- 
cal Seminary, graduated in 1837, and was 
ordained and settled over the Second church 
in Millbury, in May of the same year, where 
he remained for ten years. 

In May, 1847, he was installed pastor of 
the South Congregational church, Spring- 
field, Mass., where he still remains senior 
pastor, after forty years of ministerial ser- 
vice to this church, and after fifty years of 
service in the Christian ministry. 

On the loth of May, 1837, Mr. Buck- 
ingham was married to Harriet, daugh- 
ter of Rev. Dr. Nathaniel W. Taylor, pro- 
fessor of theology in the Yale theological 
school. His wife died in 1863, leaving him 
one child : Harriet Taylor Buckingham. 
He had also an adopted daughter : Maria 
Robeson, the wife of Rollin H. Loomis. 
Mrs. Loomis died in 1888, leaving four 
sons. 

Dr. Buckingham has been for many \'ears 
one of the trustees of Williston Classical 
Seminary ; is a corporate member of the 
American Board of Commissioners for For- 
eign Mi-ssions, and holds office in various 
other religious and charitable organizations, 
and throughout the fifty-one years of his 
ministry has been earnestly devoted to his 
work as pastor of the two churches that 
have been under his charge. 



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BUDINGTON, JONATHAN, son of Jon- 
athan and Sophronia (Denison) lUidington, 
was born in Leyden, Franklin county, De- 
cember 17, I S3 7. 

He was educated in the pubHc sciiools of 
Leyden, Shelburne Falls Academy, East 
Greenwich (R. I.) Academy, and U'esleyan 
Academy, Wilbraham. 

The principal business of his life has 
been farming. He was in commercial busi- 
ness in Gloucester a few years, also pro- 
prietor of a mill and box factory in West 
Leyden for some years. At present he is 
not in any business, on account of ill health. 

Mr. Budintrton never married. 




JONATHAN BUDINGTON. 

He has been a member of the school 
board many years ; was a member of the 
General Court in 1881, being the third 
generation of the same name that has rep- 
resented Leyden in the Legislature. He 
was placed on the committee on agricul- 
ture, and served as clerk of same. 

He is life member and trustee of Frank- 
lin County .Agricultural Society ; was a 
member of the state board of agricul- 
ture from 1883 to '86, and for the same 
term was a member of the examining com- 
mittee for the Massachusetts Agricultural 
College. 

He is steward and trustee of the AT. E. 
church, having held this connection twenty- 



five years. He has been for many years 
superintendent of the Sunday-school. 

BULLOCK, Augustus George, son 

of Alexander Hamilton and Elvira H. 
Bullock, was born in Enfield, Hampshire 
county. Conn,, June 2, 1847. 

His school days were passed at High- 
land Military ,'\cademy and Leicester 
Academy. He fitted for college with the 
late Elbridge G. Cutler, afterwards profes- 
sor at Harvard. Mr. Bullock entered 
Harvard College in 1864, and was gradu- 
ated with the class of 1868. 

He made himself familiar with financial 
transactions by engaging a short time 
in the brokerage business, then read law 
in the otfice of Hon. George F". Hoar, and 
Hon. T. I,. Nelson, now judge of the LTnited 
States district court. He was admitted 
to the Worcester county bar and practiced 
law until January, 1883. At the annual 
meeting of the State ALitual Life Assur- 
ance Company of Worcester, in that 
month, he was chosen its president and 
treasurer, which office he still holds. 

Mr. Bullock was married in Worcester, 
October 4, 187 i, to Mary H., daughter of 
George and Josephine Rose Chandler. Of 
this union were four children : Chandler, 
Alexander Hamilton, Rockwood Hoar, and 
A. G. Bullock, Jr., the latter dying in 
infancy. 

Mr. Bullock is director in the Worcester 
National Bank ; director in the free pub- 
lic library ; in 1868 was private and mili- 
tary secretary to Governor Alexander H. 
P)ullock, his father, with rank of lieuten- 
ant-colonel ; is a director in the Worcester 
Gas Light Company ; trustee of Worces- 
ter Lunatic Hospital ; trustee of Worces- 
ter County Listitution for Savings ; presi- 
dent of the State Safe Deposit Company ; 
member of the American Bar Association; 
member of the Archaeological Institute of 
America ; member of the American Anti- 
tjuarian Society, etc. 

BURDAKIN, JOHN H., son of John C. 
and Catharine E. Burdakin, was born in 
Cambridge, Middlesex county, November 3, 
1840, and was educated in the schools of 
Cambridge and Boston. 

At the age of seventeen he entered the 
office of William V. Thompson, Boston, 
remained there about three years, and then 
went into the Middlesex registry of deeds 
as a clerk under Caleb Hayden, the register. 

In the early part of the war of the 
rebellion, he enlisted in the 2 2d regiment 
N. V. National Guard, and was in the army 
at Harper's Ferry and other places in the 



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ISURDAKIN. 



BURPETT. 



Shenandoah Valley. After his discharge 
from the army, he came to Dedham in 1863, 
and was employed as clerk in the Norfolk 
county registry of deeds, under James 
Foord, the register. 




Early in 1S75, upon the passage of the 
legislative act authorizing registers of 
deeds to appoint assistant registers, Mr. 
Burdakin was appointed assistant register 
for Norfolk count}'. At the election of 
1873, Mr. Foord having declined a re-elec- 
tion, Mr. Burdakin was elected his suc- 
cessor, receiving the nomination from both 
political parties. He entered upon his new 
responsibility, January, 1874. He has 
always received the support of the majori- 
ties given him, not as a political candidate, 
but as a citizen accepting a public trust. 
This continued support is sufficient evi- 
dence of his fitness for the position. 

Mr. Burdakin is a member of the G. A. 
R., of the New England Historic Genea- 
logical Societ V, antl an active member of the 
Dedham Historical Society, of which he is 
librarian and curator. Being a lover of 
books, he has done much towards the col- 
lecting of the valuable historical library of 
the latter society. 

He is one of the trustees of the Dedham 
Institution for Savings, and a member of 
the school board. 



Mr. Burdakin was married November 18, 
1874, to Ella L., daughter of Nathaniel 
Smith. 

Of this union are two children : Leslie 
R., born September 16, 1884, and Lillian 
Burdakin, born August 5, 1887. 

BURDEN, Frederick L., son of 

Charles and Julia A. (Daniels) Burden, was 
born in East Douglas, Worcester county, 
April 20, 1847. 

The public and private schools of his 
native place gave him his early educational 
training. 

His tastes induced him to adopt the 
medical profession, and having fitted him- 
self for the Harvard medical school, he 
pursued the course of study there, and was 
graduated in the class of 1869. He began 
the practice of medicine in North Attle- 
borough, 1870, and continues in the same 
place and practice at the present time. 

Dr. Burden was married in North Attle- 
borough, June 5, 1879, to Emily, daughter 
of Daniel and Mary (.". (Springer) Evans. 
( )f this union is one child : Frederick E. 
Burden. 

Dr. Burden was a member of the school 
board in 1872, and a member of the state 
Senate in 1884 and '85, when he served 
on the committee on education, was chair- 
man of the joint committee on public 
health in 1884, and a member of the Senate 
committee on rules in 1885. He was a 
member of the Republican state central 
committee in 1886, and its chairman in 
1887 and '88. 

Dr. Burden enlisted in 1861 in company 
E., I St Rhode Island light artillery, 
known as the 6th Rhode Island battery. 
He was honorably discharged March, 
1862 ; re-enlisted in June, 1862, for three 
months in the loth Rhode Island battery, 
and was mustered out by reason of expira- 
tion of term of service in September, 1862. 
He is a member of Prentiss M. Whiting 
Post 192, G. A. R. 

BURDETT, JOSEPH O., son of Joseph 
and Sally (Mansfield) Burdett, was born in 
Wakefield (then South Reading), Middle- 
sex county, (October 30, 1848. 

His early education was received in the 
schools of Wakefield, where he fitted for 
Tufts College, which he entered in 1867, 
graduating second in his class, notwith- 
standing that he was compelled to be 
absent from college nearly one-half of his 
senior year in order to earn sufficient 
money to meet his expenses. 

On his graduation he immediately com- 
menced the study of law in the office of 



BURDETT. 



BURGESS. 



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Judge Hammond, then city solicitor of 
Cambridge, and in the same year entered 
the Harvard law school. 

He was admitted to practice, upon exam- 
ination, at the Middlesex county bar, April 
19, 1873, and during the following year 
practiced law with Mr. Hammond. In 
1874 he removed to Hingham, where he 
married Ella, daughter of John K. and 
Joan J. Corthell, of that town, and where 
he has since lived. He has three children : 
Harold Corthell, Edith Mansfield, and Helen 
Ripley Burdett. 

In the following year he established his 
ofifice in Boston, where he has since con- 
tinued to practice law. By his industry 
and attention to business he has developed 
a very large and lucrative practice, but, 
although devoted to his profession, he has 
ever found time for many public duties as 
a citizen. For the last fifteen years he has 
been a member of the school board of 
Hingham, and for the last ten years he has 
been chairman of that bodv. He has 
always been interested in all public matters, 




JOSEPH O. BURDETT. 

and in everything that promotes the inter- 
est of his adopted town. At present he is 
one of the foremost among those interested 
in introducing electric lighting there. Mr. 
Burdett is also president of the Rockland 
Hotel Company, which owns the beautiful 



h<nels Nantasket and Rockland House,, 
together with a large part of Nantasket 
Beach. He represented the towns of 
Hingham and Hull in the House of Repre- 
sentatives, in 1884, in which body he filled 
the important ])osition of House chairman 
of the committee on public service. He 
reported the present civil service bill, and 
it is largely due to his earnest and intelli- 
gent labor that that bill became a law, it 
being most persistently fought at every 
stage in its passage. The following year 
he was re-elected, and, while retaining his 
position as chairman of the public service 
committee, he was also a member of the 
judiciary committee. He took an active 
part in many of the more important debates 
of that year. Mr. Burdett has long been 
actively identified with the fortunes of the 
Republican party, and has contributed not 
a little to its success by his earnest and 
intelligent work in its behalf. He has 
been a member of the Republican state 
central committee since 1886, where his 
services have been recognized by those 
in a position to judge of them, and upon 
the organization of the present committee 
he was unanimously elected chairman (if 
that body. 

BURGESS, Edward, son of Benjamin 
F. and Cordelia \\'. (Ellis) Burgess, was 
born in Sandwich, Barnstable county, 
June 30, 1848. His grandfather and 
father were well known as among the 
largest traders in West India goods in the 
eastern states. 

He early developed a fondness for 
yachting, but he little dreamed in his boy- 
hood's days of ever achieving the world- 
wide renown which so honorably came to 
him in later years. He was fitted for 
colle.ge in Mr. Epes S. Dixwell's private 
Latin school ; he entered Harvard, and 
graduated in the class of 1871, receiving 
the degree of A. B. In 1888 Harvard 
conferred upon him the degree of A. M., 
honoris causa. 

In 1872 he was elected secretary of the 
I'.oston Society of Natural History, and 
continued the study of natural science 
until 1883, publishing various scientific 
memoirs. From 1879 to '83 he was in- 
structor in entomology in Harvard Univer- 
sity. He entered business as a naval 
architect and yacht broker in 1883. 

Mr. Burgess was married in Boston, 
June 2, 1877, to Caroline I-., daughter of 
the late William Starling and Caroline E. 
(Sutton) SuUivant, of Columbus, Ohio. 
Their children are: William Starling and 
Charles Paine Burgess. 



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BURNETT. 



BUSH. 



He was a member of the United States 
Naval Board to award prizes for the de- 
signs of cruisers and battle ships in 1887, 
and in 1888 he was appointed permanent 
chairman on the board of life-saving appli- 
ances in the United States IJfe Saving 
Service. 

But his most distinguished service, which 
a grateful country will ever hold in re- 
membrance, was the timely and s-uccessful 
work in designing the Puritan, the May- 
flower and the Volunteer — the three illus- 
trious defenders of the " America's Cup " 
in the international yacht races of 1885- 
'86-'87. Mr. Burgess was also the designer 
of the well-known racers, Sachem, Titania, 
Pappoose, Baboon, Nymph, Wraith, Sprite, 
Saracen, Rosalind, Chiquita, Marguerite, 
and many others — over one hundred in 
all, including the steam yachts Shearwater, 
Sapphire, Unquowa, Jathniel, etc., and the 
well-known " flying fishermen," Carrie E. 
Phillips, Nellie Di.xon and Fredonia. 

BURNETT, Edward, son of Joseph 
and Josephine Cutter Burnett, was born in 
Boston, March 16, 1849. 

His foundation studies were pursued in 
St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. Fitting 
for Harvard College, he passed the full 
course and was graduated in 187 1. 

His tastes inclining towards rural life, 
he chose the vocation of farmer, and lo- 
cated in Southborough, where he resides, 
surrounded by a loved and loving family, 
an esteemed member of the community. 

Mr. Burnett was elected member of the 
50th Congress, as a Democrat, from the 
9th district, and served one- term, being 
appointed upon the committee on agricul- 
ture, labor, and mileage. 

He was married in Cambridge, April 4, 
1872, to Mabel, only child of James 
Russell Lowell. Of this union are three 
sons and two daughters : James R. L., 
Joseph, Francis L., Esther L., and Lois 1 ). 
Burnett. 

BURR, HEMAN Merrick, son of Isaac 
Tucker and Ann Frances (Hardon) Burr, 
was born in Newton, Middlesex county, 
July 28, 1856. 

He attended the public schools of New- 
ton, was prepared 'for college, entered 
Harvard in 1873, and was graduated in 
the class of 1877. He pursued his legal 
studies in Harvard law school, and was 
admitted to the practice of law in June, 
1884. He is now a practicing attorney in 
Boston, with residence in Newton. 

Mr. Burr was married in Boston, Novem- 
ber 29, 1881, to Mary Frances, daughter 



of Samuel T. and Mary Hartwell (Barr) 
Ames. Of this union are two children : 
Roger Ames and Hardon Burr. 

Mr. Burr was a member of Newton 
common council 1887 and '88 — its presi- 
dent the latter year. In 1889 he was 
elected mayor. 

He is prominently identified with the 
Republican party in Newton, and, although 
a young man, bids fair to follow rapidly in 
the honorable and successful stejjs of his 
father, so long and well known in the 
business and financial circles of the city 
of Boston. 

BURT, George L., son of Holland and 
Nancy (Watkins) Burt, was born in W'alpole, 
Cheshire county, N. H., November 3, 1829. 

He received his education in the public 
schools and academy of his native town. 

Mr. Burt began business as contractor 
and builder, in 1850, in company with his 
brother, John H,, and one year later they 
associated with them another brother, 
Sumner A., who remained with them until 
his decease in 1886. 

Mr. Burt was married in Walptjle, N. H., 
August 8, 1852, to Ellen Augusta, daugh- 
ter of Steven and Mary A. (Jennings) 
Darby. Of this union were two children: 
Waldo Cushing and Oeorge Edward Burt. 

Mr. Burt was a member of the Boston 
common council, 1870, '71, '72 antl '73; 
trustee of Mt. Hope Cemetery ten years; 
member of House of Representatives, 1880, 
'81 and '82; member of state Senate, 1884 
and '85, and trustee of Massachusetts 
Charitable Mechanic Association, 1888 and 
'89. Mattapan, Ward 24, Boston, where he 
has resided since his marriage, is his pres- 
ent address. 

Mr. Burt is the youngest of four brothers, 
all of whom have been successful in main- 
taining the familv prestige, and who have 
been honored by their fellow-townsmen by 
repeated elections to positions of honor 
and trust. 

BUSH, John L., .son of Eleazer B. and 
Sarah (Howe) Bush, was born in North 
Brookfield, Worcester county, October 21, 
1819. 

He received a common school education, 
attending the district schools until he was 
fifteen years of age. Time not spent in 
school or on the farm was utilized in mak- 
ing shoes for the old firm of T. & E. 
Batcheller, at starvation prices. 

When Mr. Bush became of age, in 1840, 
being fond of horses, he went to Boston 
and entered the employ of a livery-stable 
keeper, at twelve dollars per month. He 



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spent some three j-ears in Boston as hostler 
and coachman. But the life became dis- 
tasteful, and with a cousin he went to 
Spencer, and for a while kept the old 
" Jenks Tavern." He sold out his interest 
in the tavern in 1846, and in company with 
Jeremiah Grout began the manufacture 
of boots. In 1866 Mr. Grout retired, and 
Mr. Bush conducted the business alone, 
until Horace .•\. Grout united with him, 
and they increased their business until 
they were widely known as extensive 
manufacturers. Mr. Bush continued in this 
business until 1881, when he retired from 
active manufacturing, though he has been 
and still is interested in various local enter- 
prises and public improvements. 

Mr. Bush was married in Spencer, June 
8, 1847, to Eleanor P., daughter of Jeremiah 
and Hannah (Nye) Grout. The issue of 
this marriage was two daughters: Ella 
Frances and Clara Maria Bush. 

Mr. Bush is trustee of the Savings Bank 
and director in the National Bank; has 
been deacon of the Congregational church 
twenty-five years, and was a member of the 
lower branch of the Legislature in 1859. 
He is a staunch friend of the tem]3erance 
cause, and a firm and unyielding sujjporter 
of the authorities engaged in the suppres- 
sion of the liquor traffic. He is a true 
and steadfast lover of humanitv, an honored 
exemplar of a true man and a good citizen. 

BUTLER, Benjamin Franklin, son of 

Captain John and Charlotte (Elison) But- 
ler, was born in Ueerfield, Rockingham 
county, N. H., November 5, 1818. His 
father was of the 2d regiment light dra- 
goons in the war of 1812, and served under 
Gen. Jackson at New Orleans, and his 
grandfather. Captain Zephaniah Butler of 
Woodbury, Connecticut, fought under Gen. 
Wolfe at Quebec in 1758. 

The district school helped him to many 
things taught from books until he was nine 
years old, when he entered Phillips Acade- 
my, Exeter. At that time his mother re- 
moved to Lowell with her boys. Here 
Benjamin entered the high school, where 
he prepared himself for college. He was 
graduated from A\'aterville College (now 
Colby University), Maine, in the class of 
1838. His fertile mind was not content 
with what he learned from books. Of phe- 
nomenally quick ])erception, and memory 
that pigeon-holed the most minute detail, he 
had acquired a fund of classified knowl- 
edge of the world that later stood him in 
good stead. 

He studied law with William Smith for 
two vears, when he was admitted to the 



bar, upon examination, in September, 1S40, 
and began practice in Lowell at once. 
Much of myth and legend is connected 
with the first years of this young lawyer ; 
but the results of his early training, and of 
his gleaning of practical knowleclge from 
his first years of court practice, are too 
clearly evidenced in the mature Benjamin 
F. Butler, for the public to care for the 
truth or the falsity of those details. More- 
over, he is to-day too prominently before 
the world, too well known to the American 
citizen, to require eulogy or criticism from 
the pen of his biographer. No man has 
warmer friends, and no man cares less for 




BENJAMIN F. BUTLER. 

enemies. Loyal to his client, and faithful 
to his friend, he never forgets the fang- 
stroke of an enemy, though the venom fail 
in its work. 

He was married in Lowell, May 14, 
1844, to Sarah, daughter of Dr. Israel and 
Dolly Jones Hildreth. Mrs. Butler died 
in Boston, April 8, 1876. Of this union 
were three children : Blanche, Paul, and 
Ben-Israel. 

In 1853 Gen. Butler was a member of 
the House of Representatives, and the Con- 
stitutional Convention of the same year. 
In 1859 he was elected a member of the 
state Senate. In i860 he was a delegate 
to the national Democratic convention 



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which met in Charleston, S. C. When a 
portion of the delegates re-assembled at 
Baltimore, he declined to participate fur- 
ther in their deliberations, first on the 
ground that the body of delegates was not 
competent, and secondly, because he refused 
to sit in convention where the African 
slave-trade was approvingly advocated. 

In April, 1861, when President Lincoln 
called for troops, he held the position of 
l^rigadier-general of militia. On the 17th 
of that montli he marched to Annapolis 
with the 8th Massachusetts regiment, and 
was placed in command of the district of 
Annapoli.s, which included the city of Bal- 
timore. On the 13th of May, 1861, he 
entered Baltimore, occupied the city with- 
out opposition, and on May i6th was made 
a major-general, and assigned to the com- 
mand of Fortress Monroe and the depart- 
ment of eastern Virginia. Here he refused 
to return to their masters some slaves who 
had come within his lines, declaring them 
to be "contraband of war." Hence arose 
the designation of "Contraband." In 
August he captured forts Hatteras and 
Clark on the coast of North Carolina. He 
then returned to Massachusetts to recruit 
an expedition for the Gulf of Mexico and 
the Mississippi. He took possession of the 
city of New Orleans May i, 1862. His 
administration was marked by great vigor. 
He instituted strict sanitary regulations, 
armed the free colored men, and compelled 
rich secessionists to contribute toward the 
support of the poor of the city. The 
seeming severity of his policy, although 
inspired by his unflinching patriotism, ex- 
cited strong resentment among those who 
were too far removed from the scene of 
action to understand the situation. It is 
worthy of notice that during the adminis- 
tration of General Butler at New Orleans, 
disbursing millions of dollars, under cir- 
cumstances that brought unavoidable com- 
plications, it was found that not one penny 
had been paid out but had its competent 
voucher, and his accounts, audited by the 
finest experts in \\'ashington, were declared 
correct in every detail. 

December 16, 1862, General Butler was 
recalled, and near the close of 1863 was 
placed in command of the department of 
Virginia and North Carolina. His force 
was designated as the army of the James. 
October, 1864, he was sent to New Vork 
with a force to insure a quiet election. In 
December he conducted an expedition 
against Fort Fisher near Wilmington, N. C, 
and soon afterward was removed from 
command by General Grant. 



In 1866 he was elected by the Republi- 
cans a member of Congress, where he re- 
mained till 1879, with the exception of one 
term, 1875-77. 

In 1868 he was chief manager for the 
House in the impeachment of Presitlent 
Andrew Johnson. He was the unsuccessful 
Republican nominee for governor of Massa- 
chusetts in 187 1, and in 1878 and '79 was 
the candidate of the Independent Green- 
back party, and one wing of the Democrats, 
for the same office, but was again defeated. 
In 1882 the Democrats united upon him 
as their candidate, and he was elected, 
though the rest of the state ticket was de- 
feated. During his administration he insti- 
tuted some sweeping reforms, and brought 
charges of gross mismanagement against 
some public institutions. In 1883 he was 
renominated, but was defeated. In 1884 
he was the candidate of the Greenback 
party and Anti-Monopolist party for the 
presidency. 

General Butler now resides in Lowell, 
where as a citizen he is much beloved. While 
his professional labors are herculean, and 
his varied manufacturing interests are not 
neglected, he still finds time for deeds of 
charitv, and for making himself better ac- 
quainted with the needs of the unfortunate 
and oppressed. 

BUTLER, John Haskell, son of John 

and Mary J. (Barker) Butler, was born 
in Middleton, Essex county, August 31, 
1841. 

He obtained his early educational train- 
ing in the district schools of Groton and 
Shirley, high school, Shirley, and Lawrence 
Academy, Groton, where he fitted for Vale. 
He was graduated from this college in the 
class of 1863. He chose the profession of 
law and prosecuted his legal studies with 
Griffin & Stearns, Charlestown. He was 
admitted to the bar at Cambridge, in Octo- 
ber, 1868. 

His first business connection was with 
John Q. A. Griffin, and William S. Stearns, 
with whom he had studied, and in October, 
1868, he formed a co-partnership with 
A\'illiam S. Stearns, under the firm name of 
Stearns & Butler. This co-partnership has 
continued uninterrupted to the present time. 

Mr. Butler was married in Pittston, Pa., 
January i, 1870, to Laura L., daughter of 
jabez B. and Mary (Ford) Bull. Of this 
union is one child : John Lawton Butler, 
born July 10, 187 1. 

Mr. Butler was member of the House of 
Representatives 1880 and '81 ; was elected 
by the Legislature of 1884 as member of 
executive council for the 3d councilor dis- 



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trict, to fill a vacancy caused b_v the death 
of Hon. Charles R. McLean ; and was re- 
elected by the same district 1885 and '86. 

He has served twelve years on the Somer- 
ville school board ; president of the Eastern 
Associates three years ; supreme regent of 
the Royal Arcanum 18S3 to '85 ; supreme 
representativeof the Kni,L,dns of Honor 1887, 
'88; is at present chairman of the committee 
on laws and advisory counsel of the Grand 
Lodge A. O. U. W. of Mass.; and supreme 
treasurer of the Home Circle, and Royal 
Society of Good Fellows. He is a member 
of the New England Commercial Travel- 
ers' Association, Order of Free Masons, In- 
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, American 
Legion of Honor, Knights of Pythias, 
Cross of Pythias, and president of the 
National Fraternal Congress. 

His residence is Somerville. 

BUTLER, William Sanford, son of 

Thomas H. and ]\hirtha (Wheat) Butlei', 
was born in New London, New London 
county. Conn., February 15, 1838. 

His early education was received in the 
public schools of Maiden. His parents, 
though not in circumstances to enable 
them to bring up a family in lu.xury, nobly 
acquitted themselves in amply providing 
for that course of moral and intellectual 
training which tends to develop those qual- 
ities requisite to the highest and most 
lasting success. 

At fifteen years of age Mr. Butler left 
school to accept employment with Phineas 
Sprague of Maiden, and remained in his 
steady employ for ten years. He acquired 
during this term of service a reputation for 
rare business sagacity and judgment that 
secured him a position with L. Oudkirk of 
New York. His progress in the metropo- 
lis was rapid and substantial, and he soon 
was employed as salesman by Seligman 
& Macy, of the same city. 

In 1866 Mr. Butler returned to Boston 
with an increased knowledge of the world, 
and of the business which he was pre- 
pared to follow with added responsibilities. 
With Seligman & Macy he took control of 
the establishment, which he now occupies 
as sole proprietor, at that time owned by 
Cushman & Brooks. Many important 
changes have been made in this place, and 
from the unpretentious building it was at 
first, it has been transformed into an e.xten- 
sive business house of stately proportions. 

Mr. Butler has been sole proprietor of 
the business since 1873. This was the 
year of the well-known financial disaster, 
the results of which were felt until 1880. 
It was the latter year that Mr. Butler 



showed his business judgment by enlarging 
his establishment, which at that time con- 
sisted of the street floor and basement. 
The enlargement and improvements have 




WILLIAM S, BUTLER. 

continued up to the present time, until 
now he holds the five stories and basement 
of the stone-front building, Nos. 90—98 
Tremont Street. 

On October 7, 1862, Mr. Butler was 
married to Charlotte F., daughter of Ed- 
ward and Betsey M. (Ayers) Whittredge of 
Maiden. Of this union were four chil- 
dren : Florence, Lottie, Frances, and Wil- 
liam Butler. He subsequentl}' married 
Mrs. Margaret Jane Folsom of Boston. 

Mr. Butler has never even allowed the 
temptations of public position or the ex- 
citements of political life to interfere with 
the hours that he divides between his busi- 
ness interests and the more enjoyable 
claims of the family circle at Longwood, 
where he resides. 

BUTTERWORTH, Hezekiah, son of 
Gardner M. and Susan (Ritchie) Butter- 
worth, was born in Warren, Bristol count)', 
R. I., December 22, 1839. 

He was fitted for college in the ^\'arren 
high school, and pursued a special course 
in Brown University. 

Evidently foreshadowing his life work as 
a widely known writer, his tastes led him 



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CALL. 



early into editorial work, and we find him 
engaged as editor of a local paper, con- 
tributor to the " Independent," " Congre- 
gationalist " and "Youth's Companion." 
In 1870 he became assistant editor of the 
last named paper, and has been no unim- 
portant factor in the phenomenal success 
attending its circulation. 

He wrote " Zig-zag Books," eleven vol- 
umes, for Estes &: Lauriat, of which over 
three hundred thousand volumes have been 
sold. He wrote " Story of Hyannis " for 
the American Tract Society, for which he 



received the George Wood gold medal. 
He has published two volumes of poetry — 
" Poems for Christmas, Easter and New 
Years " (Estes & Lauriat), and " Songs of 
History " (New England Publishing Com- 
pany). 

Mr. Butterworth has written much for 
the leading literary magazines and papers ; 
has traveled extensively, and published 
some twenty volumes of books and a num- 
ber of successful librettos of cantatas. 

He is unmarried and resides in Boston. 



CABLE, George Washington, son 

of George Washington and Rebecca Board- 
man Cable, was born in New Orleans, La., 
October 12, 1844. His mother was of 
New England stock. 

The private academy and high school 
gave him his educational training on the 
book ward side; and mingling with the 
business world as brander of goods in the 
United States customs warehouse, and as 
cashier, book-keeper, financial secretary, 
and reporter, gave him the key to those 
practical formulas, the solution of which is 
so necessary to " Mr. Cable, the Author 
and Lecturer." 

Mr. Cable was married in New Orleans, 
La., December 7, 1869, to Louise Stewart, 
daughter of William Allen and Louisa 
Stewart Bartlett. Of this union are seven 
children : Louise Bartlett, Mary Board- 
man, Lucy LefFingwell, Margaret Bartlett, 
Isabel Stewart, William Noble, and Doro- 
thea. 

Mr. Cable began writing for the " New 
Orleans Picayune," and was soon regularly 
attached to the editorial staff. The con- 
tributed articles on Creole life to " Scrib- 
ner's Monthly" (now the "Century") 
brought him prominently before the liter- 
ary world. 

Among the published works of Mr. 
Cable are " Old Creole Days " (New York, 
1879); "The Grandissimes " (1880); 
"Madame Delphine " (1S81) ; "Doctor 
Sevier" (Boston, 1883) ; "The Creoles of 
Louisiana" (New York, 1884); "The 
Silent South " (1885), and " Bonaventure," 
(1888). 

Mr. Cable has prepared for the Lhiited 
States government an elaborate report of 
the social statistics of New Orleans. 

His residence is Paradise Road, North- 
ampton. 



CALL, Charles Amos, son of Amos 

and Ruhema C. (Skeele) Call, was born in 
Springfield, Hampden county, June 3, 
1839. He secured a common and high 
school education. 

He began business life with the Bemis 
& Call manufacturing company, as clerk, 
and was subsequently promoted to the 
position of superintendent. 




... ^..i; 

CHARLES A. CALL. 



In 1865 he opened a grocery business 
and has since continued in the same line. 

Mr. Call was married in Springfield, 
October 4, 1864, to Eugenia L. (deceased). 



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CAMPBELL. 



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daughter of James B. and Julia A. (Carr) 
Stillman. Of this union were two ciiil- 
dren : Jennie S. (deceased), and Arthur A. 
Call. 

Mr. Call has held nearly every office in 
the gift of his native city ; served as mem- 
ber of the common council in 1867 ; wa.s 
elected member of the board of aldermen 
in 1883, '84 and '85, being president of the 
board in 1885 ; was member of the House 
of Representatives in 1888 and '89, serving 
on the committee on banks and banking, 
of which he was chairman the latter year. 

CALLAHAN, JOHN FRANCIS, son of 
John and Catherine (Calnan) Callahan, 
was born in Boston, November 25, 1852. 

He was educated in the public schools, 
and while yet of tender age turned his 
attention toward industrial pursuits. After 
fitting for commercial life at Bryant & 
Stratton's college, he commenced at the 
bottom round of the ladder when only 
thirteen years old. He continued in mer- 
cantile life, and is now one of Boston's 
prosperous merchants, residing at Roxbury 
Highlands. 

January 15, 1875, he was married, at 
Boston, to Mary Donovan, whose sister, 
Hannah Donovan, was awarded a medal 
by the Massachusetts Humane Society for 
saving life from drowning at Nantasket 
Beach, August 5, 1888. Their children 
are : Frank, George, Joseph and Mary 
Callahan. 

Socially, Mr. Callahan stands foremost 
among the Irish-American sons of the old 
Bay State. He was a director of public 
institutions of the city of Boston for 1886, 
'87, '88 and '89 ; was four years treasurer 
■ of the Charitable Irish Society ; seven 
years a member of the Democratic City 
committee, serving on the finance and 
executive committees, and was two years 
on the state central committee. He has 
participated in all the state, congressional, 
councilor, senatorial and other political 
conventions in which his district was con- 
cerned for the past six years. Mr. Calla- 
han is still i^rominent in Democratic poli- 
tics, and also in Irish-American society 
movements. 

CAMPBELL, Benjamin Franklin, son 

of Benj. W. H. and Isabella (Sutherland) 
Campbell, was born near Halifax, N. S., 
September 12, 1834, and there commenced 
his education, which was continued in New 
York public and private schools. 

Well informed in classical and general 
literature, he entered the Harvard medical 
school in 1855, and graduated in 1857. 



The same year he began the practice of 
his profession in East Boston, and in a short 
time became one of the leading physicians 
of the place. During the years i862-'64, 
he served as assistant-surgeon in connection 
with the army of the Potomac. He was 
attached to the U. S. .A. field hospital, 
Pamunkey River, Va., and was subse- 
quently at the Webster U. S. hospital, 
Manchester, N. H. 

Such was his devotion to duty in the 
field that his health became seriously im- 
paired, and he felt compelled to take a trip 
to Europe. While there, he walked the 
hospitals of London, Edinburgh and Paris, 




BENJAMIN F. CAMPBELL, 

and made the acquaintance of some of the 
most eminent physicians of these cities. 
Upon his restoration to health, and subse- 
quent return, he resumed his practice in 
East Boston, where he still resides. 

December 20, 1866, he married Albina 
M. C, daughter of Jacob and Phila (Alley) 
.\nderson, of East Boston. Of this union 
are three children: Clrace, Benjamin Frank- 
lin, Jr., and Blanche Sutherland Campbell. 

His attainments easily qualified Dr. 
Campbell for public service, and his neigh- 
bors have not been slow in availing them- 
selves of his influence and abilities. He 
was a member of the Boston school board 
three years; was the representative of East 



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CANDAGE. 



Boston in the lower branch of the Legis- 
lature, i882-'83, serving as chairman of the 
committee on water supply and drainage. 
He was elected to the Senate in 1888, 
holding the chairmanship of the important 
committee on education; he was president 
of the Garfield Republican Club in 1880, 
and president of Republican Club of ward 1 
in 1888. At present he is a prominent 
Mason, comracle of Joe Hooker Post No. 
23, East Boston, and a member of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society 

Dr. Campbell can be usually found 
identified with all movements which tend 
to the elevation of his fellow-men. His 
voice and pen have uniformly been at the 
service of moral, temperance and social 
reform. But it is in the more Cjuiet walks 
of private life that his success has been 
most conspicuous. Gifted with an envi- 
able skill in his chosen profession, quick of 
intuition, and generous and sympathetic in 
his work, he has won the respect and esteem 
of the citizens of the island ward where he 
resides. 

CAMPBELL, Charles Abner, son of 

Jeremiah and Nancy (Hawes) Campbell, 
was born in Boston, November 6, 1837. 

He was educated in the public schools of 
Chelsea, where he first began business life 
in 1859. He has been for many years ex- 
tensively engaged in the coal business in 
Chelsea and Boston ; has been identified 
with the growth and prosperity of Chelsea 
in many ways^.and has never lacked an 
exhibition of public spirit and a hearty 
co-operation in any movement tending to 
its welfare. 

July 2, 1862, Mr. Campbell enlisted in 
company G, 40th regiment Massachusetts 
volunteers. He served as regimental 
quarter-master sergeant nine months ; was 
commissioned lieutenant by Governor An- 
drew, and captain, March 21, 1865. 

He has been a member of Chelsea com- 
mon council four years ; member of board 
of aldermen two years, and served as 
water commissioner and trustee of public 
library. He was a member of the state 
Senate from the ist Suffolk district in 
1884. He is a prominent member of the 
G. A. R., and has been since its organiza- 
tion. 

In politics he is an ardent and active 
Republican, his counsel being continually 
sought by the managers of the party, and 
his co-operation solicited by those more or 
less interested in the selection of proper 
candidates for office. 

.Mr. Campbell was married in Boston, 
January i, 1861, to Lavinia, daughter of 



Henry and Lavinia (Stevens) Hutchinson. 
Of this union are two children : Alice L. 
and Jeremiah Campbell. 

CAMPBELL, Samuel S., son of Ben- 
jamin G. and Charity J. (Lunt) Campbell, 
was born in Bangor, Penobscot county, 
Maine, July 23, 1832. 

He obtained his early education in the 
public schools of his native city. He be- 
gan business with M. Schwartz, saw manu- 
facturer, hardware and mill supplies, etc., 
in Bangor. In 1856 he went to Montreal 
and engaged in the same business, where 
he remained until 1876, when he returned 
to the States and settled in Boston. He 
is now president of the Suffolk Trust Com- 
pany. 

Mr. Campbell was married in Bangor, 
Me., July 3, 1854, to Lucy Jane, daughter of 
Moses and Phimelia (Saunders) Stevens. 
They have one child : Charles M. Camp- 
bell. 

Mr. Campbell is connected with several 
corporations. He assisted in organizing 
the Harvard, now Boston Clock Companv, 
and was elected its first president. His 
church connections are with the Park 
Street society, Boston. In politics he is a 
Republican. 

CANDAGE, RUFUS GEORGE FRED- 
ERICK, son of Samuel Roundy and Phebe 
Ware (Parker) Candage, was born in Blue 
Hill, Hancock county, Maine, July 28, 
1826. James Candage, his great grand- 
father, went to Blue Hill from Massachu- 
setts in 1766, and was one of the early 
settlers of the town. His grandfather, 
James Candage, Jr., born in Massachusetts, 
May 9, 1753, went to Blue Hill with his 
father's family, and there, in 1775, he mar- 
ried Hannah Roundy, one of the two who 
first settled in the place ; she died March 
12, 185 1, at the age of nearly ninety-eight 
years. The family name is an old and 
honored one in England, and has been 
variously spelled Cavendish, Candish, and 
Candage, custom finally settling upon the 
latter.' 

Mr. Candage passed his early childhood 
upon his father's farm and in the saw-mill 
near at hand. Attendance upon the town 
school, with two terms at the Blue Hill 
Academy, completed his early education. 
At the age of eighteen, after some little 
experience in a coaster and fisherman, he 
gained the consent of his parents to take 
up with a sea-faring life. 

Beginning his sea life by sailing between 
ports in Maine and Boston, he extended 
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the West Indies and Europe. He was in 
love with his caUing as a sailor, and being 
strong, hardy, and apt, he soon became 
proficient as a seaman, and passed from the 
forecastle to the quarter-deck. 

His Blue Hill friends in 1850 built him 
a brig named the " Equator," in which he 
made his first voyage as master, from Bos- 




RUFUS G F. CANDAGE. 

ton to Valparai.so, C'iiiii. Since tiien he 
has commanded ships "Jamestown" of 
New York, and " Electric Spark " and 
" National Eagle " of Boston ; has sailed 
to most of the principal ports of Europe, 
Asia, Australia, and America ; he has 
doubled Cape Horn thirteen times both 
ways, and in all has sailed over more than 
five hundred thousand miles of salt water. 
His last voyage at sea was as commander of 
the ship " National Eagle," of which he was 
part owner, arriving in Boston from Liver- 
pool, England, in May, 1867. He then 
gave up his sea life and became a resident 
of Brookline, where he still resides, his 
business office being in Boston. 

He was appointed surveyor by the Ameri- 
can Shipmasters' Association of New York, 
for the record of American and foreign 
shipping, in January, 1868. The same year 
he was appointed marine surveyor for the 
Boston board of underwriters, and held 
that office for about ten years. In 1882 



he was made surveyor for the Bureau Veri- 
tas of Paris, France, which office he still 
holds. With an office in the Merchants' 
E.xchange building for nearly twenty years, 
Captain Candage has been a well known 
figure on State Street, with an extensive 
acquaintance in maritime circles. 

In the year 1861, when the American 
Shipmasters' Association was formed, Cap- 
tain Candage was elected its thirteenth 
member, and in 1867 was elected to mem- 
bership in the Boston Marine Society ; was 
president of the society in the years 1882 
-'83, and ever since then has been a mem- 
ber of its board of trustees. 

He has been a member of the Brookline 
school committee five years, three of which 
he was chairman ; is a member of the 
board of trustees of the Brookline jniblic 
library, and was treasurer of the board 
from 1880 to '83 ; was one of tlie select- 
men, and since 1884 has been one of the 
assessors of the town 

He has been president of the Boston 
Fire Brick and Clay Retort Manufacturing 
Company since 1873, and of the Boston 
Terra Cotta Company since 1881. He 
represented the town of Brookline in the 
House of Representatives for i882-'3, and 
served upon the committees of harbors and 
public lands, and rules. 

He is a member of the New England 
Historic Genealogical Society, of the Bos- 
tonian Society, and other kindred organi- 
zations. He has been a member of the 
boards of Father Taylor's and the Baptist 
Bethels; is treasurer of the Seaman's Bethel 
Relief Society, and of two or three other 
small funds. He has been much interested 
in matters pertaining to the up-building of 
American shipping, and as an expert on 
siiipping he stands deservedly high. 

Captain Candage has been a member of 
the Brookline Thursday Club since Novem- 
ber, 1872 ; of the BrookHne Club since its 
formation ; of the Baptist church of Brook- 
line ; the Baptist Social Union ; Norfolk 
Club; vice-president of the Pine Tree State 
Club of Boston ; a member of the order 
of F. & A. M., of the Royal Arcanum, Inde- 
pendent Order of Improved Red Men, etc. 

Captain Candage was first married in 
Boston, May i, 1853, to Elizabeth Au- 
gusta, daughter of Elijah Carey, Jr., of 
Brookline. His second marriage occurred 
May 22, 1873, with Ella Maria White of 
Revere, daughter of lienjamin and Sarah 
E. (Hall) White. Of this latter union are 
five children : George Frederick, P^lla Au- 
gusta, Phebe Theresa, Robert Brooks, and 
Sarah Caroline Candage. 



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CAPEN. 



CANDLER, John Wilson, son of 

Captain John and Susan (Wheelwright) 
Candler, was born in Boston, February lo, 
1828. The family is of Saxon origin. 
Two branches of the family are noted in 
English history, the one in county Suffolk, 
and the other in Essex. In the church 
militant, as well as in the army, the Cand- 
lers achieved reputation and influence. 
Captain John Candler, the grandfather, 
emigrated from Essex, England, to Mar- 
hlehead, Essex county, and married Abi- 
gail Huling Russell, about the close of the 
revolutionary war. Mrs. Candler was the 
descendant of a Huguenot family, and the 
widow of Lieut. Thomas Russell, com- 
manding a privateer during the revolu- 
tionary war. Captain John Candler, Jr., 
the father, was an officer on board the 
frigate "Constitution," and was with Com- 
modore Stewart in the same vessel on his 
famous cruise through the British Channel. 

Mr. Candler was born while his father 
was in active business as ship-builder and 
merchant in Boston. He v/as educated in 
the Marblehead Academy, in the Dummer 
Academy, Byfield, and finished his scholas- 
tic course under the tuition of Rev. A. 
Briggs, a Baptist minister of Schoharie 
Academy, N. Y. 

On leaving school he accepted a clerk- 
ship in Boston. Soon after the death of 
his father in 1849, the family removed to 
Brookline, where Mr. Cantller has ever 
since resided. For the past thirty-two 
years Mr. Candler has been a member of 
different firms of ship-owners engaged in 
foreign trade. The present firm name is 
John W. Candler & Co. Their business 
is chiefly with the East and West Indies 
and the Cape of Good Hope, and is of 
such a character and magnitude as to class 
the senior member with the most eminent 
and widely-known merchants of this 
country. 

Mr. Candler's intelligent interest in pol- 
itics and in all public questions, coupled 
with his skill and ability as a public speaker 
and presiding officer, have continuously 
brought him into notice. Foreign trade 
has given him exceptional opportunities of 
acquiring extensive and precise informa- 
tion ; business experience has taught him 
how to use it. He was an intimate friend 
of the late Governor John A. Andrew, and 
through the war for the Union was a 
staunch and efficient supporter of the great 
"War Governor" in his patriotic task. 

In 1866 Mr. Candler was a member of 
the Legislature, but declined a renomina- 
tion. From 1S69 to 1873 he was an earn- 



est advocate of a board of prison commis- 
sioners. After the creation of the board 
by the State he served for several years as 
its chairman. For four years he devoted 
much time to the prosecution of the work 
of building the separate prison for women, 
asking no compensation, and defraying his 
own expenses. He is a prominent member 
of the national board of trade and has 
served for several terms as one of the vice- 
presidents from Massachusetts. He was 
president of the Boston board of trade 
1877 and '78, and declined renomination. 
He has been president of the Commercial 
Club three terms. 

Mr. Candler is a Republican in politics, 
but of the liberal wing of the party, advo- 
cating change of navigation laws, judicious 
revision of the tariff, and modification 
of sundry commercial treaties. In 1876 
and '78 he was a prominent candidate for 
congressional honors. In 1880 he was 
elected a member of the 47th Congress by 
the Republicans of the 8th congressional 
district, and in iS8S he was elected to the 
51st Congress in the 9th district by a large 
majority, after a very exciting and mem- 
orable contest, in which the Hon. Edward 
Burnett, the previous representative, was 
again the opposing candidate. 

Mr. Candler was married in September, 
185 1, to Lucy A., daughter of Henry 
Cobb, of Boston. She died in October, 
1S55. His second marriage occurred in 
November, 1867, with Ida M., daugh- 
ter of John and Amelia Garrison, of 
New York. His family consists of three 
daughters : Cora, who married Charles I. 
Bush of Weston, and who resides in W^est 
New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. ; Anita, 
who married Hon. David S. Baker, Jr., of 
North Kingston, R. I., residing in Wick- 
ford, R. I.; and Amelia Candler. 

CAPEN, Elmer Hewitt, son of Samuel 

( 2d ) and .\lmira ( Paul ) Capen, was born 
at Stoughton, Norfolk county, April 5, 
1838. He was educated at the Pierce 
Academy, Middleborough, and at the Green 
Mountain Liberal Institute, Woodstock, Vt. 
In 1856 he entered Tufts College, gradu- 
ating in i860. He then spent a year at the 
Harvard law school, completing his legal 
studies under Thomas S. Harlow, of Bos- 
ton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in 1863. 

For a year he practiced law, but, becom- 
ing interested in religious activities, he 
transferred his allegiance from law to 
divinity and took a course in theology 
under Rev. Dr. Chambre. October 5, 
1865, he was ordained and called to take 



CARPENTER. 



CARPENTER. 



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charge of the Independent Christian church 
at Gloucester — the church founded in 
1770 by Rev. John Murray. He remained 
with this church for four years, when he 
accepted a call to St. Paul, Minn., where 
he spent a year, and then became pastor of 
the First Universalist church at Providence, 
R. I. From here he was called to the 
presidency of his alma mater, and inaug- 
urated June 2, 1875. 

While he was a student in college, Mr. 
Capen was sent to the Legislature, in 1S60, 
where he was the youngest member. Since 
1876 he has been a trustee of the Univer- 
salist General Convention. In 1877 he 
received the honorary degree of D. D. from 
the St. Lawrence LTniversity of New York. 
For the last four years he has been presi- 
dent of the Law and Order League of 
Massachusetts. He was appointed by Gov- 
ernor Ames, in December, 1888, a member 
of the board of education. 

Dr. Capen's government of Tufts Col- 
lege has been signally successful in various 
directions. Endowments and buildings 
have been added, and the number of stu- 
dents has constantly nicreased. 

Dr. Capen has been twice married : first 
to Letitia H. Mussey, of New London, 
Conn., and in February, 1877, to Mary L., 
daughter of Oliver Edwards, of Brookline. 
He has three children : Samuel Paul, aged 
eleven ; Ruth Paul, aged ten, and Rosa- 
mund FLdwards, an infant. 

CARPENTER, ErastuS PaySON, son 
of Daniel and Abigail (Payson) Carpen- 
ter, was born in Foxborough, Norfolk 
county, November 23, 1822. His father 
was a soldier in the war of 181 2, and 
an enterprising and successful manufac- 
turer and business man. His paternal 
grandfather was an officer in the rev- 
olutionary army, and his mother's grand- 
father was the first town clerk of Fo.\- 
borough. 

He received his early education in tlie 
public schools of his native town, Tol- 
man's private school, Baker's Academy 
(Dorchester), Day's Academy (Wrentham) 
and under the private tuition of Rev. Mor- 
timer Blake. 

Before completing his preparation for 
college, he decided upon a business 
career, and at the age of twenty entered 
the employ of his cousin, Oliver Carpen- 
ter, in the straw goods business, at one 
hundred and twenty -five dollars per 
annum. Here he remained some five 
months, when he entered the employ of 
Warren Carpenter, a brother of Oliver, 
engaged in the same business. In Janu- 



ary, 1843, while yet a minor, he entered 
into partnership with Warren Carpenter, 
having charge of a branch store in Rich- 
mond, Va. In 1852, with Oliver as part- 
ner, he built the Union straw works. Fox- 
borough, then the largest works of the kind 
in the world, employing some six thousand 
people. This business was successfully 
carried on until September, 1861, when 
Mr. Carpenter went to London, and sold 
the property connected with the business 
to Messrs. Vyse & Company, for whom he 
continued as superintendent and manager. 
This business frequently paid as high as 
$20,000 U. S. tax per month on manufac- 
tured goods. He remained connected with 
this business until 1870, when other inter- 
ests demanded his attention. 

Mr. Carpenter was a large stockholder 
in the local telegraph company which 
built and operated a line between Fox- 
borough and Mansfield in iSsS-'p. In 
1862 he began his efforts to obtain rail- 
road accommodations, and organized the 
Foxborough Branch Railroad, which in 
time was merged into the Mansfield & 
Framingham Railroad, in which he at one 
time owned a controlling interest, and of 
which he was the first president. He was 
also president of the Framingham & 
Lowell, the Martha's Vineyard, and the 
New York, Boston, Albany & Schenectady 
railroads. 

During the war of the rebellion Mr. Car- 
penter was unremitting in his efforts in be- 
half of the soldiers. He organized and 
was elected captain of a rifle company in 
186 r, the town appropriating three thou- 
sand dollars to equip it with Sharp's 
rifles. When the services of this company 
were tendered the government, it was not 
accepted on account of its arms, as rifles 
then had not taken the place of muskets. 
He was chairman of the committee having 
in charge the expenditure of ten thousand 
dollars of the town's funds in aid of volun- 
teers and their families, and all his acts 
during the years of the war were such that 
when the veterans organized their G. A. R. 
post, they named it the " E. P. Carpenter 
Post." 

In 1872, '73 and '74 he was a member 
of the state Senate, serving as chairman 
of the railroad committee, and delivering 
one of the inost able arguments upon the 
Hoosac Tunnel question ever presented, 
of which the Senate ordered ten thousand 
copies printed for distribution. 

Mr. Carpenter has held nearly all the 
offices in the gift of the town — chairman 
of selectmen, highway surveyor, overseer of 



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CARR. 



CARRIGAN. 



the poor, etc., rendering most efficient ser- 
vice in each of these positions. He has been 
president of many local improvement, char- 
itable or business societies, among them the 
Rock Hill Cemetery Corporation, Fo.xbor- 
ough Savings Bank, Foxborough Loan Fund 
& Building Association, and Kankakee 
Improvement Company, the Temperance 
Reform Club, Sylvan Association, " Pro 
Bono Publico; " chairman of the committee 
for improving Foxborough common, build- 
ing town hall, and memorial hall. He 
was the financial backing of the " Home 
Library," a literary weekly local paper, in 
1857 ; established and gave financial aid for 
several years to the Foxborough English 
and classical school, which was succeeded 
by the Foxborough high school ; organized 
the Foxborough fire department in 1850, 
and was captain of Cocasset fire engine 
company. He built the first cottage in 
Cottage City, and organized the company 
that built up this famous watering place, 
personally superintending the work. He 
had charge of building straw shops in 
Nantucket and Medfield, Medfield town 
hall, Sea Cliff Inn at Nantucket, Sea View 
House at Cottage City, Mattakeset Lodge 
in Katama, and the large hotel and other 
buildings at Shelter Island Park, L. I. 

On the 4th of February, 1844, at Foxbor- 
ough, Mr. Carpenter married Catharine E., 
daughter of William and Hannah (Hall) 
Kerr. Of this union were Gardner Anson, 
William Daniels, Julia Alice (deceased), 
Jennie ^\'ood (wife of Robert M. Powers), 
and Catherine Payson (wife of Irving W. 
Lane). 

CARR, Alonzo Augustus, was born 

June 7, 1S36, in Hudson, Middlesex county. 

His early education was received in the 
common schools of Fitchburg and Ashby, 
with the exception of one term in New 
Ipswich Academy. 

While a young man, he taught school in 
the towns of ( lardner and Ashby. He held 
a clerkship in Beaufort and Charleston, 
S. C, from 1864 to 1866. In 1866 he, with 
Henry C. Wilder, bought of R. S. Simonds, 
in Ashby, a tub and pail manufactory, under 
the firm name of Carr &: Wilder, continuing 
in business together until 1881. He has 
since carried on the business alone. 

Mr. Carr was married in Ashby, January 
12, 1870, to Hattie M., daughter of William 
and Fanny L. Whitney. This union has 
been blessed with a family of six children : 
Blanche L., Bertha G., Helen F., Lawrence 
Whitney, Arthur W., and Myron A. Carr. 

Mr. Carr served as representative to the 
General Court in 1874 and 1883. He has 



been selectman, town clerk, and superin- 
tendent of schools. He is president of 
the Soldiers' Memorial Association, and 
has been a member of the church finance 
committee, and an officer in the Sabbath- 
school of the Congregational church, of 
which he is a member. 

Mr. Carr enlisted in the ist Massachusetts 
cavalry, September 25, 1861, and served 
three years in North and South Carolina, 
Florida, and Virginia. He was in Gen. 
Grant's army at the siege of Petersburg, \'a., 
and was subsequently honorably discharged 
at the expiration of his term of service. 

His father and mother are living, the 
former aged eighty and the latter seventy- 
five. 

Mrs. Carr's father is still living at the 
advanced age of ninety-one, and is father 
of Myron W. Whitney, the celebj'ated 
basso of Boston. 

The subject of this sketch, with his wife, 
brother, sister and aged parents, all living 
quite near each other, may be mentioned 
as a pleasant family circle, exceptionally 
beloved in each other's life. 

CARRIGAN, Edward C, was born in 
England, March 15, 1850, of Irish parents, 
and died in Colorado, November 7, 1888. 
He came to this country in 1857, being 
but seven years of age. He was a vigor- 
ous, intellectual lad, and early determineil 
to make something of himself. When but 
thirteen years of age he enlisted as a 
drummer-boy in the ist Vermont regiment, 
and was twice wounded in action. After 
leaving the army, he studied at Woodstock, 
Vt., Dean Academy, Boston evening high 
school, and entering Dartmouth College, 
was graduated in the class of 1877. He 
was a member of the Dartmouth Chapter 
of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, secretary 
of the Alumni Association of New England, 
and a member of the board of councilors 
of the Alumni. 

After leaving college he devoted himself 
to journalism, serving with characteristic 
energy the " Herald," " Globe," and " Jour- 
nal " of the city of Boston. In 1880 he 
entered the law office of Gen. Benjamin F. 
Butler, where he continued to successfully 
prosecute his life work. He was a grad- 
uate of the Boston University law school. 

While studying law he passed the ex- 
amination of the Boston school board for 
a certificate of the highest grade, giving 
him the rank of head master of the Latin 
and high school. In 1881 the school 
board placed him at the head of the Bos- 
ton evening high school, of which he had 
been a pupil. This school rapidly ad- 



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CARRINGTON. 



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vanced under his mastership into popuhir 
favor, and in less tlian three years became 
generally recognized as the leading insti- 
tution of its kind in the country. 

On resigning his position to devote his 
time exclusively to his profession, the 
school board placed on record its unquali- 
fied appreciation of his great ability and 
the invaluable work he had done. In 1883 
he was appointed by Governor Butler a 
member of the state board of education, a 
position for which he was eminently fitted. 

Mr. Carrigan was always the champion 
of evening and industrial schools, compul- 
sory education of illiterate minors, anil the 
teachers' tenure of office, with a pension 
from the State after a forty years' .service. 
His influence on educational legislation 
was ever felt as a power in the advance of 
school reform. He believed the State to 
be the guardian of the popular education 
of her children, that they should receive 
their foundation training in schools super- 
vised by the representatives of the people. 




EDWARD C. CARRIGAN. 

His best efforts were put forth for the 
free text-book act of 1884, the illiterate 
minor bill, the evening school law of 1S88, 
and the general English high school act. 

He was appointed by Governor Butler 
a delegate to the inter-state education con- 
vention in Kentucky in 18S3, and was 



chairman of the congressional committee 
of the American Institute of Instruction. 
He was a member of several of the lead- 
ing literary and musical clubs of Boston. 
Mr. Carrigan was unmarried. 

CARRINGTON, Henry Beebee, son 

of Miles McCleave and Mary (Beebee) 
Carrington, was born at Wallingford, New 
Haven county. Conn., March 24, 1824, his 
mother still surviving, with unimpaired 
faculties, at the age of ninety-four. His 
grandfather, James Carrington, manu- 
facturer and inventor, was partner of Eli 
Whitney; and his great-grandfather, Cap- 
tain Jeremiah Carrington, entertained 
Washington at his house in 1789. His 
maternal grandfather and great-grandfather 
graduated at Yale, the latter in 1745, and 
took part in the old French and Indian 
war. The subject of this sketch graduated 
in 1845, giving up the West Point course 
because of lung troubles. 

He l)ecame professor of natural science 
and Greek at the Irving Institute, Tarry- 
town, N. Y., in 1846; was for a time 
amanuensis for Washington Irving, and 
under his advice began " The Battles of 
the American Revolution," which was 
completed in 1876, after personal sur- 
veys and exceptional access to European 
records. 

While at Yale law school he was also 
professor of natural science at Root's New 
Haven Institute. He practiced law at Col- 
umbus, Ohio, with Perry & Carrington, 
then for nine years with Dennison & Car- 
rington, became and still is a member of 
the United States supreme court bar, and 
was attorney for the leading Ohio railroads 
until 1861. 

He took active part in the organization 
of the Republican party in 1854, being 
chairman of the committee appointed by 
the state convention of July 13, 1854, to 
combine opposition to the extension of 
slavery. As the confidential friend of 
Salmon P. Chase, he stumped Ohio with 
him, in two gubernatorial campaigns, and 
as his adjutant-general, published a military 
work in 1858, and organized the militia, 
with direct view to the contingency of 
civil war. Within sixty hours after the 
first call, in 1861, twenty companies were 
started for Washington, and nine militia 
regiments were soon placed in West Vir- 
ginia. The thanks of the government were 
followed by his appointment as colonel of 
the 1 8th U. S. infantry, upon the recom- 
mendation of Generals Scott and Wool, and 
assignment to the organization of the 
regular regiments at the West. By special 



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CARTER. 



order he also aided to organize the Ohio 
regiments until July i, 1861. 

He served under Buell and Thomas; was 
assigned by General Rosecrans to the com- 
mand of the regular brigade; but during 
the Kirby Smith invasion of 1862, was, at 
the urgent request of Governor O. P. Mor- 
ton, assigned to the protection of the Ohio 
border, and mustering service, with head- 
quarters at Indianapolis. He was promoted 
brigadier-general November 29, 1862. Dur- 
ing this period he exposed the treasonable 
order of the " Sons of Liberty ; " received 
special acknowledgments from General 
Sherman for services in forwarding troops 




HENRY B. CARRINGTON. 

and maintaining communications with the 
front, and from Governor Bramlette, for 
aid in raising the siege of Frankfort in 1864. 

In 1865 he rejoined the army of the 
Cumberland. At the end of the war he 
took command of the Rocky Mountain 
district, opened a wagon route to Montana, 
built forts on the line, in the midst of con- 
stant hostilities; and, on account of a severe 
wound, was retired from active service in 
1870. He served as military professor at 
Wabash College, Ind., until 1879, while 
completing his historical works, and re- 
moved to Boston in 1882. 

He was for some years trustee of Mari- 
etta College, Ohio; received literary honors 



at home and abroad; the courtesies of the 
Athenaeum and other London clubs, of the 
British Association of Science; the Royal 
Geographical, the Royal .\nthropological, 
and other British societies. He escorted 
the Prince of Wales from Cincinnati to 
Columbus in 1859, and was of the escort 
of President-elect Lincoln, as far as Colum- 
bus, in 1861. 

His published works, other than histori- 
cal, scientific and educational pamphlets 
and addresses, are, " Scourge of the Alps," 
(1847), "Russia among the Nations," 
(1849); " Crisis Thoughts," (1861); "Hints 
to Soldiers taking the Field," (1862); 
" Battles of the American Revolution " (4th 
thousand) ; ".\bsaraka, or Indian Opera- 
tions on the Plains" (6th ed.); "Ocean to 
Ocean;" "The Washington Obelisk and 
Its Voices," (1888); "Patriotic Reader, or 
Human Liberty Developed," (1889). He 
has in preparation "Battles of the Bible." 
" Pre-Christine Assurances of Immortal- 
ity," " Patriotic Manual for Intermediate 
Schools," " History as a Patriotic Force," 
" The Rent Veil and other poems, light and 
grave," and "The Dream of Columbus 
Developed." 

General Carrington first married Marga- 
ret Irvin, eldest daughter of Joseph Sul- 
livant, Columbus, Ohio, grand-daughter of 
Col. Joseph McDowell, Danville, Ky. 
Two children survive: Henry Sullivant, 
(Illinois Central R. R. Co.) and James 
Beebee, associated with "Scribner's Alaga- 
zine." His second wife was Fannie, widow 
of Lieut. Geo. W. Grummond, V. S. A. (a 
son, Wm. A\'ands surviving), third daugh- 
ter of Robert and Eliza Jane Courtney, 
Franklin, Tenn. Their children are ; Rob- 
ert Chase, Henrietta and Jane Eliza. 

CARTER, Charles Ernest, son of 

Charles H. and Maria A. (Keenan) Carter, 
was born June i, 1850, at Lyndeborough, 
Hillsborough county, N. H. 

His earlv education was obtained in the 
public schools of the city of Lawrence, 
Mass. He came to Lowell in 1865, and 
his first connection in business was in 
i873> when he there started on his own 
account as a druggist, in which line he has 
continued ever since, building up a trade 
that has placed him among the successful 
merchants of the city of his adoption. 

He was married in Lowell, December 4, 
1872, to Julia A., daughter of William and 
Mary A. (Butterfield) Tyler. Their chil- 
dren are : Juliet B., William T., Edward 
E., Joseph W., Edith A. and Ruth Carter. 

Air. Carter has devoted most of his time 
to the prosecution of his business, and has 



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105 



not sought municipal or legislative honors. 
He consented, however, to serve as alder- 
man in 1888, and in 1889 he represented his 
city in the lower branch of the Legisla- 
ture, serving upon the standing House com- 
mittee on finance and the joint committee 
on expenditures. He is a member of the 
William North Lodge of Masons, and of 
the Mt. Horeb Commandery, K. T. 

CARTER, Franklin, son of Preserve 
Wood and Ruth Wells (Holmes) Carter, 
was born in Waterbury, New Haven 
county. Conn., September 30, 1837. 

His early education was obtained in the 
boarding-school of Amos Smith, New 
Haven. His preparatory college course 
was passed in Phillips Academy, Andover, 
where he was graduated valedictorian in 
the class of 1855. He entered Yale Col- 
lege the same year, where he remained 
two years, but was forced to leave by a 
severe hemorrhage. 

He traveled for three years, then entered 
Williams College in i860, from which he 
was graduated in the class of 1862. He 
was appointed professor of Latin and 
French in 1863, and after spending eight- 
een months in Europe, entered upon his 
duties in 1865. He was appointed profes- 
sor of the German language and literature 
in Yale College in 1872, held this chair for 
nine years, and was elected president of 
Williams College, Williamstown, in 1S81, 
which responsible and honorable position 
he still holds. 

President Carter was married in Water- 
bury, Conn., February 24, 1863, to Sarah 
Leavenworth, daughter of Charles Deni- 
son, and Eliza (Leavenworth) Kingsbury. 
Of this union were four children : Charles 
Frederick (1864), Alice Ruth (1865), Ed- 
ward Perkins (1870), and Franklin Carter, 
Jr. (1878). 

He was president of the Gospel LTnion, 
New Haven, three years ; is now president 
of the International Committee of Work 
for Boys ; trustee of Andover Theological 
Seminary ; corporate member of A. B. C. 
F. M. ; trustee of Clarke Institution for 
Deaf Mutes at Northampton ; fellow of 
the American Academy. 

He received the degree of A. B. from 
Williams, 1862 ; A. M. from Dickinson, 
1863, Williams, 1865, and Yale 1874; Ph. D. 
from Williams, 1877, and LL. D. from 
Union, 1881. He was president of the 
Modern Language Association of America 
1884 to '86, and the first president of the 
Berkshire Congregational Club, an associa- 
tion of Congregationalists in Berkshire 
countv. He has been a contributor to 



various journals, and published an edition 
of the •' Iphigenia auf Tauris," in 1879. 

CARTER, Henry, was bom in Bridg- 
ton, Cumberland county, Me., in 1814. 
His mother, who belonged to the distin- 
guished Hamlin family of Maine, died when 
he was but two years, and his father, John 
Carter, when he was twelve years of 
age. 

He then lived with an uncle, his guar- 
dian, at Bridgton, and attended the well- 
known academy there, with the expectation 
of a collegiate course. At the age of six- 
teen, being informed by his guardian that 
the small estate left by his father was 
exhausted, and that the idea of a college 
course must be abandoned, he, without 
asking advice of anyone, immediately set 
out, on foot, for the city of Portland, forty 
miles distant, and found employment in 
the office of the " Advertiser," where he 
remained a year. He then went to Paris 
Hill, where his relative, Hannibal Hamlin, 
was at that time publishing the " Jeffer- 
sonian," and worked on that paper as a 
printer with Mr. Hamlin and Horatio 
King, now of Washington City. When 
Mr. Hamlin sold his interest in the paper, 
Mr. Carter also left and began the study 
of law, teaching a district school in the 
winter, and they were both students at law 
in the office of J. G. Cole, on Paris Hill, 
about one year. 

Being still desirous of obtaining a higher 
education, he secured, through the influ- 
ence of Dr. Cornelius Holland, then con- 
gressman for the Oxford district, an ap- 
pointment to the West Point Military 
Academy. Two years later, while at home 
on a furlough, an article contributed to the 
" Kennebec Journal " so pleased the editor 
of that paper that he advised Mr. Carter to 
resign his cadetship and engage in jour- 
nalism. This advice was followed, and he 
became, for nearly two years, a journalist 
at Augusta, Me., connected with the 
" Kennebec Journal." During these years, 
however, he devoted all his spare time to 
the study of law, and in April, 1836, was 
admitted to the Kennebec county bar. 
In June of the same year he was married 
to Elizabeth Jane Caldwell, of Augusta, 
Me., and returning to his native town, 
commenced the practice of his profession. 
In 1841 he was appointed county attorney 
for the county of Cumberland, by Gov- 
ernor Kent, and held that office until the 
Whigs went out of power in Maine. In 
1847 he removed to Portland and took 
editorial charge of the "Advertiser," then 
the leading Whig paper in the state. 



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CARTER 



In 1849 Mr. Carter was elected repre- 
sentative from Portland to the Legislature, 
and was re-elected to that office for three 
successive years. He was appointed by 
Governor Hubbard a commissioner to 
establish the reform school. Subsequently 
he was appointed by (lovernor Crosby a 
trustee of this institution, which office he 
held until his resignation on removal to 
Massachusetts. He was appointed judge 
of the municipal court of Portland, by 
Governor Anson P. Morrill. 

In 1856 he was chosen by the Republi- 
can members of the Legislature a clelegate- 
at-large to the first national Republican 
convention at Philadelphia,and was selected 
as a member of the committee on plat- 
form, with Francis P. Blair, Judge E. R. 
Hoar, of Massachusetts, and other distin- 
guished men. 

In 1857 he removed to Bradford, Mass., 
intending to devote himself to the practice 
of his profession, but during the war, tak- 
ing a lively interest in public affairs, he was 
elected one year to the House of Repre- 
sentatives and two years to the Senate. In 




HENRY CARTER 

1S76 he was a delegate to the national 
Republican convention at Cincinnati. 

In 1868 he was appointed, by Governor 
Bullock, judge of the municipal court of 
the Haverhill ilistrict, which position he 



now holds. He is also chairman of the 
board of commissioners on the Iioundary 
que'stion between Massachusetts and New 
Hampshire. 

Judge Carter's children by his first wife 
are four sons : John H., Eugene, Walter, 
and Robert G., and two daughters : Kate 
and Amelia. Two of the sons, Eugene 
and Robert G., are graduates from \Vest 
Point. All of them served in the war of 
the rebellion. 

He contracted a second marriage, July 
28, 1882, with Mrs. Mary F. (i)wight) 
Webb, of Winchester, with whom he is now 
living. 

CARTER, Solomon, oldest son of 
Solomon and Elizabeth (White) Carter, 
was born in Lancaster, Worcester county, 
January 19, 1816. He had three brothers ; 
William H., who settled in Chicago and 
was chairman for many years of the board 
of public works of that city ; George P., 
a prominent citizen of Cambridge, for 
many years chairmar^ of the board of wa- 
ter works, and a member of the executive 
council of the State — both now deceased ; 
and James C, a distinguished lawyer of 
New York City, now living. 

His educational training was acquired in 
his native town, with the exception of two 
terms in Master Whitney's then well-known 
evening school in'Harvard Place, opposite 
the Old South Church, in the cit)' of 
Boston. 

He served a short time as boy in a re- 
tail dry goods store ; afterwards an appren- 
tice in the drug store of Gregg cSc Hollis, 
and Thomas Hollis. He began a retail 
business in 1S39 at the \\'est End ; removed 
to Hanover Street, where he continued in 
the wholesale and retail business for about 
thirty years, under the style of Solomon 
Carter, Solomon Carter <S: Co., Carter, 
Wilson & Co., Carter, Colcord & Preston, 
and Carter, Rust & Co. He then sold out 
and formed a new concern on Washington, 
opposite School Street, under the style of 
Carter & Wiley ; he some time afterwards 
bought out Mr. Wiley and formed a new 
connection under the style of Carter, Har- 
ris iS: Hawley, The present style of the 
Hrm is Carter, Carter & Kilham, who 
occupy one of the most attractive buildings 
on Washington Street. He now remains 
the oldest dealer in active trade in the 
State, and from small beginnings has built 
up a business which has beiome one of the 
largest in the city of Boston. 

Mr. Carter was a member of the city 
council in 1849 and '50 ; of the board of 
aldermen in 1857, and also served two 



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107 



)'ears in the board of assessors ; was a 
member of the Legislature in 1869 and '70. 
He is now president of the old Mercantile 
Library Association, which ofiice he has 
held for several years. 



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SOLOMON CARTER, 

He was married in Lancaster, April 10, 
1845, to Abby, daughter of Levi and Abi- 
gail (Ballard) Lewis, of that town. Of this 
union were four children : Frank Edward 
(deceased September 22, 1881), Fred L., 
now associated in business with his father, 
Herbert L., and Clarence H. Carter. 

Mr. Carter was an ardent Whig in 1840, 
and an equally active Republican in the 
election of the second Harrison in 1888. In 
forty years, with four exceptions, he 
never missed casting his vote nor distribut- 
ing votes at the polls on election day, 
whether city, state, or national. As a 
business man and citizen, he is known for 
his uniform courtes)' and unquestioned in- 
tegrity. 

CARTER, William, son of John and 
Mary (Carey) Carter, was born in.Alfreton, 
England, February 25, 1830. His educa- 
tion was obtained in the English common 
schools. 

His first business in this country was 
the manufacture of cardigan jackets, 
Highlandville. He subsequently took in 
partners, and the concern was known by 



the firm name of Lee, Carter & Co., and 
William Carter & Co. At present they 
manufacture silk and woolen goods. 

Mr. Carter came to America in 1857, 
without means, but possessed of health, 
energy, and perseverance. He soon was 
in possession of means secured by his own 
thrift to manufacture for himself, or be 
received as partner in one of the leading 
industries. His efforts have been crowned 
with success. 

He has for years been a member of the 
board of selectmen and of the school 
board. He is connected with the Metho- 
dist Episcopal church, and for four years 
past he has been superintendent of the 
Sunday-school. 

Mr. Carter was first married in Gedling, 
England, December 25, 1853, to Hannah, 
daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Horsely) 
Truman. The issue of this marriage now 
living is one child : Frank C. Carter. He 
was married again September 2, 1863, in 
Newton Centre, to Martha, daughter of 
Mark and Phebe (Wigley) Lee. Of this 
union are four children ; William H., John 
J., Mary E., and Horace A. Carter, all liv- 
ing. His third marriage occurred in Brook- 
line, April 23, 1874, with Jane G., daugh- 
ter of Jonathan and Eunice L. (Arnold) 
.\very. Tiieir children now living are : 
Lucy A. and Roscoe A. Carter. 

CARVILL, Alphonso Holland, .son 

of Sewall and Tamar (Higgins) Carvill, 
was born in Lewiston, .\ndroscoggin coun- 
ty, Me., February 4, 1843. 

Having passed through the common 
schools of Lewiston, he fitted for college 
at the Maine State Seminary (now Bates 
College) and the Edward Little Listitute 
(Auburn). He entered Tufts College in 
1862, and was graduated therefrom in the 
class of 1866. In 1869 he was graduated 
from the Harvard medical school, and 
the same year received the degree of 
A. M. from Tufts College. 

From 1869 to 1873 he practiced medi- 
cine and surgery in Minnesota, but returned 
to the East in May, 1873, and settled in 
Somerville, where he is still in practice. 

He is a member of the American Listi- 
tute of Homoeopathy, Massachusetts Ho- 
moeopathic Medical Society, Boston Ho- 
miEopathic Medical Society, and several 
medical clubs. He has always taken an 
active interest in temperance and educa- 
tional affairs, and has served on school 
boards twelve years. 

Dr. Carvill was married in Cambridge, 
.\ugust 17, 1869, to Mima S., daughter of 
John and Elizabeth (Swanson) Cray. Of 



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GATE. 



this union are two children ; Sewall Albert 
and Lizzie Maud Carvill. 

GATE, George NEAL, son of Moses 
and Abigail (Brewster) Gate, was born 
December ii, 1S24, at Wolfborough, 
Carroll county, N. H. The facilities of- 
fered for an early education were very 
slight, but at eighteen years of age, Mr. 
Gate had fitted himself to teach, and 
secured a position in Rochester, N. H., 
which he held for two years. At the close 
of the term, in the spring of 1843, he came 
to Boston seeking a fortune, and secured 
employment at Ashland (then Unionville) 
to learn the trade of house builder. For 




GEORGE N. CATE. 

five years after completing his service, he 
remained in Ashland, carrying on the 
lumber business and house carpentering. 
At this period his health was so seriously 
affected that for three years he was obliged 
to abandon all labor, but in 1856 had so 
far recovered as to begin, in Marlborough, 
upon a limited scale, the lumber and con- 
tracting business, in which he is still en- 
gaged. 

August 25, 1857, Mr. Gate married 
Gharlotte A., daughter of Mark and .Sophia 
(Brigham) Fay, of Marlborough, who died 
in i860, and their only child, a son, died 
the following year. In August, 1869, Mr. 
Gate married Adelle E. Glidden of Lowell. 



Mr. Gate was a delegate to the first Free 
Soil convention in Worcester, in 1848, has 
been a director in the People's National 
Bank of Marlborough, and is now a direct- 
or in the First National Bank, and trustee 
of the Marlborough Savings Bank. He 
has been a member of the L^nited Brethren 
Lodge of A. F. & A. M. for thirty years, 
and a charter member of the Houghton 
R. A. Ghapter, of Marlborough, and other 
societies. 

GATE, George W., son of Jonathan 
Gate, was born in Northwood, Rockingham 
county, N. H., March 10, 1834. 

He obtained his preliminary education in 
the public schools of his native town, fitted 
for college at the Blanchard Academy, 
Pembroke, N. H., entered Dartmouth Gol- 
lege, 1857, and was graduated in 1861. 
Farm work and a shoe-maker's trade gave 
him the practical side of life in early years 
— his work on the bench supplying him 
with the funds requisite for his academic 
expenses. Before and after entering col- 
lege he employed what time he could spare 
from the prosecution of his studies, in 
teaching. 

After his graduation he entered the law 
office of S. (j. Glarke of Northwood, taught 
school the following winter in Portsmouth, 
N. H., and afterward served as assistant 
assessor of the L^nited States Internal Rev- 
enue. In January, 1863, he entered the law 
office of Hon. \\'. W. Sticknev, Exeter, 
N. H. 

While a student in Judge Stickney's of- 
fice he was appointed school commissioner 
for Rockingham county, and re-appointed 
the following year. He was chosen secre- 
tary of the New Hampshire state board of 
education in 1865. 

While still a law student, he taught the 
high school in New Market, N. H., two 
terms. He was admitted to practice law 
in the supreme court of New Hampshire, 
October, 1865. In 1866 he removed to 
Amesbury, Mass., where he opened an of- 
fice and engaged in the practice of his pro- 
fession, retaining his residence there up to 
date. 

On January i, 1873, Mr. Gate was mar- 
ried in Amesbury, to Garoline C., daughter 
of David Batchelder. 

For several years he was a member of 
the school board of Amesbury. He has 
served two years, 1878 and '79, in the state 
Senate, being elected from the 4th Essex 
district. He was a delegate to the national 
Republican convention in Ghicago, 1884. 
In 1868 he was appointed one of the trial 
justices of Esse.\ county, which ofiice he 



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CHAMBERLAIN. 



109 



held until May i, 1888, when the second 
district court of Essex was established. In 
1885 he was appointed by Governor Robin- 
son one of the commissioners to ascertain 
and establish the true boundary line be- 
tween the State of New Hampshire and 




GEORGE W. GATE. 

this Commonwealth. He was appointed 
justice of the second district court of Esse.x, 
May I, 1888, which position he still retains. 

CH.ALIFOUX, JOSEPH L., son of 
Joseph and Odile (Daunais) Chalifoux, 
was born in St. Henri de Mascouche, P. Q., 
December 20, 1850. He comes of an 
ancient and honorable stock, the Chalifoux 
family having resided in this place for up- 
wards of a hundred years. 

He received a common school educa- 
tion, followed by an attendance at Masson 
College, Terrebonne, P. Q. He afterward 
spent two years in the drug business in 
Montreal. 

In 1868 he came to Lowell, Mass., and 
for six years was clerk in a clothing store. 
In 1874 he went into business for himself, 
as retail clothier, in which business he still 
remains. 

Mr. Chalifoux was married in Lowell, 
August 6, 1876, to Nellie M., daughter of 
James and (Ellen) C.allagher. Miss Galla- 
gher had been principal of Mann grammar 
school for three years previous to date of her 



marriage. Of this union are four cliildren: 
Paul, Alice, Ada, and Harry Chalifoux. 

Mr. Chalifoux has been a director of the 
Old Lowell National Bank since January, 
1887. Since April, 1887, he has conducted 
a branch business in Manchester, N. H., of 
the same character as his Lowell house. 
He is an eminently successful business man, 
a leading representative of his native coun- 
trymen, who have proved so loyal to the 
institutions of their adopted home. 

CHAMBERLAIN, GEORGE Dana, son 
of Jason and Betsey (iSurnap) Chamber- 
lain, was born at Westborough, Worcester 
county, June 4, 1828. 

He was educated at the Leicester Acad- 
emy and passed his early years on the 
milk farm of his father — the pioneer in 
the business of supplying the city of Bos- 
ton with milk by rail. In 1849 he went 
to Framingham and engaged in the beef 
Inisiness with his brother. Ten years later 
he removed his business to Brighton. For 
forty years the partnership of N. .S: Cr. 11. 
Chamberlain has continued, holding a lead- 




GEORGE D. CHAMBERLAIN. 

ing and honorable place in the trade, and 
for nearly the entire time, the brothers 
have resided side by side in the city of 
Cambridge. 

After commencing the wholesale busi- 
ness, and being unwilling to slaughter on 



no 



CIIAMIiEKLAIN. 



CHAMIIERLAIX. 



Sunday, they arranged a rude cooling-box 
and were the first to appear in the Boston 
market with beef with the animal heat 
removed before shipment. They were 
among the first stockholders in the Brigh- 
ton abattoir. 

In 1S49 Mr. Chamberlain married Mary 
A., daughter of Timothy and Tolly (Flagg) 
Kendall of Sherborn. Their children are : 
Sophia Agnes, Lucy Alice (who died April, 
1867), Minnie Augusta, and Etta Trances 
Chamberlain. 

Mr. Chamberlain is an active member 
of the Tilgrim church, and has been a 
member of its standing committee since 
its foundation. He has served upon the 
board of aldermen, and for twelve years 
was upon the board of overseers of the 
poor. From i88i to '86 he represented 
his city in the lower house of the state 
Legislature, serving upon many important 
committees, including those on hquor law, 
public health, public charitable institutions, 
railroads, metropolitan police, and was 
chairman of the committee on banks and 
banking. He is an ardent Republican, 
and an advocate of radical temperance 
measures ; a man of strong convictions, 
highly esteemed and respected, and a 
valuable member of society. 

CHAMBERLAIN, Mellen, son of 
Moses and Mary (Foster) Chamberlain, was 
born at Tembroke, Merrimack county,N.H., 
June 4, 1S21. His father, a country mer- 
chant, like most of that 
days, cultivated a small 
which and the store, the 
and Pembroke .Academy, 
the first fifteen years of his life. 

His mother, a grand-daughter of Hon. 
Abiel Foster of Canterbury, for many 
terms in Congress between 1783 and 180 
was descended through President 
Rogers of Harvard College, from 
ernor Thomas Dudley. 

On the removal of the familv to 



class in those 
farm, between 
district school 
the son passed 



John 
Gov- 



cord, in 1816, Mr. Chamberlain, 



Con- 
alternat- 
ing between teaching, service in his fath- 
er's store, and the Concord Literary Insti- 
tute, prepared to enter Dartmouth College 
in 1S40, where he was graduated in 1S44 
with the class of which Rev. Dr. Alvah 
Hovey, Hon. Harvey Jewell, Hon. Am- 
brose A. Ranney, Gov. Charles H. Bell, 
and Col. John H. George were members. 

After teaching several years at Brattle- 
borough, Vermont, he became a member 
of the Dane law school, Cambridge, late 
in 1847, and there remained two years, 
having received the degree of LL. B. in 
course. 



Mr. Chamberlain opened an office in 
Boston, January, 1849, and June 6th of 
the same year married Martha .\nn, daugh- 
ter of Colonel Jesse and Elisabeth (Mer- 
riam) Putnam of Danvers. He began his 
married life at Chelsea, where he still 
resides, having served the town and city in 
various municipal offices. 

In 1858 and '59 he was a representa- 
tive from the 13th Suffolk district in the 
General Court, and a member of the 
special committee on the revision of the 
statutes. 

For the years 1863 and '64 he was in 
the state Senate, where, in the latter year, 




MELLEN CHAMBERLAIN. 

as chairman of the judiciar)^ committee, 
he took a leading part in the debates. 

In July, 1866, he was appointed judge of 
the municipal court of Boston, and after- 
wards, chief justice. This office he held 
until October, 1878, when he entered upon 
his duties as librarian-in-chief of the Bos- 
ton public librarv, which office he still 
holds. 

His taste for literary and historical 
studies has been cultivated by foreign 
travel, and he has made valuable collec- 
tions of manuscripts which illustrate Amer- 
ican history. 

Mr. Chamberlain is a corresponding 
member of the Royal Society of Northern 



CHAMBEKLAIiN. 



CHAMPLIN. 



Ill 



Antiquaries at Copenhagen, Denmark, as 
well as of several state historical socie- 
ties. Of the Massachusetts Historical 
Society he is a resident member, and his 
contributions of papers to its proceedings 
have been frecjucnt. In 1885 Mr. Cham- 
berlain received the degree of doctor of 
laws from Dartmouth College. 

The following are some of the subjects 
on which Mr. Chamberlain has written, 
generally, although not always, in a pam- 
phlet form : " The History of \\'innisim- 
met, Rumney Marsh, and Pullin Point " 
(1S80); "Daniel Webster as an Orator" 
(1882); " John Adams, the Statesman of the 
Revolution" (1884); "Samuel Maverick's 
Palisade House of 1630" (1885); "The 
Authentication of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence " (1885); Notes to " Sewall's Let- 
ter-Book " (1886); " Address at the Dedi- 
cation of Wilson Hall (Dartmouth College 
Library)" (1886); "The History of the 
People of the United States : A Review of 
McMaster's History "(1886); "Landscapes 
in Life and in Poetry " (1886); " Remarks 
at the Dedication of a Statue of Daniel 
Webster, at Concord, N. H." (1886); "Ad- 
dress at the Dedication of the Brooks 
Library Building at Brattleborough, Vt." 
(18S7); "The Constitutional Relations of 
the American Colonies to the P^nglish Gov- 
ernment at the Commencement of the Rev- 
olution" (1887); "The Revolution Im- 
pending: with a Critical Essay" (1888), 
and " f osiah (^uincv, the Great Mavor " 
(1889)." 

CHAMBERLAIN, NATHAN HENRY, son 
of Artemas White and Lydia Smith (Ellis) 
Chamberlain, was born in Sandwich, Barn- 
stable county, December 25, 1830. 

He was educated in the public schools of 
Sandwich and Barnstable, in the Sandwich 
Academy and at Paul Wing's private 
school in Sandwich. He was graduated 
from Harvard in 1S53, and immediately 
entered the Harvard divinity school, from 
which he was graduated in 1856. He also 
attended a course of lectures in Heidel- 
berg University, Germany. He was in- 
stalled pastor of the Unitarian church in 
Canton ; going from that place to a church 
of the same denomination in Baltimore, 
succeeding Dr. Burnap and Dr. Jared 
Sparks, afterwards president of Harvard 
College. 

In 1864 he changed his connection, 
entered the P^piscopal communion, and 
was ordained as rector of an Episcopal 
church at Birmingham, Conn. He after- 
ward served parishes in New York City, 
Milwaukee, and in Somerville and East 



Boston. He has been rector of the church 
in East Boston (St. John's) for seven 
years. 

Mr. Chamberlain has I)een twice married 
— first, February 19, 1855, to Hannah S. 
Tewksbury, of Boston, who died in j86i, 
and second to Marietta C, daughter of 
Simeon and Catharine (Cleveland) Hyde, 
of New York, April 9, 1870. He has been 
blessed with three children; Charles F., 
Henry D. and Ethel C. Chamberlain. 

Mr. Chamberlain has lately resigned his 
pastorate, retiring to Bourne, where he is 
possessed of estates. 

He is the author of " The Autobiogra- 
phy of ah Old New England Farm House," 
" Samuel Sewall and the World He Lived 
In," " The Sphin.x in Aubrey Parish," etc. 
He has always cherislied an ardent love 
for literature, and now, after thirty-five 
years of pastoral service, he proposes to 
pass the remainder of his days in accord- 
ance with his plans formed long ago. 

CHAMPLIN, ARTHUR B., son of Henry 
L. and Caroline A. (Tomlinson) Champlin, 
was born in Chelsea, Suffolk county, Feb- 
ruary 7, 1S5S. 




ARTHUR B. CHAMPLIN. 



He was educated in the public schools of 
the city. In 1874 he became a correspond- 
ent of the " Boston Daily (ilobe." In 1875 
he took the management of the " Chelsea 



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CHANDLER. 



CHANDLER. 



Record," and continued in charge until 
March, 1886. In April of the same year 
he started a new paper, the " Chelsea Ga- 
zette," which he successfully publishes at 
the present time. 

Mr. Cham|ilin was member of the com- 
mon council of Chelsea from 1881 to '86 
inclusive — the last two years president of 
the body. He was a member of the Legis- 
lature 1887 and '88, serving the first year as 
clerk of the committee on street railways, 
the second year, clerk of the committee on 
towns. 

Mr. Champlin was mayor of Chelsea in 
i88g, to which position he was elected by 
a large majority. He is a member of the 
order of F. & A. M., an Odd Fellow and 
Knight of Pythias. He is a member of the 
Winnisimmet Benevolent Society, of which 
he was secretary several years, also a mem- 
ber of many social organizations. He is a 
man of unquestioned ability and persistent 
energy. In politics he is a Republican. 

Mr. Champlin is unmarried. 

CHANDLER, HENRY HORATIO, son of 
Horatio Nelson and Louisa M. ((jilson) 
Chandler, was born in Chesterfield, Ches- 
hire county, N. H., July 25, 1837. 

He obtained his early education in the 
common schools of his native place. 

His first connection in business life was 
made with Mr. Barrett, Charlestown, 
Mass., in the dry-goods business, under the 
firm name of Barrett & Chandler. In 1861 
he bought Mr. Barrett's interest, and has 
since carried on the business alone. 

Mr. Chandler was married in Charles- 
town, November 27, 1862, to Sarah A., 
daughter of Moren and Sarah A. (.Mdrich) 
Knight. Of this union were two children : 
Luella C. and Henry N. Chandler. 

Mr. Chandler is a member of the Henry 
Price Lodge of Masons, also of the Bunker 
Hill Lodge of Odd Fellows ; he held the 
office of treasurer of the latter organiza- 
tion for five years. He is also a member 
of the Paul Revere Lodge of the Knight.s 
of Honor, and has served as its treasurer 
since its organization. 

He is a member of the ward and city 
committee, and also of the 6th congres- 
sional district committee, represented in 
Congress by Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge. 
He is treasurer of the board of trustees of 
Trinity Methodist church, and his resi- 
dence is Charlestown. 

CHANDLER, Peleg WHITMAN, son of 
Peleg and Esther (Parsons) Chandler, was 
born in New Gloucester, Cumberland 
county, Maine, April 12, 1816, and ilied in 



Boston, May 28, 1889. Peleg Chandler 
was a counselor-at-law, a graduate of 
Brown University, and died in 1848. His 
father, Peleg Chandler, was a native of 
Duxbury, being a direct descendant of 
Edmund Chandler, who emigrated from 
England to that place in the year 1633. 
The home in New Gloucester was made 
just prior to the Declaration of Independ- 
ence. The grandfather represented the 
town in the General Court of Massachusetts 
in 1774. The maternal grandfather of Mr. 
Chandler was Colonel Isaac Parsons, a 
native of Gloucester, who moved to Maine 
in 1 76 1. He was also a member of the 
General Court, and was an officer in the 
revolutionary army. 

Mr. Chandler fitted for college in the 
classical department of Bangor Theological 
Seminary. At the age of eighteen he 
graduated from Bowdoin College in the 
class of 1834. 

Mr. Chandler studied law in his father's 
office in Bangor, afterwards at the law 
school at Cambridge, completing his course 
with his kinsman, the late Professor The- 
ophilus Parsons, of Boston. He was admit- 
ted to the bar in 1837, and established 
himself in Boston. For half a century he 
practiced his profession with remarkable 
success. 

In 1S36, while yet a student, he be- 
came associated with the "Boston Daily 
Advertiser" as a reporter of legal proceed- 
ings. 

In 1838 he established the "Law Re- 
porter," a monthly law journal, continuing 
it for about ten years, when he sold it to 
Stephen H. Phillips, afterwards attorney 
general of the state. In 1848 Mr. Chand- 
ler published the first volume of "Ameri- 
can Criminal Trials," which was followed 
by another volume in 1844. These volumes, 
which are now out of print, were written in 
a way that persons unlearned in law find 
them very interesting. Mr, Chandler was 
elected to the common council in the city 
of Boston in 1843, and was its president in 
1844 and '45, when he declined a re-elec- 
tion. In 1844 he delivered the city oration 
on the 4th of July, the subject being "The 
Morals of Freedom." 

During the years 1844, '45, '46, '62 and 
'63, Mr. Chandler was a member of the 
House of Representatives. In June, 1846, 
he was chosen to succeed John Pickering 
as city solicitor, which oflice he held until 
his resignation, 1853. During that period 
he prepared and printed a volume contain- 
ing the ordinances of the city of Boston, 
and the digest of the laws relating thereto, 



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113 



most of the ordinances beins: re-drawn by 
him. After his resignation as city solicitor, 
he was appointed to revise the city charter 
and subsequent laws affecting it, and also 
to carry the same through the General 
Court. During the year 1849, while a 
United States commissioner of bankrujitcy, 
he published a work on the national laws 
concerning bankruptcy. In 1850 he was a 
member of the executive council, when 
Emory Washburn was governor. 

To Mr. Chandler much is due for the 
reclaiming of the so-called " Back Bay " 
territory, and the act- in 1859, providing 
for the general improvement in that part 
of the city, and the establishing of the 




PELEG W. CHANDLER. 

Public Garden, was drawn by him. This 
act, which secured to Boston one of the 
most beautiful city gardens in the world, 
was submitted to the citizens, and by them 
accepted by a heavy majority. He was 
House chairman of the committee on water 
supply for Boston, and reported and suc- 
cessfully advocated the passage of the act 
to provide Boston with pure water. In 
i860 Mr. Chandler was presidential elector 
at the first election of .\braham Lincoln 
as president. 

In 1867 Mr. Chandler published a strik- 
ing essay on the "Authenticity of the Gos- 
pels," which afterwards appeared in book 



form, and has passed through several edi- 
tions. 

Mr. Chandler received the degree of 
LL. D. many years ago from Bowdoin Col- 
lege, and was an active member of its 
board of trustees. He was one of the 
oldest members of the Massachusetts His- 
torical Society, acting as its treasurer sev- 
eral years, standing at his death third on 
the list of active membership — Robert C. 
Winthrop and George E. Ellis preced- 
ing him. .\t the request of the society, 
he prepared a memoir of Governor An- 
drew, which appears in their proceedings. 
This memoir was afterwards greatly en- 
larged, and printed in a separate volume in 
1880. 

Mr. Chandler's career in law, literature 
and politics was characterized by marked 
industry, fearlessness and conscientious 
devotion to duty, making his work a 
credit to himself and to the community 
whose respect and confidence he so long 
enjoyed. 

In 1837 Mr. Chandler married, in Bruns- 
wick, Me., Martha Ann Bush, daughter of 
the late Professor Parker Cleveland, of 
Bowdoin College. Mrs. Chandler died in 
November, 1881, leaving a daughter and 
two sons : Ellen Maria, Horace Parker, 
and Parker Cleveland Chandler. 

CHANDLER, Seth, son of Roger and 
Lydia (Marshall) Chandler, was born in 
New Ipswich, Hillsborough county, N. H., 
December 2,1806. His grandfather. Dea- 
con James Chandler, was of the earliest 
settlers of New Ipswich, and was a lineal 
descendant from Roger Chandler, who took 
such an important part in the Plymouth 
Colony and settled in Du.xbury. 

In early boyhood Mr. Chandler was ap- 
prenticed to learn the trade of a machinist, 
at which he worked for a few years, but 
with a growing determination to enter the 
Christian ministry. Obtaining his educa- 
tion by difficult means, and through the 
aid of a private instructor, he was ordained 
as an evangelist in 1831, and a little later 
accepted an invitation to supply the small 
society in Oxford, Mass., where he remained 
two years. He then became the pastor of 
the First Congregational parish in Shirley, 
where he has passed the remainder of his 
active ministry. He began work in this 
parish, June, 1834, and continued his labors 
there for forty-five years, when age re- 
quired him to retire. He still resides in 
Shirley, at the advanced age of eighty-two 
years. 

Mr. Chandler was married on the i6th of 
August, 1831, to Arvilla, daughter of Jo- 



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(.HAnX. 



seph and Julia (Adams) Tenney of New- 
Ipswich. His wife died in i8Si. 

He was a member of the school board in 
Shirley for forty-two years, and treasurer 
of the town for seventeen years. He has 
not onlv been an active worker in his 




the years 1877, '78, and was on the board 
of assessors in Charlestown and Boston 
from 1867 to '79, and was one of the 
commissioners to carry into effect the act 
of annexation of Charlestown to Boston. 

Mr. Chapin is a veteran and pioneer in 
educational circles, having for twenty-one 
consecutive years been in active service 
upon the school boards in Boston and 
Charlestown. His wide experience and 
practical knowledge have proved him an 
invaluable member of this most important 
of the city's varied interests, and his con- 
scientious work has earned him the title of 
the "fighting member." He was influen- 
tial in changing the system of furnishing 
material for the different school depart- 
ments, and secured the order creating the 
committee on supplies, which has proved 
to be of great value financially, and in 
every way satisfactory. He served upon 
the common council in Charlestown from 
1S56 to '60, and was upon the board of 
aldermen in 1861 and '72. 



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SETH CHANDLER. 

church and society, but has been the au- 
thor of several valuable papers on various 
subjects of popular interest. 

CH.4PIN, NaHUM, son of Harvey and 
Matte (Rossa) Chapin. was born in Jamai- 
ca. Windham county, Vt., July 16, 1820. 

His early education was received in the 
public schools of Waltham, where his 
parents settled in 1824. Subsequently he 
for four years attended Smith's Academy 
at Waltham. After graduating he became 
an apprenticed machinist at the Boston 
Manufacturing Company at Waltham, where 
he was made overseer four years later, 
which position he held for three years. 

In 1840 he ventured into the provision 
business in Charlestown, in which he re- 
mained for twenty years. In i860, under 
the firm name of Richardson & Chapin, he 
engaged in the distilling business, and in 
1877 the firm of Chapin, Trull iS: Co. was 
established, and still continues in success- 
ful operation, with works at Charlestown, 
and headquarters in Boston. He repre- 
sented ward 5 in the state Legislature in 




NAHUM CHAPIM, 

In 1 84 1, at Waltham, Mr. Chapin was 
married to Lucy, daughter of Zaccheus and 
Harriet Farwell. They have had four 
children : George Francis and Lucy E. F. 
Chapin, both of whom are married, and 
John Henry, and Nahum Harvey Chapin, 
both of whom are deceased, the latter be- 



CHASE. 



CHASE. 



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ing married, and dyin.ij at thirty-nine years 
of ajre. 

Mr. t'iiapin is one «f the trustees of the 
Warren Institution for Savinj^s, a inemiierof 
the standing committee of the Universalist 
society, a director in the Hunker Hill 
National 15ank ; he was a director for 
many years in the Middlesex Horse Rail- 
road, Boston Consolidated Street Railway 
and other corporations, and is one of the 
most esteemed on the roll of active mem- 
iicrsliip of the old City Cuard of Charles- 

t(JUIl. 

CHASE, Charles A., son of Anthony 
and Lydia (Earle) Chase, was born in 
Worcester, September 9, 1833. 

His foundation educational training was 
received in the public schools of Worcester, 
where he fitted for Harvard College. He 
was graduatcil in the class of 1855. After 
his graduation he was seven years on the 
editorial staff of the " Boston Daily Adver- 
tiser." 

From 1S65 to '76 he was treasurer of 
the county of Worcester, and was register 
of deeds in 1876. He has been treasurer 
of Worcester County Institution for Sav- 
ings since November, 1879. 

Mr. Chase was married in Boston, April 
29, 1862, to Mary T., daughter of John 
and Mary ((iorman) Clark. They have two 
children : M. Alice and Maud E. Cha.se. 

Mr. Chase is councilor of the Ameri- 
can Anticpiarian Society, treasurer of the 
\\'ashl)urn Memorial Hospital, director 
of the Worcester National Bank, and of 
the Merchants & Farmers Fire Insurance 
Company. 

CHASE, Henry Adams, son of Edwin 
and Maria (Adams) ('base, was born 
in Nashua, Hillsborough county, N. H., 
August 4, 1840. He received his educa- 
tion in the public schools, the high school 
of Holyoke, Mass., being his last place of 
attendance. 

In 1 86 1 he engaged in the lumber busi- 
ness with his father and brother, under the 
firm name of E. Chase & Sons. The firm 
dissolved upon the death of the senior 
partner, since which event Mr. Chase has 
carried on the business as sole proprietor, 
but still under the old name. 

Mr. Chase was married in Burlington, 
^'l., June 19, 1 866, to Sarah J., daughter 
of Henry and ]'',lizabeth (I'^ldredge) Mayo. 
( )f this union are si.\ children : Edwin M., 
Henry .M., Charles A., J. Paul, Laura and 
Richard W. Chase. 

Mr. Chase has served as alderman of 
Holyoke two years — 1874 and '75 — and 



county commissioner six years — 1880 to 
'87. He was president of the Republican 
club 1888. He has been secretar)' and 
treasurer of Holyoke public library from 
1870 to the present time. 

His church connections are with the 
Second Baptist church, Holyoke, of whic4i 
he has been clerk, and he has served as 
president of the Y. M. C. A. He has been 
a resident of Holyoke for forty years. 

CHASE, RUFUS Dudley, son of Rufus 
and Miriam (Gore) Chase, was born in 
Halifax, Windham county, Vt., March 27, 
1823. 

He attended the public schools ; fitted 
for college in Wesleyan Academy, Wilbra- 




RUFUS D. CHASE. 

ham ; entered Dartmouth College 1841, 
and was graduated in the class of 1845. 

After graduating, he studied law with 
Asa Keyesand Royal Tyler, in Brattlebor- 
ough, \'t., and with Erasmus D. Beach in 
Springfield ; was admitted to the Franklin 
bar, March, 1849, and began practice of 
law in Orange, his present residence, Jan- 
uary 5, 1850. 

Mr. Chase was first married at 15eIlo\vs 
Falls, Vt., July 8, 1858, to Catharine ()., 
daughter of John and Abigail (Cook) Put- 
nam. Of this union were two children : 
Charles F., now living in lirookline, and 
Edward E. Chase, who died in infancy. 



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CHENEY. 



CHENEY. 



His second marriage was with Mrs. So- 
piironia W. Thompson, in Orange, January 
i8, 1886. Mrs. Thompson was the daugliter 
of Samuel and Rhoda (Huntress) Carll. 
They have one child, Fannie S. Chase, now 
living, and Arria M. Chase, who died while 
an infant. 

Mr. Chase has held various town offices ; 
has been town clerk for twenty-two years, 
and now holds the office, and has been 
successful in his general practice. He is 
regarded as a useful local counselor and 
office lawyer, critical in adjustment and 
preparation of cases, and has the reputa- 
tion, by his conscientious advice, of saving 
his clients long, expensive and often use- 
less litigation. 

CHENEY, Benjamin Pierce, was born 

in Hillsborough, Hillsborough county, N. 
H., August 12, 1815. His great-grand- 
father, Deacon Tristram Cheney, was one 
of the early settlers of Antrim, N. H., hav- 
ing been born in Dedham, moved to Frani- 
ingham, from there to Sudbury, and thence 
to Rindge, N. H., and sub.sequently to 
Antrim, where he located his homestead 
near Cork Bridge on what is known as the 
Diamond Dodge Place, where a number of 
children were born unto him. One of these, 
Elias, grandfather of Benjamin P., married 
first Miss Blanchard of \\'est Deering, N. 
H., and subsequently Miss Deborah Win- 
chester of Hillsborough. Unto him were 
born nine children, of whom Jesse, the 
father of Benjamin P., was one. He 
served four years in the revolutionary 
war, two years for himself, one for his 
father, and one for his brother. Jesse mar- 
ried Miss Alice Steele of Antrim, to whom 
si.x children were born : William, who died 
in infancy, Benjamin Pierce, James, Jesse, 
Gilman, and John. 

Mr. Cheney received his first education 
in the common schools, which he left at a 
very early age, the embarrassed circum- 
stances of his father rendering it necessary 
for him to exert himself for his own and 
the family's support. At the age of ten 
he was employed in his father's black- 
smith shop, and before he was twelve years 
of age was employed in a tavern and store 
in Francistown. Indoor life proved detri- 
mental to his health, and he purchased his 
time of his father, and at the age of sixteen 
drove a stage from Nashua to Exeter, N. 
H.; at seventeen, from Keene to Nashua, 
a distance of fifty miles a day, for six con- 
secutive years. 

At twenty-three he was sent to Boston, 
No. 1 1 Elm Street, to act as agent for the 
various lines radiating from Nashua and 



the Lowell iS: Nashua Railroad. At twenty- 
seven, he with ^VilIiam U'alker and Nathan- 
iel White, started an express from Boston 
to Montreal, which he continued, most of 





BENJAMIN P. CHENEY. 

the time under his own name, for nearly 
thirty-seven years, when it became merged 
into the American Express Company, he 
retaining a large interest in the company 
and remaining an officer until the present 
day. 

During this time Mr. Cheney became 
interested in the " Overland Mail " to San 
Francisco, and in Wells, Fargo & Co.'s E.x- 
press, and as a result he became one of the 
pioneers in the Northern Pacific and other 
western railroads. 

Mr. Cheney was married June 6, 1865, to 
Elizabeth S., daughter of Asahel Clapp. 
Three daughters and two sons are the 
fruit of this marriage. 

On the 17th of June, 1886, he presented 
to his native state, a bronze statue of 
Daniel Webster, costing some twelve thou- 
sand dollars. The statue was placed in the 
State House park in Concord, N. H. The 
pedestal is of the finest Concord granite, 
and was designed by 'I'homas Ball and exe- 
cuted by him at Florence, the casting being 
made at Munich. 

Mr. Cheney's residence is Boston, but he 
spends his summers on his Wellesley farm. 



CHOATE. 



CLAFLIN. 



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CHOATE, Charles Francis, son of 

Dr. Georsje and Margaret (Hodges) 
Choate, was born in Salem, P^ssex county. 
May 16, 1828. He is a lineal descendant 
of John Choate, the common ancestor of 
this distinguished family in Massachusetts. 
John Choate came from the west of Eng- 
land to the colonies about 1641. The 
coat-of-arms belonging to the Choate fam- 
ily indicates its knightly origin. 

The early education of Mr. Choate was 
received in the public schools of Salem, 
ending in the Salem Latin school, where 
he prepared for college. He was gradu- 
ated from Har\'ard in the class of 1849. 
He then became a tutor in mathematics, 
and while discharging the duties appertain- 
ing to his position, also attended the law 
and scientific schools of the university. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk county 
bar in September, 1855, and at once opened 
a law office in Boston. His legal practice 
was largely devoted to railroatl interests, 
including those of the Old Colony Rail- 
road Company, Boston & Maine Railroad 
Company, of which he was counsel. 

The knowledge and experience thus 
gained in twenty-two years of professional 
life eminently qualified him for the position 
he now holds. 

Mr. Choate's primary association with the 
Old Colony Railroad was in the capacity 
of counselor to the corporation, having 
been employed as such since 1865. In 
1872 he was elected to membership in the 
board of directors, and in 1877 was chosen 
president of the company by a unanimous 
vote. Since that time he has been honored 
with a consecutive annual re-election. 

Since his administration began, the 
record of the road has been one of contin- 
uous and remarkable prosperity. Simul- 
taneously with his election to the presi- 
dency of the Old Colony Railroad, he was 
elected to the presidency of the Old Colony 
Steamboat Company. 

Mr. Choate has been a director and vice- 
president of the New England Trust Com- 
pany for several years, and is vice-presi- 
dent of the Massachusetts Hospital Life 
Insurance Company ; but with these excep- 
tions he has declined to accept any office 
in addition to those in which he has won 
so much distinction, and the duties and 
responsibilities of which are sufficiently 
exacting for the abilities of any one admin- 
istrator. 

Mr. Choate was married in Utica, N. Y., 
November 7, 1855, to Elizabeth W., daugh- 
ter of Edward and Hannah (Thompson) 
Carlile. Of this union were five children : 



Edward C, Sarah C. (wife of J. Montgom- 
ery Sears), Margaret M., Helen, and 
Charles F. Choate, Jr. 

CLAFLIN, WlLLIA.M, son of Lee and 
Sarah (Adams) Claflin, was born in Mil- 
ford, Worcester county, March 6, 1818. 

He was educated in the public schools, 
in Milford Academy, where he prepared 
for college, and in Brown University, from 
which latter institution he was obliged to 
retire on account of ill health. 

He then worked in his father's manu- 
factory for three years. For many years 
he was engaged in the wholesale boot and 
shoe business in St. Louis, Mo. (having 
gone there for the recovery of his health), 
and later on in Boston. He was a mem- 
ber of the House of Representatives from 
1849 to '53, inclusive; member of the 
state Senate in i860 and '61, and president 
of the Senate the latter year ; lieutenant- 
governor in 1866, '67 and '68, and governor, 
in 1869 '70 and '71. 

In 1864 Mr. Claflin became a member of 
the national Republican executive com- 
mittee, and was its chairman from 1868 to 
'72. He was elected, as a Republican, to 
Congress from the 8th congre.ssional dis- 
trict, and served two terms, from October 
15, 1877, to March 4, 1881. 

In 1868 he received the degree of LL. I), 
from Wesleyan ITniversity, Middletown, 
Conn., and in 1869 the same degree from 
Harvard. 

In his commercial career, from a small 
beginning, Mr. Claflin by his tact and en- 
terprise built up a large and prosperous 
business in the West. He returned to Bos- 
ton with the purpose of establishing him- 
self in the manufacture of boots and shoes. 
His venture proved successful, and expan- 
sions in his business succeeded each other 
to keep pace with the increasing demands 
of trade, until he has become one of the 
proprietors of a number of boot and shoe 
factories in different parts of Massachu- 
setts, employing a very large number of 
workmen. He is senior partner in the 
house of Claflin, Coburn & Co., Boston. 

Mr. Claflin has two sons : Arthur B. and 
Adams D., and one daughter, Mrs. Emma 
C. Ellis. 

In politics Mr. Claflin has ever been a 
staunch Republican, and all of his political 
honors have been given at the hands of 
that party, although his character and repu- 
tation have won the confidence and hearty 
support of many of his political opponents, 
and frequently carried him into office ahead 
of his ticket. His religious training and 
convictions earlv identified him with the 



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CLAPP. 



CLAPP. 



communion of the Methodist Episcopal 
church. He is a member of the Boston 
Wesleyan Association, president of the 
trustees of Boston University, and promi- 
nent in all enterprises which have for an 
end the upbuilding and broadening the 
work of the denomination. His wise and 
conservative judgment is constantly sought 
by his business associates, and among other 
offices of honor and trust, he finds time to 
perform the duties of trustee of several 
mone3'ed institutions. 

Mr. Claflin resides in Newtonville, dis- 
pensing a generous hospitality character- 
istic of a prosperous and intelligent man 
of affairs. 

CLAPP, Charles Martin, son of Mar- 
tin Gillett and Mary Ann (Gillett) Clapp, 
was born in Watertown, Jefferson county, 
N. Y., July 5, 1834. Mr. Clapp's ancestors 
came from Devonshire, England, Edward 
Clapp coming to New England, and land- 
ing at Dorchester about 1633. 

He received his early education in the 
common schools, finished it and graduated 
at Monson Academy; soon after, he entered 
a country store and manufactory at South 
Deerfield, and went from therewith same 
employers to Boston, and continued with 
them until they terminated their Boston 
business. 

He engaged in the rubber business in 
1858, and has remained in it up to the 
present time — the firm since 1872 being 
C. M. Clapp &-Co. 

The firm of C. M. Clapp it Co. own and 
operate the large manufacturing establish- 
ment incorporated as " The .-Etna Rubber 
Mills." Mr. Clapp is president and treas- 
urer of the company. He is also inter- 
ested in other rubber companies. 

In 1865 Mr. Clapp was appointed United 
States Government inspector of rubber 
blankets, etc., in the quartermaster's de- 
partment, located at Cincinnati, O., and 
served until contracts for blankets were 
completed. 

Mr. Clapp is director of the Atlas Na- 
tional Bank, the Boston Lead Manufactur- 
ing Company, and the E, Howard Watch 
& Clock Company; trustee of Forest Hills 
Cemetery, and Home Savings Bank, and 
treasurer of the Commercial Club, and for 
the past twenty-one years has been a mem- 
ber of the standing committee of the 
Church of the Unity. 

Mr. Clapp has never seen his way clear 
to accept political office, and yet by his 
intelligent grasp of public affairs and inti- 
mate relations with leading business men, 
has contributed not a little to the success 



of those movements which reflect the sen- 
timent of the better class of the com- 
munity, and which promote the public 
weal. 

CLAPP, Egbert L, son of Luther and 
Lucy (Pomeroy) Clapp, was born in East- 
hampton, Hampshire county, June 15, 1842. 

Until twelve years of age he attended 
the North District school, Easthampton, 
then, after a lapse of several years, three 
terms in the English department, Williston 
Seminary, Easthampton. 

His business life began with his position 
as cashier for the Connecticut River Rail- 
road, Northampton station, 1866 to '73. 
From 1873 to '74 he was acting agent at 
same station. In 1874 he made a change 
in business, engaging in the fancy goods 
trade, St. Johnsbury, Vt. He removed to 
the state of Georgia the next year, and 
carried on the same line of trade in Charles- 
ton, S. C, and in Savannah and Atlanta, 
Ga. In 1877 he came back to Massachu- 
setts and settled in Northampton, engag- 
ing in the dry goods trade, which he con- 
tinued until the spring of 1885. 

He is now city clerk of Northampton, 
having been elected annually to that office, 
by the people, since the acceptance of a 
city charter, in 1883. 

Mr. Clapp was married in Northampton, 
April 27, 1869, to Annie L., daughter of 
William F. and Elizabeth (Clap])) Pratt. 
Of this union is one child: Bessie Pomeroy 
Clapp. 

Mr. Clapp served during the late civil 
war in the 31st regiment Massachusetts 
volunteers, known as the Western Bay 
State regiment of the New England divi- 
sion, from 1S61 to the close of the war in 
1865, one and one-half years as infantry 
and two and one-half years as cavalry, 
taking part in all campaigns in the Gulf 
department, including the Teche, Port 
Hudson, Red River and siege of Mobile, 
with the captures of Spanish Fort and 
Blakely. He was private, corporal, ser- 
geant, quartermaster-sergeant, and second 
lieutenant, successively. He was one of 
the charter members of W. L. Baker Post 
No. 86, G. A. R., Northampton, and quar- 
termaster of the Post from its organiza- 
tion in 1S82, to 1885. 

CLAPP, George Lyman, son of 

Washington and Mary I). (Robbins) 
Clapp, was born in Boston, March 30, 
1848. He is a descendant of Roger 
Clapp, who came to this country in colo- 
nial days. Public schools of Boston, 
Holliston and Northampton, and St. Al- 



CLAI'P. 



CLAPP. 



119 



bans, Vt., furnished him with his school 
education. 

At seventeen years of age he began to 
learn the trade of printer — three years at 
job printing-, then foreman at HoUiston, 
until and after the establishment was re- 
moved to Framingham, 1S71. 

In 1873 he was six months in partner- 
ship with J. C. Clark. In 1S74 the J. C. 
Clark Printing Compan)' was formed. He 
was president two years. In 1889 the 
name was changed to Lakeview Printing 
Company, of which he is manager. 

Mr. Clapp was married in Thomaston, 
Me., August 23, 1874, to Carrie C, daugh* 
ter of Edward and Almena (Drake) Hills. 
Of this imion are three children : Florence 
A., Stanley E., and CJrace L. Clapp. 

Mr. Clapp has been member of the Repub- 
lican town committee ; is a member of the 
Congregational church, and has been 
superintendent of the Sunday-school. He 
is always especially active in temperance 
work, and a prominent member of the 
" Temple of Honor." 

His present residence is South Framing- 
ham. 

CLAPP, Henry Austin, son of John 

Pierce and Mary Ann (Bragg) Clapp, was 
born in Dorchester, Norfolk county, July 
17, 1841. 

He obtained his early educational train- 
ing in the public schools of Dorchester, in 
the high school of which town he fitted 
for college. He entered Harvard College 
in 1856 and was graduated in i860. 

He taught school a few months after 
graduation, then studied law at the Har- 
vard lavv school, and took the degree of 
LL. B. He then studied in the Boston 
office of D. H. Mason, and of Hutchins 
& Wheeler ; was admitted to the bar in 
Boston, in 1865 ; in 1875 he was appointed 
assistant clerk of the supreme judicial 
court for the county of Suffolk : held this 
position till January, 1888, when he was 
appointed clerk of the supreme judicial 
court for the Commonwealth, which posi- 
tion he now holds. 

Mr. Clapp was married in Oswego, N. Y., 
June 23, 1869, to Florence, daughter of 
Edwin VV. ai;d Charlotte (Ambler) Clarke. 
Of this union is one child : Roger Clapp. 

Mr. Clapp was a private in company F., 
44th regiment Massachusetts volunteer 
soldiers, who enlisted for nine months, 
from August, 1862, to June, 1863. He 
served with his regiment a greater part of 
the time in eastern North Carolina. 

He was for many years dramatic and 
musical critic for the " Boston Dailv Ad- 



vertiser," and is now the dramatic critic 
for the same paper. He has been a stu- 
dent of the drama and dramatic literature 
for many years, and in 1885 began giving 
■public lectures on Shakespeare's plavs. 
These have drawn the attention of many 
Shakespearean scholars, and have been re- 
ceived with great favor. 

CLAPP, William Warland, son of 

William ^^■arland and Hannah Williams 
(Lane) Clapp, was born in Boston, April 
1 1, 1826. 

His early education was obtained in 
Boston, supplemented by two years' school- 
ing in France. His father was editor of 
the " Saturday Evening Gazette," pub- 
lished in Boston, and his first venture in 
business was as associate editor with him. 

In 1847 he became editor and proprie- 
tor. In 1865 he sold the "Gazette" and 
became connected with the " Boston Jour- 
nal," of which he is at present editor-in- 
chief and general manager. 

The proprietor and editor of a leading 
journal occupies a vantage ground which 
may make or mar a reputation, build up or 
tear down a cause worthy of public ap- 
proval and support. Not only the city of 
Boston, but the state at large, has reason 
for congratulation that the "Boston Jour- 
nal " has for so long a time remained in 
such safe, sagacious and thoroughly clean 
hands. It is considered one of the best 
general newspapers for the family pub- 
lishetl in the country. It is the acknowl- 
edged exponent of the best elements of 
the Republican party, and its able and 
conservative editorials have usuall)' an- 
ticipated the text of the party platform, 
and outlined its successful policy. While 
its editor has at times succumbed to the 
imperative demands of his fellow-citizens, 
and reluctantly accepted office, yet his 
disposition and training cause him to 
shrink from such publicity. What few 
hours he can spare from the editorial 
sanctum are spent far more to his tastes 
among the flowers and in the garden which 
adorn his summer residence on the famous 
"Jerusalem Road" at Cohasset. His am- 
bition is still to maintain for his paper the 
reputation, so long enjoyed, of being pure 
in tone, fair in politics, and reliable in its 
news. 

Mr. Clapp was married in Boston, Sep- 
tember 30, 1S50, to Caroline, daughter of 
Georgeand Mary(Hastings) Dennie. Their 
children are : Mary, George and Mabel. 

Mr. Clapp in 1859 and '60 served as 
member of the Boston common council ; 
in 1S64 and '65 he was a member of the 



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CLARK. 



CLARK. 



board of aldermen, the latter year being 
elected as a member of the state Senate. 
He was appointed aide-de-camp to Gover- 
nor Banks, and served on the personal 
staff of Governor Andrew, with title of 
lieut. -colonel. He has been a director of 
public institutions, and a trustee of the 
public library. 

He is a member of Revere Lodge, and 
has been a member of the Boston Encamp- 
ment. He is a member of the Algonquin, 
St. Botolph and Boston Art clubs, and of 
the Boston Athletic Association. 

He delivered the triennial address be- 
fore the Massachusetts Charitable Me- 
chanic Association in 1S59. In early life 
Mr. Clapp gave attention to the drama, 
and wrote the record of the Boston stage, 
and also the article on " The Drama in 
Boston " in the " Memorial History of Bos- 
ton " (Osgood & Co.). 

He is now,and has been for severalyears, 
president of the New England Associated 
Press. 

Mr. Clapp possesses an excellent and 
most valuable library of general reference 
books, which, with his intimate knowledge 
of localities, and his long association with 
the leading citizens of Boston, render him 
one well qualified to sit in kindly judg- 
ment on their affairs, and to intelligently 
indicate the road to social success and 
commercial prosperity. 

CLARK. AUGUSTUS NiNIAN, son of 
Ninian and Sally (\\'arner) Clark, was born 
in Hancock, Hillsborough county, N. H., 
March 23, iSii. 

All his knowledge of the ordinary school 
curriculum was obtained in the common 
district school of his native town. 

From seventeen years of age until the 
expiration of his minority, he worked as 
clerk in the dry goods and apothecary 
store of William Endicott, Sr., in Beverly, 
Mass. After his becoming of age, he con- 
tinued in the same business in Beverly on 
his own account until 1858, when he be- 
came interested in the manufacture of 
machine leather belting, in Boston. This, 
with other enterprises in which he became 
engaged in that city, gave him a busy and 
prosperous life for twenty-five years : hut 
from all of these lines of business he has 
now practically retired. 

During these years he has retained his 
home in Beverly, the town of his adoption. 

Mr. Clark was married in Beverly, 
August 23, 1838, to Hitty, daughter of 
Eben and Lydia (Ray) Smith. Mrs. 
Clark died in May, 1888. Of four children 
only one survives : Sarah Warner Clark. 



Mr. Clark has always taken an active 
part in all efforts for the promotion of the 
industry and prosperity of this beautiful 
sea-girt town, in which he has resided 
since leaving his paternal roof in 1828, and 
he puts himself on record as opposed to 
an}^ action of the Legislature looking to the 
division of its territory. He represented 
the town in the Legislature in 1861, and 
was presidential elector in 1880, casting 
his vote for General Garfield. 

Mr. Clark was a Whig in the campaign 
of 1840, early espoused the anti-slavery 
cause, and has been an active member of 
the Republican party from its organiza- 
tion. He is a trustee of Beverly Savings 
Bank, has been director and treasurer in 
several corporations — some of them for 
many years. His church connections are 
with the Dane Street .society, as a member 
of which he has ever manifested a great 
interest in its prosperity, both by personal 
effort and liberal contributions. He acted 
as its musical director for many years. 

CLARK, Charles Nathaniel, was born 

at Northampton, Hampshire county, on 
the 4th day of April, 1853. His father. 




CHARLES N, CLARK. 



Charles Clark, and his mother, Mary 
(Strong) Clark, represented two of those 
old families whose appearance in this town 
was contemporaneous with its very settle- 



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ment; and the identity of interests so estal)- 
lished have been perpetuated and confirmed 
by the Hfe of their descendant. 

Mr. Claric received his early education 
in the public schools of Northampton, and 
was graduated from its high school in 1869. 
He then entered Amherst College and was 
graduated in the class of 1873. After 
graduation, he taught for one year in the 
Hitchcock free high school of Brimfield. 
In January, 1875, he began the study of 
law in the office of Delano & Hammond, 
at Northampton, and was admitted to prac- 
tice in the state courts in October, 1877, 
and in the courts of the United States in 
January, 1S80. Since his admission to the 
bar, he has pursued his calling at North- 
ampton. In religious matters, following 
the family habit and custom, he has always 
been associated with the Congregationalist 
society — called the First Parish — and was 
for several years a member and chairman 
of its board of assessors. 

In politics he is a Republican, and for 
eight years was chairman of the town and 
city committee. During the years 1883, 
'84, '85, he represented the ist Hampshire 
district in the House of Representatives, 
and was a member of the state Senate for 
the years 1887 and 1888 from the Berk- 
shire and Hampshire senatorial district. 
While in the Legislature, he served on 
numerous committees, including the Hoo- 
sac Tunnel and Troy & Greenfield rail- 
road, claims, judiciary, public service, 
bills in the third reading and mercantile 
affairs. He is now a member of the Re- 
publican state central committee. He has 
served for a number of years on the school 
committee. He has been prominent among 
the business men of Northampton, and is 
now president of the Hampshire Mutual 
Fire Insurance Company, a director in the 
Northampton National Bank and the North- 
ampton Cutlery Company, and treasurer of 
the Northampton Paper Company. In 
June, 1888, he was elected treasurer of 
Smith College, which position he now 
fills. 

CLARK, Chester Ward, son of 

Amasa Ford and Belinda (Ward) Clark, 
was born in Glover, Orleans county, Vt., 
August 9, 185 1. His education was ob- 
tained in the public schools and academy 
of his native town, and at Phillips Academy, 
E.xeter, N. H. 

He began the study of law in the office 
of B. C. Moulton, Boston, 1874, and was 
admitted to the bar, March 12, 1878. He 
has since applied himself assiduously to 
the practice of his profession in Boston, 



and has met with a great degree of suc- 
cess. 

His residence is Wilmington. He is 
always active in the adoption and prosecu- 







CHESTER W. CLARK. 

tion of plans for public improvements, 
especially in educational matters. He has 
served as chairman of the school board, 
and largely to his efforts are due the im- 
proved school accommodations in Wil- 
mington. His religious connections are 
with the Congregational church, of which 
he has been clerk for several years. 
Mr. Clark is unmarried. 

CLARK, Daniel, son of Hamlin and 
Cynthia (Heath) Clark, was born in Ty- 
ringham, Berkshire county, January i, 
1819. In the common schools he laid the 
foundation of an education which he has 
since obtained by self culture. In early 
youth he possessed a fondness for natural 
history, and began collecting and classify- 
ing specimens illustrative of the science. 
Choosing the vocation of a farmer, from 
his love of rural life and agricultural pur- 
suits, he became influential in organizing 
farmers' clubs and introducing specialties 
that proved beneficial to himself and 
neighboring agriculturists. 

Mr. Clark has had no taste for public 
office which would call him from the more 
congenial occupations and delights of 



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home life, but has accepted many positions 
of trust and responsibility which have been 
offered him by his own townsmen. He 
was commissioned justice of the peace in 
1859 ; he is a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal church ; has been a life-long 
anti-slavery and temperance man ; was first 
a Whig, then a Republican, when that 
party came into existence. 

Mr. Clark has from his youth been a 
noted collector of minerals, historic relics, 
rare coins and general curiosities. Since 
retiring from active business he has de- 
voted most of his time to perfecting his 
large and comprehensive cabinets. These 
have attracted the wide-spread attention 
of scientists and students of geology, 
mineralogy, archteology and numismatics. 
His study of the crystalline rocks of west- 
ern Massachusetts has resulted in the dis- 
covery, by J. D. Dana, of lower Silu- 
rian fossils from a metamorphic lime- 




DANIEL CLARK, 

stone of the Ticonic rocks of Emmons, 
which proves the whole Ticonic series to 
be of lower silurian age. 

Mr. Clark has been trustee of Lee 
Savings Bank, and was interested in the 
organization of the Berkshire Historical 
and Scientific Society. 

He was first married February 3, 1841, 
to Sophia, daughter of William and Lu- 



cinda (Heath) Stedman. Mrs. Clark died 
November 11, 1872. He was again mar- 
ried in Springfield, March 18, 1S80, to 
Juliette Smith \Vhite, daughter of Matthew 
and Clarissa (Moore) Smith. He has one 
son, Hamlin F. Clark, issue of first mar- 
riage. 

CLARK, DAVID Harris, son of John 
B. and Harriet Loney (Cadett) Clark, 
was born in Dunham, Missisquoi county, 
P. n., October 24, 1836, of American pa- 
rents. 

While he was quite young, his parents 
removed to De Peys'ter, St. Lawrence 
county, N. Y., where his father lately died, 
aged eighty-eight years, having been born 
in Canaan, N. H., in 1800. 

Mr. Clark obtained a common school 
education in the schools of De Peyster, 
and Natick, Mass., where he came in 
1851, being fifteen years of age. Here he 
learned the trade of shoemaker. 

In 1858 occurred the great strike, in 
which he took an active part, and when 
work was resumed he was in Holliston, at 
work for Mr. John Batcheller, where he 
remained until 1861, when he enlisted in 
company B., i6th regiment Massachusetts 
volunteers, July 2d, of that year. He 
served through the term of enlistment, was 
wounded, taken prisoner, paroled, experi- 
enced all there was of pleasure and pain 
in a three years' campaign service, and was 
mustered out with the regiment at Faneuil 
Hall, Boston, July 27, 1864. 

He is now an operator on a McKay 
Heeling Machine in the factory of John (). 
\Vilson &: Co., Natick, where he has 
worked for thirteen years. 

He was married in Sherborn, ALass., 
December 2, 1864, to Susan Augusta 
Loud, of Orrington, Maine. Their chil- 
dren are : Annie Louise and Ralph Loud 
Clark. 

Mr. Clark was representative to the 
General Court in 1888. He was a charter 
member of Post 6, G. A. R., Holliston, and 
was its adjutant two terms ; was command- 
er of Ezra Batcheller Post, North Brook- 
field ; while in North Brookfield was em- 
ployed in the factory of E. & A. H. Batch- 
eller & Co.; is a member of the L O. O. 
F., and of the Grand Lodge of Massachu- 
setts ; has been master workman of local 
assembly 2,238, also dictator of King 
Philip Lodge, Knights of Honor. 

He is a member of the Congre.gational 
church, a worker in every benevolent en- 
terprise, a strong temperance advocate, a 
Republican, and a friend and champion of 
the laborine man. 



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CLARK, EMBURY p., son of Chandler 
and Joanna (Woodward) Clark, was born 
in Buckland, Franklin county, March 31, 
1845. His early education was received 
m the public schools. 

He removed with his parents to Holyoke 
in 1858, where his father opened a shoe 
store in which the son assisted as clerk. 
He has lived in Holyoke ever since, with 




EMBURY P CLARK. 

the exception of the time spent in the army 
during the late civil war. 

He enlisted in 1862, at the age of seven- 
teen, joining company B, of the 46th 
regiment Massachusetts volunteers. This 
was a nine months' regiment, and was 
stationed in North Carolina, and with the 
army of the Potomac. Colonel Clark was 
then a non-commissioned officer of his 
company. After returning from the war 
he entered the employ of E. H. Flagg, and 
learned the drug business, remaining with 
Mr. Flagg until he retired from busi- 
ness. 

Since 1876 he has been registrar of the 
Holyoke water-works. Colonel Clark has 
taken great interest in educational matters, 
having been a member of the school board 
continuously for eleven years, and is now 
vice-chairman of that body. He has been 
prominent in G. A. R. affairs, and was 
commander of Post 71 for five years. In 



social, benevolent and musical societies he 
has been a leading spirit. 

In military affairs Colonel Clark has 
always taken a prominent part. He was a 
sergeant in Co. K, 2d regiment in 1S68, 
and elected captain, June 4, 1869. August 
14, 187 1, he was commissioned major of 
the 2d regiment, and August 31, 1875, 
lieutenant-colonel. Upon the re-organi- 
zation of the militia in 1876, Colonel 
Clark was discharged with all other 
officers above the rank of captain. He 
again entered service as captam of Co. 
D, 2d regiment, December 23, 1878, and 
was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of tiie 
regiment, .\ugust 2, 1879, which position 
he held until February 2, 1889, when he 
was elected colonel. 

Colonel Clark is popular with the militia, 
and is an able officer and strict disciplin- 
arian. 

He was married in 1866 to Eliza A., 
daughter of Perley and Julia M. (Field) 
Seaver. Of this union are four children : 
Kate E., Edward S., Frederick B. and 
Alice M. Clark. 

CLARK, Isaiah Rayaiond, son of 

Ripley and Mary Ann (Raymond) Clark, 
was born in Felchville, Windsor county, 
Vermont, January i, 1853. 

His early educational training was re- 
reived in the public schools of Felchville 
,ind Windsor, Vt. Fitting for college , he 
entered Dartmouth, from which he was 
graduated in the class of 1873. 

Choosing the profession of the law, he 
pursued his studies with the Hon. A. A. 
Ranney, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in February, 1876, since which time 
he has continued in the honorable and 
successful practice of his profession in the 
city of Boston, where he resides. 

Mr. Clark was married in Windsor, Vt., 
November 14, 1878, to Katherine, daughter 
of Charles and Jane (Rowley) Cummings. 

CLARK, James Wilson, son of Peter 

and Elizabeth (Wilson) Clark, was born in 
Hopkinton, Middlesex county, April 13, 
1802. 

His early education was limited to the 
common schools of those days, and his 
occupation was the usual one for a lad 
living on a farm. At eighteen years of 
age he entered a factory store in Med- 
way, as clerk, remaining four and a half 
years, then served for eighteen months as 
clerk in a store in Boston. 

In 1826 he went into business, keeping 
a variety store in Medway, where he re- 
mained until 1829. He then removed to 



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Boston, and there, and in New York, 
carried on the American dry goods com- 
mission business until 1S65, when he re- 
tired. He resided in Boston until 1846 
only, then removed to Framingham, where 
he still resides. 

Mr. Clark was married in Med way, 
February 14, 1828, to Mary Ann, daughter 
of George and Lois (Whiting) Barber. Of 
this union was one child : George Barber 
(deceased). He was married the second 
time in Worcester, March 24, 1842, to 
Catharine Monroe, daughter of Dr. David 
and Catharine (Monroe) March, of Sutton. 
Of this union were six children : Edmund 
Sanford, Catharine Elizabeth, Emily [o- 
honot, Frances Augusta, James Wilson, 
and Arthur March Clark. (Catharine and 
Frances deceased). 

Mr. Clark was thirty years director in 
the Framingham National Bank (1849 to 
'79), and many years its president ; direc- 
tor in South Framingham National Bank 
(1880 to '89), also its president ; two years 
president of the South Middlesex Agricul- 
tural Society (1856 and '57) ; representa- 
tive to the General Court five consecutive 
years (1861 to '65); was one of a delega- 
tion in 1866 from Massachusetts to meet 
delegations from all the States of the 
Union to consider and compare the politi- 
cal opinions of the Republican party with 
regard to its status at the time, and its 
future policy. Their meeting was in Phila- 
delphia, September of that year. 

In 187 I he was state senator. In 1873, 
by appointment of Governor Washburn, he 
attended, as commissioner, the exposition 
at Vienna, Austria. He has been justice 
of the peace twenty-one years ; member 
of the American Pomological Society, the 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the 
New England Historic Genealogical So- 
ciety ; director in the Tremont and Suffolk 
Mills, Lowell, and in the Bates Manufac- 
turing Company, Lewiston, Me. 

He has made many voyages across the 
Atlantic, and has S]3ent portions of several 
years in Europe, both for business and 
recreation. 

Mr. Clark is an active Republican. He 
voted for John Quincy Adams for presi- 
dent of the United States, and for John 
Bailey for representative to Congress, in 
1824, and has voted for every W'hig and 
Republican nominee for these offices since. 

CLARK, Jeremiah, son of Ebenezer 
and Sarah (Bullock) Clark, was born Feb- 
ruary II, 1819, in Washington, Orange 
county, Vermont. He drew his education 
from the common schools. 



He entered the Lowell Machine Shop to 
learn the trade of machinist in 1836, re- 
mainmg there thirty years, having for some 
time been contractor for tools and cotton 
machinery. 

He then went into business as manufac- 
turer of card clothing, and organized the 
Lowell Card Company in 1873, of which 
he is president. In 1886 he became presi- 
dent of the Mechanics' Savings Bank. 
He is now a heavy dealer in both new and 
second-hand machinery. 

Mr. Clark was married in Lowell, 1840, 
to Lucy, daughter of Samuel and Eunice 
(Jaquith) Chamberlain. They have no 
children. 

Mr. Clark was called by his city to serve 
in the common council in 1852. He was 
elected to the House of Rej^resentatives, 
i860 and '61, and to the Senate, 1873. 

He was two years president of the 
Mechanics' Association of Lowell, is now 
one of the trustees of the Old Ladies' 
Home, trustee of the Young Women's and 
Children's Home, Lowell, and has been 
treasurer of the Worthen Street M. E. 
church since i860. 

CLARK, Jonas G., the son of William 
S. and Elizabeth Clark, was born in Hub- 
bardston, Worcester county, February i, 
1815. His father was a farmer, and the 
son worked on the farm until the age of 
eighteen, laying the physical foundation 
for a sturdy manhood. 

He then learned a trade, in which he 
later built up an extensive business. His 
affairs enlarged, and from a central office 
in State Street, Boston, he managed the 
general business of several stores he had 
established. 

In 1836 he married Susan W., daughter 
of Bildad and Rhoda Wright. 

In 1853, leaving manifold interests, he 
went to San Francisco, where he remained 
five years. He has since twice revisited 
the Pacific coast. 

His transactions in California were fairly 
successful, but the largest proportion of 
his great wealth has been accumulated 
since he located in New York City, thirty 
years ago, establishing the office there 
which he still retains. 

His acquaintance with business men 
and moneyed institutions secured him ad- 
vantages he was able to turn to good 
account, but the sources of his vast accu- 
mulations, and the germs of his uniform 
success, go back to his careful training 
among the New England hills. 

Mr. Clark has so managed his business 
that he has been enabled to allow long in- 



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tervals for rest and study, which have been 
devoted to extensive travel. This has ex- 
tended to every country in Europe, as well 
as to .\frica and the Orient. Eight years 
of his life have been thus spent. 

During these years of travel and con- 
genial study, no subject was more atten- 
tively investigated and more deeply im- 
pressed, than the ways and means by which 
knowledge is perpetuated and diffused 
among men. 

The origin and development of univer- 
sities were studied by visiting not only the 
earliest seals of mediasval learning, Salerno, 
Cordova, Montpellier, etc., but Thebes, 




JONAS G. CLARK. 

Heliopolis, Memphis, Alexandria, Jerusa- 
lem, Constantinople, Athens, and other of 
the original but now practically obliterated 
centres of academic life, were also explored 
and their records collected and studied. 
The migrations of ancient libraries and 
manuscripts were traced, and a collection 
of rare and early books was made. Foun- 
dations, applying the highest special cul- 
ture of one generation to the best and 
brightest youths of the next, were seen to 
be the most valuable of all human insti- 
tutions. 

This has resulted in the crowning work 
of his life — the founding and endowment 
of Clark University of Worcester, ihis 



University is established for the purpose of 
bringing within the reach of American 
youths the advantages of a training which 
embraces the most desirable features of 
the French, German and .American institu- 
tions, and of furnishing a higher grade of 
academic and professional training than is 
now supplied in the universities of this 
country. 

Mr. Clark is an enthusiastic lover of 
books, and knows them thoroughly. He 
possesses, as the result of patient research 
for many years, a large collection of rare 
volumes in his library, which is probably 
the most complete and costly private col- 
lection of early manuscripts and choice 
old first editions in the Commonwealth. 
He has also a large collection of valuable 
works of art that he has made it the pleas- 
ure of his life to collect. This library will 
be transferred to the University. 

The University and its endowment, al- 
though the largest, is but one of his many 
generous bequests. Hubbardston, his na- 
tive place, owes a free public library and 
town building with an endowment to him 
alone. He is one of the few who seek to 
benefit the world by a judicious use of 
their wealth, before they are called by 
death to relinquish it to the control of 
others. 

CLARK, Schuyler, son of Reuben 
and Catherine (Green) Clark, was born in 
Coeymans, Albany county. New York, 
August 15, 1841. He is a lineal descend- 
ant of Oliver Clark, born in 1714, who 
settled in Montgomery, Hampden county, 
1767, and where the family has always been 
prominent. His mother is from revolu- 
tionary stock, the daughter of Daniel 
Green (Albany county, N. Y.), and her 
maternal grandfather served through the 
war of the revolution. 

He was educated in the common schools 
of Huntington, Mass. His early life was 
spent on a farm, his occupation varied by 
occasional school teaching. Later, he 
was engaged a few years as traveling 
salesman, usually teaching during the win- 
ter months. 

He next studied law, and was admitted 
to the Hampshire county bar. He formed 
a partnership with George Kress, of Hunt- 
ington, under the firm name of Kress & 
Clark. 

Mr. Clark was married in Huntington, 
September, 1S69, to Frances L., daughter 
of Elijah N. and Sarah A. Woods. Of 
this union there is no issue. 

Mr. Clark has often been called to serve 
his town and state in municipal and legis- 



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lative offices. He was at one time a 
member of the school board, and has been 
chairman of the selectmen, assessors, and 
overseers of the poor from 1881 to the 
present time. He represented his district 




SCHUYLER CLARK 

in the House of Representatives 18S8, serv- 
ing on the committee of county estimates 
and water supply — clerk of the latter 
committee. 

His church connections are with the 
Congregational church, of which he has 
been a member and officer for a number of 
years. 

He has been for ten years a general 
correspondent for the leading newspapers 
in western Massachusetts. 

Mr. Clark is an ardent Republican and 
a consistent worker in the temperance 
cause. 

CLARK, Seth W., son of Chester and 
Minerva (Jones) Clark, was born in Plain- 
field, Hampshire countv, September 22, 

i83,v . 

Until eighteen years of age, the common 
schools furnished his educational training. 
He subsequently attended Arms Academy 
and the high school, Shelburne Falls, for 
two or three years. 

He began his business life as bank clerk 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he remained one 
year. He was afterwards cashier and 



accountant in XewYork City for si.x years. 
He finally chose agricultural pursuits as 
better suited to his health than a special 
commercial career, and has ever since been 
engaged in farming; making the dairy a 
specialty for the past eight years. In 
earlier life he devoted considerable of 
his leisure time to photo,graphy, music and 
the invention of various mechanical devices. 

He is president of the Cummington 
Creamery Association; vice-president of 
the Hillside .Agricultural Society at Cum- 
mington, also its delegate to the state 
board of agriculture. He has held the 
office of president and general manager of 
the Cummington Creamery Company since 
its organization in 1886. He has for a year 
past lectured in various parts of the State 
upon the subject of co-operative dairying, 
under the auspices of the state board, the 
substance of the lecture being published 
by the board in their report of 1888. 

Mr. Clark has been deacon in the Con- 
gregational church twelve years ; superin- 
tendent of Sunday-school fifteen years; 
member of the school board seventeen 
years ; seven years on the board of select- 
men, assessors, and overseers of the poor — 
three years its chairman. He has served 
three years as ta.\ collector. He took the 
town census in the years 1875 and 1885 

Mr. Clark was married in Brooklyn, N. 
v., September 3, 1855, to Nancy, daughter 
of Jacob and Lucy H. (Howes) Jones. Of 
this union are six children : Ella M , 
Frederic D., Harry D , Alice C, Marion N. 
and Frank S. Clark (deceased). 

His residence is Plainfield. 

CLARK, William Robert, son of 

Robert and Phila ((Iriswold) Clark, was 
born in Greenfield, Franklin county, Sep- 
tember 26, 1822. 

He prepared for college at Newbury 
Seminary, Vt., and at the Wesleyan Acade- 
my, Wilbraham. He then entered the 
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., 
in 1848, and graduated in 1852. 

He was a member of the Eclectic Fra- 
ternity, and of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
Weslevan University chapter. 

In 1844 he joined the New England 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal 
church, and was stationed at Petersham, 
and afterwards at Springfield. In 1847 he 
located, and pursued his collegiate studies. 
In 1852 he rejoined the New England 
Conference and was stationed at Maiden. 

In 1853 he was superannuated on account 
of ill-health, and in 1854-5 stationed at 
Walnut Street, Chelsea ; 1856-7 Bromfield 
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l.ynn ; i86o-'i St. Paul's church, Lowell ; 
1862 transferred to Maine Conference and 
stationed at Portland ; i864-'6 re-admitted 
to New England Conference, and stationed 
at Pynchon Street Springlield ; i867-'g 
Meridian Street, East Boston ; iSyo-'j 
served as presiding elder, Boston district ; 
i874-'6 stationed at Trinity Church, 
Charlestown ; iSyy-'g Saratoga Street, 
East Boston; 1880 supernumerary — in 
poor health; i88i-'3 Jamaica Plain, Bos- 
ton ; i884-'6 St. Paul's, Lynn ; and iSSy-'g 
Newton Centre. 

In 1864 Mr. Clark was a delegate of the 
United States Christian Commission, and 
in 1869 received an honorary I). D. from 
Lawrence Universitv, Wiscon.sin ; in 1S72 
was fraternal delegate to a conference of 
Wesleyan Methodists in eastern British 
.America ; 1868, '72 and '76 delegate to 
deneral Conference Methodist Episcopal 
church. 

In 1866, '67, '68, and in 1876, '77, '78, 
'79, he was a member of the missionary 
and church extension committees of the 
Methodist Episcopal church. 

He has held a long and honorable career 
as an intelligent, eloquent and conscien- 
tious religious teacher. 

June 9, 1845, Mr. Clark was married to 
Eliza, daughter of Aaron and Louisa (San- 
derson) Brooks of Petersham. Their chil- 
dren are Anne Elizaand Ellen LTraniaClark. 

Mr. Clark is trustee of the Boston Uni- 
versity, and secretary of its board of trust, 
director of the New England Education 
Society, the New England Methodist His- 
torical Society, the New England Chau- 
tauqua Sunday-school Assembly, and the 
Wesleyan Home, and president of the 
board of directors of the South Framing- 
ham Camp Meeting Association. 

CLARKE, AUGUSTUS Peck, son of 

Seth Darling and Fanny (Peck) Clarke, was 
born in Pawtucket, Providence county, 
R. L, September 24, 1833. 

He prepared for college at the Univer- 
sity grammar school. Providence, R. L, 
and was graduated from Brown University 
in the class of i860, and received from 
that university the degree of A. M. He 
studied medicine in the Harvard medical 
school and received the degree of M. I), 
in the class of 1862. 

.August I, i86t, he entered the service 
of the United States army as assistant- 
surgeon of the 6th regiment New York 
cavalry, and was on duty in this capacity 
with the Army of the Potomac until May 
5, 1863, when he was promoted to the 
rank of surgeon of that regiment. No- 



vember, 1863, he was assigned to duty as 
surgeon - in - chief of the 2d brigade, ist 
division of Sheridan's cavalry, and served 
as such until the opening of the campaign 
in February, 1865, when he was appointed 
surgeon-in-chief of the ist cavalry divis- 
ion, Sheridan's corps, of the Army of the 
Potomac, which position he held until the 
close of the war. He was mustered out 
October, 1865, and was appointed "brevet 
lieut. -colonel. New York State volunteers, 
for faithful and meritorious conduct dur- 
ing his term of service." During this more 
than four years' service he was present 
and on duty in eighty -two battles and 
engagements, viz.: from the battle of York- 
town, Ya , May 4, 1862, to Appomattox 
Court House, April 9, 1865. 

During the seven days' battles of the 
Peninsular campaign in 1862, Dr. Clarke 
was taken prisoner at the battle of Savage 
Station, Va., June 29th, was afterward sent 
to Richmond, and on August ist, after 
much suffering, was e.xchanged. Immedi- 
ately after the close of his military service, 
he removed to Cambridge, where he soon 




AUGUSTUS P. CLARKE. 

established a reputation in the practice of 
medicine, in which profession he has since 
continued his labors. 

Dr. Clarke was married in Bristol, R. I., 
October 23, 1S61, to Mary H., daughter of 



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CLEMENT. 



the late Gideon and Hannah Onie (kay. 
Of this union are two daughters : Inez 
Louise and (ienevieve Clarke. 

He was elected to the Cambridge com- 
mon council in 1871 and 1S73, and to the 
board of aldermen, 1874, but declined 
further political service. He is a member 
of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and 
has been one of its councilors ; is vice- 
president of the Gynfecological Society 
of Boston ; member of the American Acad- 
emy of Medicine ; the American Associa- 
tion of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 
and of the American Public Health Asso- 
ciation, also of the American Medical 
Association. He was one of the origina- 
tors of the Cambridge Medical Society, and 
was its secretary several years ; also mem- 
ber of the Ninth International Medical Con- 
gress ; has been a frequent contributor of 
articles to different medical societies and 
journals. He is a prominent member of 
the Cambridge Club and Art Circle, holds 
his church connection with the First 
Baptist church of Cambridge, is one of 
its standing committee, and also a mem- 
ber of the Boston Baptist Social Union. 
He is a member of several charitable and 
fraternal societies, member of the G. A. R. 
and of the Military Order of the Loyal 
Legion of the United States. 

CLARKE, JOSIAH Howe, son of Benja- 
min and Lucy (Howe) Clarke, was born in 
Marlborough, Middlesex; county, December 
26, 1827. He was educated in the public 
schools of Marlborough, and at Leicester 
Academ}'. 

He entered business life as partner in 
the firm of Bucklin, Clarke & Co., in Marl- 
borough, in 1847. In 1850 he went to 
Worcester, and in 1853 engaged in the dry 
goods business. 

Mr. Clarke was married in Worcester, 
December 15, 1858, to Frances C, daughter 
of Horace and Mary (Woodworth) Ayres. 
Of this union were four children : Mary 
Woodworth, Fanny Ayres, Josiah Howe, 
Jr., and Grace Howe Clarke (deceased). 

Mr. Clarke is director of the Worcester 
National Bank, State Mutual Life Insur- 
ance Company, State Deposit Company, 
Norwich & Worcester R. R., Worcester 
&: Shrewsbury R. R., Worcester Gas Light 
Company, and McRay & Bigelow Heeling 
Association ; member of All Saints' church 
(Episcopal), of which he has been for 
twenty-five years vestryman. 

He was a member of the city council in 
1862. In January, 1865, Mr. Clarke sailed 
for China in the ship " Surprise," owned 
by A. A. Low & Co. After visiting the 



ports of Shanghai and Ningpo, he remained 
at Fuchau some time, his brother being 
consul at that port. He then went to 
Amoy, Canton and Hong Kong, and sailed 




JOSIAH H. CLARKE. 

from the latter port for San Francisco, 
coming home by way of the Isthmus, com- 
pleting a voyage around the world. In 
1888 he visited California and Oregon. 

CLEMENT, Edward Henry, son of 

Cyrus and Rebecca Fiske (Shortridge) 
Clement, was born in Chelsea, Suffolk 
county, April 19, 1843. 

He received his early education in the 
public schools of Chelsea ; was graduated 
from Tufts College in 1864, leading his 
class, and subsequently received from the 
same institution the degree of A. M. 

His first entrance into business life was 
as reporter and assistant editor on an army 
post newspaper started with the deserted 
plant of the "Savannah (Ga.) News" by 
two correspondents of the " New York 
Herald " stationed at Hilton Head, S. C, 
i864-'65. A northern editor being dis- 
tasteful to the Savannah public, he returned 
to Boston in 1867, and for one month 
served as head proof-reader of the " Daily 
Advertiser." He resigned this to accept a 
similar position offered him on the " New 
York Tribune." On reaching the "Trib- 
une " office he was made a reporter by 



CLEMENT. 



CLEMENT. 



129 



John Russell Younuf, then managinaf editor, 
and soon after became exchange editor and 
assistant, subsequently telegraph editor, 
night editor and city editor. Afterwards he 
was for a short time managing editor of the 
"Newark (N.J.) Daily Advertiser," and in 
1 87 1 became one of the editors and pro- 
prietors of the " Elizabeth (N. J.) Journal." 

Mr. Clement is now editor of the " Bos- 
ton Transcript," having been appointed 
assistant editor in 1875, and chief editor in 
1 88 1. He honorably follows a long line 
of able and influential editors, men who 
have given a character and literary flavor 
to the paper, which still holds its own as 
a favorite family guest. It is greatly to 
the credit of the present management that 
the " Transcript" maintains the high stand- 
ard of public spirit, good morals and lit- 
erary e.xcellence outlined b)' such con- 
ductors as Epes Sargent, Daniel N. Has- 
kell, E. P. Whipple and Starr King, with 
William Durant especially contributing, as 
for half a century past, to its financial 
success. 

In 1869, in New York City, Mr. Clement 
was married to Gertrude, daughter of John 
and Jane (Lauder) Pound. Of this union 
were four children. 

He has been a member of the corpora- 
tion of Perkins Institution for the Blind, 
director in the Boston Memorial Associa- 
tion, Philharmonic Society, Home for 
Intemperate Women, and was one of the 
founders and the namer of the St. Botolph 
Club. 

The Clement family came from Coven- 
try, England, in 1643, and settled Haver- 
hill, after a brief stay at Salisbury, at the 
mouth of the Merrimack River. Robert 
Clement, the head of the family, was a 
man of education and leadership, and was 
chosen to buy and survey the territory of 
Haverhill, obtaining a title from the In- 
dians, afterwards representing the town in 
the General Court. His mill was the first 
in the town, and the marriage of his son 
with an Osgood was the first marriage in 
Haverhill. Many of his lineal descend- 
ants are spread through New Hampshire 
and Vermont. 

CLEMENT, George Colburn, son 

of James H. and Clara (Erskine) t'lement, 
was born in Milford, Worcester county, 
August 15, 1855. 

He was educated at home until 1S67, 
then for two years in the family of Mrs. 
James Means of Andover, and subsequently 
was fitted for Dartmouth College in the 
boarding school. of Dr. Lloyd W. Hi.xon, 
Lowell 



He entered Dartmouth in 187 1 and 
remained one year, then went to Bellevue 
Hospital medical college. New York City, 
for one year. In 1876 he entered the 
Harvard medical school and completed 
his course, graduating in the class of 1878, 
but as he accepted an appointment in 
Boston City Hospital, he did not receive 
his diploma until 1880. Before he began 
his professional studies he made a voyage 
to the Mediterranean as cabin-boy. This 
was during the Franco-Prussian war. 
While a pupil of the late A. B. Crosby, M. 
I)., professor of anatomy at Bellevue, N. Y., 
he had an attack of serious lung trouble, 
and the interim from the fall of 1873 until 
he resumed his studies, he passed by travel- 
ing in Chili, Peru, California and the West. 
Within twelve months he rounded Cape 
Horn three times. 

Since 1880 Dr. Clement has been in active 
practice in Haverhill, devoting himself 
especially to surgery. At present he is 
serving his second term of three years each 
as city physician of Haverhill, having been 
appointed in 1886. 

He is one of the visiting surgeons to the 
Haverhill City Hospital; medical examiner 




G. COLBURN CLEMENT. 



for the New York Life Insurance Company, 
Penn Mutual, Equitable Life and several 
other insurance companies. He is a mem- 



I^O 



CLEVELAND. 



CLIFFORD. 



ber of the Massachusetts Medical Societ_v, 
also of Palestine Lodtfe No. 26, K. of P., 
and the Haverhill Monday Evening Club. 

Dr. Clement was married in Haverhill, 
November 19, 1885, to Matilda Haseltine, 
daughter of George A. and Susan W. 
(Emerson) Kimball. He has one child : 
George Kimball Clement. 

Dr. Clement's father was a lineal descend- 
ant of Job Clement, who in 1642 was one 
of the twelve original settlers of Haverhill. 
He was born on a farm in Haverhill, which 
is still in the family possession, the same 
having passed from father to son. Dr. 
Clement's mother is well known as an 
authority and writer on art, by the name 
of "Clara Erskine Clement." She is the 
present wife of Edwin F. Waters, formerlv 
treasurer and controlling owner of the 
"Boston Daily Advertiser." 

CLEVELAND, Ira, son of Ira and 
.Mehitable B. Cleveland, of Hopkinton, 
Middlesex county, was born in that town, 
February i, 1802, but removed with his 
father when but four years old to a farm 
in Milford, an adjacent town. 

He pursued his preparatory studies at 
an academy in Mendon, and entered 
Brown University in 1 821, where he was 
graduated in the class of 1S25. He first 
began the study of law in Marlborough, 
but in 1828 he came to Dedham, and 
entered the office of Horace Mann, then a 
leading practitioner of Norfolk county. 
He was admitted as an attorney of the 
court of common pleas, at the Decem- 
ber terra, 1829, and as a counselor of the 
supreme judicial court, in November, 
1834. In 1833 Mr. Mann removed to 
P.oston, and Mr. Cleveland succeeded him 
in practice and in the occupancy of his 
office in Dedham. In 1840 he was ap- 
pointed secretary of the Norfolk Mutual 
and the Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance 
companies, and from this time he gradu- 
ally withdrew from legal practice. He 
has ever since remained connected with 
these insurance companies, having been 
the president and treasurer of both until 
recently. He now holds the office of 
president of the Norfolk company. 

Mr. Cleveland has never held a political 
office, but he has been called to many 
offices of trust. He was the public admin- 
istrator of the county for forty-two years. 
He was always an active and public- 
spirited citizen. He was in former years 
much interested in the improvement of 
the village, and in the planting of trees in 
its streets, and it was mainly through his 
efforts, some fifty years ago, that the old 



burial ground in Dedham village was first 
enclosed and planted with trees. 

Mr. Cleveland married, April 23, 1S37, 
Frances Maria, the daughter of Major 




IRA CLEVELAND. 

Timothy P. Whitney of AVrentham, but 
she and her infant died in the autumn of 
1838, and he has since remained unmarried. 
For nearly fifty years Mr. Cleveland has 
taken a deep interest in the affairs of St. 
Paul's (Episcopal) parish. During that 
time he has held the office of warden, and 
has been one of its delegates to the con- 
ventions of the diocese His devotion to 
the interests of his church is noteworthy. 
To his efforts were largely due both the 
building of the old church edifice, which 
stood until December 13, 1856, and the 
erection of the present stone church, which 
was finished in 1869. In 1881 Mr. Cleve- 
land placed in the tower of the church a 
chime of ten bells, and has since spared 
no efforts to render this house of worship 
beautiful and attractive. 

CLIFFORD, Walter, son of John H. 
and Sarah P. (.Allen) Clifford, was born in 
New Bedford, Bristol county, August 11, 
1849. 

He obtained his preparatory education 
in private schools. Friends" Academy, New 
Bedford, and 1865 to '67 at Phillips 
Academv, E.xeter, N. H. He entered 



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131 



Harvard College in 1S67, and was grad- 
uated in the class of 1871. In 1872 he 
entered Harvard law school, and was 
graduated LL, B., in the class of 1875. 
While keeping his connection with Har- 
vard law school, he was one year a stu- 
dent with the law firm of Staples & Gould- 
ing, Worcester, and while there was admit- 
ted to the bar, June, 1874. From 1875 to 
'78 he was clerk for Marston & Crapo. 
From April, 1878, he has been connected, 
as partner, with the law firm of Crapo, 
Clifford & Clifford. 

Mr. Clifford was married in New Bedford, 
June 5, 1878, to Harriet Perry, daughter 
of Charles S. and Sarah (Perry) Randall. 
Of this union are four children : John H., 
Rosamond, Hilda, and Randall Clifford. 

Mr. Clifford has been mayor of New 
Bedford (1889), vice-president of New 
Bedford Five Cents Savings Bank, director 
of various business institutions, a member 
of the Somerset and Union clubs, Boston, 
with residence at New Bedford. 

CODMAN, Charles Russell, eldest 

son of Charles Russell and Anne (Mac- 
master) Codman, was born in Paris, 
France, on the 28th of October, 1829, while 
his parents were traveling abroad. The 
Codman family have been identified with 
Boston since 1640. His father was a well- 
known merchant, whose mother was Mar- 
garet, daughter of Hon. James Russell of 
Charlestown, and his grandfather, Hon. 
John Codman, laid the foundation of the 
family fortune. His mother was of Scotch 
origin on her father's side, and on her 
mother's was of New York Dutch descent 
from the Dey and Van Buskirk families. 

He was educated in the private schools 
of Boston, under the late Henry R. Cleve- 
land, Edmund L. Cushing (afterward 
Chief Justice of New Hampshire), and the 
late Franklin Forbes. He was also for 
three years at school near Flushing, L. L, 
under the late Rev. William A. Muhlen- 
berg, a distinguished divine of the Protest- 
ant Episcopal church. In due time he 
entered Harvard College, and graduated 
in the class of 1849. He then studied law 
in the office of the late Charles G. Loring, 
and at the Harvard law school. He was 
admitted to the bar in 1852, and practiced 
law for a short time. Subsequently en- 
gaging in general business, he resided in 
Boston until 1S55, and then moved to 
Barnstable. 

At Walton-on-Thames, England, on 
February 28, 1856, Mr. Codman was mar- 
ried to Lucy Lyman Paine, daughter of 
the late Russell Sturgis of Boston, and 



afterwards of the firm of Baring Brothers 
cV Co., of London. They have three sons 
and two daughters living : Russell Sturgis, 
Anne Macmaster, Susan Welles, John Stur- 
gis and Julian Codman. 

In 1 86 1 and '62 he was a member of the 
school committee of Boston. In 1864 and 
'65 he represented a district of the city of 
Boston in the state Senate ; for four years, 
from 1873 to '75 inclusive, he was a mem- 
ber of the House of Representatives, serv- 
ing each year on important committees — 
in the last two being chairman of the judi- 
ciary committee. 

He began life as a Whig. In 1856 he 
joined the Republican party, and was an 
active member of the same until 1884, since 
which time he has acted with the Demo- 
crats. 

During the war of the rebellion Mr. 
Codman served as colonel of the 45th 
Massachusetts regiment, having previously 
been lieutenant and captain in the Boston 
Cadets. He has been president of the 
Boston Provident Association, succeeding 
the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop ; president 
of the Massachusetts Homojopathic Hos- 
pital ; a trustee of the state Insane Asylum 
at Westborough. He was elected a member 
of the board of overseers of Harvard Col- 
lege in 1878, and again in 1884. He was 
president of the board in 1880 and '81 ; 
again in 18S7, and now occupies the posi- 
tion. He was Republican candidate for 
mayor of Boston in 1878. 

Mr. Codman has always been independ- 
ent in political connections. He supported 
the Republican party in its early days, 
when resistance to the slave power seemed 
to him a duty. He gave the Democratip 
party an equally cordial and enthusiastijc 
support, when to his mind that party stood 
for just and liberal tariff' legislation. He 
has always been identified with, and heart- 
ily in favor of, the cause of civil service re- 
form, and, in fact, to all the great moving 
reforms that tend to the purification of 
politics and the advancement of the best 
interests of the country, his powerful influ- 
ence is uniformly given, and in this advo- 
cacy his clarion voice utters no uncertain 
sound. 

GOES, LORING, son of Daniel and 
Ro.\ana (Gates) Coes, was born in New 
\\orcester, April 12, 181 2. His early edu- 
cation was received in the common schools. 
He and his brother, A. Ct. Coes, learned 
the machinist's trade with Kimball & 
Fuller. 

In 1S36 the two brothers formed a co- 
partnership and purchased the business, 



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COFFIN. 



which in the meantime had been moved, in 
1835, to Court Mills. In 1839 Court Mills 
were destroyed by fire. The brothers then 
went to Springfield and engaged as pattern 
makers in the foundry of Laurin Trask. 
\\"hile there they made an improvement in 
the wrench in use, and having returned to 
Worcester in 1840, an application was made 
for a patent, which was granted Loring 
Goes, April 16, 1841. 

The firm name of this concern was L. & 
A. G. Goes, and they had little beside the 
name, save a good amount of pluck and 
energy coupled with great inventive genius. 
Henry W. Miller sold their manufactured 




LORING GOES. 

wrenches, and loaned them capital upon 
which they worked. This continued till 
1843, when they bought machinery, tools, 
etc., that were held by their patron, and 
carried on both manufacturing and selling. 
In 1853 they took Levi Hardy as partner ; 
they enlarged their manufacturing capaci- 
ties and added the manufacture of shear- 
blades and knives for hay-cutting machines. 
This partnership was dissolved in 1864. 
In 1869 a division of the business was 
made, Loring Coes taking the factory for 
the manufacture of shear-blades and knives, 
and A. G. Coes the wrench business. 

April I, 1888, the Coes Wrench Com- 
pany was formed, with Loring Coes, presi- 



dent, J. H. Coes, treasurer, and Frederick 
Coes. secretary, the two younger members 
of the firm being sons of A. G. Coes. 
They now produce fifteen hundred wrenches 
per day, and a large quantity of shear- 
blades and knives, employing one hundreil 
hands. 

Loring Coes was married in 1835 to 
Harriet, daughter of Dana Reed. Of this 
union were two children : one son and one 
daughter. 

COFFIN, Charles Carleton, son 

of Thomas and Hannah (Kilburn) Coffin, 
was born in Boscawen, Merrimack county, 
N. H., July 26, 1823. 

He was educated in the district school 
of his native town, and in the Boscawen 
and Pembroke academies, N. H. ; but his 
extensive reading gave him the preparation 
best fitting him for his life work. He was 
an omnivorous reader, and his love for 
historical literature was early developed, 
and fostered by the companionship of re- 
lations and friends, who either served in 
the war of the revolution and that of 
181 2, or were intimate with those who 
figured conspicuously in making the early 
history of this country. 

Ill health prevented his taking a colle- 
giate course. While incapacitated from 
severe mental or physical labor, he ob- 
tained a surveyor's compass, and more for 
pastime than any thought of becoming a_ 
surveyor, he studied the elements of sur- 
veying ; but becoming quite an adept in 
the use of the instruments, Mr. Coffin ac- 
I epted a position in the engineers' corps 
>'f the Northern Railroad, and was subse- 
i|uently employed on the Concord & Clare- 
uiont Railroad. 

Mr. Coffin was married in Boscawen, 
N. H , in 1846, to .Sallie R., daughter of 
John and Sallie (Gerrish) Farmer. 

Mr. Coffin early began to write articles 
for the Concord newspapers, and some of 
the fugitive political contributions were 
re-published in " Littell's Living Age." 
His studies led him toward scientific cul- 
ture, and he, as early as 1849, constructed 
a telegraph line between Harvard Observ- 
atory and Boston, by which exact and 
uniform time was given to the railroads 
running out of that city. He had charge 
of the construction of the telegraph fire 
alarm in Boston, and gave the first alarm 
ever given, April 29, 1852. His tastes led 
him into journalism, and from 1850 to 
1854 he was a constant contributor to the 
press, sending articles to the " Boston 
Transcript," " Boston Journal," " Congre- 
gationalist," and " New York Tribune." 



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He was also a contributor to the " Student 
and Schoolmate." 

After a short time spent as assistant 
editor of the " Practical Farmer," he in 
1854 was employed on the " Boston Jour- 
nal." Many of the editorials upon the 
Kansas and Nebraska struggle were from 
his pen. He was afterward on the " Atlas," 
but returned to the " Journal" in 1858. 
Upon the breaking out of the war, 1861, 
Mr. Coffin left the editorial chair of the 
" Journal " and became a correspondent in 
the field, writing his first letter from Balti- 
more, June 15, over the signature "Carle- 
ton." 

This pen name is too well known to re- 
quire detailed notice. He is, and ever has 
been, noted for his rapidity of movement, 
quickness of percepti(_>n, and almost uner- 
ring judgment. In 1866 he was writing 
from the seat of war between Austria and 
Italy. He is next found in London as 
correspondent during Disraeli's contest on 
the franchise. At the social science con- 
gress held in Belfast, Ireland, presided 
over by Lord Dufferin, he gave an address 
upon American common schools which 
was warml}' commended by the London 
"Times." He traveled extensively while 
abroad, and met many notables to become 
possessed of intimate knowledge of their 
character and aims. He finally made the 
tour of the world, and returned through 
the West in 1869. 

Mr. Coffin was vice-chairman of the 
state board of lunacy and charity, 1888- 
'89 ; is a member of the New England 
Historic Genealogical Society, and Ameri- 
can Association for the Advancement of 
Science ; was in the Legislature of i885-'86, 
serving on various committees, and chair- 
man of the committees on education and 
woman suffrage. It was through his active 
work while in the House of Representatives 
that two important measures were success- 
fully passed — the bill making all text-books 
free to the pupils of the public schools, and 
the bill providing for the appointment of 
the Boston police commissioners by the 
governor of the state, instead of by the 
mayor of the city. 

He has published " Our New Way 
Round the World," "Seat of Empire," 
"Caleb Crinkle," "Boys of '76," "Story 
of Liberty," " Old Times in the Colo- 
nies," " Building the Nation," " Life of 
Garfield," "Drum-beat of the Nation," 
" Marching to Victory," and "Redeeming 
the Republic." 

The degree of A. M. was conferred on 
him by Amherst College in 1870. 



COGGAN, MaRCELLUS, son of Leon- 
ard C. and Betsy M. Coggan, was born in 
Bristol, Lincoln county, Maine, in 1847. 

Mr. Coggan followed the sea at an early 
age, attending a district school during the 




MARCELLUS COGGAN. 

winter terms. When sufficiently advanced, 
he became a student in Lincoln Academy, 
New Castle, Maine, where, by teaching in 
winter and going to sea in the summer, he 
was enabled to prepare himself for entering 
Bowdoin College, where he was graduated 
with honor in 1872. 

He filled the position of principal of 
Nichols Academy, Dudley, Mass., and at 
the same time served as a member of the 
school board for three years in that town. 
He studied law in the office of Child & 
Powers, Boston, being admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1881, and entered upon the 
practice of law in the office of the firm with 
whom he had studied, remaining with them 
till 1886, when he formed a partnership 
with William Schofield, under the name of 
Coggan & Schofield. Entering immedi- 
ately upon his profession, Mr. Coggan 
built up a lucrative practice, which has 
steadily increased with the firm from year 
to year. 

Mr. Coggan became a resident of Mai- 
den in 1879, and at once took an active 
part in the local benevolent and social 



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COGSWELL. 



organizations of the city. For four years 
he was a member of the school committee, 
one year acting as chairman. In 1S84 he 
was an independent candidate for mayor, 
but was defeated by a small majority. 
The following year, however, he was 
elected mayor of that city on an inde- 
pendent ticket, and his official career 
was endorsed by a unanimous re-election 
the ne.xt year. Since his retirement from 
the office of mayor, Mr. Coggan has 
devoted himself exclusively to his law 
practice. 

In 1872 he was married to lAiella B., 
daughter of C. C. Robbins, of Bristol, 
Maine. They have three children : .Sum- 
ner, Linus Child, and Florence Lambert 
Coggan. 

COGSWELL, JOHN Draper, son of 
Ebenezer and Rhoda (Draper) Cogswell, 




JOHN D COGSWELL 

was born in Leicester, Worcester county. 
May 21, 1820. 

His early education was obtained in thv 
public schools and at Leicester Academy, 
He worked on a farm for five years after 
leaving his school life, and then learned 
the trade of painter. In 1850, and four 
years following, he conducted a general 
country store, after which he returned to 
his former occupation of house, carriage 
and sign painting. 



Mr. Cogswell was married in Winhall, 
Vt., September 22, 1845, to Fanny H., 
daughter of Job Leonard, M. D., of that 
town. Of this union were three children : 
two died in childhood ; the surviving child, 
Louisa Maria, married Edwin L. Watson, 
June 10, 1869. 

Mr. Cogswell was a member of the state 
Senate 1864, and of the House of Represen- 
tatives in 1855, '60, '62 and '77. 

He was captain of company F, 42d 
regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, in the 
nine months' service, under General N. P. 
Banks, department of the Gulf, and was 
stationed at New Orleans. 

He has been justice of the peace since 
i860, and served on the board of select- 
men ten years. He has officiated as moder- 
ator at fifty-six town meetings. He has 
been trustee of Leicester Savings Bank 
since its organization. 

He is a member of Morning Star Lodge 
of Worcester, A. F. & A. M., also of Quin- 
sigamond Lodge No. 43, I. O. O. F., and of 
the G. A. R. 

COGSWELL, William, son of Joseph 
Badger and Judith (Peaslee) Cogswell, 
was born April i, 1821, in Atkinson, Rock- 
ingham county, N. H. 




WILLIAM COGSWELL. 

He studied medicine and commenced 
the practice of his profession March, 1845,, 



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135 



in Georgetown, AVliile young in medical 
practice he became favorably known as a 
physician in that region. 

in April, 185 I, Dr. Cogswell removed to 
Bradford, where he succeeded to a wide 
field of practice, from which his uncle, 
Hon. George Cogswell, M. D., who for 
years had been eminent in the profession, 
wished to retire. 

During the war of the Union, Dr. Cogs- 
well served as surgeon in the army, winning 
great credit for his medical and surgical 
knowledge and skill. 

He married November 29, 1855, Fanny, 
daughter of Edmund and Julia (Eaton) 
Kimball, who was born May 19, 1837, in 
Bradford. They have no children. 

In 1876 and '77 Dr. Cogswell was the 
president of the Massachusetts Medical 
Society, and in 1877 he was a member of 
the executive counci-1 of Governor Ale.x- 
ander H. Rice. 

His qualities are those of a free and 
generous nature. He is large-hearted, 
frank, social and popular. He has com- 
manded for many years a lucrative practice 
in Bradford, Haverhill and vicinity, and 
is highly esteemed for his ability and pro- 
fessional services. 

COGSWELL, WILLIAM, son of Cieorge 
and Abigail (Parker) Cogswell, was born 
in Bradford, Essex countv, August 23, 
1838. 

He was educated in the schools of Brad- 
ford, Atkinson Academy, N. H., Kimball 
Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., Phillips 
Academy, Andover, and Dartmouth Col- 
lege, which latter institution he entered in 
1855. He did not finish his course at Dart- 
mouth, but went to sea before the mast, 
sailing round the world. On his return he 
entered the Dane law school. Harvard 
University, from which he was graduated 
in i860. He at once opened a law office 
in Salem, and in 1866 he opened another 
office in Boston, and has remained in 
active practice up to the present time. 

Mr. Cogswell was first married in Haver- 
hill, June 20, 1855, to Emma Thorndike, 
daughter of Thorndike and Emma (Silsby) 
Proctor. Of this union were three chil- 
dren : William, Emma Silsby and Sarah 
Parker Cogswell (deceased). Mrs. Cogs- 
well died April I, 1S77. Mr. Cogswell was 
married again in Salem, December 12, 
18S1, to Eva Maria, daughter of Horatio 
Gates and Lydia (Carter) Davis. 

His military record from April, 1S61, to 
July 25, 1865, is one unbroken series of 
earned promotion. He was first captain, 
then lieutenant -colonel, and colonel, 2d 



regiment Massachusetts volunteers, and 
finally brevet brigadier -general United 
States volunteers, and by special order of 
the war department he was assigned to 
the command of the 3d brigade, 3d divis- 
ion, 20th army corps. He had two years 
of .service in the army of the Potomac, 
and two more in the western army under 
(ienerals Thomas and Sherman. He was 
commandant of Atlanta, Ga., while it was 
held by the Union troops in the fall of 
1864, and he participated in the famous 
march " from Atlanta to the sea." 

He was mayor of Salem, 1867, '68 and 
'69, and 1873 and '74; member of the 
House of Representatives 1870, '71, '81, 
'82, and '83 ; and of the state Senate 1885 
and '86 ; was department commander of 
Massachusetts G. A. R., 1870, and also on 
national staff of G. A. R.; charter mem- 
ber and vice-commander Military Order of 
the Loyal Legion, commandery of ]\Lassa- 
chusetts ; member of board of advisers of 
the Children's Friend and Seamen's Orphan 
Society, Salem. 

General Cogswell was elected in 1886 
to the 50th United States Congress, and 
served on the committee on rivers and har- 
bors, and re-elected to the 51st Congress 
in 1888, where he performed conspicuous 
service, alike creditable to himself and 
highly satisfactory to his native State. 

COLBURN, HOWARD, son of Thatcher 
and Hittie (Cleveland) Colburn, was born 
in the West Parish in Dedham, Norfolk 
county, December 4, 1838. He was the 
youngest of five sons, the oldest being 
the late Hon. Waldo Colburn, one of the 
justices of the supreme court of the Com- 
monwealth. He traces his ancestry in this 
country to Nathaniel Colburn, who emi- 
grated from England, August 11, 1637, and 
received a grant of land in the town of 
Dedham. The record of his admission 
into the Dedham church reads as follows ; 
" Nathaniel Colburn was received into 
ye church after long & much inquisition 
into his case, 29th of ye iim., 1640." 
Here he lived until his death. May 14, 
169 1. The line of descent is as follows: 
Samuel, son of Nathaniel, born January 25, 
1654 ; Ephraim, born November 5, 1687 ; 
Ephraim, born December 31, 1716; Icha- 
bod, born February 26, 1754 ; and Thatch- 
er, born February 20, 1787, who married 
Hittie Cleveland, June, 1823. 

Mr. Colburn was educated in the public 
schools of his native town and at Williston 
Seminary, Easthampton. In his early days 
he might have been stvled a farmer, like 
his ancestors, but his public duties have of 



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COLBURN. 



late years taken him away from the plow 
and the scythe. Since 1872 he has held 
the office of selectman of the town, and for 
a number of years he has been chairman 
of the board, and during most of the same 
period he has also been a member of the 
boards of assessors and overseers of the 
poor. 

He has also for a number of years been 
a deputy sheriff of Norfolk county. The 
confidence of his friends and neighbors in 
his integrity and ability is further attested 
by the fact that he is frequently called upon 
to act as trustee and e.xecutor of estates. 
He is one of the directors of the National 
Bank, and trustee of the Savings Bank, 
and a director in both the Norfolk and 
Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance companies, 
all in Dedham, and also the treasurer of 
the latter company. 

Mr. Colburn was never married, and has 
always resided at the old homestead in his 
native town. 

COLBURN, Jeremiah, son of Calvin 

and Catharine Sibyl (Lakin) Colburn, was 
born in Boston, January 12, 1815. 

He received his education at the May- 
hew and Derne Street schools, from which 
he was graduated in 1830,10 enter mercan- 
tile life. 

In J 840 he began business for himself as 
a dealer in hats, furs, etc., at Boston, where 
he continued till 1852, when President 
Pierce appointed him an appraiser in the 
Boston custom house. Here he remained 
through two administrations. 

He has since been engaged in literary 
pursuits. At the age of fifteen he began 
the collection of rare coins — afterwards 
extending his field to that of medals, min- 
erals and shells, and subsequently to auto- 
graphs, manuscript.s, portraits and engrav- 
ings, colonial and continental money, 
paper tokens, bank notes, and even coun- 
terfeits and bills of broken banks — this last 
at the suggestion of Jacob G. Morris of Phil- 
adelphia (1839), who was of the belief that 
the end of paper money was near, and as 
the representative of bills they would be 
a curiosity. In this department of arts 
Mr. Colburn has achieved a notable success, 
especially in Americana, wherein his coins 
and medals have been of the rarest, finest 
and earliest, and his pamphlets and books 
relating to American history, as well as his 
autographs and manuscripts, have been 
especially valuable. Important data relat- 
ing to historical events have been settled 
on the authority of this wreckage, saved 
from the ruin and remorseless decay of 
time 



Mr. Colburn was an early member of the 
New England Historic Genealogical So- 
ciety ; has served as chairman of its 
various committees, and is a member of the 
present committee of publication. 

In 1858 he was one of the founders of 
the Prince Society ; has served in its coun- 
cil and held the office of treasurer ; its first 
volume, " Wood's New England's Pros- 
pect," was issued under his supervision. In 
i860 he originated the Boston Numismatic 
Society, of which he was vice-president till 
1885, since which time he has been its 
president, also one of the editors of the 
"American Journal of Numismatics." He 




JEREMIAH COLBURN 

was one of the founders of the Boston An- 
tiquarian Club, which in 1882 became the 
Bostonian Society, to which the city has 
entrusted the custody and control of the 
old state-house. 

Besides his contributions to various 
magazines and reviews, Mr. Colburn has 
compiled and published the bibliography 
of the local history of Massachusetts, 
which he proposes to re-issue with revision 
and extension to date of publication. 

In 1869 Williams College conferred the 
degree of A. M. upon Mr. Colburn, who, 
in addition to the Boston societies named, 
is a member of the Essex Institute, and of 
the historical societies of New York, Vir- 



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ginia, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Dela- 
ware, Pennsylvania and the Western Re- 
serve ; also of the Societe Numisviatique of 
Brussels, and the Institute Canadian of 
Ottawa. 

Mr. Colburn was married in 1846 to 
Eliza Ann, daughter of John and Eliza 
Taylor (Pollard) Blackman, of Boston. 
His residence is Longwood, Brookline. 

COLBY, JOHN Freeman, son of John 

and Mary Huse (Holt) Colby, was born 
March 3, 1834, on his father's farm, in that 
part of Society Land which afterwards be- 
came a part of the town of Bennington, 
Hillsborough county, N. H. 

His early opportunities for education 
were few and small, but he had a strong 
thirst for knowledge, which his father en- 
couraged. By the death of his father, he 
was early thrown upon his own resources. 
By industry and economy, he saved enough 
to secure two terms of schooling, and at the 
age of seventeen taught his first school. 
He fitted for college at Mount Vernon 
and Reed's Ferry, N. H., and as a private 
pupil of the late Hon. George Stevens, 
of Lowell, and entered Dartmouth in 
1855. He took the broad, liberal college 
course of that time ; he taught school 
every winter ; he learned books as a 
librarian for three years in one of the 
college libraries. 

Upon his graduation in 1859, a place 
was waiting for him, and he became prin- 
cipal of the Stetson high school, at Ran- 
dolph, Mass. Distinction and promotion 
continued to open to him as a teacher, and 
tempting business offers were urged upon 
him. But he decided to devote himself to 
the legal profession, and accordingly, in 
1864, he moved to Boston and entered 
the offices of Hon. Ambrose A. Ranney 
and Nathan Morse. In December, 1865, 
after less than two years of study, on ex- 
amination, he was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar, and has continued in general practice, 
a conscientious and faithful attorney, and 
an able advocate, with a lofty conception 
of the dignity of the profession and an 
enthusiasm for it which never fails. 

For the most part Mr. Colby has re- 
sisted political preferment, but he occupied 
a seat in the common council of the city 
of Boston in iSyS-'g, serving on the judici- 
ary and other important committees, and 
in 1886 he was elected representative to 
the Legislature for the i8th Suffolk dis- 
trict. He was made House chairman of 
the joint committee on harbors and public 
lands, and a member of the joint com- 
mittee on parishes and religious societies. 



He was re-elected to the Legislature in No- 
vember, 1887, and served on the judiciary 
committee, also on the committee on 
parishes and religious societies. 

Mr. Colby's religious convictions ma- 
tured while he was a student at the Merri- 
mack Normal Institute, Reed's Ferry, and 
he joined the Congregational church at 
Mount Vernon in 1854, since which time 
he has been actively engaged in Christian 
work. When he moved to Boston, he con- 
nected himself first with the Mount Vernon 
church, under the ministry successivelv of 
Rev. E. N. Kirk, D. D., and Rev. S'. E. 
Herrick, D. D., where he became promi- 
nent in all the affairs of the parish, being 
a teacher and superintendent in the Sun- 
day-school, clerk and treasurer of the 
church, a member of the examining com- 
mittee, and treasurer of the society. The 
office of deacon, to which he was elected, 
he declined. Since 1884 he has been con- 
nected with the LInion church, of which 
the Rev. Nehemiah Boynton is pastor. 
He is also an officer of the Congregational 
Club, and active in several benevolent 
organizations. 

Devoting himself with great ardor to his 
profession, Mr. Colby, as a rule, has 
avoided business responsibilities, but he 
served as receiver of the Mechanics' Bank, 
after its failure in 1877, and has been for 
several years one of the trustees of the 
North End Savings Bank. He also com- 
bines business with pleasure in the man- 
agement of the farm connected with his 
summer home in Mount Vernon, N. H. 

COLLINS, Michael Henry, son of 

Walter and Annie Elizabeth (Lewis) Collins, 
was born in Quebec, September 28, 1822. 
His parents were born in London, England. 
.•\t the age of two years he went with them 
to Philadelphia, where he received his early 
education in private and public schools. 

His first connection in business was in 
glass-making, and afterward in engineer- 
ing and as a general inventor. 

Mr. Collins was married in 1847 to Eliz- 
abeth, daughter of Captain John and 
Elizabeth (Erskine) McNear. Of this 
union is one child : Florence Elizabeth, 
wife of Frederic F. Clark. He married his 
present wife, Frances, daughter of Captain 
Thomas and Katherine (Light) Boyd, in 
Wiscasset, Maine, October 4, 1855. They 
have two children by adoption : William 
Francis and Blanche Collins. 

Mr. Collins, after living for a time in 
Chelsea, removed to East Medwa)', now 
Millis, in 1874, where he now resides. He 
is a man original in his ideas, of indomi- 



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COLLINS. 



COLLINS. 



table perseverance; diffuses life and energy 
wherever he goes, and has done much 
toward improving the town of his adoption. 
He is the patentee of many useful inven- 




MICHAEL H, COLLINS. 

tions — one, iji connection with Joseph 
Hurd, of Maiden, the discovery of the pro- 
cess of manufacturing granulated sugar ; 
others are the famous lozenge machine, 
superseding hand power; a ventilator for 
public buildings ; a quartz crusher, which 
proved invaluable to miners in past years; 
the lamp burner and chimney known as the 
" Sun-burner " and " Sun-chimney " for the 
use of kerosene. Various experiments made 
by Mr. Collins at last brought them to a 
state of perfection that revolutionized the 
entire market, and to his years in experi- 
menting is due the present state of perfec- 
tion in the coal oil illuminating appliances. 
At tlie time he marketed his " Sun-burner," 
the use of kerosene was diminishing, on 
account of the non-combustion of carbon, 
and heating of burners and chimneys, inci- 
dental to the use of crude burners in use. 
His inventions gave an impetus to its use 
that has gone on increasing to the present 
time. One of the chief features of this 
invention is that it is so constructed as to 
prevent explosions, thereby saving life and 
property. The leading makers in the 
countrv realized fortunes in the manufac- 



ture of these burners, and immense sums 
were expended in protecting this now uni- 
versally used and valuable invention from 
various infringements. 

Mr. CoUins's last and greatest invention 
is the " Echolin," a musical instrument in 
the violin class. After forty years of 
experimenting, and gleaning experimental 
knowledge both in this country and Europe, 
Mr. Collins has perfected an instrument 
that is claimed to excel any other of its class 
in richness of tone and depth of volume. 

He is liberally read in mechanics, chem- 
istry and medicine, being a graduate from 
several medical schools. 

COLLINS, Patrick A., was born in 
Fermoy, county of Cork, Ireland, March 
12, 1S44. He came to the United States 
in 1848 and settled in Chelsea, where he 
received a common school education. He 
worked at the upholstery trade for eight 
years, giving his leisure hours to study. 

He entered Harvard law school in 
1868, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in the city of Boston, 187 1, where he has 
continued in the practice of his profession 
ever since. 

In 1 868 and '69 he was a member of the 
House of Representatives, and in 1870-71 
a state senator. In 1875 he was judge- 
advocate-general of the Commonwealth. 

Mr. Collins was elected delegate-at-large 
from Massachusetts to the national Dem- 
ocratic conventions in 1876, '80 and '88, 
and was elected president of the national 
Democratic convention of 1888, held at St. 
Louis. 

In 1882 he was elected to Congress, and 
has been twice re-elected. 

Mr. Collins was one of the secretaries of 
the Fenian congress held in Philadel|ihia, 
in 1865, and has been an active member of 
the land and national leagues since their 
establishment. He was chosen president 
of the Irish National Land League at the 
convention held in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1884, 
and served something more than a year, 
declining a re-election. He has been chair- 
man of the Massachusetts Democratic state 
committee since 1884. 

Mr. Collins was married July i, 1S73, at 
Boston, to Mary E. Carey. Of this union 
are three children : Agnes, Marie and Paul. 

A natural-born leader of men, it has not 
taken Mr. Collins long to secure from time 
to time legitimate positions of honor and 
power. A brilliant debater, a forcible and 
eloquent speaker, a rapid thinker, and 
giftetl with a thoroughly equipped and well 
balanced mind, he stands a conspicuous 
example of what a fine graft can be made 



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of Irish and American stock. Mr. Collins 
has certainly contributed his share to keep 
the state of his atioption well in the van of 
progressive, liberal and intelligent life. 

CONANT, Chester Cook, son of 

Col. Jonathan and Clarissa (I)imick) Co- 
nant, was born in Lyme, Grafton county, 
N. H., September 4, 1831. 

He was educated in the common schools, 
Thetford Academy, Vt., and Dartmouth 
College, from which latter he was gradu- 
ated with honor in the class of TS57. 
While pursuing his college course he sup- 
ported himself in part by teaching, working 
during vacations. He was graduated from 
the Albany law school in 1859, and was ad- 
mitted to the New York, and also the 
Massachusetts bar the same year. 

He then formed a partnership with 
Judge David Aiken, at Greenfield, Mass., 
the firm name being Aiken & Conant. 
He continued these relations several years ; 
afterward was for three or four years a 
partner with Edward E. Lyman ; practiced 
alone till 1878, when, admitting Samuel D. 



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CHESTER C CONANT. 

Conant, a nephew, as partner, the business 
has since been conducted under the firm 
name of Conant & Conant. 

He has been admitted to practice in the 
United States supreme court at Washing- 
ton, and has practiced in said court. 



Mr. Conant was married in Portland, 
Me., June 14, i860, to Sarah E., daughter 
of Rev. Roger S. Howard, I). D., and 
Martha (Pike) Howard. Of this union are 
two daughters : Charlotte Howard, and 
Martha Pike Conant. 

Mr. Conant was register of probate, 
Franklin county, from 1863 to October, 
1870, when he was appointed judge of 
probate and insolvency for Franklin coun- 
ty, an office he still holds. 

Judge Conant was for years a member of 
the school board. In 1884 he was delegate 
to the national Republican convention, 
held at Chicago, and in 1888 was presiden- 
tial elector on the Republican ticket, and 
voted for President Harrison. 

For several years he was secretary of 
the Greenfield Library Association — is 
now trustee ; a director in the Franklin 
County National Bank twelve years ; one 
of the original incorporators of the Green- 
field Savings Bank in 1869, its first and 
only secretary, and has been its attorney 
and trustee to the present time. He was 
elected its vice-president in 1889. 

He is an Episcopalian, a vestryman of 
the church, and is usually a delegate to 
the annual diocesan convention ; for over 
twenty years he has been superintendent of 
the Sunday-school. 

Before entering his profession he learned 
of his father the trades of carpenter and 
builder, and cabinet-maker, and was called 
a skilled workman. 

Judge Conant is a lineal descendant in 
the eighth generation from the Pilgrim, 
Roger Conant, who landed in .America in 
1623, and who built the first house in Sa- 
lem. He is also a lineal descendant of Mary 
Chilton, the first woman to set foot on 
Plymouth Rock at the landing of the Pil- 
grim Fathers. 

CONANT, Nelson B., son of Francis 
and Sophia (Goldsmith) Conant, was born 
in Acton, Middlesex county, December 6, 

He received his early training in the 
public schools, which was supplemented 
by attendance at Lawrence Academy, 
(iroton. 

He began mercantile life for himself in 
Littleton, 1868. In 1874 he went into the 
wholesale produce business in Boston, 
where he remained two years. He after- 
wards located in Acton, and later removed 
to Littleton, where he still continues in 
business. 

Mr. Conant was married in Littleton, 
April 29, 1874, to Frances W., daughter of 
George W. and Atlanta (.C.erry) Tuttle. 



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CONVERSE. 



Of this union was one child : ^^'allace B. 
Conant. Mr. Conant's second marriage 
took place in East Hardwick, Vt., with 
Harriette W. Adgate of that town, Octo- 
ber I, 1885. 

Mr. Conant served eight years as select- 
man, three of which he was chairman of 
the board. He was for four years trustee 
and treasurer of the " Reuben Hoar " libra- 
ry. He has been trustee of the North 
Middlesex Savings Bank, located at Ayer, 
from its incorporation to the present time. 
In the fall of 1888 he was elected repre- 
sentative to the Legislature from the 30th 
Middlesex district, serving as a member of 
the committee on public charitable insti- 
tutions. 

CONVERSE, Edmund Winchester, 

son of Rev. James and Charlotte (White) 
Converse, was born in WeathersfieId,^Vind- 
sor county, Vt., June 12, 1825. He ob- 
tained his education in the public schools 
of his native town and in the academy at 
Meriden, N. H. 

He entered the store of Ammidown & 
Converse as clerk, at seventeen years of 
age. Subsequently he became successivelj^ 
a partner in the following firms : Blanch- 
ard, Converse & Co.; Converse, Harding 
& Co.; Harding, Converse, Gray & Co., 
and Converse, Taylor & Co., all of which 
were dry-goods importing and jobbing 
houses, Boston. He is now in the .same 
business, in the house of Converse, Stan- 
ton & Cullen, Boston and New York. 

Mr. Converse was married in Boston, 
May II, 1854, to Charlotte Augusta (Shep- 
herd) Albree, daughter of George and 
Charlotte (Saunders) Shepherd. Of this 
union were seven children ; Edmund Win- 
chester, Jr., Ellen M., Charlotte, Margaret, 
Charles Henry, James and Frederick Shep- 
herd Converse. 

Mr. Converse is director in the follow- 
ing corporations : .'Etna Mills, National 
City Bank, Boston ; National Tube Works 
Company, McKeesport, Pa., and Pueblo 
Smelting & Refining Company. He is 
president of the Conanicut Mills, Fall 
River ; trustee of the Newton Cottage 
Hospital ; was a member of the state drain- 
age and sewerage commission ; is chairman 
of the school board and trustee of the free 
library in the city of Newton, where he 
lives to enjoy the fruits of an honored and 
successful career. 

CONVERSE, Elisha SlADE, son of 
Eiisha and Betsey (Wheaton) Converse, 
was born in Needham, Norfolk county, 
July 28, 1820. 



He availed himself of the advantages of 
a common school education. 

His first entrance into business life was 
in a clothing store in Thompson, Conn., 
April I, 1839. 

In 1S44 he made a change to the shoe 
and leather business, in which he remained 
till 1853, when he became the treasurer 
and manager of the Boston Rubber Shoe 
Company, which office he still holds. 

Mr. Converse was married in Thompson, 
Conn., September 4, 1843, to Mary I)., 
daughter of Hosea and Ursula (Burgess) 
Edmands. Of this union were four chil- 
dren : Frank E., Mary Ida, Harry E., and 
Frances Eugenie Converse. 




ELISHA S. CONVERSE. 

Mr. Converse has served the Common- 
wealth two years in the House (.1878 and 
'79), and two years in the Senate (1880 
and '81). Standing as he did, so high in 
the esteem of all of his fellow-citizens, he 
was by universal acclaim awarded the 
honor of serving as the first mayor of the 
city when the old town of Maiden accepted 
the city charter in 1881. 

He is president of the First National 
Bank of Maiden ; president of the Boston 
Belting Company, director of the Revere 
Rubber Company, and of the Exchange 
National Bank, Boston ; president of the 
Rubber Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance 



COOK. 



COOKE. 



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Company ; trustee of Wellesley College, 
and also of the Boston Five Cents Savings 
Bank. 

Mr. Converse is a successful business 
man, active in thought, indefatigable in 
work, conservative in method. His church 
connections are with the First Baptist 
society of Maiden. His private benefac- 
tions are as many and judiciously placed, 
as his public bequests are frequent and 
wisely bestowed. He is a loyal citizen, 
and has done probably more than any 
other resident of Maiden to increase its 
attractions and to promote its prosperity, 
his last and crowning gift being the mag- 
nificent library recently erected by his 
generous hand. 

COOK, Joseph, was born in Ticon- 
deroga, Esse.\ county, N. Y., January 26, 
1838. His early training was at Phillips 
Academy, Andover, under the celebrated 
classical teacher. Dr. Samuel H. Taylor. 
He entered Yale College in 1858, but his 
health having become impaired, he left col- 
lege early in 1861. He entered Harvard 
College as a junior in 1863, and was grad- 
uated in 1S65, with honor. He then en- 
tered Andover Theological Seminary, and 
went through the three years' course. He 
added to this a fourth year at Andover, for 
special study of advanced religious and 
philosophical thought. He was licensed 
to preach, and has done so to some extent, 
but was not ordained. He was acting pas- 
tor of the First Congregational church in 
Lynn in 187 1. In September, 187 1, he 
went abroad for two years, and studied at 
Halle, Leipzig, Berlin and Heidelberg, un- 
der the directions of Tholuck, Julius 
Miiller, Dorner and Kuno Firchen. He 
then traveled in Italy, Egypt, Syria, 
Greece, Turke}^ and other countries in 
Europe. Returning to the United States at 
the close of 1873, he took up his residence 
in Boston, and in 1874 entered upon his spe- 
cial work as a lecturer on the relations of 
religion and science. His present vocation 
is lecturer and author, residing in Boston. 

He was married in New Haven, Conn., 
June 30, 1877, to Georgie Hemingway. 

Mr. Cook is a member of the Victoria 
Institute, London, and the American Insti- 
tute of Philosophy, New York City. He 
was Chautauqua lecturer five years, be- 
tween 1877 and 1888, and appeared in 
the same capacity before several theo- 
logical seminaries. He has conducted the 
Boston Monday Lecture for fourteen 
years, with great audiences at noon, on a 
week-day. He has also made extensive lec- 
ture tours for fifteen years. In 1880, '81, and 



'82, Mr. Cook, accompanied by his wife, 
made a lecturing tour of the world. In all 
the great cities visited there were immense 
audiences. During the two years and sev- 
enty-seven days occupied by Mr. Cook's 
journey around the world, he spoke oftener 
than every other working-day while on the 
land. 

Mr. Cook made one hundred and thirty- 
five public appearances in the British 
Islands. Of these, thirty-nine were in 
Scotland, thirteen in Ireland, and eighty- 
three in England and Wales. 

After spending some months in Germany 
and Italy, Mr. Cook went, by the way of 
Greece, Palestine, and Egypt, to India, 
where he arrived on the fifth of January, 
1882, and where he spent about three 
months. During this period he lectured in 
Bombay, Poonah, Ahmednuggur, Lucknow, 
Allahabad, Benares (the headquarters of 
Hindooism), Calcutta, Madras, Bangalore, 
etc., to large, intelligent, and appreciative 
audiences, composed of both Europeans 
and natives. 

From India, Mr. Cook's tour extended to 
China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and 
the Sandwich Islands. 

In Australasia, in the winter of the 
southern hemisphere, from July to Octo- 
ber, 1882, Mr. Cook gave long courses of 
lectures to brilliant, crowded., and enthusi- 
astic assemblies, in Sydney, Melbourne, 
Adelaide, Brisbane, and other leading 
towns. 

His eleven volumes of Boston Monday 
Lectures, published by Houghton, Mifflin 
&: Co., have appeared in thirteen different 
foreign editions. In 1888 he founded " Our 
Day," a monthly record and review of cur- 
rent reform, with Miss Willard, ex-presi- 
dent Cyrus Hamlin, and other specialists 
as associate editors. 

COOKE, George Phelps, son of 

Albert Andrew and Maria Fidelia (Talbot) 
Cooke, was born in Oxford, Worcester 
county, October 28, 1849. 

His usual common school preparation 
was passed, and he entered Wesleyan 
Academy, Wilbraham, and subsequently the 
Harvard dental and medical college. He 
began the practice of dentistry in Milford, 
his present residence, in i86g, in which 
profession he .still continues. 

Dr. Cooke was married in Medway, 
December 27, 1883, to Marianna, daugh- 
ter of William A. and Adelia E. (Crooks) 
Jenckes. Of this union are two children : 
Allan Jenckes and Guenn Cooke. 

Dr. Cooke is president of the Quidnunc 
Association ; vice-president of the Co-oper- 



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COOLIDGE. 



ative Bank, having been prominently iden- 
tified with its incorporation. 

He is a leading member of the Milford 
Business Men's Association; was connected 




GEORGE P. COOKE. 

with the militia for a number of years, and 
is chairman of -the Democratic town and 
senatorial district committee. 

While always taking a lively interest in 
the politics of the State, he has uniformly 
refused to be a candidate for office, though 
he has done much to shape the local 
policy of his party. Ever since he has 
been a resident of Milford, he has com- 
manded a flourishing practice in his pro- 
fession. 

COOKE, JosiAH Parsons, son of 

Josiah Parsons and Mary (Pratt) Cooke, 
was born in Boston, October 12, 1S27. 

He received his early education at the 
Boston Latin school, and was graduated 
from Harvard in 1848. During the next 
year he became tutor in mathematics, sub- 
sequently instructor in chemistry, and in 
1850, Erving professor of chemistry and 
mineralogy. 

Professor Cooke was the first to introduce 
laboratory instruction into the undergrad- 
uate course of an American college, and 
has successfully labored to render the in- 
ductive methods of experimental science 
a legitimate means of liberal culture, not 



only in the college, but also in the prepara- 
tory school. 

Professor Cooke's work has been largely 
that of instruction, and in addition to his 
duties at Harvard, he has given courses 
of popular lectures in New York, Baltimore, 
Brooklyn, Lowell, Washington, and Wor- 
cester, and six courses at the Lowell 
Listitute, Boston. As director of the 
chemical laboratory of Harvard Col- 
lege, he has published numerous contri- 
butions to chemical science, most of which 
have been collected in a volume entitled 
" Chemical and Physical Researches " 
(1881). 

The investigation of the atomic weight 
of antimony (1880) was one of the most 
brilliant and perfect pieces of chemical 
work ever executed in this country. He 
has been editorially connected with the 
" American Journal of Science," and the 
" Proceedings of the American Academy 
of Sciences and Arts." His " New Chem- 
istry " was the earliest exposition of the 
principles of molecular chemistry. Pro- 
fessor Cooke is a member of many scien- 
tific societies. In 1872 he was elected to 
the National Academy of Sciences. He 
is an honorary fellow of the London 
Chemical Society. In 1882 he received the 
degree of LL. D. from the University of 
Cambridge, England, and in 1889 the same 
degree from Harvard. His published 
works include "Chemical Problems and 
Researches" (Cambridge, 1857); "Ele- 
ments of Chemical Physics " (Boston, 
i860): "First Principles of Chemical 
Philosophy " (1882, revised edition); " The 
New Chemistry" (New- York, 1872, re- 
vised, 1884); "Fundamental Principles of 
Chemistry " (Cambridge, 1886); " Religion 
and Chemistry" (New York, 1864); "Sci- 
entific Culture and Other Essays" (New 
York, 1881, with additions, 1885); "The 
Credentials of Science, the Warrant of 
Faith" (New York, 1888). 

He was married at Lowell, February 6, 
i860, to Mary Hinckley, daughter of 
Elisha and Flannah (Hinckley) Hunting- 
ton. Mr. Huntington was at one time 
mayor of Lowell, and at another lieuten- 
ant-governor of the State. 

COOLIDGE, TIMOTHY Augustus, 

son of \\'illiam and Ann (Leighton) Cool- 
idge, was born in Natick, ^Iiddlesex county, 
June 25, 1827. 

The district school bestowed upon him 
an elementary education, and beyond this 
he has depended entirely upon his percep- 
tive faculties, studying from the world 
about him. 



COOLIDGE. 



CORCORAN. 



143 



His father was a shoemaker in a small 
way, and as he was one of seven children, 
he was obliged very early in life to provide 
for his own support. Until he was twenty 
years old, he worked in the shop with his 
father, with the exception of three months, 
when, as a lad of thirteen years, he 
" pejrged " for Henry Wilson — afterward 
United States senator and vice-president. 
Ever since his twentieth year, Mr. Coolidge 
has been a growing shoe manufacturer, at 
first doing most of the work himself, now 
giving employment to hundreds of people. 

From 1848 to '58 he manufactured shoes 
in Concord, and from 1858 to the present 
time, has conducted a manufactory in 
Marlborough. 

On the 17th of October, 184S, he was 
married, in Concord, to Sarah B., daughter 
of Abel and Rebecca (Lewis) Davis, their 
only child being Malissa A. Coolidge. 
In September, 1854, he married his second 
wife, ^laria H., daughter of Thomas Davis. 

In financial affairs he has gained a sub- 
stantial reputation as self-reliant, cautious, 
firm and just. Politically he has followed 
the lead of his earlv emplover, Henry 



^1^ 




TIMOTHY A COOLIDGE. 



Wilson. Socially he has been found en- 
thusiastic in every department, and holds 
high Masonic orders (32°). He has also 
been actively identified with several phil- 



anthropic societies; is an active temperance 
man, and a valuable member of the Farm- 
ers' &: Mechanics' Club and the Board of 
Trade. He is a trustee of the Marl- 
borough Savings Bank and was a director 
in, and is also vice-president of, the First 
National Bank of Alarlborough. He is a 
justice of the peace, and has been a mem- 
ber of the board of selectmen eight years, 
chairman four years, and in 1880 and '81 
was elected to represent the 32d Middlesex 
district in the Legislature. 

COPELAND, HORATIO FRANKLIN, son 
of Horatio and Delia (Nye) Copeland, was 
born in Easton, Bristol county, November 
15, 1842. He is a lineal descendant of 
Lawrence Copeland, who came to this 
country from England in early colonial 
days, married Lydia Townsend, and died 
in 1699, and who is said to have arrived 
at the age of one hundred and ten years. 

Mr. Copeland was fitted for college at 
Thetford (\'t.) Academy, and after study- 
ing medicine with Dr. Caleb Swan of Eas- 
ton, attended Harvard medical college, 
Vv'here he was graduated in 1865. 

His country needing his services, he 
received his degree in advance of his regular 
graduation, and at once (January, 1865) 
tookthe position of acting assistant-surgeon 
in the United States service, and was placed 
in charge of the Post Hospital at Bermuda 
Hundred, and of the small-pox hospital 
located at that place. He remained at his 
post until June of that year, when he 
returned to Massachusetts, and located in 
the practice of his profession at South 
.\bington (now Whitman), where he has 
since been constantly and successfully 
engaged. 

He is a member of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, and has devoted himself 
untiringly to his profession, endeavoring to 
keep in the front rank of the progressive 
school of practice. 

Dr. Copeland has taken a keen interest 
in free masonry. He is a member of Puri- 
tan Lodge, Pilgrim Chapter, Old Colony 
Commandery, and Abington Council ; was 
pre.siding officer of the last named body 
for four years. He is a member of Post 
No. 78, G. A. R., and is a Republican in 
politics. 

CORCORAN, JOHN W., .son of James 
and Catherine Corcoran, was born June 14, 
1853, at Batavia, Monroe county, N. Y. 

His early education was obtained in the 
public schools of Clinton, Mass. He after- 
wards pursued his studies in Holy Cross 
College, Worcester, St. John's University, 



144 



CORCORAN. 



CORSE. 



New York City, and the Boston Univer- 
sity law school. 

He began the practice of law in Clinton, 
June, 1875, and later on formed a co-part- 
nership with Herbert Parker. He was also 
a member of the law firm of Corcoran & 
Walsh from 1882 until the death of Mr. 
Walsh, in August, 1887. He is still in 
practice in Clinton, and associated with Mr. 
Parker. 

Mr. Corcoran was married in Boston 
April 28, i88i,to Margaret J., daughter of 
Patrick and Mary McDonald. Of this 
union are two daughters and one son : 
Mary Gertrude, Alice, and John Corco- 
ran. 




Mr. Corcoran was a member of the 
school committee of Clinton for thirteen 
years, and is now its chairman. He has 
been a member of the board of water com- 
missioners since its organization, 1S81. 
He has been town solicitor of Clinton since 
the creation of the office, in 1883. He was 
delegate to the national Democratic con- 
ventions in 1884 and in 1888, and in the 
latter year acted as chairman of the dele- 
gation, and has been a member of the 
Democratic state committee since 1883, 
which position he still holds, being vice- 
chairman of that body. He was president 
of the Clinton board of trade iSS6-'87. 



Mr. Corcoran was candidate for senator 
in iSSo, for district-attorney of Worcester 
county 1883 and '84, for attorney-general 
of .Massachusetts in iS86-'87,and for lieu- 
tenant-governor in i888-'89 — all on the 
Democratic ticket. He was appointed 
receiver of the Lancaster National Bank of 
Clinton, January 20, 18S6, by the comptrol- 
ler of the currency of the United States, 
and still holds that position. 

CORSE, JOHN Murray, son of John 
L. and Sarah (Murray) Corse, was born in 
Pittsburg, Allegheny county, Pa., .-Xpril 27, 
1835. His ancestors, of Huguenot lineage, 
came to Virginia about a hundred years be- 
fore his birth. He was educated in the public 
schools of St. Louis, Mo., and Burlington, 
la., and entered West Point in 1853. On 
graduating, he resigned, and took a course 
in the .\lbany law school. 

In 1 86 1 he was appointed major of the 
6th Iowa infantry. Pie afterwards joined 
the staff of General John Pope, with the 
rank of judge-advocate-general, and later 
that of inspector-general. In this capacity 
he went through the New Madrid and 
Island No. 10 campaigns, and the battle of 
Shiloh. Having been promoted to lieu- 
tenant-colonel of the 6th Iowa infantry, he 
joined Sherman, with his regiment, and 
participated in the sieges of Corinth and 
Memphis, and the Mississippi campaign. 

Lor gallantry in the assault on Jackson, 
as colonel of his regiment, he was com- 
missioned brigadier-general. His next 
promotion was to the command of the 4th 
division, 15th army corps, which body he 
took to Chattanooga, via Memphis. While 
leading an assaulting column of Sherman's 
men at Mission Ridge, he had his leg 
broken by a shell, and was carried from 
the field. After recovery from his wound, 
he joined General Sherman, became a 
member of his staff, and with him marched 
"from Atlanta to the sea." 

Lor his notable bravery at Allatoona 
Pass, General Corse was made major-gen- 
eral, a promotion well merited and nobly 
earned. With comparatively a handful of 
men within the works, he repelled for hours 
the fiercest assaults of overwhelming num- 
bers, and sustained one of the hottest, 
most deadly artillery fires experienced dur- 
ing the war. Expecting relief, he doggedly 
refused to surrender. Wounded, worn 
down by fatigue, and in the centre of that 
murderous fire, he eagerly watched for the 
signal " Hold the Lort " from the tardily 
approaching relief column that came at 
last, and with it the inspiration that has 
since been caught up in song by millions 



CORSEK 



COWLEY. 



'45 



of his countrymen who are ignorant of its 
origin. 

General Corse's war record is an enviable 
one, and the same courage displayed in the 
field has since characterized his walks in 
civil and political life. 




JOHN M. CORSE, 

General Corse was appointed collector 
of internal revenue by President Johnson 
in 1867. In 1869 he went abroad and spent 
several years in Europe. His only con- 
nection in business interests was in Chicago, 
as constructor of railroads and harbors. 
He was appointed by President Cleveland, 
postmaster of Boston, October 8, 18S6, in 
jilace of Edward S. Tobey. This position 
he still holds, and by his executive ability 
has won the commendation of the public, 
irrespective of party. 

Mr. Corse was first married in December, 
1S56, to Ellen Edwards, daughter of Kim- 
ball and Ellen (Pray) Prince. Of this 
union is one son, an only child — now cashier 
of the Chicago, Santa Fe & California 
Railroad. His second marriage occurred 
in 1883, with Frances, niece of President 
Pierce, and daughter of John and C. (M.) 
McNeil. 

CORSER, Charles A., sonof P>enja- 
niin and Sarah (Gove) Corser, was born in 
Lyndon, Caledonia county, \'t., September 
2t, 1833. 



The common schools furnished his early 
education. His first connection in business 
was in Charlestown, N. H., 1861, in the 
retail boot and shoe business. He came 
to Holyoke in 1863 and opened up the 
same line of business. 

He was member of the board of selectmen 
and of health, Holyoke, from 1869 to '71 ; 
member of the House of Representatives, 
1871 ; elected to the Senate 1880 and '81 ; 
member of the board of aldermen, 1881. 

His church connections are with the 
Baptist society, Holyoke — has been its 
Sabbath-schooi superintendent two years. 

He has traveled e.xtensively in the West, 
Lower California and up the Pacific coast, 
in 1871 and '77. 

Mr. Corser was married in Charlestown, 
N. H., November 2, 1858, to Isabel S., 
daughter of Cephas and Hansey (Hyland) 
Isham. He was married again in Holyoke, 
May, 1868, to Arabell t. White. His 
children are: Theressa L, Charles B., Lilian 
H., and Rachel H. Corser. 

COWLEY, Charles, son of Aaron 
and Hannah (Price) Cowley, was born at 
Eastington, Gloucestershire, England, Jan- 
uary 9, 1832. His father was a manufac- 
turer of carpets, who, on coming to Massa- 
chusetts, established and carried on carpet 
factories at Woburn and Lowell. 

Mr. Cowley was educated in the public 
schools of I>owell and by tutors in advanced 
•Studies. He early commenced writing for 
the public press of Lowell, and at the age 
of twenty assumed the editorial manage- 
ment of the " Lowell Daily Courier." His 
ambition led him to abandon this situation 
and enter upon the study of law under 
Judge J. G. Abbott. 

In ^iay, 1856, he was admitted to the 
Middlesex bar, and opened an office in 
Lowell, where, and in Boston, he has prac- 
ticed his profession with success. 

In 1 86 1, at the outbreak of the civil war, 
Mr. Cowley was elected captain of the 
Wamesit Rifles, a newly organized com- 
pany in Lowell, but finding himself physi- 
cally unequal to the long marches of mili- 
tary service he resigned that position and 
entered the navy, where he was assigned 
to duty as paymaster at the Brooklyn (N.Y.) 
navy-yard, under Rear-Admiral Paulding. 
Next, he served in the same capacity on 
the " Lehigh," one of the " Monitor " fleet 
which essayed the bombardment of the 
defenses of' Charleston, S. C. Thence he 
was transferred to the staff of Admiral 
Dahlgren, where, as judge-advocate, fleet 
judge, provost judge and revising officer 
of the naval courts of the South Atlantic 



146 



COWLEY. 



CRANE. 



squadron, he continued till the close of the 
war. His naval career was eminently 
creditable. 

Though actively engaged in his profes- 
sion, Judge Cowley has been an occasional 
contributor to the Boston and Lowell 
press, and has found time for several his- 
torical and literary works, which have been 
well received. His " History of Lowell " 
was published in 1S68 ; " P'amous Divorces 
of'.All .\ges," in 1S78 ; "Historical Sketch 
of .Middlese.K County," in the " Middlesex 
County Manual," in 1878; "Leaves from 
a Lawyer's Life Afloat and Ashore," in 
1879; "Our Divorce Courts," in 1879; 
and " Reminiscences of James C. Ayer and 
the Town of .^yer," in 1879. 

Mr. Cowley has served as member of the 
Lowell city government, of its school com- 
mittee and other executive boards ; has 
twice been a candidate for the attorney- 
generalship of Massachusetts — the last 
time on the ticket headed by Wendell 
Phillips in 1870. 

Mr. Cowley's chief honors have been 
earned as a reformer. He was a zealous 
advocate of the passage of the " Ten Hour 




-lARLES COWLEY. 



Law," and was its champion before joint 
special committees of the Legislatures of 
1869, '71 and other years. He drafted the 
charter of the grand lodge of the Order of 



the Knights of St. Crispin ; subsecjuently 
he successfully defended the .same before 
the supreme court (Mass. Reports, 113; 
179), and was largely instrumental in 
organizing the Bureau of Labor. He has 
also borne an active part in the reformation 
of the divorce laws. 

Mr. Cowley is a member of various chari- 
table orders and associations, but has been 
especially prominent in the order of the 
Knights of Pythias, for which he has writ- 
ten " Life Legends of Damon and Pythias ; " 
he has been at the head of the order in his 
state, and has sat in the supreme lodge of 
the world. 

Mr. Cowley is a member of the New 
England Historic Genealogical Society, of 
the Bristol (England) and (iloucestershire 
Archaeological Society, and other learned 
bodies. He is president of the Port Royal 
Society, composed of survivors of the De- 
partment of the South and the South Atlan- 
tic blockading squadron. In 1885 Nor- 
wich LIniversity of Vermont conferred upon 
him the honorary degree of LL. D. 

Mr. Cowley is unmarried. 

COY, EDWARD G., .son of Edward G. 
and Elizabeth E. (Brown) Coy, was born 
in Ithaca, Tompkins county, N. Y, 
August 23, 1844. 

Passing through the public schools, he 
then prepared for college at W'illiston 
Seminary, Easthampton, and was gradua- 
ted from Yale in the class of 1869. 

He taught school in Cincinnati for a time, 
then at Williston Seminary, and was after- 
ward tutor in Yale College. He is now 
the professor of Greek at Phillips Acad- 
emy, Andover, having acted as principal 
of the academy from January to July, 1889. 

Professor Coy was married in New Ha- 
ven, Conn., November 25, 1S73, to Helen E., 
daughter of Rev. Samuel D, and Mary Sher- 
man (Skinner) Marsh. Of this union were 
three children : Mary Dexter, Sherman 
Lockwood, and Edward Harris. 

CRANE, JOSHUA Eddy, son of Barzil- 
lai and Lydia (Eddy) Crane, was born in 
Berkley, Bristol county, July 9, 1823, and 
died in Bridgewater, August 5, 1888. He 
was educated in the public and private 
schools of his native town. 

At the age of sixteen, he was placed in 
the counting-room of Messrs. Griffin & 
Eddy, of New York City, and subsequently 
became connected in the mercantile busi- 
ness with Morton Eddy, of Bridgewater. 
Li 1848 he purchased his partner's 
interest, and carried on the business for 
more than forty years. 



CRANE. 



CKAPO. 



147 



In 1849 Mr. Crane was married to Luc}' 
A., daughter of Quincy and Lucy (Loud) 
Reed of Weymouth. Of this union are 
five children living: Joshua E., Jr., Charles 
Reed, Morton E., Henry L., and Annie 
Howe Crane. 

Mr. Crane was among the pioneers of 
the Free Soil party, and was subsequently 
active in the organization of the Repub- 
lican party, of which he was a devoted ad- 
herent. 

He was elected town clerk and treasurer 
in 1856, and for many yeais filled various 
municipal offices. In 1S57 he represented 
the town in the state Legislature, and was 
state senator in i862-'63, serving on com- 
mittees on mercantile affairs, insurance 
and claims. He was for several years a 
member of the Republican state central 
committee, thirteen years inspector and 
trustee of the state work-house, and for 
the greater part of the time chairman of 
the latter board. 

For twenty years he was actively con- 
nected with the Plymouth County Agricul- 
tural Society, and as trustee and treasurer, 
did much to further its interests. He also 
delivered the historical address on the 
occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the 
society. 

He was the president of the board of 
trustees of Bridgewater Academy; was for a 
generation a member of Fellowship Lodge 
of Masons, and was a charter member of 
Harmony R. A. Chapter, also a Sir Knight 
in the Old Colony Commandery of K. T. 

Mr. Crane's church connections were 
with the Central Square Congregational 
society. He was chairman of the building 
committee when the present edifice was 
built in 1 86 1. 

He was interested in the local history of 
the town, and has been a correspondent and 
contributor to the various historical socie- 
ties in his vicinity. A few years since, he 
wrote the history of his town, that ap- 
peared in the voluminous history of Plym- 
outh county. His love of antiquarian re- 
search was well known, and his collection 
of ancient books and papers is a museum 
of historic value. Mr. Crane was for years 
a press correspondent, and wielded a fer- 
tile pen when touching the leading ques- 
tions of the hour. 

He was one of the original incorporators 
of the Bridgewater Savings Bank, and had 
been one of the trustees since its organi- 
zation. He was one of the incorporators 
of the Bridgewater Water Company, and 
took a prominent part in the introduction 
of the system. 



CRAPO, William Wallace, son of 

Henry Howland and Mary (Slocum) Crapo, 
was born in Dartmouth, Bristol county, 
May 16, 1830, and was the only son in a 
family of ten children. 

He inherited his father's passion for 
learning, and although his means were 
limited, he embraced every possible oppor- 
tunity for study — first in the New Bedford 
public schools, then at Phillips .\cademv, 
.\ndover, where he jirepared for college. 
He was graduated from Yale — which has 
since conferred upon him the degree of 
I L. D. — in the class of 1852. Choosing 
law as a profession, he attended the Dane 
law school, Cambridge, and subsequently 




WILLIAM W CRAPO 

entered the office of Covernor Clifford, in 
New Bedford. 

In February, 1855, he was admitted to 
the Bristol bar, and in the following April 
was elected city solicitor, an office which 
he continued to hold for twelve consecutive 
years. 

Mr. Crapo's first active part in politics was 
taken about a year after his admission to the 
bar — at the time of the Fremont and Day- 
ton campaign. He was an earnest sup- 
porter of these candidates, and championed 
them from the stump. He was elected to 
the House of Representatives in the same 
year, and when only twenty-seven years 



148 



CRITTENDEN. 



CROCKER. 



of age was tendered a seat in the Senate, 
but declined the honor. 

He was activel}' interested in the estab- 
hshment of the New Bedford water works, 
and from 1S65 to 1875 held the office of 
chairman of the board of water com- 
missioners. As bank president, as director 
in extensive manufacturing corporations, 
and in other positions of trust and respon- 
sibility, he acquired the reputation of 
being a sound business man and an able 
financier. He has ever enjoyed the com- 
plete confidence and respect of his asso- 
ciates. 

He has been a diligent student of the 
history of the " Old Colony," and especially 
of the early settlement of Dartmouth, and 
has rendered valuable contributions to the 
historical literature of the State. 

But the reputation of Mr. Crapo in Mas- 
sachusetts and the country at large, rests 
pre-eminently upon his services in the 
national House of Representatives. He 
was elected to fill a vacancy in the 44th 
Congress, and was returned by three suc- 
cessive elections. In the 45th Congress 
he was a member of the committee on 
foreign affairs. In the 46th, he served on 
the committee on banking and currency, 
and was chairman of this important com- 
mittee in the next Congress. He introduced 
the bill to extend the charter of the 
national banks, and the passage of the 
bill was due in no small degree to his skill- 
ful and persistent efforts. 

Mr. Crapo is a champion of our fishing 
interests, and took strong ground recom- 
mending the abrogation of the fishing 
articles of the Treaty of Washington. His 
argumentative methods are direct and 
logical, and his clear and forcible presen- 
tation commands attention. It may 
justly be said of Mr. Crapo, that to what- 
ever position he has been called, he has 
always proved himself adequate to the 
occasion. He has much of that reserve 
power which does not manifest itself until 
wanted. 

Mr. Crapo was married in New Bedford, 
January 22, 1857, to Sarah T., daughter of 
George and Serena (Davis) Tappan. Of 
this union there are two children : Henry 
Howland and Stanford Tappan Crapo. 

CRITTENDEN, GEORGE DENNISON, 
the son of Simeon and Esther (Lathrop) 
Crittenden, was born in Hawley, Franklin 
county, August 30, 1827. 

The common schools of his native town 
supplied his early mental training, after 
which he attended Grove Seminary, Charle- 
mont. 



His business is, and has been from his 
first entrance into active business life, that 
of farming and lumbering. 

In 1883 he removed to Buckland. Here 
he has been called to serve the town re- 
peatedly in positions of trust — selectman, 




GEORGE D CRITTENDEN. 

member of school board, assessor, etc. In 
1867 he represented the 5th Franklin dis- 
trict in the House of Representatives. He 
was a member of the Franklin county 
board of county commissioners from 1869 
to 1875. 

Mr. Crittenden was married in North 
Adams, September 8, 1853, to Lucelia E., 
daughter of Samuel Dawes of Windsor. 

The children of this marriage are : Hat- 
tie E. (now Mrs. William McCloud of 
New Haven, Conn.), Cora E. (now Mrs. W. 
S. Ball, Shelburne Falls), Philena H. (now 
Mrs. Warren D. Forbes, Buckland), Alice 
G., Lottie R., Esther M., Viola E., Lillian 
G., and Lula D. Crittenden. 

CROCKER, Charles T., son of Alvah 

and Abigail (Fox) Crocker, was born in 
Fitchburg, Worcester county, March 2, 

After receiving a preliminary education 
in the public schools, he fitted for college 
and graduated at Brown LTniversity in the 
class of 1854. His father was the original 
pioneer and builder of the Fitchburg, the 



CROCKER. 



CROCKKR. 



149 



Vermont & Massachusetts, and the Troy & 
t'.reenfield railroads. He was a member of 
Congress when he died, in 1874. He was 
a man of marked individuahty, and of the 
widest e.xperience, and the son came natur- 
ally by his ability to cope with the man- 
agement of large interests. 

Immediately after graduating from col- 
lege, he associated himself with the firm of 
Crocker, Burbank & Company, one of the 
largest paper manufacturing concerns in 
the state. Mr. Crocker is also largely in- 
terested in the Orswell Yarn Mills, the 
Parkhill Manufacturing Company, the Put- 
nam Machine Company of Fitchburg, the 
RoUstoiie Machine Company, and the 
Union Machine Company, the Turner's 
Falls Land & Water Power Company, and is 
a director in the Keith Paper Company, the 
Montague Paper Company, the John Rus- 
sell Cutlery Company, and the Crocker 
National Bank at Turner's Falls. He is 
also a trustee in the Crocker Institution for 
Savings. He is largely interested in rail- 
roads, is a director in several corporations, 
and is one of the largest owners in the 
Fitchburg Railroad Company. 

At the incorporation of the city of Fitch- 
burg, in 1873, he was chosen an alderman, 
and again consented to serve in 1877. In 
1879 he was elected a member of the House 
of Representatives, and in 1880 he became 
a member of the Senate, creditably filling 
positions upon several important com- 
mittees. 

On the 14th of October, 1857, at Charles- 
town, Mr. Crocker married Eliza, daughter 
of William and Eliza B. K. Tufts, of 
Charlestown. 'I'heir children were : Alvah, 
Emma Louise, William Tufts, Kendall Fox, 
Charles T., Jr., and Paul Crocker. Mr. 
Crocker was again married, June i, 1881, 
to Helen Trowbridge, daughter of Sam- 
uel B. and Sarah Trowbridge Barton of 
i'.rooklyn, N. Y. The children of this 
marriage are : Edith Barton and Barton 
Crocker. 

CROCKER, George Glover, .son 

of Uriel and Sarah Kidder (Haskell) 
Crocker, was born in Boston, December 

15. 1843- 

He fitted for college at the Boston pub- 
lic Latin school, from which he graduated 
in i860 as a Franklin medal scholar. He 
then entered Harvard and graduated in 
1S64. After a course at the Harvard law 
school, having received the degrees of 
A. M. and LL. B., he was, in 1867, ad- 
mitted to the bar in the county of Suffolk, 
and began the practice of his profession in 
Boston, in company with his brother, Uriel 



H. Crocker. The Messrs. Crocker pub- 
lished two editions of " Notes on the 
General Statutes," and simultaneously with 
the publication of the revision of the 
statutes in 1882, they issued a third and 
enlarged edition, entitled " Notes on the 
Public Statutes." 

In 1868 Mr. Crocker joined in a suc- 
cessful movement to revive the Boston 
Young Men's Christian Lhiion, an institu- 
tion which had been in a comatose condi- 
tion for several years. He became a life 
member, and for nine years served as one 
of the board of directors. During most 
of that time he had special charge of the 
deliberative assembly of the Union. 

In 1873 he was a member of the 
House of Representatives, was re-elected 
in 1874, and served both years as chair- 
man of the committee on bills in the 
third reading. In 1874 he was also House 
chairman of the joint committee on the 
liquor law, and a member of the com- 
mittee on rules and orders. 

In the summer of 1877 he was chosen 
secretary of the Republican state central 
committee, serving in that position for two 




GEORGE G. CROCKER. 



years. In the fall of 1877 Mr. Crocker 
helped to promote the organization known 
as the " Young Republicans," and in April, 
1879, he was elected its chairman. 



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CROCKER. 



CRONIN. 



In 1880 he was elected a member of the 
state Senate, re-elected in 1881, '82 and '83, 
and while in that body served as chairman 
of the committee on railroads, of the judici- 
ary committee, and of the committee on 
rules and orders. He was also a member 
of the committee on ta.\ation, on the 
State-house, on bills in the third reading, 
and of the joint special committee on the 
revision of the statutes. He prepared 
the rules which the latter committee 
adopted to govern its sessions. He also 
prepared a " Digest of the Rulings of the 
Presiding Officers of the Senate and 
House," covering a period of fifty years, 
which digest has since formed a part of the 
annual " Manual for the General Court." 

In 1883, his fourth year of service in 
the Senate, he was elected its president. 
The session of the Legislature for that 
year was rendered famous by the Tevvks- 
bury and other extended investigations, 
and was the longest session on record, 
lasting two hundred and six days. He 
declined to be a candidate for re-election. 

On the death of Hon. Thomas Russell, 
chairman of the Massachusetts board of 
railroad commissioners, in February, 1887, 
he was appointed by the governor, Oliver 
Ames, as a member of that board, and by 
its members was chosen its chairman. He 
still holds that position, having been re- 
appointed in July, 1888, for a term of 
three )'ears. 

In May of the present year, he was 
elected a director of the Atchison, Topeka 
& Santa Fe Railroad Company, but de- 
clined to serve, on the ground that the 
holding of that position would be incon- 
sistent with the most efficient performance 
of his duties as railroad commissioner. 

In June of the current year. Mayor 
Hart, of the city of Boston, appointed Mr. 
Crocker as one of three commissioners to 
examine into the operation of the existing 
system of taxation, and to report a more 
equitable system, if any could be devised. 

Early in the present year, 1889, G. P. Put- 
nam's Sons, New York and London, pub- 
lished a parliamentary manual, entitled 
" Principles of Procedure in Deliberative 
Assemblies," by George G. Crocker. 

He has been and is an officer of various 
business corporations. He is also treas- 
urer of the Massachusetts Charitable 
Society, a trustee of the Boston Lying-in 
Hospital, and of the Massachusetts Char- 
itable Fire Society, a life member of the 
Boston Young IMen's Christian Union, a 
member of the Boston Civil Service Re- 
form Association, of the Citizens' Associa- 



tion of Boston, of the Society for Politi- 
cal Education, the \'oung Men's Benevolent 
Society, the Bar Association of the city of 
Boston, the Harvard Law School Associa- 
tion, the Boston Athletic Association, the 
Beacon Society, the Papyrus, LTnion, St. 
Botolph, Algonquin, Country and Union 
Boat clubs, and resides in the city of 
Boston. 

On the 19th of June, 1875, ^^ '^^as mar- 
ried by Rev. Phillips Brooks, at Emmanuel 
Church, in Boston, to Annie Bliss, daughter 
of Nathan Cooley Keep, M. D., of Boston, 
and Susan Prentiss (Haskell) Keep, and 
has five children : George Glover, Jr., 
born April 16, 1877 ; Margaret, born April 
9, 1878 ; Courtenay, born February 4, 
1881 ; Muriel, born March 30, 1885; and 
L)-neham, born February 18, 1889. 

CRONIN, Cornelius F., son of John 

and Margaret (McCarthy) Cronin, was born 
in Cork, Ireland, July 25, 185 1. 

Shortly after his birth his parents came 
to Boston, where he received his early edu- 




CORNELIUS F. CRONIN. 

cation at the public schools, winning the 
Franklin medal on his graduation from the 
Dwight school. He studied afterward in 
the Boston evening Latin school, and 
entered the Boston University law school, 
where, after a course of three years, he 
received in 187 8 the degree of LL. B. 



CROSBY. 



CROSBY. 



lil 



He also studied law in the office of 
William C. Green, and with Gargan, 
Swazey & Adams, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1878, where he has been till 
recently engaged in the practice of 
his profession. He has of late been 
in Los Angeles, Cal., as attorney for 
the Lowe Gas & Electric Company of 
that city. 

Mr. Cronin represented ward 13 of the 
city of Boston, in the House of Represen- 
tatives in 1881, '82 and '83, and served on 
the committees on judiciary, and probate 
and chancery. He was elected state sen- 
ator from South Boston in 1884, and served 
on the committees on probate and chan- 
cery, bills in the third reading, and was 
chairman of the joint committee on claims. 

He has never been married. 

CROSBY, George Hannibal, eldest 

child of Hartwell Broad and Elizabeth 
Grant (Buxton) Crosby, was born in Bangor, 
Penobscot county, Me., September 23, 
1836, being a lineal descendant in the 
seventh generation from Simon and Ann 
Crosby, who came from England in the 
ship "Susan and Ellen," in 1636, and 
settled in Cambridge. Mr. Crosby's father, 
being a builder and contractor, moved to 
St. John, N. B., directly after the great fire 
in that city, 1841. He had only just re- 
turned to Albion, Me., where he and his 
wife were both born, and built for himself 
some mills, when the great fire occurred in 
St. John's, New Foundland, in 1848; he 
left his family and with a large crew of 
mechanics went to that city to again engage 
in building. Three years later he again 
went to St. John, N. B., and remained. 
He built the old custom house, suspension 
bridge, lunatic asylum, Hammond River 
viaduct, city hospital, and scores of other 
railroad, government, public and private 
buildings. 

During those years his son was attending 
the public schools, and for a time previous 
to 1850 he attended the academy at China, 
Me. He then attended the institute at 
Waterville, Me., one year, and afterward 
spent a year at the Wesleyan Academy, 
Sackville, N. B. At the age of eighteen 
he was fully prepared to enter college, but 
at the urgent request of his father to learn 
the building business, he tried it for one 
year, but it being distasteful to him he was 
placed with the firm of Fleming & Hum- 
bert, builders of engines and general ma- 
chinery at .St. John. Here he remained 
until the middle of the second year, when, 
at the time of the Crimean war, he sailed 
for Constantinople, visiting at the same 



time Gibraltar, Malta, Messina and Liver- 
pool. 

Soon after his return he married, at St. 
John, June 23, 1857, Sadie Elizabeth, 
daughter of Robert and Jane (Disbrow) 
Ray, of St. John. That same year he 
moved to Boston. He found employment 
at the Boston Locomotive Works for one 
year. He was now a journeyman machinist. 
From this time he was constantly employed 
studying mechanical engineering, gradually 




GEORGE H. CROSBY. 

advancing into finer grades of work ; was 
foreman in the Massachusetts state prison 
five years, then foreman for the Ashcroft 
Steam Gauge Company. In 1873 he was 
appointed foreman of the American Steam 
Gauge Company, and there remained until 
1875. In 1876, having in the meantime 
secured patents for several of his valuable 
improvements in pressure-gauges, safety- 
valves, etc., he went into business for him- 
self, and organized the Crosby Steam Gage 
& Valve Company, of which he was a 
director and superintendent. His improve- 
ments in the steam engine indicator and 
other instruments of precision in which he 
made a notable success have a world-wide 
reputation, until to-day the model factory 
in Boston, with its varied and continued 
improvements in this special line, stands an 
honor to the trade, and its productions are 



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CROWELL. 



found in the principal cities of the United 
States, Great Britain and the Continent, 
Mr. Crosby has secured in all over thirty 
patents, and with the exception of two, 
these are all in successful operation. 

Mr. Crosby was a member of the Somer- 
ville common council in 1876 and '77 ; was 
a member of the Massachusetts Charitable 
Mechanic Association until 1889 ; and is a 
member of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers. 

Mr. Crosby's second marriage occurred 
in 1886, with Alice J., daughter of Harri- 
son W. and Abbie J. (Thompson) Crosby, 
of Albion, Me. Of this union are two 
children : Carlotta Hortense and Omar 
George Crosby. 

Mr. Crosby at the age of fifty retired 
from active business, and has lately built 
him a beautiful summer residence in Albion, 
Me., where he cultivates his taste for agri- 
cultural pursuits, and enjoys the well- 
earned fruits of an honorable and success- 
ful career. 

CROSBY, TULn-, Jr., son of Tully 
and Mehitable Crosby, was born in South 
Boston, August 21, 1S41. 

Passing his preparatory studies in the 
public schools, and the academy at Hyan- 
nis, he then went to sea at the age of 
eighteen. 

In i860 he sought the gold fields of 
California, and the Nevada silver mines, 
where he remained until 1863. He spent 
the years 1864^ and '65 in the city of 
Chicago, engaged in the pork business ; 
afterwards he followed the sea again as 
master mariner. 

In 1876 he retired from a sea-faring life, 
and studied law at Boston University. He 
was admitted to the bar in 18S6, and began 
practice in Barnstable county, having his 
residence in Brewster. 

Mr. Crosby was married in Melrose, 
June 13, 1867, to Lovella J., daughter of 
Walter and Martha Hopkins. Mrs. Crosby 
died January 25, 1873. In 1876 Mr. 
Crosby was again married to Malissa H. 
Foster of Brewster, daughter of God- 
frey and Reliance Hopkins. Of this 
union was one child : Grace L. Crosby, 
still living. 

Mr. Crosby served as representative from 
his district in the General Court in 1885, 
acting as clerk of the committee on edu- 
cation. He has been chairman of the 
school committee, and superintendent of 
schools the past eight years. He is treas- 
urer of the First Unitarian parish. Brewster, 
and trustee of the Cape Cod Five Cents 
Savings Bank. 



CROSSLEY, AZRO T., son of Henry 
T. and Eliza G. (Stetson) Crosslev, was 
born in Harshfield, Plymouth county, De- 
cember 12, 1855. 

Passing through the public schools of 
his native town, he fitted for college in 
Phillips Academy, Andover, and the high 
school at South Weymouth. 

Instead of pursuing his classical studies 
further, he studied law, reading with Sam- 
uel C. Darling, city solicitor of Somerville. 
He began the practice of law in Boston in 
1879. In 1883 he removed to Northamp- 
ton, and was elected city solicitor in 1886, 
which office he has continued to hold to 
the present time. 

Mr. Crossley was married January 2, 
1882, at Saratoga, N. Y., to Bertha D., 
daughter of Leslie A. and Mary E. ( 1 )ewey) 
Belding. Of this union are two children : 
Elsie and Marjorie Crossley. 

CROWELL, JOHN, son of John and 
Anne (Greenleaf) Crowell, was born in 
Haverhill, Esse.x county, September 28, 
1823. The name was originally Cromwell, 
but after the restoration of Charles II., so 
intense was the feeling against anvthing 
pertaining to the great commoner, that 
some were forced to modify the name, for 
the sake of peace and safety. 

His early education was chiefly under 
the direction of that noted mathematician 
and teacher, Benjamin Greenleaf, his ma- 
ternal uncle, with whom he fitted himself 
for college. His health failing, he did not 
enter college, but subsequently was able 
to keep abreast with its curriculum. 

In 1S44 he took charge of the School 
Street grammar school in Haverhill, where 
he won success. He commenced the study 
of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. 
George Cogswell, of Bradford. He pur- 
sued his professional studies still further 
with Prof. James McClintock of Phila- 
delphia, and in the Pennsylvania hos- 
pital in that city, graduating from 
the Philadelphia College of Medicine 
in 1850. After remainmg a year in 
Philadelphia, in hospital and dispens- 
ary service, he began the practice of 
medicine in his native town in 1851, where 
he has since resided, identifying himself 
with its literary and social life, and always 
taking a deep interest in whatever related 
to the welfare of his fellow-citizens. 

Among the positions of honor and trust 
that Dr. Crowell has been called upon to 
fill may be mentioned : chairman of the 
school board, trustee of the public library 
and secretary of the board, trustee of 
Bradford Academy, Haverhill City Hospital 



CROW ELL. 



CROWLEY. 



153 



and Linwood Cemetery Corporation, con- 
sultinsj physician of Danvers lunatic asy- 
lum, member of Massaciiusetts Medical 




JOHN CROWELL, 

Society, president of Essex North Dis- 
trict Medical Society, state correspondent 
of board of health, corresponding member 
of Wisconsin Historical Society, and chair- 
man of Haverhill board of health, etc. 

Dr. Crowell's literary labors have been 
many and varied, embracing professional, 
scientific, critical and miscellaneous papers. 
Some of his professional papers are, " Dis- 
eases of the Rectum '" (1856) ; " History of 
the Asiatic Cholera" (1873); "Anomalies in 
Pregnancy" (1S7S); "The Human Brain 
and Some of its Phenomena," and " Bright's 
Disease of the Kidneys." In 1884 he was 
orator at the annual meeting of the Massa- 
chusetts Medical Society, Boston. 

Among his miscellaneous papers and 
lectures are : "The Colonial and Revolu- 
tionary History of Haverhill," an oration, 
(1876); "John Ruskin," "Architecture," 
"Michael Angelo," "Historical Poem," 
Bradford, (1882). 

Dr. Crowell was first married January 7, 
1854, to Sarah Bradley, daughter of Sam- 
uel Johnson, of Haverhill, who died in 
1S59. Of this union was one child, born 
1857, died 1858. Dr. Crowell was again 
married October 31, 1861, to Caroline, 



daughter of Ephraim Corliss, of Haver- 
hill.'" 

Dr. Crowell's church connections are 
with the Centre Congregational church, of 
which he is an active member, holding im- 
portant official positions. 

CROWLEY, Jeremiah, son of Dennis 
and Mary (Conley) Crowley, was born in 
Lowell, Middlesex county, January 12, 
1832. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in the public schools of his native place. 
When about thirteen years of age he 
entered the employ of the Lawrence Manu- 
facturingCompany, as a boy. He learned 
the machinist's trade with Aldrich, Calvert 
& Tyng, afterwards working at his trade 
with Marvel & Lane, and from 1855 to '58 
at Nashua, N. H. 

.•\t the breaking out of the war of the 
rebellion, in 1861, he enlisted as a member 
of the old 6th Massachusetts regiment, and 
his company was one of the four that made 
the memorable march through Baltimore. 
He served nearly four months, and after 
being mustered out, again sought to enter 
the service, but was refused on account of 
disabilities. 




JEREMIAH CROWLEY. 

He worked for a tune at the Watertown 
arsenal, and then commenced the study of 
law, pursuing his legal studies in the office 



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CULLEY. 



CUMMINGS. 



of John F. McEvov, Lowell. He was 
admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1869, 
and has remained in the successful prac- 
tice of his profession up to the present 
time. 

Mr. Crowley served as national delegate 
of the A. O. H. for two years, and was 
for thirteen years treasurer of division No. 
2, A. O. H.; has been president of the Low- 
ell Irish Benevolent Society, St. Patrick 
Temperance Association and the old 6th 
Regiment Association. He was a member 
of the Lowell common council in 1870 and 
'71, and of the board of aldermen in 1873, 
'74. '77! '78 and '86. In 1882 he was elected 
to the state Senate, serving on the com- 
mittees on prisons and liquor law, and the 
committee on removal of Judge Day, 
judge of probate for the county of Barn- 
stable. 

Mr. Crowley did not have the advant- 
ages of wealth in his earlier days, and to a 
great extent is a self-educated man, work- 
ing at his trade by day and studying by 
night. He is an earnest advocate of tem- 
perance, and is a leading representative of 
the better element of the Dernocratic party. 
He is in the enjoyment of a very large 
and lucrative practice, and his integrity is 
unquestioned. No man stands higher in 
the estimation of his native city, and 
his present leading position, both as 
a man and a lawyer, is a conclusive 
proof of what pluck, ambition and honest 
endeavor will accomplish in the face of 
adversity. 

CULLEY, Eli, was born near Bath, 
England, February 4, 1840. 

He was educated in the national schools 
of England. 

He came to this country when fifteen 
years of age. He began business as a file 
manufacturer in Weymouth, Mass., in 1864, 
where he remained four years. He then 
removed to Fitchburg, where he has ever 
since followed the same business on an ex- 
tensive scale. 

In 1862 he married Martha A., daughter 
of Eli and Fanny E. Redman. Of this 
union were six children : Frank C, AValter 
E., Fanny E., Albert E., Elsie B., and 
Edith F. CuUey. 

Mr. Culley has often been called upon 
to serve his fellow-citizens in some pul)lic 
trust ; was president of Fitchburg common 
council in 1875, and was an alderman in 
1877 and '78. 

He represented his district in the House 
of Representatives in 1880, was mayor of 
Fitchburg in 1880 and '81, and was elected 
to the same office in 1888 and '8g. 



He is a prominent member and officer in 
various Masonic liodies and associations of 
I. O. O. F. 




ELI CULLEY. 

Mr. Culley served his adopted country in 
the late war in company K, 43d regiment, 
Massachusetts volunteers, during its term 
of service in 1862 and '63. 

CUMMINGS, JOSEPH H., son of Jo- 
seph and Hannah H. (Knowles) Cummings, 
was born in Orleans, Barnstable county, 
June 16, 1840. 

He obtained his early school training in 
the public schools and private academy of 
his native town. This was supplemented 
by a two years' attendance at Pierce 
Academy, Middleborough. 

From 1846 to '47 he was traveling in 
Spain and Italy ; spent six -months in Eng-_ 
land (1852) ; was in St. John, N. B., New 
Orleans, La., and Liverpool, England, in 
1854. These trips were taken for his 
health, which was' delicate in those days. 
From 1858 to '61 he was clerk for the 
firm of Thomas Knowles & Co., New Bed- 
ford. 

From 1 86 1 to '73 he owned and con- 
ducted a country store. In 1873 he began 
the wholesale manufacture of clothing, in 
connection with William H. Howes, a na- 
tive of Dennisport, under the firm name of 
Cummings & Howes. The factory was 



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CUNNINGHAM. 



155 



located in Orleans, with office in Boston. 
He still continues the business connection, 
but carries on the general store in his own 
name. The firm has branch factories in 
Dennisport and Wellfleet. 

Mr. Cumniings was married in Orleans, 
September 3, 1862, to Helen C, daughter 
of Eben H. and Rebecca B. (Crosby) Lin- 
nell. Of this union are si.x children : Eben 
L., Henry K., Francis C, Nellie J., Mary 
S., and George Cummings. 

Mr. Cummings has served fifteen years 
on the school board, four of which he was 
chairman. He is a director in the Cape 
Cod National Bank of Harwich. 

He now resides in Orleans. 

CUNNIFF, Michael Matthew, son of 

Michael and Ellen (Kennedy) Cunnift', was 
born in Roscommon, Ireland, in 1850, his 
parents coming to Boston when he was 
three months old. He obtained his early 
educational training in the public schools 
of Boston. This was supplemented by a 
course of commercial training in the Bry- 
ant & Stratton Commercial College, Bos- 
ton. 

His first connection in business was in 
the wine and spirit trade, with his brother 
Bernard, in Boston. He subsequently went 
out of that line to do a general banking 
and brokerage business, principally in the 
handling of gas securities. 

He has also been identified with the 
West End Street Railway, Charles River 
Embankment Company, and other land 
and railroad improvements in Boston and 
vicinity. 

Mr. Cunniff was president of the Demo- 
cratic city committee of Boston two years ; 
chairman of the executive branch of the 
Democratic state committee two years ; 
has been a member of the state committee 
twelve years ; was a member of the execu- 
tive council of Governor Ames, 1888, and 
was renominated, but declined the honor, 
for 1889. 

He is a member of the Charitable Irish 
Society of Boston ; a director in the Me- 
chanics National Bank of Boston, having 
been prominent in its re-organization ; 
director in the Bay State Gas Company ; 
(Hie of the foremost capitalists in the 
organization of the Boston Gas Syndicate, 
and largely interested in the gas business 
of Boston. 

Mr. Cunniff was chief ranger in the In- 
dependent Order of Foresters : and a 
member of the Protective Order of Elks. 
He is also a member of the Montgomery 
Light Guard \^eteran Association. 

Mr. Cunniff is unmarried. 



CUNNINGHAM, James Adams, son 

of Nathaniel Fellows and Martha (Putnam) 
Cunningham, was born in Boston, Novem- 
ber 27, 1830. 

He received his educational training at 
Framingham and Lunenburg academies, 
and began life for himself as a farmer in 
Lunenburg. 

At the opening of the war of the rebel- 
lion, he entered the service of his country, 
and from November i, 1861, to July i, 
1865, he was with his regiment, the 32d 
Massachusetts volunteers, as lieutenant, 
captain, major, lieutenant-colonel, and 
brevet-colonel. September i, 1866, he was 




JAMES A. CUNNINGHAM. 

brevetted brigadier-general ; commissioned 
adjutant-general of MasEachusetts, with 
the rank of major-general, December, 1866, 
resigning January 14, 1879 ; was appointed 
superintendent of Soldiers' Home in Mas- 
sachusetts, April, 1882, where he still re- 
mains, and has his residence in Chel- 
sea. 

General Cunningham was in all the cam- 
paigns of the army of the Potomac, from 
the Peninsular under McClellan, to the sur- 
render of the army of Northern Virginia at 
Appomattox, April 9, 1865. 

He has a natural talent, and early dis- 
played a taste, for the details of military 
science. .A.s early as 1846 he was commis- 



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CURTIS. 



sioned in the Fitchburg Fusileers, and re- 
signed as captain in 1859. 

General Cunningliam was married in 
Annisquam, June 12, 1856, to x\nn Eliza, 
daughter of Oliver Griffin and Charlotte 
(Phippen) Lane. Of this union are three 
children : Charles Edward, Frederick Lane, 
and Annie Grafton Cunningham. 

CURRIER, Frederick Augustus, son 

of Festus C. and Johanna M. (Allen) Cur- 
rier, was born in Worcester, December 24, 
1 85 1. 

His parents removed to HoUiston when 
he was about a year old, and he received 
his early education in the public schools of 
that town. 

He removed to Fitchburg in January, 
1869, and for a number of years had full 
charge of the office work of the large in- 
surance agency of his father. At the time 
of his appointment as postmaster, he was a 
member of the firm of F. C. Currier & Son, 
insurance, railroad, and steamship agents. 

He was connected with Whitney Opera 
House for three years, as business mana- 
ger. He was for four years secretary of 
the Worcester North Agricultural Society, 
and declined a re-election. He was also in 
charge of the office work of the Massachu- 
setts Mutual Aid Society, of which his 
father is secretary. 

He was appointed postmaster of the 
city of Fitchburg by President Cleveland, 
receiving the endorsement of business men, 
irrespective of party, although he had 
never sought, nor had he previously held, 
public office. 

CURTIS, ALBERT, son of .Samuel, Jr., 
and Eunice (Taft) Curtis, was born in 
Worcester, July 13, 1807, being one of the 
fourth generation from Ephraim Curtis, 
who came from Sudbury to Worcester in 
1673, and who is supposed to be the first 
white settler in Worcester. 

He was one of a large family of chil 
dren, and was early bereaved of his father. 
Before he had reached his tenth year he 
was obliged, to a great extent, to pro- 
vide his own living. He resided for a 
time with his uncle in Auburn, and later 
with an elder brother in Tioga county, 
N. Y., doing what he was able to do at farm 
labor. He returned to Worcester at the 
age of seventeen, robust in health, and 
filled with a laudable ambition to better 
his condition, and that of those who might 
need his support. 

He went into the service of White &: 
Boyden, manufacturers of woolen machin- 
ery. He remained with them as apprentice 



and journeyman several years. In 1831, 
with John Simmons and Abel Kimball as 
partners, he commenced a business of his 
own, in the manufacture of machinery 
suitable for use in various departments of 
cloth making. 

His business broadened with success, 
taking in the manufacture of cloth itself. 
He was soon the owner of extensive mill 
property. His early knowledge of ma- 
chinery stood him in good stead in the va- 
rious branches of his extensive business. 
Twice during his business career he has 
suffered largely by destructive fires, but 
nothing daunted by untoward vicissitudes, 
he has immediately set about repairing and 
rebuilding. 

Possessed of but a limited education, his 
taste for reading in early years has been a 
strong motor in his after acquirements. 
He has obtained a good knowledge of 
books, and has pursued his studies in va- 
rious departments of intellectual culture. 
Particularly has he been interested in his- 
torical and antiquarian researches. He 
has been vice-president of the Worcester 
Society of Antiquity, and an efficient mem- 
ber of several other like institutions. 

Mr. Curtis has also for many years been 
interested in agricultural pursuits. He has 
devoted his time to business rather than to 
politics ; but as early as 1840 he was se- 
lectman of the town of Worcester, serving 
two years ; was a member of the common 
council the first year of the infant city, and 
alderman in 1857. 

Mr. Curtis has been an unswerving mem- 
ber of the Republican party since he joined 
its ranks after the dissolution of the old 
Whig party. He has been a member of the 
Trinitarian Congregational church since 
1828. 

The first wife of Mr. Curtis was Mrs. 
Sally V. (Houghton) Griffin, of Sterling, to 
whom he was married in October, 1833. 
His second wife was Rosella P. (Perrin) 
Bancroft, widow of Rev. David Bancroft, 
formerly of Tolland, Conn. He has no 
children. 

CURTIS, Edwin Upton, son of George 

and Martha Ann (Upton) Curtis, was bora 
in Roxburv, Norfolk county, March 26, 
1861. 

He attended the grammar and Latin 
schools, in Roxbury, the Little Blue school 
at Farmington, Maine, fitted for college, 
entered Bowdoin College, and was grad- 
uated A. B. in the class of 1882. He re- 
ceived the degree of A. M. in 1885. 

He chose the law for a profession, was 
admitted to the Boston bar, and formed a 



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CUSHMAN. 



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connection witli William Gardner Reed, 
under the firm name of Reed c&: Curtis. 

In 1889 he was elected city clerk of 
Boston. 




EDWIN U. CURTIS, 

Mr. Curtis was secretary of the Repub- 
lican city committee in 1 888. He is a mem- 
ber of Rabboni Lodge, F. & A. M., St. 
Matthew's Chapter, R. A. M., and of St. 
Omer Commandery of Knights Templar. 
He is a director of the Ro.xbury Club, and 
assistant secretary of Bowdoin College 
Alumni Association, Boston. 

Mr. Curtis is unmarried. 

CURTIS, George, was born in West- 
minster, Worcester county, September 3, 
1817. His mother was Lydia Gilbert of 
Sharon. His father, Francis Curtis, was a 
native of Walpole, the fifth in descent from 
William Curtis, the ancestor who came 
from England, September 16, 1632. 

The subject of this sketch was educated 
in the common schools and academy of his 
native town. .\t the age of seventeen he 
left his home to learn the carpenter's trade 
of William Merrifield of Worcester, where 
he remained until twenty years of age, 
when he went to Boston. He continued 
working at his trade, with intervals of 
teaching school, until the age of twenty- 
eight, when he engaged in business for him- 
self as builder, in Ro.xbury. Many of the 



large buildings destroyed by the fire of '72 
were built by him, as were also many fine 
residences in the towns of Milton, Canton, 
Waltham, Stoneham. He served as alder- 
man four years in Ro.xbury before it was 
annexed to Boston. After the annexation, 
he was also alderman of Boston during the 
years i88i-'S2 and '84. He was overseer 
of the poor in Roxbury and Boston nearly 
a score of years. In the year 1857, owing 
to a partial sun-stroke, he left the building 
business and engaged in the lumber trade. 

Mr. Curtis represented his district in the 
General Court for the years 1861 and '62, 
and again in i886. 

He was connected with several military 
organizations, and was actively engaged in 
enlisting soldiers for the war. He was 
commander of the Roxbury Horse Guards 
for four years, and was subsequently 
appointed major of cavalrj'. 

He retired from active business in 1883, 
succeeded by the firm of Curtis & Pope. 
He is director in the Rockland Bank, and 
one of the trustees of the Roxbury Club. 

Mr. Curtis was married in B'itchburg, 
September 18, 1845, to Martha Ann, daugh- 
ter of Joseph and Susan Thurston Upton, of 
Fitchburg. Of this union are four children 
living: Henry Clifford, Martha Gertrude 
(now Mrs. Cate), Edwin Upton, and Nelson 
Curtis. 

CUSHMAN, SOLOMON Francis, son 

of Solomon and Harriet (Adams) Cush- 
man, was born in Monson, Piscataquis 
county, Maine, November 18, 1826. 

For his early education he was depend- 
ent upon the public schools and the acad- 
emy. Through his boyhood, besides the 
time required for study, his leisure hours 
were expended u]3on the farm, and in early 
youth he found employment working in 
the Maine pineries, and for seven years 
was engaged as a clerk in a country 
store. 

In 1856 he became connected as book- 
keeper with the Monson Woolen Manu- 
facturing Company, at Monson. In 1S66 
Mr. Cushman formed a co-partnership with 
Horatio Lyon, succeeding to the business 
of the Monson Woolen Manufactory. This 
co-partnership continued for twelve years, 
when he purchased the entire business and 
became sole proprietor, which position he 
still holds, being an extensive manufacturer 
of woolen goods. 

On the 1 6th of November, 1852, Mr. 
Cushman was married in Monson, Maine, 
to Candace Brown Packard, and is now 
the father of six children : Edward Dick- 
inson, Rufus Packard, Solomon Fred., 



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CUTTER. 



Hattie Frances, Thaddeus Lyon and 
Robert Holmes Cushnian. 

In 1 88 1 and '83 he was a representa- 
tive in tlie Legislature, and has also most 
acceptably filled the position of selectman. 
Among other benevolent and mercantile 
trusts, he has served as director in the Na- 
tional Bank, trustee of the Savings Bank, 
trustee of the Monson Academy and treas- 
urer of the library. 




SOLOMON F CUSHMAN. 

He moved from Monson, Me., in 1S54, 
to Palmer, Mass., and in 1856 he went to 
Monson, Mass., which place has since been 
his residence. 

CUTTER, ABRAM EDMANDS, son of 
Abraham and Mary (Clibson) Cutter, was 
born in Newburyport, Essex county, Jan- 
uary 24, 1822. His father was a mason 
and builder. He erected many of the fac- 
tories and important buildings in Saco and 
Biddeford, Maine, and also represented 
Saco in the Maine Legislature T853 and 
'54. He died in Saco, August 25, 1886, at 
eighty-seven years of age. 

Mr. Cutter was educated in the public 
schools of Saco, Me., where his father re- 
moved when the son was but four years of 
age. This was supplemented by a three 
years' course in Thornton Academy, Saco. 

After leaving the academy he entered a 
store in Saco, where the drug business was 



combined with book-selling. This business 
he followed for some years, with the ex- 
ception, in the meantime, of a year spent 
in two voyages to Europe, in a sailing ves- 
sel, and another term of study in the 
academy. 

He came to Boston in 1S43, ^"d was 
employed in the drug store of the late 
William Brown ; remained there and in 
same business in another location till 1852, 
when he removed to Charlestown and 
opened business as book-seller, the firm 
being McKim & Cutter. At the end of 
three years he purchased his partner's 
interest, and continued the business till 
within a recent period. 

Mr. Cutter was elected to the school 
board of Charlestown in 1857, serving six- 
teen years before annexation, and nine 
years after that as member of the Boston 
school board. 

He was finst married July 7, 1853, in 
Charlestown, to Mary Eliza, daughter of 
Barnabas and Eliza (Whittemore) Ed- 
mands. His wife died February 11, 1854. 
His second marriage was October 13, 1857, 
with Elizabeth Finley, daughter of Wash- 
ington and Elizabeth (Hay) Smith, of New 
York. They have no children. 

Mr. Cutter has always been identified 
with, and interested in, the various local 
charities and institutions of the city, and 
actively connected with the Harvard LTni- 
tarian church of Charlestown. He is best 
known as an active educational supporter, 
and a champion of our public schools. 

CUTTER, Charles Ammi, son of 

Caleb Champney and Hannah (Biglow) 
Cutter, was born in Boston, March 14, 

1837- 

He was fitted for college at the Hopkins 
classical school, Cambridge ; was gradu- 
ated from Harvard in 1855, and from the 
Cambridge divinity school in 1859. 

In 1 86 1 he was made assistant in the 
cataloguing department of Harvard College 
library, which position he held for seven 
years, and on the ist of January, 1869, 
became librarian of the Boston Athensum, 
which office he still holds. 

He has prepared a new classification for 
libraries, and written two articles in the 
" North iVmerican Review " on " Harvard 
College Library ;" "Rules for a Printed 
Dictionary Catalogue" (Washington Bu- 
reau of Education, 1876 ; new edition 
expected 1889); "Boston Athenajum : 
" How to get Books, with an Explanation of 
the new way of Marking Books " (Boston, 
1862); edited the "Catalogue of the 
Library of the Boston Atheneeum, 1870- 



CUTTER. 



DAGGETT. 



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'71 " (S vols., Boston, iS74-'82), and has 
been a contributor to the " Nation " for the 
past twenty years. Since January, 1881, 
he has edited the " Library journal " (New- 
York), and was president of the American 
Library Association, iSSy-'Sg. 

May 21, 1863, Mr. Cutter was married to 
Sarah Fayerweather, daughter of Charles 
John Appleton, of Cambridge. They have 
three children : Louis Fayerweather, Ro- 
land Norcross, and Gerald Clifford Cutter. 

CUTTER, Leonard Richardson, the 

son of Daniel and Sally (Jones) Cutter, was 
born in Jaffrey, Cheshire county, N. H., 
July I, 1S25, under the shadow of the okl 
Monadnock mountain. He obtained his 
education in the common schools and 
academy of his native town. 

Until twenty years of age, his time not 
devoted to study was spent on the farm, 
with the exception of three terms of winter 
school taught by him between the ages of 
seventeen and twenty. 

Mr. Cutter went to Boston in 1845, and 
found employment in a grocery store, where 
everything was sold in the line of groceries, 
save intoxicating liquors. After serving a 
six years' clerkship, he went into business 
for himself, in which he continued ten years. 
He is now engaged in the real estate busi- 
ness in the city of Boston, and still carries 
out the practical side of his theory of non- 
lease of property to be used for sale of 
intoxicating liquors. 

Mr. Cutter was married in Brighton, 1852, 
to Mercy, daughter of Phineas and Mercy 
(Fairbanks) Taylor. Of this union are two 
children : Agnes E. and Emma A. Cutter. 

Mr. Cutter was an assessor in Boston, 
1859, '60 and '61 ; was alderman 187 1, '72, 
'73 and '74 ; chairman of the board one 



year, and acting mayor the last month of 
1873, the mayor having resigned. He was 
a member of the Boston water board six 




LEONARD R, CUTTER. 

years, and water commissioner eight years, 
retiring in 1883. He served as chairman 
of the board four years. 

On retirement of Mr. Cutter from his 
connections with the water board, special 
resolutions commendatory of faithful per- 
formance of duty were tendered him by the 
lioard. 



DAGGETT, HANDEL N., son of Eben- 
ezer and Sarah (Maxcy) Daggett, was 
born in Attleborough, Bristol county, Jan- 
uary 27, 182 1. 

His education was gained by attending 
the common schools of Attleborough, Day's 
Academy, \\'rentham, three years, and two 
years in Perkins's .\cademy, Attleborough. 

Mr. Daggett commenced business as 
manufacturer of print cloths at Falls Vil- 
lage, Attleborough, January, 1844, in con- 
nection with his brother, Homer M. Daggett, 
and continued in this business several years 
under the firm name of H. N. & H. M. 
Daggett. This firm was dissolved in 1855. 



In 1 86 1 Mr. Daggett began the manufacture 
of mohair braids, his being the first estab- 
lishment of the kind in the country. This 
proved remunerative under the protective 
tariff of 1862. He still continues the manu- 
facture of braids of all varieties, and on an 
extensive scale, as sole owner. 

Previous to 1861, mohair, as well as 
alpaca braids, were imported from England, 
France and Cermany. In less than three 
years after the manufacture was begun 
here with American machinery, the foreign 
article was driven out of the market, the 
.American braids being of a quality far 
superior to the foreign. 



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DAGGETT. 



DALTON. 



Mr. Daggett has enjoyed the confidence 
of his townsmen, in early hfe .serving them 
in various oifices — selectman, overseer of 
the poor, assessor, town clerk, etc., cover- 
ing a period of ten years. 

He represented his town in the General 
Court in 1863, and again in 1S83. 

He is director in the First National 
Bank, Pawtiicket. R. I., and in North ,\ttle- 
borough National Bank; is vice-president 
of the Cotton & Woolen IMutual Fire In- 
surance Company of Boston, treasurer of 



In i860 he was appointed cashier of the 
Attleborough Bank, located at North Attle- 
borough, and at about the same time 




HANDEL N. DAGGETT. 

the .\ttleborough Branch R. R. Co., and is 
treasurer of several manufacturing and 
other corporations. 

DAGGETT, HOMER M., son of Fben- 
ezer and Sarah (Ma.xcy) Daggett, was born 
in Attleborough, Bristol county, January 
27, 1821. 

He received his early education at the 
common school and the academy in town, 
subsequently attending Day's .Academy, 
Wrentham, and the high school at Wor- 
cester. 

In 1844 Mr. Daggett started in business 
with his brother, Handel N. Daggett, in 
Attleborough, in the manufacture of cotton 
goods. In 1852 he removed to Farmer's 
Village in Attleborough, where he was 
engaged in the manufacture of spool 
thread. 




assisted in the organization of the Attle- 
borough Savings Bank, of which he was 
appointed treasurer. He continued his 
connection with both banks until 1873, 
when he resigned both offices to re-engage 
in the manufacture of coarse cottons and 
knitting cotton at Farmer's Village. 

In March, 1875, Mr. Daggett assisted in 
the organization of the First National Bank, 
Attleborough, and was elected its cashier, 
which office he still hold.s, enjoying a repu- 
tation as an authority on banking business. 

He was elected to the Senate in i860 ; 
has been a deacon of the Attleborough 
Baptist church since 1S57. 

He married in Attleborough, May 28, 
1843, .Vngelina, the daughter of Otis and 
Content Smith Daggett, by whom he has 
six children : .Vlice A., Homer M., Jesse 
Taylor, Sanford, Jennie and Frederick 
Daggett. 

DALTON, Samuel, the son of Joseph 
A. and Mary Dalton, was born at Salem, 
Esse.x county, June 25, 1840. 

He received his early education in the 
public schools of Salem, and was graduated 
at the Salem classical and high school with 
the class of 1856. 



DAMRELL. 



DAMRELL. 



I6l 



His first connection in business was with 
his father in the leather business, a short 
time only, then as clerk to Gove Brothers 
tv: Co., Boston, then as salesman to E, B. 
Hull & Co., Boston, all in the same busi- 
ness. From this situation he entered the 
army in 1861, as sergeant, and was mus- 
tered out as 1st lieutenant in 1864, having 
served the full term under the three vears' 
call. 

In March, 1877, he was appointed com- 
mander of the 2d corps of cadets, and was 
a member of Gov. Long's staff, being ap- 
pointed colonel and mspector, December 
10, 1881. This office he resigned [anuary 
3, 1883. 

On January 4, 1883, he was appointed 
by Gov. Butler adjutant-general of the 
State of Massachusetts, with rank of briga- 
dier-general, which position he still holds. 

Gen. Dalton was married in Salem, 
March 9, 1863, to Hannah F., daughter of 
W. F. and Abigail Nichols, of Salem. His 
family consists of a daughter and son : 
Edith B. and R. Osborn Dalton. 

DAMRELL, JOHN STANHOPE, son of 
Samuel and Ann (Stanhope) Damrell, was 
born in Boston, June 29, 182S. 

He attended the public schools of Boston 
and Cambridge, and worked on a farm in 
Haverhill until he was ten years of age. 
His first connection in business was with 
Isaac Melvin of Cambridge, to whom he 
was apprenticed to learn the trade of a 
carpenter. He then came to Boston as a 
master builder, and in 1856 he formed a 
partnership with James Long, continuing 
until the dissolution of the co-partnership 
in 1874. During an interregnum of three 
years he made no contracts nor built anv 
buildings, by reason of attachments being 
placed upon his real estate and working 
capital, on account of his connection with 
the explosion of buildings with powder at 
the great Boston fire in 1872. 

In 1877 he was appointed by the mayor 
of Boston as inspector of buildings, which 
office he holds at the present time. 

April II, 1850, at Cambridge, he was 
married to Susan Emily, daughter of Joim 
aiitl Susan Snelling (Monks) Hill. The 
fruits of this marriage were five children : 
Eliza .\nn, John E. S., Carrie M., Charles 
S. and Susan Emily, of whom only the two 
sons are now living. 

It is in the fire department that Mr. 
Damrell has done conspicuous service and 
won an enviable reputation. He took an 
interest in fire matters in his early boyhood, 
his father and brother being members of 
the Boston fire department. He joined 



"Hero Engine Company No. 6," in 1848, 
and continued through all the grades of 
membership and official position until 1858, 
when he was elected an assistant engineer. 

In 1868 he was elected chief engineer of 
the department, and thus continued until 
1874, when the department was placed 
under a commission. 

From first to last Captain Damrell has 
been universally conceded to be a master 
of the science of the extinguishment of 
fires, and an expert of advanced ideas con- 
nected with that important service. He 
was unanimously elected president of a 
convention of chief engineers called at 
Baltimore in 1874 in consequence of the 
sweeping conflagrations that had taken 
place in the cities of Portland, Chicago and 
Boston. He was the first president of the 
Massachusetts State Firemen's Association. 
He has also served as president of the 
Firemen's Charitable Association, Boston 
Firemen's Mutual Relief Association, 
Boston Veteran Firemen's Association, 
and is to-day actively connected with 
these and kindred organizations. 




JOHN S, DAMRELL. 

He has also been connected with the 
state militia, serving as lieutenant of the 
old Mechanic Rifles of Boston, an honorary 
member of the National Lancers, and has 
been a member of the Ancient and Honor- 



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DANA. 



DANA. 



able Artillery for the past twenty years. In 
1852 he was elected major of the ist Mas- 
sachusetts regiment, but did not qualify. 

During the war he performed patriotic 
service under Ciovernor Andrew and Mayor 
Lincoln of Boston, in filling the cjuota of 
men allotted to the city. He is a member 
of the Knights of Honor, Royal Arcanum, 
Odd P^ellows, and is a Mason of the 32d 
degree. He has been, since its organiza- 
tion, president of the Supreme Parliament 
of the Golden Rule Alliance, and for the 
past fifteen years a trustee of the state 
school for the feeble-minded. 

His church connections have ever been 
with the Methodist Episcopal church, serv- 
ing for twenty-three consecutive years as 
superintendent of a Sabbath-school. He 
has been identified with the Good Tem- 
plars, and is an ardent Prohibitionist. 

A large number of interesting and valu- 
able presents received at various times 
from his comrades, the city authorities and 
the general public, attest the popularity, 
high character and unquestioned ability of 
Boston's celebrated fire-captain. He is 
now president of the Boston Firemen's 
Cemetery Association, and chairman of the 
executive committee to erect a monument 
to their honor. 

DANA, Richard Henry, son of Rich- 
ard Henry and Sarah (Wolson) Dana, was 
born in Cambridge, Middlesex county, Jan- 
uary 3, 1851. 

He received his earl)' educational train- 
ing in the private and public schools of his 
native city. He fitted for college in St. 
Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and was 
graduated from Harvard College in the 
class of 1874. 

He chose the profession of law, and pur- 
suing his legal studies in the Harvard law 
school, was graduated in 1S77. He began 
practice with his father at Boston in 1878, 
then with H. L. Harding in 1879, and is 
now in business alone. Besides being en- 
gaged in the active practice of the law, he 
is manager of various large and important 
trusts. 

Mr. Dana was married in Cambridge, 
January 10, 1878, to Edith, daughter of 
the late Henry W. and Frances (Appleton) 
Longfellow. Of this union were five chil- 
dren : Richard Henry, Jr., Henry W. L., 
Frances A., Allston, and Edmund Trow- 
bridge Dana. His residence is Cambridge. 

Mr. Dana went abroad in 1882 to recover 
from the effects of a serious attack of ty- 
phoid fever. Since his return he has de- 
voted the spare time from his profession 
mostly to the cause of civil service reform, 



writing numerous articles in the " Civil 
Service Record," of which he became chief 
editor in January, 1889. He was a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts Civil Service Re- 
form League which presented a bill for the 
reform of the civil service of the cities and 
towns of the Commonwealth. He was sec- 
retary of the independent Republicans at 
their meeting in New York, February 23, 
1884, and has been connected with several 
philanthropic societies in Boston, especially 
the Associated Charities, in which organiza- 
tion in 1878 and '79 he labored, and whose 
scheme of work he formulated. 

In the winter of i887-'8 he drew up a 
bill for the introduction of the Australian 
ballot law, which was in substance adopted 
by the Legislature {1888, chapter 436). 

He was much interested in improved 
dwellings for the laboring classes, and is 
vice-president of the Improved Dwellings 
Association which built a fine building 
(i888-'9) at South Boston, which is proving 
a success both financially and as a benefit 
to the poorer classes. To the organization 
of the corporation, and the plans of the 
building he gave much time. In i884-'5 
he built a house for a summer home on a 
part of the estate formerly belonging to 
his grandfather at Manchester-by-the-Sea. 

DANA, Thomas, son of William and 
Lucinda (Weston) Dana, was born in 
Springfield, Windsor county, Vt., Decem- 
ber 8, 1833. 

He obtained his early education in the 
common schools of his native place and at 
Wesleyan Academy, graduating there in 
1848. 

In 1850 he began his business life with 
Tarbell cS: Dana, wholesale grocers. At 
twenty-one years of age he was taken into 
the concern as a partner, under the firm name 
of Tarbell, Dana & Co. In 1863 he pur- 
chased the interest of Mr. Tarbell and 
formed the firm of Thomas Dana & Co., 
which has continued with increasing pros- 
perity to the present time. 

Mr. Dana was married in Upper Falls, 
Vt., February 9, 1855, to Helen P. Wil- 
liams. In 1 86 1 he was again married to 
Mary C, daughter of Sewall and Rebecca 
(Hyde) Baldwin, of Cambridge. They 
have three children : William Franklin, 
Helen, and Ada Dana. 

Mr. Dana has never allowed himself to 
be drawn into the arena of politics, belong- 
ing rather to that small but influential 
body of citizens who control events by 
their force of character, and shajje public 
opinion by their own lives of unimpeached 
integrity. 



DAVIS. 



DAVIS. 



163 



Mr. Dana's experience and commercial 
sagacity find better scope in tiie manage- 
ment of trusts and direction of large finan- 



'f' 




year, during one of his clairvoyant states, 
he dictated lectures on magnetism, which 
were put into writing by the Rev. Gibson 
Smith. In 1846, being clairvoyant, he com- 
menced the dictation of his first work, 
" Nature's Divine Revelations," which was 
taken down by the Rev. William Fishbor- 
ough, of New Haven, Conn. Much of the 
time during these eventful years he was 
engaged in healing the sick. His dictated 
works produced a sensation, as they pre- 
sented a wide range of subjects and re- 
jected the idea of any special authority in 
the teachings of the Bible. 

No man, perhaps, has done more to 
impart vitality and coherency to the spir- 
itual movement than Andrew Jackson 
Davis. 

He was first married July i, 1848, to 
Mrs. Catharine DeWolf Dodge, who died 
November 2, 1853. His second marriage 
occurred in Clarendon, N. Y., with Mrs. 
Mary F. Love. They were mutually sep- 
arated by a decree of divorce granted Feb- 
ruary 3, 1885. August nth of the same 
year Mr. Davis was married to Delia E. 
Markham, of Detroit, Mich., a graduate of 
the United States Medical College of New 



THOMAS DANA, 

cial responsibilities. He is president of 
the Union Class Company, director in the 
Maverick National Bank, and many other 
monetary institutions. 

DAVIS, ANDREW Jackson, son of 

Samuel and Elizabeth (Robinson) Davis, 
was born near Blooming Grove, Orange 
county, N. Y., August 11, 1826. 

His youth was passed in comparative 
poverty and subjected to hard labor. His 
education was limited. He inherited from 
his mother a delicate physical constitution, 
fair mental powers, a highly spiritual nature 
and intuitive faculties. His father was a 
shoemaker. \Vhile yet a boy his parents 
removed to Poughkeepsie, N. Y. On vari- 
ous occasions during his childhood he claims 
to have heard spirit voices. In 1843 Wil- 
liam Levington, of Poughkeepsie, is said 
to have developed in him extraordinary 
clairvoyant powers. Although ignorant of 
books, he is said to have been able to in- 
telligently discuss questions medical, psy- 
chological and of general character. (")n 
March 7, 1844, he fell into a trance which 
lasted sixteen hours, during which time he 
affirms that he was " in the spirit " and 
conversed with spiritual beings. The next 




ANDREW J DAVIS, 



York City, in 1883 — from which institu- 
tion she received the degree of M. D. and 
doctor of anthropology. 



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DAVIS. 



DAVIS. 



Besides his literary labors, he was for 
years on the lecture platform, from which 
he was forced to retire, in 1865, on account 
of a protracted throat trouble. 

The published works of Mr. Davis, be- 
sides the one mentioned, are : " The Great 
Harmonia," six volumes ; "The Physician;" 
" The Seer ; " " The Teacher ; " " The Re- 
former;" "Stellar Key;" " Arabula ; " 
" Tale of a Physician ; " " The Forma- 
tion ; " "The Temple;" "Views of our 
Heavenly Home ; " "Approaching Crisis; 
or, Truth against Theology ;" " Penetralia," 
and its sequel, " Answers to Ever-recurring 
Questions ;" " History and Philosophy of 
Evil ; " " Death and the After Life ;" " Har- 
monial Man ; " " Events in the Life of a 
Seer ; " " Philosophy of Special Provi- 
dences ; " " Free Thoughts Concerning Re- 
ligion ; " "The Inner Life," and "The 
Genesis and Ethics of Conjugal Love." 

DAVIS, Charles Gideon, son of 

William and Joanna (White) Davis, was 
born in Plymouth, Plymouth county, May 
30, 1820. His grandfather was a son of 
Thomas Davis, who married Catharine 
Wendell, of Albany, N. Y., of the family 
from which Wendell Phillips and Oliver 
Wendell Holmes derived their Christian 
names. His mother was in the seventh 
generation from Peregrine White, born 
in the cabin of the " Mayflower." The 
father of the subject of this sketch died in 
1824. His mother was left with five chil- 
dren, one of whom, Sarah, died in childhood. 
Hon. William T. Davis is his younger 
brother. 

At ten years of age he was sent to a 
private school in Hingham, thence to the 
high school in Plymouth, until the spring 
of 1836, when he was sent to Bridgewater, 
where he completed his preparation for 
Harvard College, which he entered that 
year, and from which he was graduated in 
the class of 1840, a Phi Beta Kappa. 

He studied law the first year after gradu- 
ating in the office of Hon. Jacob H. Loud, 
Plymouth, one year at the Dane law school, 
Harvard University, and the third year 
with Hubbard & Watts, Boston ; was ad- 
mitted to the bar, August term, 1843, in 
Plymouth. He opened an office in Boston 
with William H. Whitman, present clerk of 
courts, Plymouth county, as partner, and 
was afterwards associated with George P. 
Sanger and Seth Webb, His law business 
flourished, and his clientage increased, 
when, in 1851, he was obliged to abandon 
his Boston office work on account of bron- 
chial trouble, and accordingly betook him- 
self to a farm purchased in the outskirts of 



his native town, where he engaged in out- 
of-door work, and attended to nothing pro- 
fessional, save the trial of causes, for a 
year. This manner of life he has continued 
to the present time, doing but little office 
work. 

Judge Davis was married in Plymouth, 
November 19, 1S45, to Hannah Stevenson, 
daughter of Col. John B. and Mary Howland 
(LeBaron) Thomas. Of this union were 
four children, two of whom survive : 
Joanna White Davis, now wife of Richard 
H. Morgan, of New Bedford, and Charles 
Stevenson Davis, a lawyer in Plymouth. 




CHARLES G DAVIS. 

Judge Davis was a strong anti-slavery 
man, and joined with Gov. John A. Andrew, 
F. W. Bird and others in a movement against 
the re-election of Robert C. Winthrop for 
Congress, in 1846, and offered the resolu- 
tion in Faneuil Hall which first nominated 
Charles Sumner for congressional honors. 
In 1848 he attended the national Whig 
convention in Philadelphia, which nomi- 
nated General Taylor for president, and a 
fortnight after, went to the " Barn-Burners " 
convention in Utica, N. Y., which nomi- 
nated Martin Van Buren ; and, after the 
nomination of Van Buren and Adams at 
Buffalo, he devoted himself to organizing 
the " Free Soilers " of Plymouth county. 
He thus repudiated, with other leading 



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165 



" Free Soilers," the national nominations 
of both parties. 

In 185 1 he was tried before a United 
States commissioner for assisting in the 
rescue of Shadrach, claimed as a fugitive 
slave. His tongue and pen could not be 
muzzled, however, and he continued to 
speak and act as conscience dictated with- 
out regard to party ties. 

In 1859 he was made an overseer of 
Harvard College. In 1856 he was one of 
four from Massachusetts to the convention 
at Pittsburgh which organized the Repub- 
lican party. In June of the same year he 
was delegate to the Philadelphia national 
convention which nominated Fremont. He 
was chairman of the Republican state com- 
mittee during the "Know Nothing" hurri- 
cane of 1854 and '55. 

He has done much for the advancement 
of Plymouth, erecting business and resi- 
dential buildings, and has set out over four 
hundred elms in town. He was trustee of 
the Samoset House from 1850 ; trustee of 
the Pilgrim Society from 1853 to date ; dele- 
gate to the Constitutional Convention of 
that year ; has been president of Plymouth 
County Agricultural Society twenty years, 
and member of the board of agriculture 
twenty-three years ; in 1862 he was mem- 
ber of the (ieneral Court, and House chair- 
man of committee on agriculture. Upon 
the incorporation of the Massachusetts 
Agricultural College in 1S62, he was desig- 
nated by the Legislature as a trustee, and 
served as such until 1887. He was assessor 
of internal revenue under President Lin- 
coln, and held the office until April, 1S69. 
He soon after sailed for Europe with his 
family, and was absent until August, 1870. 
In 1872 he attended the mass convention 
at Cincinnati which nominated Horace 
Greeley, and has since been allied to the 
Democratic party; has been a candidate 
for representative to Congress, and has 
served as a member of the Democratic state 
committee, etc. In 1874 he was appointed 
judge of the third district court of Plymouth 
-county, and still holds the position. 

DAVIS, Henry C, son of Benjamin and 
Cordelia (Buffington) Davis, was born in 
Palmer, Hampden county, October 22, 1843. 

He obtained his preparatory education 
in the public schools, at Wesleyan Acad- 
emy, Wilbraham, and Williston Seminary, 
Easthampton. 

He chose the profession of law, and was 
graduated from the Harvard law school, 
1868. In that same year he opened a law- 
office and began practice at A\'are. where 
he has since remained. 



Mr. Davis was married in Ware, May 4, 
1876, to Jennie A., daughter of Lorenzo 
and Jane (Marlen) Demond. Of this union 
were five children : Henry C, John A., 
Marion, Mary, and an infant child. 

Mr. Davis has been a member of the 
school board twenty years, and was a mem- 
ber of the House of Representatives in 
1S74. 

DAVIS, James Francis, .son of Samuel 

p. and Mary (Withington) Davis, was born 
in Hinsdale, Cheshire county, N. H., Feb- 
ruary 3, 1826. 

His education was limited to the com- 
mon schools in the town of Templeton, 
enjoying no other educational advantages, 
save practical experience in business. 

He first engaged in the stove and hard- 
ware business in Barre, in 1856, in which 
he remained until 1869, when he made a 
change in his business, and opened an in- 
surance agency in the same town, where he 
still resides. 

In i860 he was assessor of Barre, and 
has been chosen to the same office nearly 
every year since. He was a selectman 
during the civil war, 1861 to '65 inclusive. 
He was for thirteen years president and 
business manager of the famous Barre 
Central Cheese Company. He has been 
justice of the peace ten years ; was a mem- 
ber of the Legislature in 1887 ; is commis- 
sioner to qualify civil officers ; has been 
trustee, treasurer, and secretary of Worce- 
ster County West Agricultural Society ; 
trustee of Barre Library Association since 
its organization ; chairman of the Republi- 
can town committee for past fifteen years, 
and is treasurer and member of the building 
committee of Barre Hotel Corporation. 

DAVIS, Robert Thompson, son of 

John and Sarah (Thompson) Davis, was 
born in county Down, North of Ireland, 
August 28, 1823, of parentage Presby- 
terian on the paternal, and Quaker on the 
maternal side. His parents emigrated to 
this country and settled in Amesbury, 
Essex county, when he was three years of 
age. His early educational training was 
received in the public schools and academy 
of Amesbury, and the Friends' school, 
Providence, R. I. 

He was graduated from the medical de- 
partment of Harvard University in the 
class of 1847; was for a short time dispen- 
sary physician in Boston ; practiced medi- 
cine three years in Waterville, Me., and 
removed to Fall River in 1850, where 
he has since resided, except for a short 
period. 



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DAVOL. 



He was a member of the Constitutional 
Convention of 1853 ; of the state Senate of 
1859 and '61 ; of the national Repub- 
lican conventions of i860 and 1876 ; 
was mayor of Fall River in 1873, being 
elected without opposition, and declining 
a re-election ; was a member of the state 
board of charities when organized in 
1863 ; was appointed a member of the 
state board of health upon its organiza- 
tion in 1869, and so remained until its con- 
solidation with the state board of health, 
lunacy and charity in 1879, when he be- 
came a member of that board ; was 
elected to the 48th and 49th Congresses, 
and was re-elected to the 50th Congress, 
as a Republican. 

He has attained to eminence in his pro- 
fession of medicine ; has been president of 
the Bristol County South Medical Society; 
councilor of the Massachusetts Medical 
Society; member of the American Medical 
Association, and of the National Public 
Health Association. 

In social and commercial circles he has 
also been prominent. He has been presi- 
dent from its foundation, of the Commer- 
cial Club, the leading social organization 
of Fall River ; president of Wampanoag 
Mills, and director in Stafford, Merchants', 
Barnard, and Robeson mills, and holds a 
one -third interest in the Globe Mills 
property. 

Dr. Davis has ever been active in educa- 
tional matters. Davis school. Fall River, 
was named in his honor. He has been an 
intelligent observer, a careful student, and 
to these factors is joined the endowment 
of a graceful and eloquent oratory. His 
power in debate was felt in the last Con- 
gress, during the long and heated discus- 
sion on the tariff issues. 

Dr. Davis was married October i, 1848, 
to Sarah, daughter of Dr. Thomas and 
Ann Wilbur, who died in 1856. In June, 
1862, he married Susan Ann, daughter of 
Moses and Phoebe S. Haight, of New 
Castle, N. Y. He has one son : Robert 
C. Davis. 

DAVOL, William C, son of Abner 
and Mary (Durfee) Davol, was born in 
Fall River, Bristol county, January 5, 1806. 
The Davol is one of the old families of 
Rhode Island and southeastern Massachu- 
setts, Pardon Davol, the founder of the 
family, locating in Fail River. 

Securing what education he could in the 
common schools of those davs, he entered 
the Troy Mill while yet a mere lad. After 
becoming acquainted with the various de- 
partments of mill work, he was made over- 



seer of the spinning department. At the 
age of twenty-three he was appointed su- 
perintendent of the mill, which position he 
retained until 1841, when he became a 
member of the firm of Hawes, Marvel & 
Davol. 







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WILLIAM C DAVOL. 

This firm entered upon the business of 
manufacturing machinery, of which Mr. 
Davol was the skillful designer and 
draughtsman. They soon took rank among 
the foremost of cotton machine manufac- 
turers in the country. Upon the death of 
Mr. Hawes, the business was continued 
by the other members of the firm, under 
the name of Marvel & Davol, until the 
financial crash of i878-'9. The importance 
of Mr. Davol's labors in the development 
of the cotton industry can hardly be over- 
estimated. It was very largely through 
his mechanical genius that the manufac- 
turers of Fall River were enabled to enjoy 
the advantages of the most improved ma- 
chinery, and thereby to compete so success- 
fully in the products of their factories. 

To Mr. Davol is due the successful 
introduction into this countrv of the cele- 
brated English patent called the Sharp & 
Roberts self-acting mule, a great labor- 
saving machine. .\ccompanying Major 
Bradford Durfee to F^ngland in 1S38, he 
made a study of this invention, and became 



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167 



thoroughh' familiar with its working. Two 
years later one of these machines was smug- 
gled out of England and delivered in Fall 
River, cut up into small pieces. Mr. Da vol 
re-adjusted the parts and set up the ma- 
chine a complete and perfect whole. He 
also made most valuable improvements 
upon the original. 

This is but one of many improvements 
in this special line of inventions made by 
Mr. Davol, from which New England has 
been the recipient of untold benefits. He 
fitted up the Metacomet Mill with its com- 
plement of machinery, at the time of its 
erection in 1847. This was acknowledged 
the model mill of the country. The results 
of Mr. Davol's skill and ability extended 
beyond any narrow limits. He was often 
called into different parts of New England 
to solve mechanical problems connected 
with cotton manufacturing. By nature, 
training, and practical e.xperience, he was 
a studious, industrious, and clear-headed 
mechanic. 

As a business man, his record is without 
a stain, and whether in prosperity or ad- 
versity, he has ever been upright, conscien- 
tious, honorable. The Davol Mills, built 
in 1867, were named in his honor, and of 
them he was president. Although he lost 
his property by endorsing for others, who 
failed in i878-'79, these reverses left him 
as they found him, kindly and charitably 
disposed as ever. 

Mr. Davol was married October 30, 
1828, to Martha R., daughter of Gilbert 
and Mary (Slocum) Taber. Of this union 
were four children, of whom only William 
C. Davol, Jr., is living, an active and re- 
spected business man of Fall River, who 
inherits to some extent the mechanical 
talent of his father. 

DAWES, Henry Laurens, son of 

Mitchell and Mercy (Burgess) Dawes, was 
born in Cummington, Hampshire county, 
October 30, 18 16. 

Passing through the common and pre- 
paratory schools, he entered Yale College, 
and was graduated therefrom in the class 
of 1839. In 1840 and '41 he was engaged 
in teaching. He subsequently edited the 
" Oreenheld Gazette " and was afterwards 
managing editor of the " Adams Tran- 
script." He then studied law in the office 
of Wells & Davis at Greenfield, and was 
admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 
1842. He immediately entered upon the 
practice of his profession in North Adams. 
In 1864 he removed to Pittsfield, which 
place he has ever since made his legal 
residence. 



His power and ability soon attracted the 
attention of his fellow-townsmen, and he 
was sent to represent them in the (General 
Court, serving as a member of the House 
of Representatives in 1848, '49 and '52, 
and as member of the Senate in 1850. He 
was a member of the state Constitutional 
Convention in 1853 ; was district attorney 
for the western district from 1853 until 
'57 ; was elected a Republican represen- 
tative in the 3Sth, 36th, 37th, 38th, 39th, 
40th, 41st, 42d, and 43d Congresses, being 
chairman of the committee of ways and 
means, and leader of the House in the two 
last Congresses. He declined being a can- 
didate for election to the 44th Congress, 
and was elected to the United States 
Senate as a Republican, to succeed Charles 
Sumner (whose unexpired term had been 
filled by William B. Washburn). He took 
his seat March 4, 1875, and was re-elected 
in 1881, and again in 1887. His term of 
service will expire March 3, 1893. Wil- 
liams College conferred upon him the de- 
gree of LL. D. in 1869. 




HENRY L. DAWES. 

Mr. Dawes was married in .\shfield. May 
I, 1844, to Electa A., daughter of Chester 
and .•\nna (AUis) Sanderson. Of this 
union there are three children living : 
Anna Laurens, Chester Mitchell, and 
Henry Laurens Dawes, Jr. 



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DEAN. 



DEAX. 



The career of the senior senator of Mas- 
sachusetts cannot adequately be described 
within the limits imposed in this sketch. 
He has been long and honorably identified 
with the growth of the State, has held a 
high and responsible position in the 
national administration of the government ; 
has enjoyed confidential relations with the 
leaders of his own and rival parties ; has 
been the personal friend of every occupant 
of the executive mansion during his ex- 
tended residence at the capital ; has per- 
formed patriotic and efficient service as 
one of the leaders of the House during the 
critical period of the war ; and through all 
his varied career has so lived in public and 
private life that not a stain has come upon 
the escutcheon of the State which has so 
often honored, and been in turn honored 
by this her illustrious son. 

DEAN, Benjamin, son of Benjamin 
and Alice Dean, was born in Clitheroe, 
Lancashire, England, August 14, 1824. 
He was one of a family of ten children, 
five boys and five girls, all of whom lived 
to pass the meridian of life. 

The subject of this sketch, when five 
years of age, came to this country with 
his parents, who settled in Lowell, Mass. 
There he received his early education, 
graduating from the Lowell high school in 
1840. He then entered Dartmouth Col- 
lege, remaining through the freshman year. 
He began the study of law with Judge 
Thomas Hopkinson of Lowell, and in 1845 
was admitted to the bar, and began practice 
in Lowell, where he remained until 1852. 

He then removed to Boston and became 
a partner of Henry \V. Fuller. Mr. Fuller 
dying soon after the partnership, the busi- 
ness fell to Mr. Dean, who carried it on 
alone. In 1862 and '63, and again in 1869, 
Mr. Dean was member of the state Senate. 
He served- on the committee of probate 
and chancery, was chairman of the joint 
committee on prisons, and of the joint 
special committee on the serving of 
processes on volunteers, of that on the 
eligibility of members of Congress, and 
of that on proceedings for the restraint 
of the insane. 

In i86g, when Francis A. Dewey was 
elevated to the judiciary of the superior 
court, Mr. Dean, although a Democrat, was 
made chairman of the committee on the 
judiciary. He was also chairman of the 
joint standing committee on the library, 
and a member of the special committee on 
the license law. 

He was member of the common council 
of Boston in 1865, '66, '72 and '73, where 



he continuously held the chairmanship of 
committee on ordinances. 

Mr. Dean served his congressional dis- 
trict (the 3d Massachusetts) in the 45th 
Congress. His seat was contested, but he 
was declared elected. 

Since 1854 Mr. Dean has been a very 
prominent member and officer in the order 
of Free Masonry. He is deputy for the State 
of Massachusetts, of the Supreme Council 
of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite for 
the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the 
United States. Of the Grand Commanderv 
for the states of Massachusetts and Rhode 
Island, he was grand conunander from 1871 




BENJAMIN DEAN, 

to '73, and from 1880 to '83 he was grand 
master of the Grand Encampment of the 
Knights Templar of the United States of 
America. 

He has been one of the directors for 
the public institutions of Boston, a trustee 
of the South Boston Savings Bank, and a 
director of the South Boston R. R. Cor- 
poration. He is president of the South 
Boston Gas Company, and chairman of 
the board of park commissioners of Boston. 

Mr. Dean is an expert yachtsman, and 
was for several years commodore of the 
Boston Yacht Club. 

He married, in Lowell, in 1848, Mary A., 
daughter of J. B. French. The children 



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of this union were six, five of whom are 
living : Benjamin Wheelock, Walter Lof- 
tus, [osiah Stevens, Clitheroe (now Mrs. 
C. L." James) and Mary (Mrs. Walter Tufts). 

DEAN, George Asa, son of Asa and 
Lucy Dean, was born in Attleborough, 
Bristol county, May 2, 1835. 

His education was obtained in the com- 
mon schools of those days. His first con- 
nection in business was made January i, 
1857, with A. M. Everett, S. L. Morse, B. 
B. Day, E. S. Capron and R. Blis.s, under 
the firm name of Everett, Dean & Co., 
manufacturing jewelers. In 1868 the firm 
name was changed to Day, Bliss & Dean, 
in 1 87 1 to Bliss & Dean, and in 1884 to 
G. A. Dean & Co. 

Mr. Dean was married April 15, 1857, to 
Bessie B., daughter of French and Nancy 
Richardson, of Attleborough. 

He represented his district in the Gen- 
eral Court in 1877. 

Mr. Dean is director in the First National 
Bank of Attleborough, vice-president of 
the .Vttleborough Savings Bank, director in 
the .\ttleborough Loan and Savings Asso- 
ciation, director and treasurer in the Attle- 
borough Gas Light Company, and water 
commissioner of the Attleborough fire 
district. 

DEAN, JOHN Ward, son of Charles 
and Patience Tappan (Kingsbury) Dean, 
was born in Wiscasset, Lincoln county, 
Maine, March 13, 1815. He attended the 
public schools in Mt. Vernon, Me., and 
finished his school education in the Port- 
land high school, of which the Rev. 
Thomas Tenny was principal. 

In 1841 he engaged in the book-binding 
business in Providence, R. I., under the 
firm name of Dean & Burgess. In 1843 
he removed to Boston, and entered into 
partnership with his brother Jeremiah, un- 
der the firm name of Dean & Co. From 
1848 to 1859, he carried on the business 
alone. From 1S59 to 1861, with William 
Hill, firm of Dean & Hill ; from 1861 to 
1872 again with his brother, as Dean & Co. 

Mr. Dean was married in Boston, June 
29, 1853, to Lydia, daughter of John S. 
and Abigail (Dean) Emerson. They have 
no children. 

Mr. Dean was recording secretary of the 
American Statistical Association from i860 
to 1872 ; corresponding secretary of the 
Prince Society, 1858 to '63; vice-president 
of thesame, 1863 to '70: president from 1870 
to '80 ; and vice-president from 1880 to 
]iresent time ; treasurer of the New England 
Historic Genealogical Society, 1855 to '57 ; 



recording secretary of same, 1857 and '58 ; 
corresponding secretary, 1859 to '62 ; and 
librarian, 1872 to the present time. He was 
justice of the peace for the county of Mid- 
dlese.x, 1870 to '77. He is now editor of 
the " Register " and the publications of 
the New England Historic Genealogical 
society, with his residence in the town of 
Medford. 

Mr. Dean's published works are numer- 
ous, and are critically edited. Among the 
principal are a memoir of the Rev. Nathan- 
iel Ward, A. M. (186S), and a memoir of 
Michael Wigglesworth, author of " The 
Day of Doom" (1871). He has prepared, 
and seen through the press, seventeen 
pamphlets of sketches, memorial and his- 
torical, also six volumes of historical mat- 
ter, edited by himself. To these should 
be added many pamphlets of valuable gen- 
ealogical compilation. 

DEAN, ROBERT STROBRIDGE, son of 
Robert and Susan E. L. (Padelford) Dean, 
was born in Taunton, Bristol county, Feb- 
ruary 6, 1805. He is a lineal descendant 
in the seventh generation from Deacon 
Walter Deane, one of the first settlers of 
Taunton in 1639. 




ROBERT S. DEAN. 

Mr. Dean received his early education 
in the district schools of those days, and in 
Bristol Academy. 



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DELANO. 



DELANO. 



At the age of sixteen, he entered business 
life as clerk in the house of Field, Fobes 
& Co., Philadelphia. His father's death, 
May 24, 1822, required his return home to 
assist in settling- the large estate. In 1824 
he succeeded his father in the manufactur- 
ing business, at the Dean Cotton Mills, 
East Taunton, and held the position, as 
agent, twelve years. He then held the 
management of the " Brick Mill " in con- 
nection with Crocker & Richmond. Was 
assignee with Governor Morton of Taun- 
ton Iron Company; was of the firm of 
Dean & Morse, manufacturers of machin- 
ery, a few years, and treasurer of the Dean 
Cotton & Machine Company twenty-five 
years. The profits in the first twenty years 
were five times the amount of capital. He 
was also treasurer of Taunton Locomotive 
Company a short time. He retired from 
business in 187 5, with an ample competency, 
after a successful manufacturing and mer- 
cantile life of nearly fifty years. 

Mr. Dean was married in Taunton, Sep- 
tember 9, 1832, to Mary C, daughter of 
William Hodges. Mrs. Dean died in 1886, 
leaving no children. 

DELANO, George, son of James and 
Dorothy (Wing) Delano, was born in Rocii- 
ester, Plymouth county. May 13, 1821, and 
received his education in its common 
schools from the age of ten to fourteen 
years. 

On leaving school he became clerk in 
the store of Luce & Delano, in the part of 
Rochester now Marion, and at the end of 
si.\ years took the business of his employers 
and carried it on in connection witii ship- 
building until iS49-'5o, when he failed, 
and effected a compromise with his cred- 
itors. 

After a year spent in Virginia, " prospect- 
ing," he entered the employ of the Kigelow 
Carpet Company, at Clinton, as clerk and 
paymaster, until July, 1855, and in the fol- 
lowing month came to New Bedford and 
took the entire charge of the extensive oil 
manufacturing business of his brother-in- 
law, the late Charles H. Leonard, then re- 
siding in New York City. This responsible 
position he filled until Mr. Leonard's death 
in 1868, when, in company with F. L. B. 
Mayhew and James .4. Fussell, he contin- 
ued the business. On assuming control, 
Mr. Delano made many improvements fa- 
cilitating the manufacture and increasing 
the product — notably the introduction of 
steam in the processes of production. The 
reputation of the old firm was thoroughly 
maintained, and Mr. Delano came to be 
the acknowledged head of the oil manufac- 



turers of the State in exact, thorough, and 
scientific knowledge of all the processes in 
the production of oils. 

In 1877 Stephen C. L. Delano, a son 
of the senior partner, was admitted to the 
firm, and in 1883 Messrs. George Delano, 
Mayhew and Fussell retired, when Mr. Dela- 
no's sons, James and Stephen, having in 
their employ their youngest brother, Charles 
H. Leonard Delano, took entire charge 
and control of the business, under the firm 
name of George Delano's Sons. 

Mr. Delano was married November 20, 
1845, in Rochester, to Abigail, daughter of 
George and Cynthia (Washburn) Leonard, 




GEORGE DELANO 

of that town, and his children are the three 
sons previously named. 

In retiring from active business he dis- 
missed its cares and anxieties, and sought 
the rest which his health demanded. Long 
a suft'erer from sciatica, he finds partial re- 
lief in his delightful home in Rochester, at 
his sea-side residence in Marion, and in 
winter excursions to the South. Of ample 
leisure, he yet has no idle hours ; and 
though having no ]5articular vocation, he 
is never without congenial employment, in 
the care and improvement of his real estate 
in Rochester and Marion, and in the dis- 
charge of his duties as a public-spirited 
citizen. 



DEVENS. 



DEVENS. 



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Mr. Delano has never held any political 
office, but, warmly interested in politics 
from his boyhood, he has served his party 
as committee-man and delegate to state 
and national conventions, and was once a 
candidate for presidential elector. A born 
Democrat, he has continued to be one 
from thorough conviction. Mr. Delano 
has neither sought nor gained prominence, 
save in his business career, which has been 
eminently successful. He is better satisfied 
with the respect of his party and the warm 
personal friendship of all who know him, 
of whatever political creed, than with any 
honor or emoluments of office. 

DEVENS, Charles, son of Charles 
and Mary (Lithgow) Devens, was born in 
Charlestown, Middlesex county, April 4, 
1820. His father was the grandson of 
Richard Devens, a revolutionary patriot of 
great local prominence. His mother was 
the daughter of Col. Arthur Lithgow, of 
Augusta, Maine. 

Charles Devens was graduated at Har- 
vard in the class of 1838. Choosing the 
profession of the law, he pursued his 
studies in the Harvard law school, and 
afterward with Hubbard & Watts, of Bos- 
ton. He was admitted to the bar in 1S41. 
From that year to 1849 he resided first in 
Northfield and later in Greenfield. In 
1848 and '49 he served as member of the 
state Senate. From 1849 to '53 he was 
United States marshal for the district of 
Massachusetts. In 1854 he returned to 
the practice of law, and settled in the city 
of Worcester, where he still resides. 

On the 19th of April, 1861, Mr. Devens 
was unanimously elected major of the 3d 
battalion rifles — three full companies. 
With this force. Major Devens at once pro- 
ceeded to Annapolis, Md., and thence to 
Fort McHenry, remaining in command un- 
til nearly the close of its three months' 
term of service. On the 26th of July he 
was duly qualified as colonel of the isth 
regiment ]SIa,ssachusetts volunteers. With 
this he proceeded to Washington, arriving 
there the loth of August. Col. Devens 
received marching orders on the 25th, and 
in two days the regiment pitched their 
tents at Poolesville, Md., under command 
of General C. P. Stone, in charge of the 
corps of observation. They were assigned 
to guard duty on the Potomac. 

At the battle of Ball's Bluff Col. Devens 
won the respect and esteem of the com- 
mander-in-chief and his brother officers. 
He received his commission of brigadier- 
general during the siege of Yorktown, and 
bade adieu to his regiment, and assumed 



command of a brigade in Couch's division, 
Keyes's 4th army corps. May 31st, in 
the battle of Fair Oaks, General Devens 
was wounded, but would not tjuit the field 
until night brought a temporary cessation 




CHARLES DEVENS. 

of hostilities. He was absent from his 
command but five weeks, during which 
time he addressed a war meeting in 
Faneuil Hall, Boston. He resumed his 
command at Harrison's Landing, the loth 
of July. At the battle of Antietam his 
horse was shot under him. 

For his gallant conduct while command- 
ing a brigade at Fredericksburg, he was 
highly complimented by the general com- 
manding his division. At Chancellorsville 
he was seriously wounded while command- 
ing the ist division, nth army corps. 
In the spring of 1864, he was assigned to 
the 1 8th army corps, at the special request 
of General W. F. Smith, who commanded, 
and under whom, as a division commander 
in the corps, he took part in the battle of 
Cold Harbor. In April, 1865, at the request 
of General Grant, General Devens was 
connnissioned major-general by brevet, for 
gallantry and good conduct at the capture 
of Richmond. At his own repeated re- 
quest, he was mustered out of service, at 
Washington, June, 1866, after five years 
and three months' military service. The 



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DEWEY. 



DEWEY. 



members of the United States Senate and 
House of Representatives from Massa- 
chusetts united in signing a recommenda- 
tion that he should be retained in the 
re-organization of the regular army, and 
though the compliment was a very high 
one, it was not presented, as General 
Devens wished to resume the practice of 
his profession. 

He was chosen by the G. A. R. as its 
national commander, to succeed General 
Burnside. He has served as commander of 
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of 
Massachusetts, as well as of the military 
societies of the army of the Potomac and 
of the James, and of the 6th army corps. 
General Devens was appointed by Governor 
Bullock, in 1867, one of the judges of the 
superior court of Massachusetts, and in 
1S73, by Governor \Vashburn, one of the 
judges of the supreme court. 

March 10, 1877, he was appointed attor- 
ney-general of the United States in the 
cabinet of President Hayes, and on his 
return to Massachusetts, was re-appointed 
by Governor Long to the supreme judi- 
cial bench, which position he still holds. 

General Devens is unmarried. 

DEWEY, Charles Augustus, son of 

Charles Augustus and Caroline (Clinton) 
Dewey, was born December 29, 1830, at 
Northampton, Hampshire county. 

For three years he was a student at 
Williston Seminary, Easthampton, entered 
Williams College in 1847, and was graduated 
in 1851. 

After studying law one year at Worcester 
in the office of his brother, Hon. Francis 
H. Dewey, he continued one year each at 
the Cambridge law school and in New 
York. He was then admitted to the New 
York bar in 1854, where he remained for 
two years, the latter part of the time as a 
member of the law firm of Mead, Taft & 
Dewey. He practiced law two years as 
partner with General James K. Mills, at 
Davenport, Iowa, and in 1859 united in 
partnership with the Hon. Hamilton B. 
Staples, in Milford. 

Mr. Dewey was married in Milford, 
March 12, 1867, to Marietta N., daughter 
of Alexander W. and Marietta (Duston) 
Thayer. Of this union is one child: Maria 
Thayer Dewey. 

Following in the line of his father and 
grandfather, who had been judges of the 
supreme judicial court of Massachusetts, 
Mr. Dewey was appointed trial justice in 
1861, and in 1864 judge of the police court 
of Milford, holding the office until 1872, 
when he was appointed judge of the third 



district court of southern Worcester, and 
has continued in that office ever since. 

Mr. Dewey has served as a member of 
the school committee for nearly seven 
years, and for many years as trustee of the 
town library, being now chairman of the 
board. 

DEWEY, Henry Sweetser, son of 

Israel Otis and Susan Augusta (Sweetser) 
Dewey, was born in Hanover, Grafton 
county, N. H., November 9, 1856. His 
father was the son of Israel Dewey of Ber- 
lin, Vt., and his mother was the daughter 
of General Henry Sweetser of Concord, 
N. H. 




HENRY S, DEWEY. 

His father was a merchant in Hanover, 
N. H., until 1864, when he was appointed 
additional paymaster of volunteers ; honor- 
ably mustered out in December, 1865; was 
appointed paymaster in the regular army 
in 1867, and served as such till March. 
1888, when he was placed on the retired 
list; he died in Boston in May, 1888. 

Mr. Dewey's boyhood and youth were 
passed in various places in which his father 
was stationed, principally in the South and 
West, and he attended schools first in 
Hanover and later in other places. 

He fitted for college in Salt Lake City, 
and was graduated from Dartmouth College 
in 1878 with the degree of A. B. He 



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received his A. M. in 1881. In college he 
was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi 
Society. 

Soon after graduation he was appointed 
paymaster's clerk, United States army, 
and while serving in this office came to 
Boston in August, 1878, where he has since 
resided. 

In 1880 he resigned his position as pay- 
ma.ster's clerk, studied law in the Boston 
University law school and in the office of 
Hon. A. A. Ranney, and received his degree 
of LL. B. from the law school, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1882. 
Since that time he has been engaged in 
practice of law in Boston. 

He was a member of the ist corps of 
cadets, Massachusetts volunteer militia, as 
private, corporal, and sergeant, respectively, 
from June ii, 1880, to February 26, 1889, 
when he was commissioned judge-advocate 
on the staff of the ist brigade, Massachu- 
setts volunteer militia, with rank of captain, 
which position he still holds. He is a mem- 
ber of the Military Order of the Loyal 
Legion, U. S. 

He has been justice of the peace and 
notary public since 1882; is a member of 
the Curtis Club of Boston, also of the Rox- 
bury Club; was a member of the Republi- 
can ward and city committee of Boston, 
from 1884 to '88 ; was a member of the 
Boston common council in 1885, '86 and 
'87; in 1889 he served as representative 
from the 21st Suffolk district in the Legis- 
lature, and was a member of the judiciary 
committee. 

Mr. Dewey is unmarried. 

DEWEY, JUSTIN, son of Justin and 
Melinda (Kelsey) Dewey, was born in Al- 
ford, Berkshire county, June 12, 1836. 

His early educational training was .re- 
ceived in the public schools. Preparing 
for college matriculation in Great Barring- 
ton, he entered Williams College, from 
which he was graduated in the class of 
1858. 

Choosing the profession of law, he pur- 
sued his legal reading at the office of In- 
crease Sumner in Great Barrington, and 
was admitted to the bar in November, 
i860, and began practice of law at Great 
Barrington. His legal attainments won 
for him success, and he was soon called to 
serve the Commonwealth in an official ca- 
pacity. 

In 1862 he was a member of the House 
of Representatives, and was again called 
to the same branch of the Legislature in 
1877. In 1879 he was a member of the 
state Senate, serving on the Senate com- 



mittee on probate and chancery, and on 
the joint special committee on retrench- 
ment that year. 

Mr. Dewey was appointed judge of the 
superior court of Massachusetts in 1886, 
by Governor Robinson. 

He was married in Great Barrington, 
February 8, 1865, to Jane, daughter of 
George and Clara (Wadhams) Stanley. Of 
this union were three children : Mary, 
Sarah S., and Margaret Dewey. 

His residence is in Springfield. 

DEXTER, Solomon King, son of 

Parker and Betsey (King) Dexter, was born 
May 23, 1839, at West Topsham, Orange 
county, Vermont. 

His early education was obtained at the 
common schools of his native town, where 
he remained, working on the farm, until he 
became of age. 

At his majority, Mr. Dexter left his home 
and made his first venture in business, 
clerking in a market in Lowell, in i860. 
In 1862 he went into the provision busi- 
ness under the firm name of Ladd & Dexter. 
There he remained until after the break- 
ing out of the civil war, when he engaged 




SOLOMON K, DEXTER. 



in the sutler's business, supplying the 

stores needed for the troops at the front. 

In 1864 he became cashier of the Bullion 

Bank, Washington, D. C. A year later he 



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DICKINSON. 



removed to Wait's River, Vermont, and 
opened a general store. After remaining 
there three years, he returned to Lowell 
and engaged successively in the provision 
and grocery business, and in 1873 he 
started the business which he is at present 
successfully carrying on, that of wholesale 
and commission dealer in flour and country 
produce. 

Mr. Dexter was married in Montpelier, 
Vt., February 24, 1863, to Mary S., daugh- 
ter of Robert and Mary (Burgin) McCrillis. 
They have had four children ; Nellie May 
(now Mrs. F. L. Batchelder, Manchester, 
N. H.), Daisy B., Royal King, and Jennie 
Dexter, — the latter deceased. 

Mr. Dexter's religious affiliations are 
with the Baptist church, he being a member 
of the finance committee of the Freewill 
Baptist church. He has long been a jus- 
tice of the peace, a member of the High- 
land Lodge, L O. O. F., the Lnproved 
Order of Red Men, the Lowell Rod and 
Gun Club, and of the Lowell Co-operative 
Association. He is a member of the Low- 
ell board of trade, and also of the Vermont 
board of trade. 

Mr. Dexter's interest in politics has led 
him to accept a few of the many honors 
offered to him. He served as a member of 
the Lowell common council in 1883 and '84. 
His fellow-citizens recognized his ability 
and conservative judgment, and prevailed 
upon him to represent them in the lower 
branch of the state Legislature in 1886. 
He served to great acceptance, and was 
re-elected the following year, serving on 
the committee on finance, and on the 
library. 

Mr. Dexter is fairly the architect of his 
own fortune, having nothing when he left 
the old farm-house but a stout heart, strong 
and willing hands, and an earnest convic- 
tion that the world owed him a living. 
The debt has been faithfully paid, and to- 
day he stands honorably high among the 
best known merchants of the city of Lowell. 

DICKINSON, John WOODBRIDGE, 
passed his early years in South Williams- 
town, Mass. He was the youngest but 
one of a family of nine children. His 
father, William Dickinson, was a native of 
Hadley, and a direct descendant of Nathan- 
iel Dickinson, one of the first settlers of 
that town. His mother's maiden name 
was Elizabeth Worthington. She was a 
woman of fine character, and gave to her 
children a good example of a noble life. 

Mr. Dickinson obtained the rudiments of 
learning in the public schools of Williams- 
town. At the age of nine years he was 



put to work on the farm during the sum- 
mer months, attending school for a few 
weeks only during the winter. 

Having a strong desire for a liberal edu- 
cation, he passed through his preparatory 
course of studies at (ireylock Institute, 
South Williamstown, and at Williston Sem- 
inary, Easthampton, and entered the fresh- 
man class at Williams College in the au- 
tumn of 1848. He graduated from that 
institution in 1852, with the classical hon- 
ors of his class. 

In September of that year he received 
the appointment of assistant teacher in the 
state normal school at Westfield, Mass. 
After serving as first assistant teacher in 
the school for four years, he was appointed 
its principal in July, 1856. For twentv- 
one years he performed the duties of his 
office with marked ability and success, pre- 
paring for the service of the State a large 
number of teachers, well trained in the 
philosophy and art of teaching, and gain- 
ing for the Westfield normal school a 
national reputation. 

Mr. Dickinson early became a diligent 
and successful student of pedagogical 
science. He was among the first to intro- 
duce those reforms in methods of teach- 
ing which have since been working their 
way into the best schools of the country. 
He trained his classes in the use of the 
analytic objective method of study and 
teaching, in presenting to their own minds 
or to the minds of others any branch of 
learning, whether subject or object. 

In 1877, on the resignation of the Hon. 
Joseph White, Mr. Dickinson was called 
from the normal school at Westfield to the 
office of secretary of the Massachusetts 
board of education. His experience as 
teacher in the normal school had fitted him 
to perform the duties of his new office. 
During his term of service the cause of 
popular education has made great pro- 
gress in the Commonwealth. The normal 
schools have grt)wn strong in public favor; 
the teachers' institutes have been made to 
contribute more directly to an improve- 
ment in methods in teaching ; the final 
abolition of the school district system has 
been accomplished ; the children of the 
Commonwealth have been provided with 
free text-books ; the small towns of the 
State have been aided in supplying them- 
selves with well-trained school superintend- 
ents, and the great ends to be secured by 
school life have come to be better under- 
stood. 

Mr. Dickinson has published twelve an- 
nual reports, which hold a high rank 



DICKINSOX. 



DITSON. 



'/3 



among educational reports, on account of 
their pedagogical value. He has exerted 
a large influence upon the teachers of the 
country through his public addresses be- 
fore educational associations, and through 
his management as principal and instructor 
of the pedagogical department of the Chau- 
tauqua University. 

Mr. Dickinson was married in Westfield, 
in March, 1856, to Are.xine G., daugh- 
ter of David and Mary (Bacon) Parsons, 
North Yarmouth, Maine. Miss Parsons 
was a graduate of Bradford Female Semi- 
nary, and a successful teacher. Two chil- 
dren were added to the family, a son, John 
Worthington, and a daughter, Susan Allen. 
The former is a graduate of Harvard Col- 
lege, and a successful manufacturer. The 
latter is the companion of her mother in 
their family home, Newtonville, in the city 
of Newton. 

Mr. Dickinson, now in the prime of life, 
is laboring with great devotion to promote 
the interests of popular education, and to 
keep the public schools of Massachusetts 
in the front rank of excellence. 

DICKINSON, Marquis Fayette, Jr., 

eldest son of Marquis F. and Hannah (Wil 
liams) Dickinson, was born in Amherst, 
Hampshire county, January 16, 1840. 

He received his early education at the 
common schools of his native town, Am- 
herst and Monson academies, and Williston 
Seminary, Easthampton, from which he 
graduated in the class of 1858. He entered 
Amherst College in the same year, gradu- 
ating therefrom in 1862, having one of the 
three highest of the commencement ap- 
pointments. 

After teaching classics in Williston Semi- 
nary for three years, i862-'65, he studied 
law with Wells & Soule, Springfield, at the 
Harvard law school, i866-'67, and with 
Hon. George S. Hillard, of Boston. He 
was assistant United States attorney from 
1869 to '71. He then became a member 
of the law firm of Hillard, Hyde & Dickin- 
son, the style subsequently changing to the 
present well-known firm of Hyde, Dickin- 
son (S: Howe. 

Mr. Dickinson was married at Easthamp- 
ton, November 23, 1864, to Cecilia R., 
adopted daughter of Samuel and Emily 
(Graves) Williston. Of his three children 
only one is living, Charles, — Williston and 
Florence having deceased. He has an 
adopted daughter, Jennie Couden Dickin- 
son, daughter of his deceased sister. 

Mr. Dickinson was a member of the com- 
mon council. Boston, in 187 1 and '72, hold- 
ing the office of president of that body 



during the latter year. He was a trustee 
of the Boston public library in 1871 ; has 
been a trustee of Williston Seminary since 
1872, and one of the overseers of the 
charity fund of Amherst College since 1877. 




MARQUIS F, DICKINSON. 

He was a lecturer on law as applied to 
rural affairs in the Massachusetts Agricul- 
tural College, i87i-'77, and author of 
" Legislation on the Hours of Labor " 
(1871) and " Amherst Centennial Address " 
(1876). 

DITSON, Oliver, son of Joseph and 
Lucy (Pierce) Ditson, was born in Boston, 
October 20, 181 1, nearly opposite the resi- 
dence of Paul Revere. He died December 
21, 1888, in the city of his birth, being 
buried from Trinity church, the Rev. 
Phillips Brooks officiating. His parents 
were of Scotch extraction, their ancestors, 
soon after the landing of the Pilgrims, 
having been driven from Scotland by 
religious persecution. 

His father was one of a firm of ship 
owners, and the son knew no hardship till 
the failure of his father's firm. Graduat- 
ing with a good record from the North End 
public school, he found employment in 
Parker's book and music store. Later on 
he left this place for a time to learn the 
printer's trade. This he did with Isaac 
Butts and afterward with Alfred Mudge. 



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DIXEV. 



At this time he was the main support of 
his father and mother. His varied abilities 
and tenacious attention to Inisiness made 
him indispensable to Colonel Parker, with 
whom he had resumed work in the old 
place. Later on he took a single counter in 
the famous " old corner bookstore." Here 
was formed the firm of Parker & Ditson, 
when he was only twenty-one years old. 
He put his whole force into the business 
and changed it into a music store. In 1840 
he purchased Colonel Parker's interest, and 
under the name of Oliver Ditson, without 
the aid of capital or influential friends, the 
career of this remarkable publisher may 
be said to have been fairly and successfully 
launched. 

In the meantime he had become an 
organist, a singer, and an accomplished 
writer of notes and letters which had a 
special reputation for their lively tone and 
brilliancy. He was now a polished gentle- 
man, the delight of his numerous friends, 
and everywhere welcomed for his kindly 
manner. 

In 1840 he was married to Catherine, 
the daughter of Benjamin Delano, a 




OLIVER DITSON, 



prominent ship owner. She was a lineal 
descendant of William Bradford, the second 
governor of the colony of Plymouth. 
Five children blessed this union : Mrs. 



Burr Porter, Charles H., James Edward 
(deceased), Frank Oliver (deceased), and a 
daughter who died in infancy. 

The business of this phenomenal pub- 
lisher went on increasing in volume until 
he had an annual business of two million 
dollars. He was a long time the president 
of the board of music trade, of which he 
was the founder. No other man in the 
trade was so widely known or so univer- 
sally respected. He expended large sums 
in supporting such artists as gave promise 
of special distinction. 

Mr. Ditson was one who rallied to the 
support of the Peace Jubilee and made it 
a brilliant success. He subscribed and 
paid twenty-five thousand dollars for the 
Jubilee of 1872, which gave to music in 
New England a forward impulse it has 
never lost. He was a life-long patron of 
the Handel and Haydn Society, and was 
never absent from its concerts. He was 
an able financier; twenty-one years presi- 
dent of the Continental National Bank of 
Boston; many years trustee of the Frank- 
lin Savings Bank, which he originated and 
managed; also a trustee of the Boston Safe 
Deposit Company; one of the founders of 
the Old Men's Home, Boston; an active 
supporter of the New England Conserva- 
tory of Music ; trustee of the Mechanic 
Association ; member of the Boston Me- 
morial Association, and a director of the 
Bunker Hill Monument Association. 

Politically he was a Whig, until the form- 
ation of the Republican party, after which 
he acted with that organization. His re- 
ligious training was with the Baptist denom- 
ination, but in later years he allied himself 
with the Unitarians. His whole life was 
characterized by much breadth in religious 
matters and liberality toward all denomi- 
nations. In his long career he had estab- 
lished a number of branch houses, and 
placed many a young man of ability where 
he could win success. Of these are notably 
conspicuous, the Boston branch house of 
J. C. Haynes & Co., the Cincinnati house 
(John Church); the New York house 
(Charles H. Ditson); the Philadelphia house 
(J. E. Ditson), and the Chicago house of 
Lyon lV- Healy. 

DIXEY, Henry E., was born in Bos- 
ton, January 6, 1859. While extremely 
young, his natural aptitude for mimicry led 
his footsteps by instinct to the door of the 
stage, and as an exponent of children's 
parts he became the envy of his youthful 
associates. While still a mere boy, he at- 
tached himself to the regular stock com- 
pany of the Howard Athenseum, and 



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played everything he could lay hands upon, 
from a set tree to the hose at fire-drill. 

His first marked success was made as 
"Peanuts" in the old-time favorite melo- 




HENRY E, DIXEY. 

drama "Under the daslight," and his 
ability in the way (jf quaint humor was at 
once acknowledged. 

In his leisure hours Mr. Dixey had 
sedulously cultivated a natural gift of 
dancing, and tiring of the monotony of a 
stock company, lie determined upon a 
change. It was at this time that he first 
came under the observation of Edward E. 
Rice, who at once recognized the talent of 
the young man, and determined to give 
liim every opportunity of gaining a wide- 
spread celebrity. 

His fir.st appearance under Mr. Rice's 
management was made at the tUobe 
Theatre, Boston, on June 7, 1875, when 
he appeared in " Evangeline " as one of 
the two sailors who subsequently illustrate 
the saltatorial eccentricities of the famous 
" Heifer" in that extravaganza His suc- 
cess in this role was marked, so much so 
that he was advanced by rapid strides, 
until he was entrusted with the principal 
role of the piece, in which he gave un- 
bounded satisfaction. 

l-'rom that time until now he has remained 
under Mr. Rice's management, with the 



exception of two years only. During all 
these years the parts a.ssumed by Mr. 
Dixey have been varied, but his success 
has been continuous. He has appeared 
successively in the following plays : " Cor- 
sair," " Hiawatha," " Horrors," " Robinson 
Crusoe," " Babes in the Wood," " Revels," 
"Cinderella at School," "The Ma.scot," 
" Billee Taylor," "Patience," "Pinafore," 
" The New Evangeline," " The Romany 
Rye," " lolanthe," " Pounce & Co.," " The 
Sorcerer," "The Merry Duchess," "The 
Duke's Motto," "Lieutenant Helene," 
" Distinguished Foreigners," "Confusion," 
and " Adonis." In his recent triumph, as 
the chaste statue, the graceful gallant, the 
moody Dane, the independent barber, and 
a host of other characters in which he 
pervades " Adonis," he has made the part 
unapproachable. 

His production for the season of 1889 
and '90 is " The Seven Ages," a combina- 
tion of burlesque and character drama. 
His versatility is remarkable, and his 
career promises to be notable in the annals 
of the American stage. 

DODGE, Nathan Dane, son of Nathan 
Dane and Sarah (Shepard) Dodge, was born 
in Ipswich, Essex county, April 21, 1840. 

His early education was obtained in the 
district school under many difficulties. 
Inspired, however, with an earnest desire 
for intellectual growth, he acquired suffi- 
cient knowledge to qualify him, at the age 
of nineteen, to teach school at Ipswich. 
Continued trouble with his eyes, however, 
forced him reluctantly to give up the idea 
of teaching. 

At his majority he went to Troy, N. Y., 
and served as clerk for his brother in a 
small shoe store. Subsequently he opened 
a shoe store on his own account in Troy, 
then went to New York for a few months, 
selling shoes on the road. January, 1866, 
he organized with his brother, in the city 
of Lynn, the firm of N. D. & E. P. 
Dodge, for the manufacture of boots and 
shoes, afterwards removing to Newbury- 
port, where he has since remained alone, 
under the firm name of Nathan I). Dodge, 
manufacturing fine shoes and slippers. 

In 1877 he opened a wholesale store in 
New York City, which is continued as an 
outlet for the great variety of styles which 
the firm now make. 

Mr. Dodge was married in Troy, N. Y., 
April 25, 1865, to Matilda Valentine Hins- 
dale. Their children are : Nathan Dane, 
Jr., born June 15, 1866 ; Adelaide Pearle, 
born January 2, 1881, and William Garnet 
Dodge, born August 14, 1882. 



DODGE. 



DODGE. 



Mr. Dodge was alderman of the city of 
Newburyport in i8So ; was elected director 
of the First National Bank some ten years 
ago, which position he holds at the present 
time ; is also a trustee of the Newburyport 
Five Cents Savings Bank. 

The early family training of JMr. Dodge, 
under the influence of a sainted mother, 
led him early to seek church relations. He 
joined the church and choir at the age of 
seventeen, and has contributed to church 
service ever since. He has been a Sunday- 
school scholar or teacher nearly all of his life, 
and is now superintendent of the White- 
field Sunday-school. He was a member of 




NATHAN D. DODGE. 

the Young Men's Christian Association in 
Troy, N. Y., where he resided a few years. 
He was one of the founders of the New- 
buryport Association some fifteen years 
ago ; was elected its first president, serving 
as such for several years, and is at present 
a member of the board of directors. 

DODGE, Simeon, Jr., son of Simeon 
and Betsey (Goodwin) Dodge, was born in 
Marblehead, Essex county, February 23, 
1840. 

He obtained his early education in the 
public schools of his native place. 

He began business as a grocer's clerk. 
Later on he worked at shoemaking. His 
present vocation is that of farmer. 



Mr. Dodge was married in Marblehead, 
June 5, i860, to Betsey, daughter of Wil- 
liam and Betsey (Goss) Gilley. Of this 
union are four children : Albert W., Re- 
becca F., Charles E., and Emma S. Dodge. 

Mr. Dodge is president of the Wenham 
Mutual Benefit Association ; commander of 
the Wenham Veteran Association, and chair- 
man of the Republican town committee. 
He is chief engineer of the fire department. 
He was representative to the Legislature 
from the 9th Essex district, in 1889, serv- 
ing on the committee on manufactures. 

He enlisted as private in company C, 
8th regiment, Massachusetts volunteer 
militia, in the war of the rebellion, and 
fought in the service of his country. 

DODGE, Theodore Ayrault, was 

born in Pittsfieid, Berkshire county, in 
1842, of old New England stock. His 
grandfather was pastor of First Church in 
Haverhill ; his maternal great-grandfather 
was General Seth Pomeroy of Bunker Hill 
memory, and his middle name comes from 
Dr. Pierre Ayrault, who migrated with the 
first Huguenot colony, as its physician, to 
Newport. 

Col. Dodge was educated abroad. He 
is a graduate of the London University, 
attended lectures at Heidelberg, and re- 
ceived a four years' militarv training under 
General von Frohreich of the Prussian 
army in Berlin. What he there learned 
stood him in good stead when, in 1S61, he 
caught the patriotic fever and returned 
home to enlist. His field service of two 
years under Kearney and Howard, in the 
army of the Potomac, was terminated at 
Gettysburg by the loss of a leg, he having 
been several' times previously wounded. 
On recovery, he was ordered to duty in the 
war department, as chief of the bureau of 
enrollment. Here he served for a number 
of years, and to retain his services, Secre- 
tary Stanton offered him a commission in 
the regular army. At the time Mr. Stan- 
ton declined to yield up possession of the 
war office to President Johnson. Colonel 
Dodge " held the fort," under the self- 
willed, but in this instance orthodox, sec- 
retary. 

Colonel Dodge has four brevets for gal- 
lant conduct — two volunteer, two regular. 
Under the act of Congress by which all 
wounded officers were taken from active 
service. Col. Dodge was placed on the re- 
tired list of the army, where he still holds 
his commission. He has since resided in 
his native State. 

He has been connected with successful 
business enterprises in Boston, but enjoys 



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best out-of-door pleasures and the use of 
his pen. He is a well-known horseman. 
He has been constantly in the saddle for 
nearly forty years, and is considered an 
authority in the art. Few men have rid- 
den so much. He estimates that he has 
covered over one hundred thousand miles. 

He has published three military books, 
and a book on horsemanship, which have 
been highly and universally commended 
by the press at home and abroad. He con- 
tributes largely to periodical literature. 
He has delivered a number of military lec- 
tures at the Lowell Institute, Harvard Col- 
lege, and elsewhere, and for some years 
has been engaged on a history of the art 
of war, covering a series of volumes, of 
which two, bringing the subject down to 
the end of Hannibal's career, are now in 
the press. 

Col. Dodge is a member, and has been 
one of the officers, of the Military Order 
of the Loyal Legion. He belongs to the 
St. Botolph and Country clubs, and was 
president of the Papyrus Club for 1887. 

He has recently purchased the old Crafts 
estate on the southern limits of Brookline, 
and has transformed it into a homestead 
which is aptly described by its name, " The 
Rocks." This definitely connects him with 
that town. 

Circumstances have enabled Mr. Dodge 
to travel much. He has spent more than 
a dozen years in Europe, and has crossed 
the ocean many times. 

He married, in 1865, Miss Neil, a grand- 
niece of Chief Justice John Marshall He 
has three children living. A literary tend- 
enc}' seems to run in the family ; his 
father was a litterateur known to every peri- 
odical in the country ; his son, a senior at 
Cambridge, was editor-in-chief of tlie 
" Harvard Monthly." 

Despite his loss of a leg. Col. Dodge is 
so active as to make all his friends forget 
that he is disabled, and promises to play 
the part of a veteran of our civil war for 
many years. As he was one of the 
youngest officers in service, he is still in 
the prime of life. He has taken up mili- 
tary history and criticism as his favorite 
pursuit, and will probably add materially 
to the e.visting literature of this topic. 

DOHERTY, PHILIP J., son of Philip 
and Ellen (Munnegle) Doherty, was born 
in Charlestown, Middlesex county, Janu- 
ary 27, 1856. 

He received his school training in the 
common .schools and high school of Charles- 
town ; was three years in the Boston \Jm- 
versity law school, from which he was 



graduated LL. B. in the class of 1876 ; was 
admitted to the bar, June 4, 1877, and has 
since been engaged in the practice of law 
in Boston, as member of the law firm of 
Doherty & Sibley. 

Mr. Doherty was married in Charles- 
town, August 16, 1878, to Catherine A., 
daughter of John and Catherine (Doyle) 
Butler. Of this union are four children : 
Philip, Mary, Eleanor, and Alice Doherty. 

In 1883 Mr. Doherty was elected mem- 
ber of the House of Representatives, and 
served three years ; was a member of the 
committees on drainage, rules, judiciary, 
joint special committee on investigation of 
state house expenditures, and joint special 
conmiittee on the revision of the judicial 
system. In 1886 he was Democratic can- 
didate for speaker of the House. In 1887 
he was elected on a non-partisan platform 
by a coalition of the Republicans and Dem- 
ocrats as a member of the Boston board of 
aldermen. 

He was elected in 1888 a delegate to 
the national Democratic convention at St. 
Louis. He took a prominent part in the 
citizens' movement in Boston in 1888, and 
made the speech at the citizens' convention, 
placing Hon. Thomas N. Hart in nomina- 
tion for mayor of Boston. During 1889 he 
was chosen a member of the Boston water 
board for the term expiring in 1891. 

DOLBEAR, Amos Emerson, son of 

Samuel and Eliza (Godfrey) Dolbear, was 
born in Norwich, New London county. 
Conn., November 10, 1837. 

He attended the public schools at New- 
port, R. I., till he was ten years of age, 
after which his school education consisted 
of a few weeks each year until he reached 
the age of sixteen. He then entered a 
machine shop in Worcester, where he 
worked for two years. He next went into 
southwest Missouri, where he taught school 
for four years. 

In 1859 he returned to Massachusetts 
and resumed work in a machine shop in 
Taunton, where he finished his trade. 
Later on he obtained a situation in the 
armory at Springfield. While there he was 
drafted for the LTnion army, but was un- 
able to pass the medical examination. His 
health failing him, he was obliged to give 
up his work. In the meantime he had fitted 
himself for college, and in 1863 entered the 
Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he 
was graduated in the class of 1866. He then 
took a post-graduate course at Ann Arbor, 
Michigan, and received the degrees A. M. 
and M. E. In 18S3 he was made a doctor 
of philosophy by Michigan University. 



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DONNELLY. 



He was appointed assistant professor 
of natural history in Kentucky University, 
Lexington, where he remained one year. 
He then accepted the chair of natural 
science at Bethany College, West Virginia. 
Here he remained six years, during which 
he showed his inventive powers in a marked 
degree. He received his present appoint- 
ment, that of professor of physics and 
astronomy at Tufts College, in 1874. 

He is the author of several standard 
scientific works — a Hand-book of Chemical 
Analysis, a Treatise on Projection, a Man- 
ual of Experiments in Physics, Chemistry 
and Natural History, with the Porte Lu- 
miere and Magic Lantern, and one on the 
telephone. 

He has published several pamphlets on 
the speaking telephone, and has been an 
active contributor to scientific journals. 
He claims to have invented the speaking 
telephone which is now in general use. He 
made and exhibited in October, 1876, a 
telephone operated by a permanent magnet. 
Li 1879 he invented the static telephone, 
entirely different in principle from the 
earlier one. 

He is also the inventor of a system of 
telephony and telegraphy without wires, 
and a new system of incandescent lighting. 

Professor Dolbear is a fellow of the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 
and of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science. He received a 
silver medal for his inventions and contri- 
butions to science at the Paris Exhibition, 
and a gold medal at the Crystal Palace 
Exhibition at London, in 1882. 

He was one of the examiners of the 
Electrical Exhibition, Philadelphia, and is 
everywhere recognized as an electrical 
expert. 

Prof. Dolbear was married in 1869 to 
Alice, daughter of Phineas and Jeanette 
(Needham) Hood, of Milford, N. H. They 
have five children: Clinton, Katie, Mary, 
Samuel and Benjamin Dolbear. 

DONNELLY, CHARLES FRANCIS, son 
of Hugh and Margaret (Conway) Don- 
nelly, was born at Athlone, county Ros- 
common, Ireland, October 14, 1836, his 
parents emigrating to British America in 
1837, and thence to Rhode Island in 1848. 
On his paternal side his ancestry are of the 
old Irish septs of the North, and his moth- 
er's family are of Welsh-Irish stock, of the 
west of Ireland. 

Mr. Donnelly's early training was for 
the Catholic priesthood, but he found his 
avocation in the law, and commenced his 
studies in the office of Hon. A. A. Ranney, 



of Boston, in 1856 ; was graduated from 
Harvard University law school with the 
degree of LL. B., and was admitted to the 
Boston bar in 1858. He is the senior in 
membership of the Catholic members of 
the bar of New England, and became at 
an early age president of the oldest exist- 
ing Irish-American Society in that .sec- 
tion, namely, the Charitable Irish Society, 
founded at Boston, in 1737. 

In 1875 he was appointed a member of 
the state board of charities, taking the posi- 
tion from which the philanthropist, Dr. S. 
G. Howe, resigned, and he continues to be 
a member of that bod3^ For four years 
Mr. Donnelly was chairman of the board. 

He has always declined to be a candidate 
for any political office, devoting his time to 
the general practice of his profession, and 
to the work of public and private charities 

— although at times entering into political 
discussions with much interest. 

In 1883 the state board of health, luna- 
cy and charity had a long politico-legal 
correspondence with General B. F. Butler, 
commenced by the latter in his capacity as 
governor of the State. The letters on 
each side attracted public attention, and 
assisted in giving force and direction to 
the canvass against General Butler in that 
year. Mr. Donnelly was the author of the 
letters written in behalf of the state board. 

He distinguishetl himself before the Leg- 
islature as counsel for the Catholic body 
in 1888 and '89, in their remonstrance 
against the proposed legislation to oppose 
the Catholic view of the school question in 
the State. He has been also conspicuous as 
counsel in several leading civil cases, in- 
stituted against the archbishop and other 
Catholic ecclesiastics in Massachusetts, 
within the past twenty years, especially in 
the arguments showing the harmonious re- 
lation of Catholic ecclesiastical, or canon 
law with the spirit of American law' and 
American institutions. His able services 
were recognized by his being honored 
with the degree of LL. D., from the oldest 
Catholic seat of learning in the country 

— St. Mary's College, of Maryland. 
When the Legislature of 1884 referred 

the question of the treatment of inebriates 
to the state board of charities, to consider 
and report, Mr. Donnelly, as chairman, 
proposed and drafted a unique act, adopted 
by the Legislature of 18S5, subjecting 
dipsomaniacs to the same restraint and 
treatment as lunatics, and Massachusetts 
is the only state having such legal remedy 
for the offence of habitual drunkenness. In 
18S9 Mr. Donnelly had the satisfaction of 



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DONOVAN. 



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seeing the Legislature give further effect 
to the law, by authorizing the erection of 
a hospital for those coming under the pro- 
visions of the act, and the appointing of a 
board of trustees for the management of 
the hospital. 

DONOHOE, Michael T., the .son of 

Owen M. and Mar)- (Cassidy) Donohoe, 
was born at Lowell, Middlesex county, 
November 22, i'S3S. His paternal ances- 
tors came originally from County Cavan, 
L'eland, his father being one of the earli- 
est .settlers in Lowell. 

Michael T. Donohoe was educated at 
tlie public and high schools of Lowell and 
at Holy Cross College, Worcester. Upon 
leaving college in 1S55 he took a situation 
in the Merrimack Mills, where he remained 
until 1859, when he went to Manchester, 
N. H., to enter a clothing store. 

Upon the breaking out of the war in 
1 86 1, he enlisted in a company which 
afterwards became company C, 3d New 




MICHAEL T. DONOHOE. 

Hampshire regiment, of which he was 
elected captain. He took part in .Sher- 
man's e.\pedition to .South Carolina, in 
which he was honorably mentioned in 
general orders. 

On June 16, 1862, he returned home to 
New Hampshire, and with the aid of other 
■officers succeeded in raising a regiment 



for the service (loth regiment N. H. vol- 
unteers), of which he was appointed 
colonel, and with the regiment left the 
state for the seat of war, September 22, 
1862. They joined the 9th corps and 
served until March, 1863, participating in 
the tiattle of Fredericksburg. They were 
sent to the i8th corps, and while at Fort 
Harrison on September 29, 1864, Colonel 
Donohoe had a horse shot from under 
him, and later on the same day received a 
severe gunshot wound in the right hip, and 
was specially mentioned in general orders 
for gallant conduct in the field. Colonel 
Donohoe subsetjuently served in General 
Devens's division of the 24th corps, and 
during the last year of the war was brev- 
etted brigadier-general for gallant conduct 
in the field. 

At the close of the war General Dono- 
hoe entered the railroad service of the 
Concord and Boston & Lowell Railroads, 
subsequently changing to the Lake Shore 
& Bee Lines, after which he was appointed 
inspector of the post-office department, 
which post he held until appointed clerk 
of commissioners of public institutions at 
Boston, a position he still most acceptably 
fills. 

General Donohoe resides at Dorchester. 
He was married .\ugust 21, 1862, to Eliza- 
beth E., the daughter of John and Isabella 
(McCaffrey) Mc.-\nulty. Mr. McAnulty was 
also one of the earliest settlers of the town 
of Lowell. General Donohoe has five chil- 
dren : I-'rancis E., Maybelle, Adelaide, 
Cleorge J., and Elbe Donohoe. 

DONOVAN, JOHN J., son of Jeremiah 
and Catharine (Lawler) Donovan, was born 
July 28, 1843, in Yonkers, Westchester 
county, N. Y. 

The public schools of Lowell, where his 
family settled in 1846, gave him his early 
educational training. He was graduated 
from the Lowell high school at fifteen years 
of age. He was also graduated from the 
Farnsworth Mercantile Academy. 

Upon leaving school he entered the em- 
ploy of David Gove, Lowell, and was 
admitted as a partner upon reaching his 
majority. For a number of years he was 
interested in the manufacture of Manila 
paper. 

He constructed all the lines of the Atlan- 
tic Telegraph Company east of Boston, 
doing business in connection with the Bal- 
timore & Ohio Telegraph Company. He 
was the promoter of this company, and is 
at present its treasurer. 

Mr. Donovan was married in Lowell, 
May 6, 1869, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter 



DONOVAN. 



DORCHESTER. 



of Augustine and Sarah (Crowley) Seede. 
Of this union are five children : Katharine 
Seede, John Augustine, Sarah Elizabeth, 
Grace Dorothy, and Marianna Donovan. 

Mr. Donovan has held many positions 
of honor and trust ; has been member of 
board of overseers of the poor ; was elected 
as a Democratic mayor of Lowell in 1882, 




JOHN J DONOVAN. 

and was re-elected the next year, refusing 
a re-nomination at the expiration of his 
term. In 1SS6 he was nominated for con- 
gressional honors in the 8th congressional 
district, in which election the usual Repub- 
lican majority was reduced to a very nar- 
row margin. He was president of the 
Democratic state convention in 1888, and 
his address upon that occasion was strong, 
able and eloquent. It confirmed his repu- 
tation for oratorical ability, and several 
thousand co|)ies of the address were pub- 
lished and distributed in the New England 
.States. The oration at the Washington 
centennial in Huntington Hall, Lowell, and 
his memorial address before the G. A. R. 
posts the present year, were received with 
especial favor. 

Although engaged in active business, he 
still finds time to indulge his literary tastes, 
and has been frequently heard upon the 
lecture platform. Some of his lectures 
have been of exceptional merit, especially 



his "Orators and Oratorical Culture,"" 
" Life and Times of Robert Emmett," and 
"Germany; Its Growth and Influence." 

Mr. Donovan applies himself energetic- 
ally to every movement that promises tO' 
advance the interests of the people who 
have honored him in the past, and who 
appreciate his worth to-day. 

DORCHESTER, Daniel, .son of Rev. 
Daniel and .Mary (( >tis) Dorchester, was 
born in Duxbury, Plymouth county, March 

1 1, 1827. 

He received his educational training 
from the common schools, Norwich Acad- 
emy, and the Wesleyan University, Middle- 
town, Conn., from which institution he re- 
ceived the degrees of A. M. and D. D. 

He has given his life to the work of the 
church and kindred elevating and educa- 
ting institutions. He entered the minis- 
try of the Methodist Episcopal church, of 
which his father was an honored clergyman 
for many years. He has been conspicuous 
in the temperance reform, and in statistical 
stutlies, particularly in the ecclesiastical 
and reformatory departments of inquiry. 
He is an acknowledged authority, not only 
in religious statistics, but the religious his- 
tory of the United States, to which he has 
devoted great attention. His " Christian- 
ity in the United States " has been adopted 
as a text-book for young students for the 
ministry, and his " Problem of Religious 
Progress " has given him a world-wide 
fame. 

He was married, first in Dudley, .April 

12, 1850, to Mary P., daughter of Henry 
and Matilda Davis of Dudley. His second 
marriage occurred October 12, 1875, with 
Marial A., daughter of Matthew and 
Diantha Whipple, of Charlestown, N. H.' 
Of the first marriage were seven children : 
Daniel, Jr. (professor in Boston Univer- 
sity), Henry Davis (deceased), Sarah C. 
(Woods), Ernest D., Liverus H. (clergy- 
man at Springfield), Wesley (deceased), 
and Chester O. Dorchester. 

In 1854 he was elected to the Connecti- 
cut state Senate from the 14th senatorial 
district. In 1854 and '55 he was chairman 
of the commission appointed by the Con- 
necticut Legislature to investigate the con- 
dition and improvability of idiots. In 1882 
he was elected to the Massachusetts Legis- 
lature from the town of Natick. 

He has written and spoken much upon po- 
litico-religious and reformatory questions. 
He is widely known as a man of ideas and 
opinions which he has evolved, and for 
which he stands, in a progressive, conserva- 
tive way. 



DOTEN. 



DOTEN. 



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Entering the ministry in 1S47, he has 
never wavered in his allegiance to his 
chosen vocation. He has filled some of 
the most important appointments in the 
various conferences in which he has 
labored, and the leading cities of the State 
have been favored with his ministration. 
He served three terms of four years 
each as presiding elder in the Worcester, 
North Boston and Lynn districts ; has 
been active in the advanced temperance 
and prohibition movements, holding the 
position of chairman of the Massachu- 
setts constitutional prohibitory amendment 
committee, and president of the national 
league for the suppression of the liquor 
traffic. 

Besides his numerous review and news- 
paper articles, he is the author of "Con- 
cessions of Liberalists to Orthodoxy," 
" Problem of Religious Progress," " The 
Liijuor Problem in All Ages," "The Why 
of Methodism," "Christianity in the Uni- 
ted States, from the First Settlement down 
to the Present Time," " Romanism versus 
the Public School System," " History of the 
First M. E. Church in Lowell," " Giving 
and Worship," " Latest Drink Sophistries 
versus Total Abstinence," " Non-partisan- 
ship in Temperance Effort," and " The In- 
dictment of the Drink Traffic." 

The latest tribute to the recognized 
ability and moral standing of Dr. Dor- 
chester is his recent unsolicited appoint- 
ment, by President Harrison, as superin- 
tendent of Indian schools. This is a very 
important office, affecting the education of 
all the uncivilized tribes. 

DOTEN, Charles Carroll, son of 

Samuel and Rebecca (Bradford) Doten, 
was born in Plymouth, Plymouth county, 
April 9, 1833, and is a descendant in 
the seventh generation on his mother's 
side from William Bradford, the Pilgrim 
governor of Plymouth Colony. 

His early education was obtained in the 
common schools and high school of his 
native town. He gave his special atten- 
tion to the higher mathematics, and studied 
surveying, becoming in time a practical 
engineer. At this profession he worked 
for a time with Swan & Straw, Lowell, and 
afterwards in Plymouth. 

In 1857 he was engaged for a season 
surveying in Minnesota. In 1858 he took 
charge as manager of the telegraph office, 
Plymouth, in connection with a book store, 
being thus engaged for fourteen years. In 
April, 1872, he sold out this business and 
formed a partnership with W. W. Avery, 
in the job printing and publishing business. 



issuing the "Old Colony Sentinel" news- 
paper. In July of the same year the firm 
purchased the "Old Colony Memorial" 
ne\vs]5aper, consolidating the " Sentinel " 
with it, and since that time he has held the 
position of editor and business manager of 
the " Memorial." 

Mr. Doten was married in Boston, June 
ig, i860, to Mary A., daughter of Thomas 
B. and Bethiah (Churchill) Bartlett. Of 
this union were si.x children : Charles 
Monroe, Mary Carroll (deceased). May 
Carroll (deceased), Lizzie Francis, Mabel 
Willard and Alfred Russell Doten. 

Mr. Doten represented his town in the 
General Court two years, 1865 and '66, but 
has otherwise declined all civic and politi- 
cal honors, preferring to give attention to 
his private business. 

He is a prominent Mason and Odd Fel- 
low, and a member of other fraternal and 
benevolent societies, in all of which he 
has been honored by offices of trust. He 
is a trustee of the Plymouth Five Cents 
Savings Bank and of the Pilgrim Society, 
and is also active in literary and historical 
associations. 

Mr. Doten was commanding the Standish 
Guards, 3d regiment, Massachusetts volun- 
teer militia, as ist lieutenant at the break- 
ing out of the rebellion. He had been on 
the rolls for nine years previous to this 
time. In response to Governor Andrew's 
"Order No. 4," issued in January, 1861, 
his company was put in condition and 
reported ready for immediate duty in ca.se 
of war. As telegraph manager, he received 
the first news of the call for troops April 
15, 1861, and instantly declared his inten- 
tion "to go if not another man left Plym- 
outh," and at three o'clock A. M., April 
1 6th, having received orders to move, he 
reported his command in Boston the same 
morning. He was made captain of the 
company and served with the 3d regi- 
ment, "Minute Men of 1861," during the 
three months' campaign at Fortress Mon- 
roe and Hampton, Va., and took part in 
the destruction of Norfolk navy-yard the 
night of April 20, 1861. His company was 
the first that went to the war from Plym- 
outh, promptly responding, without ques- 
tion, and from motives of patriotism alone. 
He afterwards served as captain in the 38th 
Massachusetts regiment in Louisiana, and 
received commendation from superior offi- 
cers " for courage and coolness in action 
and care for the welfare of the men under 
his command." 

Captain Doten is a member of Colling- 
wood Post 76, (;. A. R., of Plymouth. 



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DOUGLAS. 



DOWSE. 



DOUGLAS, Norman B., son of Edwin 
B. and Naomi ('rupper) Douglas, was born 
at Middlebury, Addison county, Vt., August 
I, 1844. 

He received his early education in the 
common schools of Middlebury until the 
age of eleven, when he removed to Shore- 
ham, Vt. He there attended the common 
school during the winter sessions until fif- 
teen years of age. He subsequently at- 
tended Newton Academy, Shoreham, six 
terms, and Brandon Seminary two terms. 

Upon leaving school he assisted his 
father on his farm until 1878, when he pur- 
chased the farm he now occupies at Sher- 
born. Besides being much interested in 
stock raising and butter making on his 
farm, Mr. Douglas is president of the 
Patrons' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 
a position he has held since its organiza- 
tion, April, 1887. 

In August, 1862, he enlisted as private 
in company D, 14th ^'erm^)nt infantry 
volunteers ; served in the army of the 
Potomac ; took part in the Gettysburg 
campaign in 1863 ; and was mustered out 
of service in August, 1863. 

He is a member of Post 63, G. A. R., 
South Framingham, also of Union Lodge, 
F. & A. M., Middlebury, Vt. ; Potter 
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Middlebury, 
and of Natick Commandery, K. T., Natick. 

He has been master of Sherborn Grange, 
P. of H., three year.s ; master of Middlesex 
and Norfolk Union Grange three years ; 
member of the executive committee of 
Massachusetts State (irange five years. He 
is now president of Middlesex South .•Agri- 
cultural Society ; overseer of Massachu- 
setts State Grange ; member of the board 
of selectmen and board of assessors of the 
town of Sherborn. 

Mr. Douglas has been twice married — 
first at Brandon, Vt., November 4, 1867, 
to Annah D., daughter of Dr. Charles and 
Mary (Mansl'ield) Backus, who died in 
1869. His second marriage was April 26, 
1876, with Mrs. Laura Cook Barnes, 
daughter of Capron C. and Elizabeth 
(Houghton) Cook, of West Newton. He 
has no children. 

DOWSE, Edmund, son of Benjamin 
and Thankful (Chamberlain) Dowse, was 
born in Sherborn, Middlesex county, Sep- 
tember 17, 1813. 

He attended the schools of his native 
town, and fitted for college at the old 
Wrentham Academy. In 1836 he was 
graduated from Amherst College. His 
alma mater has since conferred upon him 
the degree of D. D. 



Dr. Dowse studied theology with the 
late Dr. Jacob Ide. of Medway, and was 
ordained and settled as pastor of the 
Pilgrim Society, the evangelical Congre- 
gational church of his native town, Octo- 
ber 10, 1838, where, for fifty years, he has 
continued his ministry. 

The Dowse family settled in Sherborn 
in 1775, and at the date of Mr. Dowse's 
ordination his father and grandfather were 
members of his congregation. The familv 
originally came from Broughton, England, 
and "Edmund" has long been a family 
name. Sir Edmund Dowse, living in 1625, 
left in the latter town a memorial in the 




EDMUND DOWSE. 

form of a charity-school called " Dowse's 
Charity." Dr. Dowse has always taken an 
active interest in educational matters, hav- 
ing served fifty years as a member of the 
school committee of Sherborn. 

Soon after his settlement. Dr. Dowse 
was married to Elizabeth R. Leland, who 
died in 1842. His second wife, Elizabeth 
liowditch, was a lady of rare ability, who 
dietl January 12, 1864, and was the mother 
of four children : Sarah, Priscilla, Deb- 
orah P. ( .Mrs. Lowell Coolidge), and Wil- 
liam Bradford Homer Dowse. The last 
two only are living. Elizabeth R. L., by 
his first wife, died in 1876, after a life 
full of good works. In the latter part 



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of 1865 Dr. Dowse married Caroline 
Davis. 

Dr. Dowse served as chaplain in the 
Christian Commission in the war of the 
rebellion, with the army of the Cumber- 
land. He was a member of the state 
Senate for 1869 and '70, and has for 
ten consecutive years served as chaplain 
of that honorable body. 

Dr. Dowse is eminently a man answer- 
ing Goldsmith's description of a country 
clergyman. He is certainly one of the 
survivors of that old school of clergy to 
whom James Russell Lowell refers as liv- 
ing lessons of piety, industry, frugalitv, 
and temperance, and who, with the magis- 
trates, were a recognized aristocracy. 

DRAPER, James Sumner, eldest son 

of Deacon James and Elizabeth (Sumner) 
Draper, was born in Wayland (then East 
Sudbury), Middlesex county, August 18, 
181 1, where he has since resided. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in the public schools, supplemented 
by a short attendance in academies in 
Marlborough and Concord. His chief 
occupation has been farming, with the 
accompanying employment of land sur- 
veying ; but his tastes have led him to 
read quite extensively in the fields of 
science, literature, theology and religion. 

His individuality is clearly marked, and 
he may be safely classed in the list of re- 
formers. At seventeen he was the only 
absolute teetotaler among his companions. 
When theological questions became sharply 
defined, he was found in the ranks of 
liberal Unitarians. 

In 1833 he espoused the cause of anti- 
slavery, and continued in his adherence 
thereto until the emancipation. About the 
same time he became a staunch supporter 
of female suffrage, and is still firm in the 
ranks. From 1835 to '50 his energies were 
especially devoted to the moral and religi- 
ous culture of the young, through temper- 
ance organizations and the Sunday-school, 
and to their general education in the com- 
mon schools. 

During the war period he was a zealous 
Unionist, although he had previously been 
opposed, on principle, to the use of armed 
force in the settlement of disputed C|ues- 
tions. Two of his sons were among those 
who volunteered in 1862 for three years' 
service. .\t the close of the war lie ob- 
tained material for a sketch of each Wayland 
soldier's army life, as a memorial of their 
services to the country, making a quarto 
volume of 452 pp., published by the town. 
He has aimed in his political duties to be 



patriotic rather than partisan, from his first 
electoral vote for Henry Clay m 1832 to 
his last for Harrison in 1888. In 1846 he 
joined the Free Soil party, and ten years 
later became a member of the Republican 
organization. He has held a justice's 
commission since 1857. 

Largely through his efforts came the 
establishment, in 1848, of the Wayland 
public library (the first in the State). For 
twenty years he officiated as librarian, and 
greatly developed its usefulness. In local 
improvements he has taken a conspicuous 
part, as the shade trees bordering some of 
the streets of his native town will long 
bear witness. 

The inception of the Massachusetts 
Central Railroad was the result of a letter 
from his pen to a gentleman in Barre, in 
1867, and the persistency of his efforts 
was seen in procuring its charter and 
securing stock subscriptions. He gave to 
this enterprise, as director, twelve years 
of the best working period of his life, 
during ten of which he was clerk of the 
board. 

For nearly thirty-nine years he has made 
careful and extensive investigations into 
the merits of Spiritualism, and has satis- 
fied himself of the truth of its most im- 
portant claims, with an increased confi- 
dence of its being a power destined to 
take high rank in the evolution of human 
destiny. He attributes whatever success 
in life he has attained to the e.xcellent 
influences of his paternal home. 

Mr. Draper was married in his native 
town, .\ugust 1 8, 1834, to Emeline A., 
daughter of Nathaniel and Miliscent (Rice) 
Reeves. Their children are : James .Aus- 
tin, Charles Herbert, Frank Winthrop, F^lla 
Elizabeth and Wallace Sherwin Draper. 

DRAPER, William Franklin, son of 

George and Hannah E. (Thwing) Draper, 
was born in Lowell, Middlesex county, 
April 9, 1842. 

He received his early education in the 
common schools of his native city, sup- 
plementing their advantages with a year or 
two of academic training. At the age of 
sixteen he went to work in a cotton mill, 
making a study of the processes of the 
manufacture of cotton goods. 

At nineteen years of age he enlisted as a 
private in company B, 25th regiment Mas- 
sachusetts volunteers, a company recruited 
in .Milford. He was promoted through the 
various grades to that of ist lieutenant 
and when the 36th regiment was formed in 
^Vorcester, he was commissioned captain of 
compan\- F. 



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DUBUQUE. 



His faithful and gallant service led to 
his promotion to major and lieutenant- 
colonel, and while holding the latter rank, 
he commanded a brigade in the army of 
the Potomac. He was severely wounded 
in one of the battles of the Wilderness, so 
severely, indeed, that he was given up for 
dead, but after three months at home, he re- 
turned to the front, and joined his regiment 
a short time before the war closed. He was 
brevet-brigadier-general when mustered 
out. Returning from the front, he joined 
his father in business, under the firm name 
of (ieorge ])raper iS; Sons. The same title 
is still retained by the firm, although the 
subject of our sketch is senior member. 

General Draper is a well-known manu- 
facturer, being president, treasurer, or di- 
rector of more than twenty different com- 
panies, viz. : president of the Milford & 
Woonsocket Railroad, Hopkinton Railroad, 
Franklin Cotton Manufacturing Company, 
Hopedale Elastic Fabric Company, Hope- 
dale Machine Screw Company, Dutcher 




WILLIAM F. DRAPER. 

Temple Coniiiany, Thomson Electric Weld- 
ing Company (Lynn) ; treasurer of the 
Hopedale Machine Company ; director of 
the Milford National Bank, Barnaby Manu- 
facturing Company (Fall River), Grinnell 
Manufacturing Company (New Bedford), 
Henderson Cotton ^lills (Kentucky), Shaw 



Stocking Company (Lowell), Glasgo Yarn 
Mills (Norwich, Conn.), Glasgo Thread 
Company (Worcester), Ferracute Machine 
Company (Bridgeton, N. J.), Milford Water 
Company, Milford Electric Light Com- 
pany, Milford Shoe Factory, Sole Laying 
Machine Company (Boston), Sawyer Spin- 
dle Company (Boston), American Mutual 
Liability Insurance Company (Boston), 
Merchants' and Farmers' iVIutual Fire In- 
surance Company (Worcester), Worcester 
Manufacturers' Mutual Fire Insurance 
Company, and is trustee of the Milford 
Savings Bank. 

(General Draper was a delegate to the 
national Republican convention which 
nominated President Hayes ; a member of 
Governor Long's staff, and presidential 
elector-at-Iarge on the Republican ticket, 
1888. His church connections are with the 
Hopedale parish (Unitarian), of which he 
was for many years treasurer and trustee. 

He is a member of the Union and Al- 
gonquin clubs, Boston ; American Club, 
London ; Hope Club, Providence, R. I. ; 
Springfield Club ; Worcester Club ; Massa- 
chusetts Club, Boston ; Eastern Yacht 
Club ; Quidnunc Clu'o, Milford ; Commer- 
cial Club, Fall River. He is a Sir Knight 
in Milford Commandery, and a member of 
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. 

General Draper was married in Hope- 
dale, Mass. (his present residence), Sep- 
tember 15, 1862, to Lydia D. W., daughter 
of David and Charlotte (Austin) Joy, who 
died February 18, 1884. Of this union are 
five children : William F., Cieorge Otis, 
Edith, Arthur J., and Clare Draper. 

DUBUQUE, Hugo ADELARD, son of 
Moise and Esther (Mathieu) I )ubuque, was 
born in Canada, November 3, 1S54. 

He obtained his early education in the 
common schools and college at St. 
Hyacinth, P. Q., and was graduated from 
the latter in the class of i869-'7o. 

He came to Troy, N. Y., in 1870 ; 
worked as clerk in a boot and shoe store 
for a few months ; then came to Fall 
River in the summer of 1870, working as 
clerk in a grocery and drug store until 
June, 1874. 

During these years he had saved from 
his earnings sufficient to enable him to 
prosecute the studies preparatory to enter- 
ing upon his chosen profession. He entered 
Boston University law school, and having 
passed the full course, was graduated in 
the class of 1877, with the degree of LL. B. 

He was admitted to the bar in Novem- 
ber of that year, and began the practice of 
law in Fall River, where he is still in full 



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practice, and has associated with liim 
Edward Hisjijinson, the present city solici- 
tor, under the firm name of ])ubuque & 
Higginson. 

Mr. Dubucine was married in Fall River, 
May 15, 1881, to Annie M., daughter of 




HUGO A. DUBUQUE. 

William and Abbie (Maley) Coughlin. Of 
this union are twin daughters: Pauline and 
Helene Dubuque. 

Mr. Dubutiue is honorary president of a 
literary society called Cercle Sa/aberry, and 
a benevolent society called the Ligue des 
Patriotes ; has lectured on the subjects of 
naturalization and education before French 
Canadians in New England for several 
years. He has spoken during political 
campaigns throughout the Eastern States 
since 1884. In politics Mr. Dubuque is a 
staunch Republican. He was elected 
member of the Fall River school board in 
1883 ; served for three years, and was re- 
elected for a three years' term in 1886. He 
was a member of the Legislature of 1889, 
serving on the judiciary committee, and 
taking a leading part in every debate of 
importance. He is a ready speaker in 
French or English. He is secretary of 
the Fall River Hospital ; was recommended 
for consul-general at Montreal by the full 
congressional delegation of Massachusetts, 
Rhode Island and New Hamj-jshire. 



He has written considerably on histori- 
cal, political and social questions ; is the 
author of " Historical Sketch of French 
Canadians" in the "History of Bristol 
County," and of the sketch on the same 
subject in French, contained in the " Guide 
Caiiadien-Francaist\" of Fall River (1888). 
He has contributed many articles to 
French Canadian papers of the United 
States. 

Mr. Dubuque is the leading representa- 
tive of the French Canadian population in 
New England : their generally acknowl- 
edged counselor and authority, honored 
and respected by them as well as by his 
associates in the country of his adoption. 

The founder of the city of Dubuque, 
Iowa, was his grand-uncle. His father, 
Moise Dubuque, was among the early ex- 
plorers and pioneers of the great West, 
having settled in California and Montana 
from 1840 to 1850. His father died at St. 
Louis, Mo., on his return from a trip to 
Montana, about 1865. 

DUDLEY, Levi Edwin, son of John 
(iilman and Mary Clark (Townsend) Dud- 
ley, was born in North Troy, Orleans 
count)', Vt., October 18, 1842. 

He was educated in the public schools 
of his native place, was quick and studi- 
ous, making good use of the limited ad- 
vantages in his reach. He worked with 
his father on the farm till 1857, when he 
went to reside with his maternal grand- 
father, Samuel Simonds Townsend, in Lynn, 
where he attended the grammar school for 
some months. He was then placed in a 
drug store to learn the business, and re- 
mained until i860, when he accepted a 
similar position in Boston, remaining until 
the breaking out of the war in 1861. He 
then enlisted in the 13th regiment, Massa- 
chusetts volunteers, and served until the 
close of the war in the army of the 
Potomac. He gained the rank of hospital- 
steward in the regular army. His further 
promotion was prevented by ill health, 
resulting from typhoid fever, contracted 
in the service. During the last year of 
the war he was the commissary-steward 
of Lincoln General Hospital, Washington, 
D. C. 

\X the close of the war Mr. Dudley was 
honorably discharged from the army, antl 
appointed a clerk in the internal revenue 
bureau of the treasury department. .■Miout 
this time he was also chosen president of 
an organization of e.x-union soldiers and 
sailors. 

In 1866, when the contest between 
President Johnson and Congress became 



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DUDLEY. 



very heated, some soldiers who were hi 
sympathy with the president's poHcy caUed 
a convention of ex-union soldiers and 
sailors who favored Mr. Johnson, to meet 
at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Dudley read the 
call, and then arranged for a convention 
of the veterans who favored the policy of 
Congress, to meet in Pittsburgh, Pa. This 
last was unanimously approved by the 
soldiers' union. It resulted in congratu- 
latory epistles pouring in from every sec- 
tion of the country, and his unanimous 
call to the chair in that enormous gather- 
ing of the country's defenders, to which 
he was escorted by General Benjamin F. 
Butler and General J. F. Farnsworth of 
Illinois. His popularity at this meeting 
was in no small degree due to the fact 
that it had been suggested to him by the 
secretary of the treasury, Hon. Hugh Mc- 
Culloch, that if he refrained from attend- 
ing the convention he would continue to 
hold his position in the treasury depart- 
ment. He resigned his position, and went. 

Returning to Washington, Mr. Dudley 
entered the employment of the " Great 
Republic," then published by Hon. G. F. 
Edmunds. He was active in forming equal 
suffrage leagues, an active worker in the 
organization of the G. A. R.; was secre- 
tary of the ist national encampment, and 
there elected adjutant-general, but de- 
clined the office in favor of another. He 
was the first commander of the department 
of the Potomac, G. A. R., and organized 
posts and departments in all the states east 
of the Alleghanies. 

From 1867 to '71 he was engaged in 
party work with the Republican congres- 
sional committee, on the " Richmond State 
Journal," and in the reconstruction cam- 
paign in Virginia. He was military sec- 
retary and aide-de-camp to the governor 
of Virginia with the rank of colonel. 

While in Richmond he was admitted to 
the bar as attorney and counselor-at-law, 
and to the bar of the supreme court of 
the United States in 1889. In 1871 he 
removed to New York City, and was for a 
time traveling salesman for a crockery 
house. He took ])art in the Grant cam- 
paign of 1872, and in the fall of that year 
was appointed superintendent of Indian 
affairs for the territory of New Me.xico. 
He remained in this office until it was 
abolished in 1874. He was afterwards 
special commissioner of Indian affairs, and 
later on, clerk in the post-office department 
in Washington. 

In 1877 Colonel Dudley returned to his 
former home, in Boston, and was soon 



made superintendent of the Lamina Wood 
Company. In 1SS2 he was elected to the 
secretaryship of the Law and Order League 
of Massachusetts, which position he still 
holds. He is also secretary of the National 
Law and Order League. In 1884 he 
founded a weekly paper — the "Law and 
Order" — and edited it himself for two 
years. 

He is still a frequent contributor to 
magazines and the general press, on the 
law and order movement, the temperance 
question, the Indian problem, and social 
and economic questions. 

Colonel Dudley is a lineal descendant 
in the seventh generation from the famous 
Governor Thomas Dudley, who had the 
somewhat remarkable honor of being 
called upon to serve the Commonwealth 
under the first charter, as deputy-governor 
or governor eighteen years, he being the 
nominee at eight different elections. 

DUDLEY, Lewis Joel, was born in 
Guilford, New Haven county. Conn., No- 
vember II, 1815. He is the son of Joel 
and Harriet (Griswold) Dudley. He was 
brought up on a farm remote from the 
centre of the town, and put to work there- 
on at a very early age, attending the dis- 
trict school only in winter. 

He began the preparation for college at 
the Guilford Academy at the age of seven- 
teen ; continued the same at the academy of 
Worthington Village in Berlin, Conn., and 
entered Yale College at the age of nineteen. 

After graduation he taught the Lewis 
Academy in Southington, Conn., for one 
year, the Brainard Academy at Haddam, 
Coiln., the next year, and in 1840 became 
tutor at Yale. 

Meanwhile he attended Dr. Taylor's 
lectures on theology, moral government, 
and mental philosophy, in repeated courses. 
Leaving the tutorship in 1846, he spent the 
next year in the Yale law school, and hav- 
ing previously attended the lectures, re- 
ceived the degree of LL. B., in 1847. He 
passed the following year in the law office 
of Hungerford & Cone at Hartford, and 
was admitted to the bar in 1848. 

In 1S49, at the suggestion of a high offi- 
cial at Yale, he opened a classical school 
at Northampton, Mass., to prepare pupils 
for college. This school was a success, and 
continued to flourish fourteen years, having 
pupils from almost every state in the Union. 
It was suspended in 1862 for reasons at- 
tributable to the then raging civil war. 

Mr. Dudley devoted his energies to the 
enlistment of the Northampton quota of 
soldiers, and to their comfort in the field. 



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He was sent to the state Senate in 1864, 
and made a member of the state valuation 
committee of the same year ; was a mem- 
ber of the House of Representatives in 
1865, '66, '67, and '73. In the Legislature 
of 1867 he was active in procuring a charter 
for the Clarke Institution for Deaf Mutes 
in Northampton, and has ever since been 
largely interested in the management of 
its affairs under the corporation. He is 
president of the institution, and chairman 
of the school committee. 

He devoted much time and outlay in se- 
curing direct railroad communication be- 
tween Northampton and Boston by means 
of the Massachusetts Central Railroad, of 
which he was for thirteen years a director. 

He married. May 7, 185 i, Theresa Hunt 
Bates of Northampton, third daughter of 
the late Hon. Isaac C. Bates — colleague 
with Daniel Webster in the United States 
Senate. They have had two children : 
Theresa Bates, born in 1852, who died in 
1853, and Etta Theresa Bates, born March 
20, 1S54. The latter is the first case in 
the country of a person congenitally deaf, 
achieving articulation and lip-reading so 
successfully as to mingle freely in society, 
and to experience little ditificulty in com- 
municating with the hearing and speaking 
world. 

DUDLEY, Samuel F., son of Aaron 
and Sophia (Frail) Dudley, was born in 
Leverett, Franklin county, October 31, 
1812. 

His educational advantages were very 
meagre. He attended school but two 
months during the year, and that in the 
winter season. He had also to walk a 
distance of two and a half miles to the 
school-house, but nevertheless attended in 
that manner until he was seventeen years 
old. He then began to work for a farmer 
by the month, and continued in that em- 
ployment until he reached his majority, 
when he commenced business upon his 
own account. 

He purchased a .small farm in Leverett, 
and also engaged to some extent in lum- 
bering. In early days he ran his lumber 
down the Connecticut River in rafts. He 
subsequently sold his farm and purchased 
one in Shutesbury, adjoining Leverett, 
where he has since resided, engaged in the 
same business. 

He has been largely identified with the 
best interests of the town and county. In 
1844 he served in the Legislature and was 
re-elected in 1852. He was a member of 
the board of selectmen nine years in suc- 
cession, and has also served in that capac- 



ity at various other times. He has been 
special county commissioner one term, and 
starting as a corporal in the volunteer 
militia, he worked his way up through all 
the intermediate grades ; he served as lieu- 
tenant-colonel seven years, and held a 
commission as colonel for three years. 
He is a Republican in politics, and takes an 
active interest in the political movements of 
the day, and also in educational subjects. 

Mr. Dudley married on the 8th of March, 
1838, Jemima, daughter of Richard Prouty, 
of Shutesbury, who died April 7, 1880. 
They have had eight children : George S., 
Richard A., Sophia J., Angle M., Muriel O., 
(deceased July 9, 1849), Rosella V., Alfred 
P., and Arthur B. Dudley. 

DUNBAR, JAMES ROBERT, son of 
Henry W. and Elizabeth (Richards) Dun- 
bar, was born in Pittsfield, Berkshire 
county, December 23, 1847. 

Fitting for college in the excellent pub- 
lic schools of Pittsfield, he entered \V\\- 
liams College, and was graduated therefrom 
in the class of 187 i. 

In 1874 he formed a partnership with 
Hon. M. B. Whitney, of Westfield, in the 
practice of law, having previously studied 
with him and having spent six months at 
the Harvard law school. 

In 1888 he was appointed by Governor 
Ames judge of the superior court. 

Judge Dunbar was married in Westfield, 
May 15, 1875, to Harriet P., daughter of 
CJeorge A. and Electa N. (Lincoln) Walton. 
Of this union were four children : Ralph 
W., Philip R., Ruth, and Helen L. Dunbar. 

Judge Dunbar served m the state Sen- 
ate, 1885 and '86. His residence is West 
Newton. He has not been u])on the bench 
long enough to enable an absolute esti- 
mate to be made of his judicial qualities, 
but his record thus far for clear judgment 
and conscientious courage is most gratify- 
ing. It was this last quality which drew 
special public attention to him, when, as 
chairman of the committee on resolutions 
in the Republican convention of 1887, after 
reading the resolutions prepared by the 
committee, he boldly stated to the unsym- 
pathetic gathering that he dissented from 
the plank in the platform recommending 
constitutional prohibition. 

DUNHAM, HENRY J., .son of Bradish 
and Candace (Cornell) Dunham, was born 
in .Savoy, Berkshire county, June 26, 1832, 
and received his early education in the 
common schools of his native town. 

LTpon leaving school he spent four years 
with Ingalls, Tyler & Co., woolen manu- 



igo 



DUNHAM. 



DURYEA. 



facturers, of North Adams, and then en- 
tered the office of Mr. Jonathan E. Field, 
at Stockbridge, to stud)^ law. He was 
subsequently taken into partnership by 
Mr. Field in the law practice and gen- 
eral insurance business. Mr. Dunham 
was admitted to the bar in i860, and 
upon the death of Mr. Field, in 1868, 
he came into the full practice alone, 
which he now carries on as attorney- 
at-law and real estate agent at Stock- 
bridge. 

He is president of the Stockbridge Li- 
brary Association and chairman of the 
board of control. He was United States 
assistant internal revenue assessor for sev- 
eral years ; chairman of the board of select- 
men of Stockbridge seventeen years ; mem- 
ber of the House of Representatives for 
187 1, '81 and '84. 

He was largely interested in the incor- 
poration of the Stockbridge Water Com- 




HENRY J DUNHAM 

pany in 1S62, and had the management of 
the company for twenty-five years, resign- 
ing in 1887. 

He was for some years treasurer of the 
Stockbridge Savings Bank ; has been its 
trustee since its organization, and is now 
its attorney. He is also carrying on the 
woolen mill at Glendale, as trustee of F. 
W. Adams. 



Mr. Dunham was married at New Leb- 
anon, N. Y., March 25, 1854, to Malvina, 
daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Gates, 
who died January 25, 1865. His second 
marriage at New Lebanon, N. Y., February 
15, 1866, was with Sarah F., daughter of 
John C. and Mary Bostwick. He'has five 
surviving children : Arthur H., a graduate 
of Williams ; Etta F., William W., Hattie 
E., and Carrie L. Dunham. His eldest 
daughter, Delsie M., died October 30, 
18S0, aged twenty-one years. 

He is president of the " South Berkshire 
Sportsmen Club," organized for the pro- 
tection of fish and game. 

In 1858, when the law was enacted 
authorizing the designation of certain jus- 
tices of the peace to try criminal cases, 
Mr. Dunham was designated anil appointed 
to the office, which he still holds under the 
title of trial justice. 

DURYEA, JOSEPH TUTHILL, the son 
of Abraham and Elizabeth Duryea, was 
born in Jamaica, Queens county. Long 
Lsland, N. Y., December 9, 1832. His 
ancestry was English and French (Hugue- 
not). His father's family came to New 
York with the Dutch, settling what now is 
the city of Brooklyn ; his mother's came 
to Saybrook, Conij., about i65o-'6o, re- 
moving subsequently to the Hamptons, 
Long Island. 

He prepared for college at Union Hall 
Academy. He entered Princeton College 
in 1852, and graduated in 1856. The same 
year he became a student at the theolog- 
ical seminary at Princeton, and the year 
following was appointed tutor in Greek, 
and afterwards in rhetoric. During the 
whole period of his course of education 
he had studied music, in theory and har- 
mony, used the violin, 'cello, and organ, 
and during his college life was the musical 
director and organist of the chapel. He 
was also the leader of a chorus and orches- 
tra in the town. 

AV'hile preparing for college, he decided 
to fit himself to enter upon the business 
of literary and musical publication, and 
accordingly acquired a practical knowl- 
edge of printing in all its departments. 
Three eminent men, friends of the family, 
each without knowing the intentions of the 
others, advised him to prepare for the ser- 
vice of a Christian minister. He was 
licensed to preach, in the autumn of 1858, 
by the presbytery of Nassau, L. I. In 
1859 he was ordained by the presbytery of 
Troy, and installed as pastor of the Sec- 
ond Presbyterian church, Troy. Here he 
remained three years. During this period 



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he was invited to prominent cliurclies in 
the East, West, and South, but preferred 
to remain with his people, until he became 
convinced that the climate was too severe 
for a constitution ahva\'s delicate. 

In April, 1862, he accepted a call to 
become one of the pastors of the CoUet;!- 
ate Reformed Dutch Church, New York, 
with Drs. DeWitt, \'ermilyea, and Cham- 



i»»"^' 




JOSEPH T. DURYEA. 

bers, as associates. Here he remained 
over five years. During this period he 
was engaged, with the co-operation of 
his people, in the work of the United 
States Christian Commission, the Amer- 
ican Union Commission, visiting the army, 
and addressing assemblies in the principal 
cities of the country, and in Union Square, 
New York, on behalf of the government 
and the army, and the sufferers by the war. 
After the war he assisted in the organiza- 
tion of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
ciation, the erection of the building on 
23d Street and the re-organization of the 
city mission, and the erection of its chapels 
in various parts of the city. 

He left New York for Brooklyn, on 
account of the opportunity offered by 
the growth of population for enterprise in 
churcii extension. He served as pastor of 
the Classon Avenue Presbyterian church 
about eleven years. During this period 



his congregation completed their commo- 
dious house . of worship, and assisted to 
found four other churches, all of which 
are now flourishing organizations. They 
also conducted a comprehensive mission 
work in various destitute neighborhoods of 
the city, and did pioneer service in meth- 
ods of temporal relief, now organized 
under the titles " The Fresh Air P"und " 
and "The Country ^^'eek." 

During these two periods of his ministry, 
he was invited to the presidency of two col- 
leges, and to a chair in a theological sem- 
inary, and to several churches in New York, 
Boston, San Francisco, and other cities. 
He had also acted as director in Princeton 
theological seminary, and the theological 
seminary in New Brunswick, N. J. 

In 1879 he received a call from the Cen- 
tral Congregational church, Boston, where 
he was installed April 17th, and of which 
church he is at present the pastor. 

In 1885 he was called to the presidency 
of Union University, at Schenectady, 
N. Y. For two years, in connection with 
his pastorate in Boston, he occupied the 
chair of biblical theology at Andover Sem- 
inary ; during one year the chair of polit- 
ical economy in Boston University, and 
for eight years was special lecturer in phil- 
osophy at Wellesley College. 

Among his publications are " The Pres- 
byterian Hymnal," " The Psalter for use 
in Worship," "Vesper Services," "Oration 
before the Alumni of Princeton," in com- 
memoration of the graduates who served 
in the army of the Union, " Oration before 
the Alumni of the Theological Seminary 
at Princeton," "Address before the Cabi- 
net, Senate, House of Representatives, 
Officers of the Army and Navy of the 
United States, on Washington's Birthday," 
during the period of the war, and several 
sermons. 

DUTTON, Benjamin Franklin, son 

of Ephraim and Phcsbe (Wilson) Dutton, 
was born in Hillsborough, Hillsborough 
county, N. H., October 14, 1S31. 

After leaving the public schools, he was 
sent to Norwich, Vt., where he had the 
advantages of a private class under the 
well known Captain Partridge. From this 
institution he was graduated in 1851. 

After graduating he went to Washington, 
D. C, and having established a reputation 
as teacher of penmanship and book-keep- 
ing, he opened a commercial college, in 
Ale.xandria, Va., and was successful from 
the start. 

His father's health failing, he was recalled 
to his native place, and was in business 



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DWIGHT. 



with his father, at Hillsborough Bridge, 
N. H., for seven years. He then came to 
Boston, in 1859, and went into the small 
ware and millinery jobbing business, in 
which he remained fifteen years, first in the 
firm of B. F. Button & Co., then Button & 
Wvman, then Brown & Button, and lastly, 
B.'F. Button & Co. 

While always successful, so far as his 
own financial management was concerned, 
he passed through many vicissitudes inci- 
dent to the trade during these years, but 
never weakening under pressure, and 
always preserving his commercial integrity 
and gaining in financial ability. No 



I 




BENJAMIN F. DUTTON. 

obstacle has ever presented itself, however 
insuperable in aspect, that he has not been 
able to overcome or circumvent by a 
change of financial tactics. For the last 
fifteen years Mr. Button has been asso- 
ciated as partner and financial inanager 
in the well-known house of Houghton & 
Button, Boston. This was one of the first 
" department " stores established in this 
country, and from a comparatively modest 
beginning has grown until it has assumed 
its present colossal proportions. 

Mr. Button was first married in Hills- 
borough, in 185 1, to Harriet L., daughter 
of Br. Elisha and Sophia (Kingsbury) 
Hatch. Of this union were three children : 



Ellen, Harry and Hattie Button. His 
second marriage was in Enfield, N. H., in 
i860, to Harriet M., daughter of George 
W. and Louisa A. (Merrill) Conant. Their 
children are: Cora, Frank, George C, Clara 
M. and Nina Button. 

Mr. Button is connected with the Con- 
gregational church. He is, and has always 
been, a Bemocrat, having cast his first vote 
for Franklin Pierce. 

DWIGHT, JOHN Sullivan, son of Br. 

John 1) wight of liostun (Harvard 1800), and 
Mary (Corey) Bwight, was born in Boston, 
May 13, 1813. His early school days were 
passed in home and private school instruc- 
tion, later on in grammar and Latin 
schools, five years under B. A. Gould and 
F. P. Leverett. He entered Harvard in 
1828, and was graduated in the class of 
1832. He then entered Harvard divinity 
school, and was graduated in 1836. 

He then preached in Unitarian churches 
si.x years ; settled in Northampton one 
year ; joined the Firook Farm Association, 
where he remained five years teaching 
classics and music, farming, gardening, 
etc., and editing the " Harbinger." 

He established " Bwight's Journal of 
Music " in April, 1852 ; owned and edited 
it until September, 1881. Long previous 
to this, as early as 1839, he had published 
a volume of translations of smaller poems 
of Goethe and Schiller. 

His tastes were literary, and his time at 
present is spent in his home in Boston, in 
literary and critical work. 

Mr. Bwight was married in Boston, in 
185 I, to Mary, daughter of Silas and Mary 
(Barrett) Bullard, who died in i860, leav- 
ing no issue. 

Mr. Bwight is a trustee of the Perkins 
Institution and Massachusetts School for 
the Blind. 

He is president of the Harvard Musical 
Association, an office he has held for the 
past si.xteen years, and is a recognized au- 
thority on all matters pertaining to the 
history and interpretation of music, which 
finds Boston so congenial a home. To 
none more than Mr. r)wight is perhaps due 
the prominence and perfection which that 
art has acquired in the city of his birth. 

DWIGHT, William George, son of 

Br. William and Helen j\L (Clark) Bwight, 
was born in Bernardston, Franklin county, 
September 21, 1859. 

His preparatory studies were in the dis- 
trict schools of Bernardston, the Powers 
Listitute of that town, and in the Amherst 
high school. He was graduated from Am- 



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herst College in the class of 1881. He 
began his newspaper career as reporter on 
the " Springfield Daily Union," and was 
afterwards connected with the " Holyoke 
Daily Transcript," to the sole proprietor- 
ship of which paper he succeeded in 1888. 

Mr. Dwight was married in Malone, 
N. Y., Jnly 28, 1888, to Annie M., daughter 
of David and Aurelia (Percy) Bush. 

Too much engaged in tiie management 
of his paper to seek for office, he has not 
served his city in any public capacity. He 
is a young man of energy and ability, 
which is shown in the fearless and able 
manner in which he edits and conducts his 
paper, which is recognized as one of the 
leading journals of western Massachusetts. 

DWINELL, James Fisher, son of 

Amos and Achsa Dwineli, was born in 
Newport, Sullivan county, N. H., July 23, 
1825. His parents removed in 1826 to 
Marshfield, Vt., where he remained on the 
farm, except when at school, until 1845, 
when he went to Charlestown, Mass. Dis- 
trict and select schools in Marshfield and 
the Lowell high school furnished his edu- 
cational training. In 1845 he began work, 
peddling tin and glass ware. Two years 
Later he was in the dry-goods business for 
a short time in Lowell. 

November, 184S, he bought an express 
team and located at Haymarket Square, 
Boston. In 1850 he sold the express busi- 
ness and bought a half interest in a coffee- 
roasting business, under the firm name of 
Taylor & Dwineli. In 185 1 he bought 
out Mr. Taylor's interest and took another 
partner. In November, 1852, he sold the 
business, bought out another coffee busi- 
ness, and after enlarging his sphere of 
action, changing co-partnership several 
times, extending the business until it em- 
braced the manufacture of spices, he be- 
came sole proprietor in 1876. In 1877 the 
spice firm of Hayward & Co. united their 
business with his, under the firm name of 
Dwineli, Hayward & Co., which is the 
present commercial title of the house. 

Mr. Dwineli was married in New Hamp- 
ton, N. H., November 27, 1849, to Martha 
C, daughter of Noah and Martha Mason. 
Of this union are three children : James 
H.. Emily F., and Mattie A. Dwineli. 

Mr. Dwineli was a member of the House 
of Representatives 1859 and '60, from 
Charlestown ; member of the board of al- 
dermen 1863, '64, and '65 ; member of the 
Republican city committee from the or- 
ganization of the party until 1867, when 
lie removed to Winchester. During this 
time he was a member of the Republican 



state central committee two years, and was 
again a member from 1S70 to '72. He was 
a delegate to the national Republican con- 




JAMES F. DWINELL. 

vention in 1876. He has been a member 
of the Winchester cown water board from 
1872 to the present time, and its chairman 
the past eight years. He was again a mem- 
ber of the House in 1883, and again a mem- 
ber of the state central committee for 1888. 
In 1889 he was elected to the Senate and 
served on the committees on drainage and 
water supply. He is a prominent Mason 
of the thirty-second degree in the Scottish 
Rite. He has been an active, and is now 
an honorary member of the Boston Lancers. 
He is a member of the I. O. O. F. He 
worships with the Congregational church, 
though not a member. He was a charter 
member of Winchester Savings Bank, in- 
corporated in 187 1, and is vice-president, 
trustee, and member of the investment 
committee. 

DYER, David HaRTWELL, son of David 
and Silvia (Jackson) Dyer, was born in 
Lee, Penobscot county, Maine, September 
16, 1833. 

The family moved to Fall River in 1844. 
He availed himself of the advantages for 
an education furnished by the public 
schools, closing his studies by one year's 
attendance at the high school. 



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DVEK. 



Soon after arriving in Fall River he went 
to work as an operative in the old 'I'roy 
Mill. He worked in various cotton mills 
until fourteen. From fourteen until eight- 
een, he worked at nail-making, learning 
the trade. From eighteen to twenty were 
his last two years of school attendance. 
He then was employed by the American 
Linen Company as book-keeper from Janu- 
ary I, 1853, until 1S65, with the exception 
of the time spent in the service of his 
country. His present vocation is that of 
civil and mechanical engineer, making mill 
engineering a specialty. 

Mr. Dyer was married in Fall River, 
November 23, 1858, to Mary Flizabeth, 
daughter of Job Borden and Abby (.Mian) 
French. Of this union were three children: 
Susan Chace, William Allan and George 
French Dyer. 

Mr. Dyer was the first volunteer from 
Fall River at the breaking out of the war. 
He enlisted in company A, 7th Massachu- 
setts volunteers, of which he was com- 
missioned captain by Governor John A. 
.Andrew, and was mustered into service 
June 15, 1861. He assisted in the organi- 




DAVID H. OYER. 

zation of the 3d regiment, Massachusetts 
volunteers ; was also captain of the 5th 
and 2ist unattached companies, Massa- 
chusetts volunteers, raised for short terms 



in 1864. He received well-deserved com- 
pliments from General Couch and Gover- 
nor Andrew for meritorious conduct dur- 
ing the war. He is now quartermaster of 
Post 46, G. A. R. He has been treasurer 
of Mechanics Mills, Weetamoe Mills, Saga- 
more Mills and Quequecham Mills, and 
manager of Wilmington Cotton Mills ; 
director at various times of Mechanics, 
Weetamoe, Sagamore, Osborne and Flint 
Mills ; is now director of Sagamore Manu- 
facturing Company and clerk of the cor- 
poration, and has been a member of the 
New England Cotton Manufacturing Asso- 
ciation about twenty years. He is also 
president of the Glen Mills. He is promi- 
nently identified with the Baptist church, 
and has always been active in Sunday- 
school work. 

Mr. Dyer learned the science of engineer- 
ing and manufacturing by personal appli- 
cation and study, without the aid of schools 
or teachers. In the winter of 1885 he 
visited most of the states in Mexico to inves- 
tigate the condition of manufacturing in 
that country, and spent two months at 
Monclova and Paras, State of Coahuila, 
Mexico, winter of 1888, making plans for 
alterations in mills. 

Mr. Dyer has been at the head and front 
in organizing mill companies in Fall River, 
and as a mechanical engineer has earned 
laurels in the plans and construction of 
nearly twenty of the great cotton mills 
that have raised Fall River to the first rank 
of cotton manufacturing cities in New 
England. He has shown financial ability 
in his entire business career, notably in 
saving the Sagamore Mill corporation from 
ruin, and placing it on a sound financial 
basis, during the panic of 1873. He has 
also planned and constructed mills in the 
South, and represented southern houses in 
the cotton interest. Since 1886 he has 
given his attention to mechanical engineer- 
ing as applied to cotton mill work. 

DYER, Samuel, son of Thomas and 
Ruth (Collins) Dyer, was born in 'I'ruro, 
Barnstable county, August 22, 1S19. 

His early education was limited to the 
common schools. 

He entered business life for himself in 
the town of Truro, in 1848, in dry goods 
and groceries. He subsec|uently changed 
his business to that of dealer in wood, coal, 
lumber and grain. 

Mr. Dyer was married in Truro, Febru- 
ary, 1849, to Betsey Hopkins, daughter of 
Solomon and Betsey Paine. Of this union 
are two children : Samuel Dyer, Jr., and 
Mrs. .Amelia F. Ryder. 



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Mr. Dyer has been selectman, overseer of 
the poor, assessor, member of the school 
board, and justice of the peace ; he lias 
been a member of the parish committee 
of the Congregational church in Truro for 
several years. He has been moderator of 
the town meetings for more than twenty- 
five years. At twelve years of age he 
went to sea, and at twenty-four com- 
manded a vessel, and at one time was 



in the employ of the United States Gov- 
ernment, as contractor for removing rock 
from Wellfleet harbor, and building a dike 
at Beach point. 

Mr. Dyer, during his long and honor- 
able career, has always contributed to 
those movements tending to improve and 
enlarge the usefulness of his native town, 
and is justly held in high repute by his 
fellow-townsmen. 



EATON, Chester W., son of Lilley 

and Eliza (Nichols) Eaton, was born in 
South Reading (now Wakefield), Middle- 
se.x county, January 13, 1839. 

His father, Hon. Lilley Eaton, was the 
historian of the towns of Reading and 
Wakefield. 




CHESTER W. EATON. 

He was an attendant at the district 
schools and high school of his native place ; 
fitted for the Chandler scientific depart- 
ment of Dartmouth College, from which 
he was graduated in the class of 1859. He 
then studied for the legal profession at the 
Harvard law school. 

He was admitted to the Massachusetts 
bar in 1864, and immediately commenced 



the practice of the law in South Reading. 
In 1868 he opened another law office in 
Boston, still retaining that in South Read- 
ing. In 1880 he added the business of 
publisher and editor of the "Wakefield 
Citizen and Banner." To this was joined 
a real estate business, in 1886. 

Mr. Eaton was married in Rye, N. H., 
May 14, 1868, to Emma G., daughter of 
Rev. Giles and Elizabeth (Thompson) 
Leach. Of this union were three children : 
Richard Gardner, Theodore, and Emma 
Florence Eaton. 
, Mr. Eaton has held the following offices : 
town clerk, town collector, member of the 
school board, trustee of the public library, 
justice of the peace and notary public 
(twenty-five years), trial justice, and treas- 
urer of the Wakefield Savings Bank. 

During the war of the rebellion he served 
as a private in the 50th Massachusetts 
regiment, engaging in the campaign end- 
ing in ihe surrender of Port Hudson, La. 

EATON, Everett J., son of William 
and Sally (Johnson) Eaton, was born in 
X'eedham, Norfolk county, December 23, 

'837. 

He obtained his education in the com- 
mon schools of his native town. After 
leaving school he worked a year in a pro- 
vision store in Boston. 

Two years he was in the employ of his 
brother as assistant at the post-office and 
station of the Charles River Branch Rail- 
road, and afterwards six years in the ex- 
press, freight and livery business. He 
then, in 1864, went into the livery and 
express business for himself, and has con- 
tinued in the express business between 
Needham and Boston up to the present time. 

He is an active man of affairs, and is not 
confined in his operations to this business 
alone. He is a well-known auctioneer, and 
constantly interested in some progressive 
movement promising to benefit his town 
and countv. He is a member of the 



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EATON. 



EATON. 



Norfolk Club ; has been selectman two 
years ; chairman of the board of assessors 
three years, and is serving his second term, 
which expires in 1892 ; is a member of the 




EVERETT J. EATON. 

board of health ; was chairman of the 
Republican town committee two years, 
and has been a member more than fifteen 
years. He is usually selected as delegate 
to county, state and ilistrict conv-entions. 
He is a staunch Republican, and active in 
politics. He is a member of the committee 
on Needham water supply ; president of 
the Village Improvement Society, and of 
the Stable-keepers' Association of Newton, 
Needham, Waltham and Watertown, and 
district deputy of K. of H. His religious 
sentiments are voiced by the Unitarian 
church. He is one of the stirring, public- 
spirited citizens of Needham. His judg- 
ment is a guide in town matters, and he 
retains the respect and good-fellowship of 
those with whom he has lived so many 
years. 

Mr. Eaton was married in Needham, 
February 12, 1863, to Lydia A., daughter 
of Alvin and Alary A. (Lucas) Fuller. 
Of this union were three children : \\'illiam 
F., Everett Lawrence, and Mamie L. Eaton 
(deceased). 

Mr. Eaton is a lineal descendant of 
Francis Eaton, who came over in the " May- 



flower," and who died in Du.xbury in 1633. 
He is also a descendant, on his mother's 
side, of Edward Johnson, who was born 
in England, 1599, came to America,, 
1630, and who died in W'oburn in 1690. 
His grandfather Johnson led Samuel 
.-Vdams to a place of safety at Le.xington, 

1775- 

His great grandfather was one of the 
first settlers who removed to Needham 
from Dedham and there settled. Four 
generations were born on the original 
spot. His father, \\'illiam Eaton, held 
manv town offices and joined in all public 
movements. 

EATON, Thomas Stowe, son of 

Thomas and Hannah (Pierce) Eaton, was 
born in .Auburn, Worcester count}', July 2, 
1S32, and received his early education at 
the common schools of his native town, 
with a short supplementary academic train- 
ing. Upon leaving school, he worked on 
the farm upon which he was living until he 
was of age ; he then was for a short time 
employed at house carpentering, after 
which he entered the employ of a company 
manufacturing sash, blinds, doors, etc. 




THOMAS S. EATON. 



This company did not exist very long, and 
upon its discontinuance, he worked in a 
car-shop as passenger car finisher, but 
finding this occupation prejudicial to his 



EIJGEKLY. 



EDWARDS. 



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liealth, he returned lu farming, which he 
still carries on. 

Mr. Eaton has held the offices of select- 
man, overseer of the poor, and member of 
the school committee. He was a member 
of the House of Representatives in 1884. 
His church connections are with the First 
Congregational church of Auburn, of which 
lie is an oiticer. 

He was married at Auburn, November 
20, 1861, to Martha Maria, daughter of 
John and Lavinia (Stone) Blood, by whom 
he has four children surviving : Arthur 
Adelbert, Luella Adelia, Ida Lavinia, and 
Carlotta Pierce Eaton. Herbert William 
tiled at the age of fourteen, and Alice 
Maria at eighteen. 

EDGERLY, MARTIN VAN BUREN, son 
of Samuel J. and Eliza (Bickford) Edgerly, 
was born in Barnstead, Belknap county, 
N. H., September 26, 1833. 

His education was obtained in the pub- 
lic schools of Manchester, after which he 
was employed in the shop and mills of the 
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company. This 
he gave up in 1859 to engage in the insur- 
ance business at Pittsfield, giving his chief 
attention to fire insurance, and among 
other companies he represented the Massa- 
chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, 
in which he was so prosperous that it 
proved the beginning of a most successful 
career as a life insurance and business 
man. 

In 1863 he returned to Manchester for a 
wider field, where he remained till 1883, 
when he removed from the State. In 1868 
Mr. Edgerly was made general superintend- 
ent of the agencies of the company, but 
gave up the position two years later on ac- 
count of the incident travel required. In 
1882 he was chosen a director in the com- 
pany, and in 1884 was made second vice- 
[iresident. In 1885 he w^as made vice-presi- 
dent, and in 1886 was unanimously elected 
to succeed E. W. Bond as president of the 
company. It is safe to say that no one 
man has contributed more to the steady 
growth and success of the Massachusetts 
Mutual Life Insurance Company than Mr. 
Edgerly, and that for the position of presi- 
dent he is conspicuously qualified. 

While residing in Manchester, Mr. Ed- 
gerly served as director of the City National 
Bank, the New Hampshire Fire Insurance 
Company, the Suncook Valley Railroad 
Company, the Worcester & Nashua Railroad 
Company, and as trustee of the Merrimack 
River Savings Bank. 

In religious faith he is an Episcopalian, 
and has alwavs taken an active interest in 



affairs relating to his church and denomi- 
nation. In politics he is a pronounced and 
sturdy Democrat. He was delegate to the 
national Democratic conventions of 1872, 
'76, and '80 ; a member of the national 
Democratic committee, and centennial com- 
missioner from New Hampshire, and chief 
of staff to Governor Weston of that state. 
In 1882 he was nominated as Democratic 
candidate for governor of New Hampshire, 
and in that Republican state was defeated 
by a very small majority. 

Since his election as president of the 
Ma.ssachusetts Mutual Life Insurance 
Company, he has resided in Springfield, a 




MARTIN V, B EDGERLY. 

man highly esteemed and admired by all 
who come in contact with him in business 
and social circles. For himself, he fintls 
his chief relaxation and enjoyment in his 
home and in cultivating his literary in- 
stincts among the treasures of a large and 
select library of standard works. 

EDWARDS, Elisha Austin, son of 

Col. Elisha and Julia (King) Edwards, was 
born at Southampton, Hampshire county, 
March 25, 1824. 

He received his early education in the 
common schools of his native town and at 
Sheldon Academy. 

After reaching the age of twenty, for 
several vears he taught school at .South- 



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EDWARDS. 



ELA. 



am|3ton during the winter seasons, and 
during the summer worked upon the farm 
on which he had been brought up. 

He was for thirteen years town clerk ; 
also served as postmaster, selectman, asses- 
sor, overseer of the poor, and for some 
fifteen years moderator of the annual town 
meetings. He is now acting as county 
commissioner for the twenty-second year, 
being for eighteen years chairman of 
the board ; and on the completion of his 
present term will have served twenty-four 
years. 

Mr. Edwards has held four military com- 
missions from the governor of the State. 
He commanded a regiment of militia three 
years, and was acting brigadier-general for 
one year. In 1861 he raised a company of 
volunteers and went to service in com- 
mand, and was with General Butler at the 
taking of New Orleans. 

He has been trustee, secretary and treas- 
urer of the Sheldon Academy twenty-two 
years, has held a commission as justice of 
the peace for forty years, as notary public 
seven years, and for qualifying civil offi- 
cers seventeen years. He is president of 
the Southampton Library Association. 

Mr. Edwards was married at Southamp- 
ton, May 12, 1846, to Henrietta L., daughter 
of Silas and Anna (King) Sheldon, by 
whom he has four children : Alice Julia 
Anna, Emma Henrietta, Isabel Georgine, 
and Anna King. 

EDWARDS, Oscar, son of Oliver and 
Laura (Starkweather) Edwards, was born 
in Chesterfield, Hampshire count}', June 
6, 1821. He received his education at the 
public schools of his native town, and at the 
Chesterfield and other academies, and when 
twenty-eight years old entered into part- 
nership with his father as general mer- 
chants, in Chesterfield, then a leading town 
of Hampshire county, on the direct stage 
route from Boston to Albany, N.Y. 

By President Taylor he was appointed 
postmaster in 1848, and the same year was 
elected town clerk and treasurer, which 
offices he held till 1852, when he removed 
to Northampton. 

In April, 1S51, Mr. Edwards married 
Katharine Wendell, daughter of Harmon- 
ius and Catalina (Hurm) Wendell, of New 
York. They have two sons and two 
daughters. 

Upon moving to Northampton, Mr. Ed- 
wards engaged in the drug business, and is 
still carrying it on in his original store. 
For fifteen years he has been president of 
the Northampton National Bank, which 
became widely known, two years after his 



election, from the fact that it was robbed 
of a million dollars. He has been a mem- 
ber of the board of water commissioners 
of Northampton since its origin, and is a 
director in the Connecticut River Railroad, 
the Ashuelot Railroad, and Glasgow Ging- 
ham Company, of South Hadley Falls, and 
the Hampshire Mutual Fire Insurance 
Company. He is also a trustee in the 
Northampton Institution for Savings, and 
has filled many other offices of responsi- 
bility and trust. 

Politically Mr. Edwards was a member 
of the old Whig party, and with many 
others became a Democrat, but his per- 
sonal popularity appeared in 1880, when, 
in a district that is largely Republican, he 
was elected by a very large majority, to 
serve upon the executive council of (lover- 
nor Long. 

ELA, David Hough, son of Theodore 
and Priscilla (Woodward) Ela, was born in 
Canaan, Somerset county, Maine, January 
19, 1S31. 

He gleaned his early knowledge of books 
from the brief terms of the common school 
only, till fourteen years of age — then two 
years in a printing office, afterward learn- 
ing the trade of a machinist. He subse- 
quently determined to prepare for a differ- 
ent line of life-work, and entering Kent's 
Hill Seminary, Maine, he fitted for college, 
and in 1857 was graduated from Wesleyan 
University, Middletown, Conn., paying his 
way in preparatory school and college by 
occasional teaching, but mainly by working 
at his trade. 

He then entered the Methodist ministry, 
and joined the Providence Conference in 
1858, and preached at Norwich, Conn., 
until i860. He has remained in the minis- 
terial work of the M. E. church up to the 
present time, and has been a member 
of the New England conference since 

1S73. 

Mr. Ela has been principal of Provi- 
dence Conference Seminary, East Green- 
wich, R. I., three years (i87i-'73); dele- 
gate to the general conference of the 
M. E. church, 1872, '80 and '84; trustee 
of Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, and of 
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 

His appointments have included Nor- 
wich, Conn. ; Bristol, Woonsocket, Paw- 
tucket and Providence, R. I.; Lynn, Low- 
ell, Worcester and Boston. He was pre- 
siding elder of the Springfield district, 1878 
to '81, and received the degree of D. E). 
from Cornell College, Iowa, 1876. He is 
at present pastor of the Mt. Bellingham 
church, Chelsea. 



ELDER. 



ELLIS. 



199 



He has written much for magazines and 
the general press. He possesses a pure 
taste for lyric poetry, and has written 
many hymns that appear in the Hymnal of 
the M. E. church, besides fugitive poems 
prepared for literary and festive occasions. 

Mr. Ela was married in Lowell. April 20, 
1858, to Louisa H., daughter of William 
and Naomi (Smith) Sargent. Of this union 
were five children : Paul Francis, Clara 
Louisa, Grace Ednah, Emma Torsey and 
Elizabeth Ela — the two latter deceased. 

Mr. Ela is a clergyman widely known 
and respected outside the confines of his 
own denomination — a man of original 
thought, pleasing address, one calculated 
to build up and unify the various interests 
of the society over which he is placed. 

ELDER, Samuel James, son of James 
and Deborah D. (Keene) Elder, was born 
in Hopeville, R. L, January 4, 1850. 

His early educational advantages were 
the public schools of Lawrence, Mass., 
where he fitted for college, and he gradu- 
ated from Yale in the class of 1873. He 
studied law with John H. Hardy, now 
associate justice of the municipal court of 
the city of Boston. 

He was admitted to the bar and began 
practice in 1875, in Boston, where he still 
remains actively engaged in his profession. 
Though employed in general practice, 
he has given especial attention to copy- 
right law, and was selected by the Inter- 
national Copyright League to act with it 
before the United States Senate on the 
international copyright bill. 

Mr. Elder was married at Hastings- 
upon-Hudson, N. Y., May 10, 1876, to 
Lilla, daughter of Cornelius AV. and Mar- 
garet J. (Wyckoff) Thomas. Of this union 
are two children : Margaret M. and Fanny 
A. Elder. 

Mr. ?31der was representative to the 
lower branch of theOeneral Court in 1885, 
from the 14th Middlesex district (Win- 
chester and Arlington), but declined re- 
election. He has been treasurer of two 
manufacturing corporations for several 
years. He is a member of William Park- 
man Lodge, F. &: A. M., Winchester, where 
he has resided since 1877. 

ELIOT, Charles William, son of 

Samuel Atkins and Mary (Lyman) Eliot, 
was born in Boston, March 20, 1834. 

He was prepared for college at the 
Boston public Latin school ; entered Har- 
vard College and was graduated there- 
from in the chiss of 1853. In 1854 he 
was appointed tutor in mathematics, and 



continued the study of chemistry under 
Prof. J. P. Cooke. 

In 1858 he was promoted to be assistant 
professor of mathematics and chemistry, 
and in 1861 was placed in charge of the 
chemical department of the Lawrence 
scientific school. 

For two years, during 1863, '64 and '65 
he studied chemistry in Europe, and spent 
some time in e.xamining the systems of 
public instruction in France, (iermany and 
England. In 1865 he was appointed pro- 
fessor of analytical chemistry in the Mas- 
sachusetts Institute of Technology. In 
i867-'68 he was again in Europe for a year. 

Professor Eliot was called to the presi- 
dency of Harvard University, May 19, 
1869, which office he still holds. 

He was first married in Boston, October 
27, 1858, to Ellen Derby, daughter of 
Ephraim and Mary Jane (Derby) Peabody. 
Of this union were four children, of whom 
two survive ; Charles and Samuel Atkins 
Eliot. His second marriage was with 
Grace Mellen Hopkinson of Cambridge, 
October 30, 1877. Miss Hopkinson was 
the daughter of Thomas and Corinna 
Aldrich (Prentiss) Hopkinson. 

During President Eliot's administration, 
the elective system has supplanted the old- 
fashioned prescribed curriculum, and Har- 
vard has come to resemble in its methods 
the great European universities. It has 
doubled in number of teachers and stu- 
dents, and more than trebled in wealth. 

President Eliot received the degree of 
LL. D. from Williams and Princeton in 
1869, and from Yale in 1870. He is a 
fellow of the American Academy of Arts 
and Sciences, the Massachusetts Historical 
Societ)'-, and the .-Kmerican Philosophical 
Society, and a member of many literary 
and scientific bodies. His public addresses 
are noted for terseness and strength. Be- 
sides chemical memoirs, essays on educa- 
tional topics and economic questions of 
the hour, and his annual reports as presi- 
dent of Harvard, he has written two text- 
books on chemistry. 

President Eliot is an independent thinker 
and an efficient executive officer. While 
not inclined to mingle in party politics, lie 
is an outspoken defender of civil service 
reform and of the theory of free trade as 
against protection. 

ELLIS, George Edward, son of Da- 
vid and Sarah (Rogers) Ellis, was born in 
Boston, August 8, 1814. 

He was graduated at Harvard in 1833, 
and at the divinity school in 1836, and 
after study and travel in Europe, was or- 



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ELLIS. 



ELLIS. 



dained March ir, TS40, as pastor of the 
Harvard Congregational church, Charles- 
town. 

From 1857 till '63, he was professor of 
systematic theology in Harvard divinity 
school. In 1864 he delivered before the 
Lowell Institute, a course of lectures on 
the "Evidences of Christianity," in 1871 
a course on the " Provincial History of 
Massachusetts," and in 1879 a course on 
" The Red Man and the White Man in 
North America." 

He resigned the pastorate of Harvard 
church in June, 1869. 




GEORGE E. ELLIS, 

Mr, Ellis was at one time editor of the 
"Christian Register," and afterwards joint 
editor with Rev. George Putnam, D. D., of 
the " Christian Examiner," which he sub- 
sequently conducted alone. 

He has been vice-president of the Mas- 
sachusetts Historical Society, and is now 
president. He was a member of the board 
of overseers of Harvard in i85o-'5i, serv- 
ing one year as secretary. Harvard gave 
him the degree of D. D. in 1847, and LL. I), 
in 1883. Mr. Ellis is the fourth person 
who has received both of these degrees 
from the university. 

He was chairman of the committee of 
publication of the Massachusetts Histori- 
cal Society for editing the MS. journal of 



Chief Justice Samuel Sewall, and published 
an address on the life and character of the 
judge. He delivered the address at the 
unveiling of the statue of John Harvard, 
in Cambridge (1884). 

He is a fellow of the American Acad- 
emy of Arts and Sciences, member of the 
American Antiquarian Society, and corre- 
sponding member of the Historical socie- 
ties of New York, Connecticut, New Ha- 
ven, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. 
He delivered an address before the New 
York Historical Society upon its eighty- 
second anniversary, November 16, t886. 

He has published lives of John Mason 
(1844), Anne Hutchinson (1845), and Wil- 
liam Penn {1847), in Sparks' " American 
Biography ; " " Half Century of the Uni- 
tarian Controversv" (1857); "Memoir of 
Dr. Luther V. Bel'l " (1S63); "The Aims 
and Purposes of the Founders of Massa- 
chusetts, and their Treatment of Intruders 
and Dissenters" (1869); "Memoir of 
Jared Sparks" (1869) ; " Life of Benjamin 
Thompson, Count Rumford " (1871); " His- 
tory of the Massachusetts General Hos- 
pital " (1872); " History of the Battle of 
Bunker Hill " (1S75) ; "Memoir of Charles 
Wentworth Upham " (1877) ; "Memoir of 
Dr. Jacob Bigelow " (1880); "Memoir of 
Nathaniel Thayer" (1885); an address 
before the city government on the centen- 
nial of the evacuation by the British armv', 
with an account of the siege of Boston 
(1876) ; and numerous other memoirs, ser- 
mons and addresses. Mr. Ellis wrote 
three historical chapters for the " Memo- 
rial History of Boston " (i88o-'8i) ; "The 
Religious Element in New England," and 
five other chapters in the " Narrative and 
Critical History of America" (i885) and 
several articles on American subjects for 
the ninth edition of the " Encyclopjedia 
Britannica." He has also contributed nu- 
merous articles to periodicals. He pub- 
lished in 1882 "The Red Man and the 
White Man in North America;" in 1S88, 
" The Puritan Age and Rule in the Colony 
of the Massachusetts Bay," and in 18S8, 
an historical address delivered in Dedham, 
November 19th, on "The Church and the 
Parish in Massachusetts, Usage and Law." 

ELLIS, George Livingston, son of 

Edson and Mary Sherman P^llis, was born 
in Plympton, Plymouth county, November 
10, 1838. He is a lineal descendant from 
old Plymouth "Maytlower" stock. 

His education commenced m the com- 
mon schools of Plympton. He was gradu- 
ated from Plympton Acade iiy, of which he 
afterwards became principal. While fitting 



ELLIS. 



ELSON. 



20 1 



for college, his health became uiulermiiiecl, 
precluding further efforts in that direction. 

He studied metlicine under the instruc- 
tion of the late Dr. W. W. Comstock of 
Middleborough, and was graduated in the 
regular course at Harvard medical college 
in June, 1872. 

He located in Taunton, in general prac- 
tice for three years, and was then appointed 
assistant physician in the lunatic hospital, 
which position he filled for several years, 
till breaking down in health, he resigned, 
and removed to Middleborough and re- 
sumed general practice. 

I'nder Governor Robinson he received 
the appointment of medical examiner for 
riymouth county, which position he still 
retains. He is chairman of the school 
board for the town of Middleborough. 

ELLIS, Thomas, .son of WiUiam and 
Judith (Peirce) Ellis, was born in Rochester, 
i'lymouth county, August 4, 1812, on the 
old homestead bought and settled by his 
great grandfather, John Ellis, in 1755, then 
primeval forest. Here he lived and labored 
during his minority, and being the third 
child and eldest of four brothers, was able 
to attend only the winter district schools 
after he was large enough to be of value 
in farm work. His school attendance was 
coupled with the disadvantage of living a 
long distance from the school, the way 
lying through woods and swamp.s, and 
streams that often must be forded. 

He early acquired a strong taste for 
reading, and the scanty historical library 
in town (forty volumes) was conned before 
his school days were passed. His taste for 
standard literature has never forsaken him, 
and has fully supplemented his lack of 
early educational training. His business 
has been principally lumbering and farm- 
ing, and now at an advanced age he is 
enjoying the results of a long and busy life. 

Mr. Ellis was married in Rochester, 
March 10, 1836, to Almy D., daughter of 
Nathaniel and Ruth (Davis) Tabor. Of 
this union w-ere three children : Cordelia 
M., William T. and Mary T. Ellis. William 
T. Ellis enlisted in the 3d regiment, Mas- 
sachusetts volunteers, in 1862, served out 
his time, and returned home to die of dis- 
ease contracted in the army. His death 
occurred June 23, 1863. 

Mr. Ellis was a member of the House of 
Representatives in 1855, and again in 1869. 
He has held a commission as justice of the 
peace for many years, has served as select- 
man, member of the school board, super- 
intendent of schools, and has several times 
been appointed to look after the interests 



of the town before committees of the Leg- 
islature. He held the commission of lieu- 
tenant in the militia for several years — was 
elected captain, but declined the office. 

ELSON, LOUIS C, son of Julius and 
Rosalie (Snell) Elson, was born in Boston, 
April 17, 1848. 

His parents were German, and of some 
prominence in the rather small foreign col- 
ony of Boston at that time. His bent to- 
ward nmsic was displayed at an early age, 
his instruction proper beginning when he 
was si.\ years old. He enjoyed the benefit 
of the acquaintance and instruction of 
many eminent musicians from this time 
forward, but owes much of his theoretical 
knowledge to the friendship of Carl Glogg- 
ner of the Leipzig Conservatory, who 
awakened his interest in musiCal literature 
and even assisted him in his earliest 
essays at original production in this 
field. His studies in the German Lied 
were fostered by August Kreissman, whom 
Liszt acknowledged to be one of the best 
interjireters of Robert Franz. 

Mr. Elson's first entrance into musical 
journalism was made in the " Musician 
and Artist," of which he became musical 
reviewer. When this magazine ceased to 
e-vist he became contributor to, and subse- 
quently editor of, the " Vo.x; Humana," in 
which he began his historical work on an- 
cient music, which has since been pub- 
lished under the title of " Curiosities of 
Music." He subsequently became musical 
editor of the " Score," the " Musical and 
Dramatic Times," " Wide Awake," and 
numerous other literary ventures. He is 
the author of "The Harmonica" (1878), 
"Home and School" (1881), "German 
Songs and Song Writers " (Boston, 1882), 
"History of German Song " (1888), and 
various translations. His musical work 
has kept pace with his literary labors. He 
has been connected professionally with 
Trinity, Emmanuel, and other leading 
churches of the city of Boston. In the 
New England Conservatory of Music he 
has long been prominent as a teacher of 
voice and of the theory of music. He has 
labored faithfully to enlarge the horizon 
of musical education in America, and to 
cause the culture of the musician to be at 
least equal to that of other workers in the 
field of art. As a lecturer he has made a 
successful record, and has appeared in 
many of the leading American educational 
institutes. 

Mr. Elson was married in Boston to 
Bertha Lissner. Of this union is one child : 
Arthur Elson. 



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ELY, Frederick David, son of Nathan 

and Amelia M. (Partridge) Ely, was born 
in Wrentham, Norfolk county, September 
24, 1838. 

He fitted for college in Day's Academy, 
Wrentham, and entered Brown University, 
where he was graduated in the class of 
1859. He read law in the office of Hon. 
Waldo Colburn, Dedham, and was admit- 
ted to the bar in 1S62, before the superior 
court at Dedham. 

He first opened a law office in Dedham, 
and in 1870 at Boston, where he has prac- 
ticed up to the present time. He is now 
associate justice of the municipal court of 
the city of Boston, to which place he was 
appointed in 1888. 

Judge Ely was first married in Boston, 
December 6, 1866, to Eliza B., daughter 
of Seth and Harriet E. (Rice) Whittier. 
His second marriage occurred in Dedham, 
August 10, 18S5, with Anna, daughter of 
Lyman and Olive Emerson. He has two 
children: Frederick D., Jr., and Amelia M. 
Ely. 

Judge Ely is a prominent Mason, has 
been master of Constellation Lodge, Ded- 
ham, grand marshal and deputy grand mas- 
ter of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. 

He is trustee of the Dedham Listitution 
for Savings ; member of the vestry of St. 
Paul's Episcopal church, Dedham ; was a 
member of the school board three years, 
and seventeen years trial justice — both 
until his election to Congress. 

He was a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives 1873, and of the Senate 1878 
and '79 ; in 1873 and '79 serving on the 
judiciary committee, and in 1878 on that 
of public charitable institutions. He was 
elected a member of the 49th Congress 
in 1886, in which he served on the com- 
mittees on elections and private land 
claims. 

His residence is in Dedham. His party 
affiliations are with the Republicans. He 
attributes what success he may have real- 
ized in life to the good judgment of his 
parents in guiding his early years, and to 
their liberality in his education. 

ENDICOTT, Augustus Bradford, 

son of Elijah and Cynthia (Childs) Plndi- 
cott, was born at Canton, Norfolk county, 
September 10, 1818. 

He received his early education in the 
common schools at Canton, and upon leav- 
ing school was apprenticed to the carpen- 
tering trade in the same town, at which he 
served four years and a half. Soon after 
reaching his majority he removed to Chel- 
sea and accepted a position as pattern- 



maker in a foundry, at which he continued 
about ten years. 

In 1852 Mr. Endicott came to Dedham, 
where he still resides. In 1853 he was 
appointed a deputy sheriff under Thomas 
Adams, then sheriff. He continued to act 
as under sheriff until August, 1885, when, 
upon the death of Sheriff Wood, he was ap- 
pointed to succeed him for the unexpired 
term of his appointment. In November, 
1886, he was again elected by both parties 
for the full term of three years, which office 
he still holds. 

He represented the town of Dedham in 
the Legislature in 1874 and '76. He has 
held the offices of selectman, assessor, 
overseer of the poor and member of the 
board of health for twenty-two vears. He 
is also president of the Dedham Institu- 
tion for Savings ; director of the Dedham 
National Bank, and also director in the 
Dedham Mutual Eire Insurance Company. 

Mr. Endicott was married at Dedham, 
July 22, 1845, to Sarah, the daughter of 
AVilliam and Millie Fairbanks, of Dedham, 
by whom he has three children : Mary 
Augusta (Mrs. William H. Lord), Lizzie 
Blanche (Mrs. George H. Young), and 
Henry Bradford Endicott. 

ENDICOTT, Charles, son of Elijah 
and Cynthia (Chikls) Endicott, was born 
in Canton, Norfolk countv, October 28, 
1822. 

He had the advantages of a common 
school education. He worked on his 
father's farm, and also at boot making, 
during his early days. 

In 1846, at twenty-four years of age, he 
was appointed deputy sheriff. He is now 
deputy ta.\ commissioner and commissioner 
of corporations. 

Mr. Endicott was first married in Can- 
ton, September 7,0, 1845, to Miriam Webb. 
B}' this marriage there is one child : Charles 
W. His second marriage occurred Octo- 
ber 2, 1848, in Charlestown, N. H., with 
Augusta G. Dinsmore. Of this union are 
two children : Edward D. and Cynthia A. 
(Endicott) Field. 

Mr. Endicott was admitted to the bar in 
1857, as an attorney and counselor-at-law, 
after having read law in the office of the 
late Ellis Ames, of Canton. 

He has been called to serve in nearly all 
the town offices ; was county commissioner 
six years ; commissioner of insolvency, at 
first appointed by the governor and subse- 
quently elected by the people ; represen- 
tative in the General Court, 185 1, '57 and 
'58 ; state senator in 1866 and '67 ; mem- 
ber of the executive council, 1868 and '69 ; 



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ENNEKING. 



203 



State auditor six years (1870 to '76) ; state 
treasurer five years (i876-'8i) ; deputy tax 
commissioner from 18S1 to the present 
time. 

Mr. Endicott is a director in the Xorfolic 
Mutual Fire Insurance Company ; Xepon- 
set National Bank ; was for forty years 
trustee of tlie Canton Institution for Sav- 
ings, and is now its president. 

ENDICOTT, HENRY, son of Khjah 
and Cynthia (Childs) Endicott, was born 
in Canton, Norfolk county, November 14, 
1824. 

He was educated in the pubHc schools ; 
commenced business life in the manufac- 
ture of steam engines and boilers, in Bos- 
ton, in 1845, under the firm name of Allen 
& Endicott. He retired from business in 
iS7S- 




HENRY ENDICOTr. 

Mr. Endicott has long been a prominent 
member of the order of Free and Accepted 
Mason.s, and is now serving liis third year 
as grand master of the Grand Lodge of 
Massachusetts. 

ENDICOTT, William Crownin- 

SHIELD, the son of William Putnam and 
Mary (Crowninshield) Endicott of Salem, 
Essex county, was born in Salem, Novem- 
ber 19, 1826. His father was a graduate 
of Harvard University, class of 1822, and 



a descendant from John Endicott, the first 
governor of Massachusetts. His maternal 
grandfather, Jacob Crowninshield, was a 
member of Congress for some years, and 
was appointed and confirmed secretary of 
the navy in Jefferson's cabinet, but de- 
clined, preferring to remain in Congress. 

William C. Endicott received his early 
education in the Latin school in Salem ; he 
entered Harvard University in 1843, and 
was graduated with the class of 1847. 

Soon after graduating, he studied law in 
the office of Nathaniel J. Lord, then the 
leading member of the Essex bar, and in 
the Harvard law school. He was called 
to the bar in 1850, and began practice in 
Salem in 1851. He was elected a member 
of the Salem common council in 1852, and 
in 1853 entered into co-partnership with 
J. W. Perry, under the firm name of Perry & 
"Endicott. In 1857 he became city solici- 
tor, which office he held until 1864. In 
1873 he was appointed by Governor Wil- 
liam B. Washburn, to the bench of the 
supreme court of Massachusetts. He re- 
mained on the bench until 1882, when he 
resigned. 

Judge Endicott was president of the 
Salem Bank from 1857 to '73. In 1863 he 
was elected president of the Peabody 
Academy of Science in Salem, and still 
holds the ofifice. 

In 1884 he was Democratic candidate 
for governor of the State. 

In 1885 he became secretary of war in 
the cabinet of President Cleveland. 

He was married December 13, 1859, to 
Ellen, daughter of George Peabody, of 
Salem. His family consists of two chil- 
dren : William C, Jr., and Mary C. Endi- 
cott, who was married on the 15th of No- 
vember, 1888, to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain 
of Birmingham, England. 

ENNEKING, JOHN J., son of Joseph 
J. and Mary M. (Bramlage) Enneking, was 
born in Minster, Auglaize county, Ohio, 
October 4, 1841, and is of German descent. 

He received his early education in the 
schools of his native village, was an apt 
scholar, always preferring, however, to 
draw pictures on his slate rather than per- 
form sums in arithmetic. This natural 
predilection was not appreciated by the 
teacher, nor was the indiscriminate use of 
charcoal at home looked upon with favor 
by his father, but he had the sympathy of 
his mother, who was quite an artist in 
many directions. 

In 1858 he was sent to Mt. St. Mary's 
College, Cincinnati, Ohio, where, in addi- 
tion to his regular studies, he devoted 



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ENNEKING. 



ERXST. 



some hours a week to music and drawing ; 
in the latter study being much encour- 
aged by the kindly advice of the principal 
of the college. President Rosecrans, a 
brother of General Rosecrans. 

His career at the college was cut short 
by the breaking out of the civil war. 
After serving the cause of the Union in 
one capacity and another, having many 
hair-breadth escapes, he was at last se- 
verely wounded and laid up for many 
months. When convalescent he visited an 
exhibition of oil paintings in Cincinnati, 
which created in him a strong desire to 
become an artist. Not finding the advan- 
tages in the West great for the studv of 
art, he turned his face towards the East. 
After a short stay in New York, he came to 
Boston and commenced to draw on stone 
under Professor Richardson. He was 
compelled to abandon this after a short 
time, owing to trouble with his eyes. He 
then went into business, but lost all his 
money in a few years. He then worked 
for several years in pastel, and from that 
branched into oil painting. 

He was married in 1864, in Boston, to 
Mary E. Elliott, by whom he has five chil- 
dren : John Joseph, Florence May, Mary 
Emily, Gracie Clara, and Joseph Elliott. 

In 1873 he went to Europe with his 
family, traveling through England, Hol- 
land, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italv, 
and France. After spending six month.s 
in Munich, Bavaria, studying landscape 
painting and drawing of the figure, and 
three months sketching in Venice, he went 
to Paris ; studying the art exhibits of the 
different countries at the Vienna exposi- 
tion, he concluded that Paris must be the 
Mecca for art students. Here he entered 
the school of Bonnat, one of the cele- 
brated schools of art at that time, where 
he studied the figure for three years, and 
landscape painting for a short time under 
the great kmdscape painter, Daubigny. 

He returned home in time to see the 
centennial exposition. He opened a studio 
on West Street, and after two successful 
seasons went abroad again, visiting the 
Paris Exposition, and made a three months' 
trip to Holland ; there he studied the 
Dutch masters in the galleries of the 
Hague, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and other 
places, and returned after six months' 
absence. For the last five years he has 
had a studio on Tremont Street, Boston, 
and his summer studio near his residence 
in Hyde Park. 

Mr. Enneking has received several gold 
and silver medals for excellence in his art, 



and his works may be found in many of 
the best collections in this country. He 
is a member of the Boston Art and the 
Paint and Clay clubs. 

ERNST, George A.O., son of Andrew 
H. and Sarah G. Otis Ernst, was born in 
Cincinnati, Ohio, November 8, 1850. His 
father was a native of Germanv, and his 




GEORGE A O ERNST. 

mother was born in Boston. He is a grand- 
son of George A. Otis, well known in the 
early literary history of Boston. 

His early school life was passed in the 
private schools of Cincinnati. He was 
afterward sent to Mount Pleasant Military 
Academy, Sing Sing, New York, then to 
the Eliot high school, of Jamaica Plain, 
Mass., and lastly to prepare for college in 
one of the private schools of Boston. 

He was graduated from Harvard Uni- 
versity, class of 187 1. Taking up the study 
of law, he was soon admitted to practice in 
Boston, where he has already won for him- 
self an enviable position in his chosen pro- 
fession. 

He was sent to Chicago in 1880 as one 
of the committee of " Young Republicans," 
to advance the interests of civil service 
reform in the convention which nominated 
Garfield. He was elected to the lower 
branch of the Legislature in 1883 and '84, 
and served on the committees on elections 



ESTAHROOK. 



ESTES. 



205 



(chairman), street railways, and railroads. 
He has taken a quiet but active interest in 
all the reforms of the day — temperance, 
civil service, suffrage, and the purity of the 
ballot. A staunch believer in Republican 
principles, he yet shows a firm independ- 
ence of party dictation. 

Mr. Ernst was married in Brooklyn, N.Y., 
December 11, 1879, to Jeanie, daughter 
of Edwin and Caroline (Edgarton) ISvnner. 
Of this union are two children : Roger and 
Sarah Otis Ern.st. 

ESTABROOK, ADIN C, son of Thom- 
as and Sybil (Brown) Estabrook, was born 
at Reading, Windsor county, Vermont, 
December 9, 1828. He is in the si.xth gen- 
eration from Thomas Estabrook, of Eng- 
land, who settled in Concord, 1660, and 
the eighth generation from Nicholas Brown, 
the first settler of Reading, Mass. 

His early education began in his native 
town. When seventeen he went to school 
near Buffalo, N. Y., and from eighteen to 




ADIN C. ESTABROOK. 

twenty attended the academy in Wood- 
stock, Vt. At twenty he began to teach, 
still continuing his studies at the academ\', 
and at twenty-five was chosen principal of 
Centerville Academy, Michigan, where he 
remained for two years. During that time 
he secured the arrest and sentence to prison 
for life of three murderers of his brother 



Thomas. Loss of health required him to 
return to the East. 

On the 5th of January, 1857, in Wood- 
stock, Vt., Mr. Estabrook was married to 
Emma W., daughter of Daniel and Rebekah 
(Dickerman) Tarbell. Their children are : 
Viola May and Athelia Gertrude. 

After his return to the East, Mr. Esta- 
brook engaged in various undertakings. 
He was a printer, a merchant, a postmaster 
under Lincoln, and was connected with the 
Vermont Central Railway at East Gran- 
ville. Li 1863 he sold his real estate and 
moved with his parents to Lunenburg, 
where he has since been engaged in the 
more congenial and peaceful work upon a 
farm. 

In 1868 he accepted the office of school 
committee and has been interested in town 
affairs to the present time. In 1876 he was 
a representative in the state Legislature 
and served upon several committees, among 
others that of re-districting the State. In 
1879 he wrote a brief history of Lunenburg 
for the Worcester County History. 

ESTES, Dana, son of Joseph and Ma- 
ria (Edwards) Estes, was born in Gorham, 
Cumberland county, Maine, March 4, 
1840 ; removed to Augusta, Maine, in 
1855, and to Boston, 1859. 

His early educational training was ob- 
tained in the public schools. At the be- 
ginning of the war of the rebellion he 
enlisted as private in the 13th regiment, 
^Llssachusetts volunteers ; was three times 
wounded at the battle of .second Bull Run, 
August 31, 1862, in which battle his only 
brother, Albert S. Estes, was killed. 

Returning to Boston, he became the 
bead of the publishing house of Estes & 
l.auriat, 1872 ; removed to Brookline, 1881; 
edited a series of volumes entitled " Half 
Hour Recreations in Popular Science ; " 
compiled several volumes of juvenile and 
standard poetry, i872-'74; became life 
member of the American Archjeological 
Institute, 1882 ; Bostonian Society, 1883 ; 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, 1884 ; Boston Memorial 
Association, 1885 ; director of the latter, 
and first secretary of the Pine Tree State 
Club, 1886 to '89 ; visited England, and was 
entertained by Lord Tennyson and Thomas 
Hughes, 1887; organized the International 
Copyright Association, and was its first 
.secretary, November, 1887 ; brought from 
northern Italy a large collection of Paleo- 
Italian antiquities of great archi^ological 
value, 1888; was president of Brookline 
Club, i888-'89 ; won the celebrated series 
of "Chatterbo.x " international trademark 



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EVERETT. 



law-suits, 1S84 to 'S9, by which foreioners 
can acquire copyriglit in certain classes 
of books in America. 

Mr. Estes was first married at Newton, 
April II, 1867, to Louisa S., daughter of 
Peter and Mary (Filgate) Reid, of England. 
Of this union were three children : Freder- 
ick Reid, Dana, Jr., and Philip Sydney 
Estes. His second marriage occurred 
November 10, 1884, with Grace D. (Coues) 
Page, daughter of Samuel E. and Char- 
lotte Haven (Ladd) Coues of Portsmouth, 
N. H. 

Mr. Estes is a lineal descendant in the 
eighth generation from Robert Estes, of 
Dover, England. Richard, the son of 
Robert, came to America in 16S4, accord- 
ing to the record in the Bible now in pos- 
session of Mr. Estes. Benjamin, son of 
Richard, was born in Lynn, Mass., and 
died in Berwick, Maine, to which state he 
had removed at an uncertain date. This 
branch of the Estes family settled in Maine 
-—Henry, son of Benjamin, born in Ber- 
wick ; Samuel, son of Henrv, born in Port- 
land, and Robert, the grandfather of Dana, 
born in Windham, Me. 

Mr. Estes' mother was the great grand- 
daughter of Hugh and Elizabeth McLel- 
lan, who came from Londonderry to Gor- 
ham, Me., in 1733. Hugh was' a lineal 
descendant of Sir Hugh McLellan of Ar- 
gyle, Scotland. 

EVANS, AloNZO H., son of Robert 
and Sarah R. livans, was born in Allens- 
town, Merrimack county, N. H., February 
25, 1820. He received his early education 
in the common schools of his native town, 
and subsequently attended a private school 
in Boston. 

In 1836 he commenced business as clerk 
in a produce and grocery store in the New 
England metropolis, and in 1842 started 
in the same city the same line of business 
on his own account, which he carried on 
until 1850, when he changed his occupation 
to that of an exchange and specie broker. 

In the year 1854, he, with others, peti- 
tioned the Legislature of Massachusetts 
for a charter for " The Boston Five Cents 
Savings Bank," which bank was organized 
the same year. Mr. Evans was elected 
treasurer of this institution, which office 
he held until 1S74, when he was chosen 
president, which position he still holds. 
The bank now has more than 100,000 
depositors, and an amount on deposit 
exceeding $15,000,000. 

In 1874 and '76 Mr. Evans represented 
the town of Everett in the Legislature of 
Massachusetts, being the first "representa- 



tive after the incorporation of the town, 
in obtaining the charter for which he had 
been very energetic. 

In 1889 he represented the 6th Middle- 
sex district in the state Senate, to which 
position he was elected by a large majority. 

He was married in 1844 in the city of 
Boston, to Sarah R., daughter of Daniel 
Hawkes. She died in 1870. Of this union 
were two children : Irving A. and \\'ilmot 
R. Evans. 

Mr. Evans was married again in 1879 to 
Caroline, daughter of Sanuiel S. Stowers 
of Revere. 

EVERETT, NOBLE WARREN, son of 
Noble and Mercy (Nye) Everett, was born 
in Wareham, Plymouth county, February 
20, 1827. He received his early education 
in the public and private schools of Ware- 
ham. He afterwards attended Greenwich 
Academy, Rhode Island, and was several 
years at Wyoming Seminary, Wyoming 
Valley, Pa. He was one year a teacher in 
this seminary, and one year president of 
the Lackawanna Bible Society, Pa. 

He was twelve years a member of the 
Wyoming Conference of the Methodist 
Episcopal church, filling some of the most 
important stations — among them being 
Central church, Wilkes Barre, and .Adams 
Avenue church, Scranton. AVhen the civil 
war broke out he was preaching at Hyde 
Park, now a part of the last named city, 
and throughout that terrible struggle, 
labored with great earnestness, both in the 
pulpit and on the platform, for the L^nion. 
After preaching seven years he was offered 
the office of presiding elder, but declined 
it, preferring the work of pastor. 

In 1878 Mr. Everett was a member of 
the lower branch of the Legislature from 
the 6th Plymouth district, and again in 
1882. He servetl on the committee on 
education, and was appointed House chair- 
man of said committee. In the last named 
year a bill was passed abolishing the old 
school district system in this State, and, in 
the opinion of those competent to judge, 
Mr. Everett did more than any other mem- 
ber towards effecting that result, being 
possessed of ample qualifications, in the 
vigorous grasp, graceful presentation and 
eloquent advocacy of that, as in all matters 
in which he takes an interest. 

During the last eight years he has served 
on the Wareham school board, most of the 
time as chairman. After he became a 
voter, he associated himself with the Free 
Soil party, and acted with it until it was 
merged in the Republican partv, having 
been an ardent Republican ever since. He 



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has written some history and hiograpiiy, 
and delivered several historical addresses. 

Mr. Everett came from good ancestral 
stock. His paternal grandfather was a 
chaplain in the revolutionary army, and 
for nearly forty years pastor of the Con- 
gregational church in Wareham. His 
father was a soldier in the war of 181 2, 
and highly esteemed by his fellow-towns- 
men. 



Mr. Everett was first married at Fall 
River, to Abby Ann H., daughter of 
Nicholas H. and Sophia Antoinette (Tis- 
dale) Sherman. There was no issue by 
this marriage. His second marriage was 
in Wareham, with Hattie I., daughter of 
Leander L. and Harriet (Cibbs) Packard. 
Of this union were two children : War- 
ren Irving (deceased) and Juliet Chester 
Everett. 



FARMER, MOSES GERRISH, eldest 
child of Colonel John and Sally (Gerrish) 
Farmer, was born in Boscawen, Merri- 
mack county, N. H., February 9, 1820. 
He is a lineal descendant of Edward 
Farmer, who emigrated from Ancely, War- 
wickshire, England, and settled in Bil- 
lerica about 1670. He attended the dis- 
trict school in Bashan, the academy on 
Boscawen Plains, Phillips Academy, An- 
dover, and entered Dartmouth College 
in 1840, but was obliged to leave during 
his third year on account of ill health. 
The degree of A. M. was conferred 
upon him bv the facultv of Dartmouth in 

He taught the academy in Eliot, 
Maine, where he was married, December 
25, 1844, to Hannah Tobey, daughter of 
Richard and Olive (Tobey) Shapleigh, of 
Berwick, Maine, and later taught the Bel- 
knap school in Dover, N. H. In 1847 he 
gave up teaching and turned his attention 
wholly to scientific pursuits. 

In 1847 he constructed a small electro- 
magnetic locomotive and railway, which 
he exhibited in various towns, lecturing 
upon the subject of electro-magnetism. In 
December, 1847, he opened a telegraph 
office in South Framingham, and while 
there invented his first fire alarm ajspa- 
ratus. He exhibited this in Boston in 1849. 
Two years later he became acquainted 
with Dr. W. F. Channing, and in connec- 
tion with him he brought to perfection and 
put into operation the system of fire alarm 
telegraph now in universal use. 

The office in Boston was opened .Vpril 
28, 1852, and Mr. Farmer remained its 
superintendent until 1855. 

Between 1852 and 1855 he devised and 
constructed an apparatus for transmitting 
four messages simultaneously over a 
single wire. He was the first to suggest 
the use of the continuity-preserving key 
in the duplex telegraph. 



In 1855, as a member of the American 
Association for the Advancement of 
Science, he read a paper on multi])lex teleg- 
raphy. In 1856 he perfected the double 
transmitter with reversed currents and 
constant resistance. 

In 1859 he invented an automatic regu- 
lator for controlling the distribution of 
electricity to numerous electric lamps, and 
began investigating the production of light 




MOiEb L. FARMER 

by electricity, which investigations have 
never been relinquished. He invented 
an automatic regulator by which the 
light can be kept at a uniform intensity 
for any length of time. In 1859 he 
lighted his own house in Salem by elec- 



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F'ARNHAM. 



FARNHAM. 



tricity — the first house on record ever so 
lighted. 

Between 1864 and '68 he perfected a 
thermo-electric battery, and in 1868 con- 
structed the largest one ever built, to be 
used for the deposition of copper upon 
steel in the jiroduction of the American 
compound telegraph wire — a joint in- 
vention of Messrs. Farmer and Milliken. 
Mr. Farmer claims to have been the first 
to construct a magneto-electric machine 
in which the field was sustained by the 
current derived from its own armature. 
He made valuable improvements in the 
construction of dynamo-electric machines 
for firing torpedoes, now supplied to every 
ship in our navy. 

In October, 1872, he accepted the posi- 
tion of electrician at the U. S. N. Torpedo 
Station, Newport, R. I., which position he 
held until September, 1881, when failing 
health compelled him to tender his 
resignation. He still pursues his in- 
vestigations, aided by a skilled assistant. 
As an electrical expert he stands among 
the foremost. In all works and laws 
of nature he sees a divine mind, and 
with him religion and science go hand in 
hand. 

He has had two children : a daughter, 
Sarah Jane, who is still living, and a valu- 
able assistant to her father in his scientific 
work. His son died in infancy. 

He is a fellow of the American Academy 
of Arts and Sciences ; fellow of the Ameri- 
can Association for the Advancement of 
Science ; member of the Institute of Tech- 
nology, of the Essex Institute, of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers, of the American Institute of Elec- 
trical Engineers, and of the English Insti- 
tution of Electrical Engineers. 

FARNHAM, LUTHER, son of Ephraim 
and Sarah (ISnnvn) Farnham, was born in 
Concord, Merrimack county, N. H., 
February 5, 1816 — the youngest of nine 
children. 

His eai'ly education was public school 
and academic. Having fitted for college 
in Meriden, N. H., he entered Dartmouth 
and was graduated in the class of 1837. 
After graduation he taught school as prin- 
cipal of Limerick Academy, Me., and as 
assistant at Pembroke Academy, N. H. 
He then entered the theological seminary 
at Andover, from which he was graduated 
in 1841 ; licensed to preach by the Hop- 
kinton A.ssociation the same year ; after 
two years was ordained and called to the 
Congregational church, Northfield, Novem- 
ber 20, 1844. 



Mr. Farnham was married in Northfield, 
June 23, 1845, to FjUgenia Alexander, 
daughter of Levi and Lucretia (Scott) 
Fay. During the year he resigned his 
pastorate and removed to Boston, where, 
in 1846, was born his son, Francis Edward 
F'arnham. 

Since the latter date he has been called 
to the pastorate of churches in various 
parts of the State, several of which he 
has served, such as the Congregational 
churches in Concord, Plymouth, Marsh- 
field (where Daniel Webster was a parish- 
ioner). New Bedford, Gloucester, and Ever- 
ett. He has done much preaching at large 
in the interests of the Southern Aid So- 
ciety, for the assistance of feeble churches 
among the poor whites and blacks of the 
South. He was a secretary of this 
society 1854 to '60. He has spoken for, 
and aided by his labors, the General Theo- 
logical Library, Boston, of which he may 
be called one of the founders. He has 
been its only secretary and librarian for 
twenty-seven years, and has raised one 
hundred thousand dollars to place it upon 
a partial financial basis. By his suggestion 
was established the Dartmouth College 
Alumni Association of Boston, the earliest 
of the kind in this country, also the Kim- 
ball Union Academy Association, of which 
he is one of the vice-presidents. 

In the winter of i888-'8g he assisted in 
the organization of the Boston Association 
in aid of the Texas Flome for Disabled 
Soldiers, and was elected a vice-president. 

His life has been a busy one, and be- 
sides his local cares he has been obliged 
to travel extensively to fulfill his profes- 
sional duties in connection with these socie- 
ties. In the early history of the New Eng- 
land Historic Genealogical Society, he 
held the office of librarian for several 
years, and was very active in promoting its 
interests. 

In 1855 he published a small volume 
entitled "A Glance at Private Libraries ; " 
a notable Thanksgiving sermon delivered 
by him in the First Congregational church 
in West Newbury. In 1876 he published 
a volume of the " Documental History of 
the General Theological Library," which 
was sent to the Centennial Exposition at 
Philadelphia. " The History of the Hor- 
ticultural Society," published a few years 
ago, was largely his work, also that of the 
Handel and Haydn Society, not yet pub- 
lished. Another volume in preparation is the 
" Documentary History and Proceedings 
of the General Theological Library" for the 
last twelve vears. He was Boston cor- 



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respondent for the " Journal of Com- 
merce," New York, many years previous 
to i860 ; assistant editor of the " Christian 
Alliance," and of the "Massachusetts 
Ploughman ; " a writer for the " Puritan 
Recorder," Boston, and the " New York 
Observer," " Boston Post," " Hunt's Maga- 
zine " and many other periodicals. He 
also prepared for "Gleason's Pictorial 
Newspaper" historical and biographical 
sketches of the leading churches in Bos- 
ton, together with their pastors. Mr. Farn- 
ham's pen has been a fertile one, and he 
is still active in public service. 

FAXON, Henry Hardwick, son of 

Job and Judith B. (Hardwick) Faxon, was 
born in Quincy, Norfolk county, Septem- 
ber 28, 1823. 

He is a descendant in the eighth genera- 
tion of Thomas Faxon, who came with his 
family from England previous to 1647, and 
settled in that part of the ancient town of 
Braintree which is now Quincy. 

His early education was received in the 
common schools of his native town. He 
passed his youth on his father's farm until 
si.xteen years of age, when he was appren- 
ticed to a shoe- maker. 

In 1843, ill company with his brother 
John, he began manufacturing boots and 
shoes. About 1846 he changed his busi- 
ness to that of grocer and provision mer- 
chant in Quincy, conducting the same for 
about seven years, the last three years 
carrying on a bakery also. The bounds 
of this business becoming too narrow for 
one of his active temperament, he changed 
his base of operations to Boston, becoming 
a wholesale and retail grocer, the firm 
name being at first Faxon, Wood & Co., 
and subsequently Faxon Bros. & Co. Re- 
tiring from the firm in 1861, he made suc- 
cessful ventures in various kinds of mer- 
chandise, but finally devoted his business 
energies to dealing in real estate, in which 
he accumulated the bulk of his fortune. 

During these years Mr. F^axon was not 
a total abstainer, and had made some 
speculative transactions in liquors ; but at 
the time he first represented his town in 
the Legislature he was appointed a mem- 
ber of the committee on the liquor law and 
there became interested in the temperance 
question. He has ever since been a pro- 
hibitionist, intense in feeling and active in 
prosecution. It has been his aim to accom- 
plish temperance legislation through the 
Republican party rather than outside of it, 
although induced in 1884 to run on the 
Prohibitory ticket for lieutenant-governor. 
He has had the satisfaction of seeing 



Quincy rid of dram-shops during the past 
eight years, in which time he has had the 
responsibility of enforcing the laws regu- 
lating the sale of intoxicating liquors. 

Mr. Faxon was married, November 18, 
1852, in Quincy, to Mary B., daughter of 




HENRY H. FAXON. 

Israel W. and Priscilla I,. (Burbank) Mun- 
roe. Mrs. Faxon died September 6, 1885, 
leaving one son, Henry Munroe Faxon, 
now in his twenty-sixth year. 

Mr. Faxon was elected to the General 
Court in 1864 and again in 1871. He was 
a police officer in Quincy from 1881 to '86, 
inclusive, and was re-appointed to the 
latter position by Mayor Porter in 1889, in 
the first year of Quincy's new era as a 
city. His church connections are with the 
Unitarian society. 

FAY, Frank B., son of Francis B. 
and Nancy (Krigham) Fay, was born in 
Southborougli, Worcester county, January 
24, 1 82 1. His father. Colonel Francis R. 
Fay, moved to Boston in 1831, and to 
.Chelsea in 1834. ' 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in Salem Street Academy, Boston, 
and at academies in FVamingham, Marl- 
borough, Hadley, and Westfield. 

He began his business career in the 
western produce commission business, firm 
of Fay & Farwells, subsequently Fay & 



2IO 



FAY. 



FAY. 



Co. He was afterwards special partner in 
several manufacturing firms. 

But it is not as a manufacturer or busi- 
ness financier that Mr. Fay is best known 
to the country, but as a philanthropist in 
the broadest interpretation of the term. 

He was a member of the Chelsea school 
board in 1856, chairman of the overseers 
of the poor from iSySto the present time ; 
member of the first common council, 1857; 
]5resident of that body, 1859 ; mayor of 
Chelsea, 186 1, '62, and '63, and known as 
the " War Mayor." During the war, until 
its close, he spent much of his time at the 
front, caring for the sick and wounded ; 
was present immediately after first and 
second Bull Run, evacuation of Yorktown, 
seven da}'s' fi.ght, Antietam, Fredericks- 
burg, Chancellorsville, Clettysburg, Cold 
Harbor, "The Wilderness," and in front 
of Petersburg until it was evacuated, en- 
tering the city the same day. He was 
also in 1863 on Folly and Morris islands, 
S. C, when Gilmore was shelling Fort 
Sumter. In 1864, at his suggestion, the 
Sanitary Commission organized the " Aux- 
iliary Relief Corps," and he was made 
chief. During that year probably one 
hundred thousand sick and wounded men 
came under the care of the corps. He 
resigned the position in January, 1865, but 
continued as an independent worker, as he 
had been previous to 1864, completing his 
work at Richmond in June of that year. 
Probably no other Massachusetts civilian 
spent as much time at the front in similar 
service, paying his own expenses and 
receiving no compensation for any of his 
army work — while his salary as mayor 
was only four hundred dollars per an- 
num. 

Mr. Reed, in " Hospital Life in the 
Army of the Potomac," says: "Of the 
labors of Mr. Fay, it would be hard to 
speak in terms of too much praise. I 
prefer rather to let the memory of all his 
wise and gentle ministries, his kindly and 
self-forgetting services, be kept fresh in 
one more heart, of all the thousands who 
have had such good reasons for treasuring 
it." ..." Mayor Fay was known in every 
division and brigade of the Army of the 
Potomac." ..." With characteristic fore- 
sight, he was always prepared and was 
early upon the field of battle with his 
stores ; and with all the blessed appliances 
of healing, moved among the wounded, 
soothing the helpless, suffering and bleed- 
ing men parched with fever, crazed with 
thirst, or lying neglected in the agonies of 
death." 



Mr. Fay was a member of the Massachu- 
setts Allotment Commission for receiving 
soldiers' wages, which sent home nearly 
three million dollars ; also the United 
States Allotment Commission for colored 
troops. 

He delivered the first Decoration Day 
address in Chelsea in 1868 ; was chairman 
of the soldiers' monument committee and 
delivered the address at its dedication, 1869. 
He was chairman of the trustees of the 
"Patriotic Fund ; " was one of the trustees 
of the " Massachusetts Soldiers' Fund," of 
which Robert C. Winthrop was chairman, 
and of the " Governor Andrew Fund " for 




FRANK B. FAY. 

relief of soldiers' families — both of these 
continuing some years after the war. He 
was an officer in the " Soldiers' Memorial 
Society," and is now an honorary member 
of the " First Massachusetts Regiment 
Association," and a companion of the 
" Loyal Legion." In i866-'67 he was an 
officer of " Boston Station House " for the 
relief of homeless men and women. 

In 1S49, as president of the "Prisoners' 
Friend Association," he drew and presented 
the first petition to the Legislature, which 
resulted in the establishment of the " State 
Industrial School for Girls." His father 
was trustee and treasurer, serving until 
1865, when Mr. Fay was appointed, serv- 



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FESSENDEN. 



211 



ing till 1879, when he declined further ser- 
vice. He has always been interested in 
efforts to abolish capital punislinient in 
this and other states. 

Mr. Fay represented his city in the lower 
branch of the Legislature in 1857 ; was 
state senator in 1867 ; in both branches 
serving on committee on prisons, writing 
the report, and a special report against the 
use of the lash in the state prison. In 
the Senate he was chairman of committees 
on public lands, and education of deaf 
mutes, also on committee on license law. 
Originally a Whig, he was an active worker 
till he joined the Republican party, and 
continued his activity therein, as president 
of the Fremont Club and other political 
organizations — being delegate to city, 
county, district and state conventions. 

He was delegate to the national Repub- 
lican convention at Baltimore in 1864, 
which nominated President Lincoln, and 
was Massachusetts elector in 1868 ; was 
executive officer of the Massachusetts 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
Animals, 1869 to '77 ; general agent of the 
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention 
of Cruelty to Children, from May, 1880, to 
the present time ; chairman of civil service 
commissioners for Chelsea ; an officer in 
the Chelsea Savings Bank since its estab- 
lishment ; and president of "Old Ladies' 
Home Association." He was selected as 
the first collector of internal revenue for 
Boston district, when that office was estab- 
lished in 1862, but declined to accept. 

Mr. Fay was married in St. Albans, Vt., 
October 14, 1845, to Rebekah L., daughter 
of William and Lucretia W. (Hazeltyne) 
Bridges. Of this union were three chil- 
dren : Norman ^^■. (deceased), Harry F., 
and Sybil C, wife of J. W. Clark, Jr., 
New York. 

FAY, James Monroe, son of \Varren 
and Jane I). (Bell) Fay, was born in Ches- 
ter, Hampden county, March 23, 1847. 

His early educational training was in the 
public schools of his native ])lace. His 
academic studies were pursued in \\"esleyan 
Academy, Wilbraham. He studied medi- 
cine with Wm. O. Bell, was graduated from 
Vermont University in the class of 1875, 
and began the practice of medicine in Cole- 
brook, Conn., 1870. Li 1873 he removed 
to his native town and practiced medicine 
there until 1881, when he settled in North- 
ampton, where he still remains in practice. 
He is one of the attending physicians in 
the Dickinson Hospital, Northampton. 

I-)r. Fay was first married in Northamji- 
ton, May 10, 1872, to Harriette, daughter 



of James and Hannah (Hackett) Forsyth, 
who died February 8, 18S6. His second 
marriage occurred in Hatfield, March 23, 
1887, with Mary L., daughter of Elisha 
and Cordelia (Randall) Hubbard. He has 
two children : Clara E. and Orace L. Fay. 
Dr. Fay was elected a member of the 
board of health of the city of Northamp- 
ton, 1887, for three years, and now holds 
the position of chairman of the same. He 
is also the city physician, to which office he 
was chosen in 1888 and '89. He was 
member of the school board in Colebrook, 
and subsequently superintendent of schools 
at Chester for six consecutive years. 

FAY, John S., son of S. Chandler and 
Nancy (Warren) Fay, was born in Berlin, 
Worcester county, January 15, 1840. He 
obtained his education in the public schools 
of Marlborough, and at the C\)mmercial 
Ct)llege in Worcester. 

When twenty-one years old, at the out- 
break of the civil war, he enlisted as a 
private in company F, 13th Massachusetts 
infantry. He was with the army continu- 
ally, in all of the marches and engagements 
of his regiment, till April 30, 1863, when, 
in an action near Fredericksburg, Va., he 
received a wound from a shell which neces- 
sitated the amputation of his right arm and 
right leg. ^^■hile in the field hospital he was 
taken prisoner and confined in Libby prison 
for a month. He did not succeed in reach- 
ing his home until October — the most mu- 
tilated and crippled of all who survived of 
the eight hundred and thirty-one who 
enlisted for the war from the old town of 
Marlborough. 

In 1865 Mr. Fay was appointed postmas- 
ter of Marlborough, by President Johnson, 
and by successive appointments has held 
the position ever since. He has been an 
active tirand Army man, and has held 
many offices in Post 43, which he aided to 
organize. He is also a prominent Odd 
Fellow and a member of the Grand Lodge 
of Massachusetts. 

November 20, 1869, Mr. Fay married 
Lizzie Ingalls, daughter of James M. and 
Elizabeth (Pratt) Ligalls, of Marlborough. 
Their only child is Frederic H. P'ay. 

FESSENDEN, ANSON DaRWIN, son of 
Benjannn and Betsey (Stevens) Fessenden, 
was born in Townsend, Middlesex county, 
February 18, 1839. 

He was educated at the public schools, 
Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, and LTnion 
College. His intention of completing a 
liberal education at college was diverted 
bv the outbreak of the civil war. 



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FESSENDEN. 



FIELD. 



He enlisted in the army, and served 
in the department of the (lulf as ist lieu- 
tenant and captain of company D, 53d 




his share of the burdens and responsibili- 
ties of religious, benevolent and various 
society offices, he was elected as a Re- 
publican to the House of Representatives, 
in 1865, and was subsequently a member 
of the state Senate, 18S0 and '81, serving- 
as chairman of the committees on labor, 
Hoosac Tunnel and Troy & Greenfield 
Railroad, and as a member of the com- 
mittee on taxation and military affairs. 

FIELD, Lucius, son of Moses and 
Catharine Swan (Alexander) Field, was 
born in Northfield, Franklin county, Au- 
gust IS, 1840. 

He obtained his education in the com- 
mon schools and high school of North- 
field. 

His first connection in business was with 
Hon. E. Brinhall, Clinton, as E. Brinhall 
&: Co., January i, 1867 ; then Field & Saw- 
yer, 1872 to '78 ; Lucius Field & Co., 1878 
to '8g, David Dias and Walter V. Benedict 
being admitted as partners. 

Mr. Field was married in Clinton, Au- 
gust 14, 1862, to Annie S., daughter of 
Sarah P. Harrington. His second mar- 
riage, November 17, 1875, was with Mary 
A., daughter of George L. and ^Lirv J. 



ANSON D, FESSENDEN. 



regiment, Massachusetts volunteers. He 
was a brave and efficient officer, winning 
the confidence of his men and the appro- 
bation of his superior officers. 

At twenty-five years of age he began 
the cooperage business with his father, 
under the firm name of B. & A. D. Fessen- 
den, at Townsend. Their business grew 
and developed into the establishment of 
branch houses as follows : 1873, Fessenden 
& Lowell, Reed's Ferry, N. H. ; 1879, 
Kilbourn & Co., Sandusky, O. ; 1884, Silas 
Kilbourn & Co., Grand Haven, Mich. ; 

1886, Annis & Co., Londonderry, N. H. ; 

1887, Kilbourn & Co., San Francisco, 
Cal. 

Mr. Fessenden was married in Town- 
send, December 6, 1865, to Thirza A., 
daughter of Calvin and Thirza (Pierce) 
Boutelle. Of this union are four children : 
Alfred N., Florence Bertha, Marion B., 
and Robert G. Fessenden. 

Mr. Fessenden has ever been interested 
in the growth and prosperity of his native 
town, and on a broader plane is alive to 
political movements that affect the vital 
interests of the State. Besides serving his 
town in various minor ofifices, and taking 




LUCIUS FIELD. 

Wilmarth, of Taunton. He has four chil- 
dren : Mary .Althea, Catharine S., Annie 
F. and Leslie W. Field. 



FIELD. 



FISHER. 



213 



Mr. Fiekl was assessor in 1869 ; town 
clerk, 1873 to '77, inclusive ; and re|5resent- 
ative to the General Court, 1878 and '82. 

He was commissary-sergeant, 36th regi- 
ment, Massachusetts volunteers, October 
15, 1863 ; made quartermaster-sergeant, 
February 19, 1864 ; 2d lieutenant, Novem- 
ber I, 1864, and I St lieutenant, November 
13, 1864. 

Mr. Field is vice-president of the Clinton 
board of trade, and member of the pru- 
dential committee of the First Baptist 
church. 

He was coroner from 1865 until the law 
was changed requiring a medical examiner. 
He is past high priest, Clinton R. .\. Chap- 
ter, past grand king, grand R. A. Chap- 
ter of Massachusetts, past commander of 
Post 64, G. A. R., and treasurer of Clinton 
Lancaster Driving Park Association, and 
at present treasurer of the town. 

FIELD, WALBRIDGE ABNER, son of 
Abner and Louisa (Griswold) Field, was 
born in Springfield, Windsor county, Vt., 
April 26, 1833. His father was a descend- 
ant of the Fields of Rhode Island, and his 
mother's ancfestors were from Connecticut. 

Mr. Field was educated at private schools 
and academies until fitted for college, 
when he entered Dartmouth and graduated 
in the class of 1855. 

He was tutor in the college in 1856 and 
'57, and again in 1859. He studied law in 
Boston with Harvey Jewell and at the 
Harvard law school ; was admitted to the 
bar in Boston in i860, and began practice 
with Mr. Jewell. In 1865 he was appointed 
assistant L'nited States attorney for Mas- 
sachusetts under Richard H. Dana, and 
remained with him and with George S. 
Hillard till 1869, when he was appointed 
by President Grant assistant attorney-gen- 
eral of the Ll'nited States. This office he 
resigned in August, 1870, and became a 
partner with Mr. Jewell and AMlliam Gas- 
ton, under the firm name of Jewell, Gaston 
& Field, and after Mr. Gaston became 
governor of Massachusetts, Edward O. 
Shepard was taken into the partnership, 
and the firm name became Jewell, Field & 
Shepard, and so remained until Mr. Field 
became associate justice of the supreme 
judicial court in February, 1881. 

Judge Field was a member of the Boston 
school board in 1863 and '64, and of the 
common council in 1865, '66 and '67. In 
1876 he was declared elected to the House 
of Representatives of the 45th Congress of 
the United States from the 3d district of 
Massachusetts, but his seat was contested, 
and after about a year's service he was 



unseated. He was again a candidate for 
the House of Representatives, was re-elec- 
ted, and taking his seat in the 46th Congress, 
served without contest. 

Judge Field was married in 1869, to 
Eliza E. McLoon, who died in March, 
1877, and by whom he has two daughters : 
Eleanor Louise and Elizabeth Lenthal. 
In October, 1882, Judge Field was married 
to Frances E., daughter of the Hon. Nathan 
A. Farwell of Rockland, Maine. 

FISHER, Henry Noah, son of Noah 
and Esther (Page) Fisher, was born in 
Barton, Orleans county, Vermont, June 5, 
1842. 

His father's family moved to Nashua, 
N. H., when he was an infant, and his 
early education was obtained in the com- 
mon schools of that city. His father died 
while he was yet young, and Mr. Fisher 
was obliged to relinquish the pursuit of 
knowledge, and seek an entrance into mer- 
cantile life. 

He commenced as a clerk in a grocery 
store in Nashua, and in 1859 came to 
Waltham, seeking employment in the fac- 
tory of the American \\'atch Company. 
He obtained a position as a boy, and by 
his diligent application, and an earnest 
desire to become thoroughly proficient in 
his trade, gradually rose from one position 
to another, until he finally came to have 
the entire charge of one of the most im- 
portant departments in that concern. This 
place is where he is now to be found when 
he is not engaged with the important mul- 
tiform duties of the high office to which 
his fellow-citizens have of late years repeat- 
edly called him. 

Mr. Fisher was unable to resist the 
patriotic call for men at the front, and in 
July, 1862, he enlisted in company D, 
35th Massachusetts regiment, and partici- 
pated in the battles of South Mountain 
and Antietam. On the 17th of September, 
1862, he was wounded at Antietam, his 
right shoulder being fractured by a shell. 
He was confined to the hospital for some 
six months, and being finally compelled to 
return home in consequence of his wound, 
on March 4, 1863, received an honorable 
discharge. 

Mr. Fisher is an honored member of the 
Masonic fraternitv, and has held high and 
important offices in that institution. He is 
past master of the Isaac Parker Lodge, 
F. & A. M., of Waltham ; past high priest 
Waltham Royal Arch Chapter ; a member 
of the DeMolay Commandery K. T., of 
Boston, and of the Massachusetts Consis- 
tory, 3 2d degree, .\leppo Temple, an order 



214 



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FISHER. 



of the Mj-stic Slirine. He is past com- 
mander F. P. H. Rogers Post 29, G. A. R., 
Waltham. He is a member of the Central, 
and vice-president of the Middlesex clubs, 
both of Boston. 

At the recent incorporation of the old 
town of Waltham under a city charter, Mr. 
Fisher served as a member of the first 
board of aldermen, and was elected presi- 
dent of the board. A re-election in 1886 
also resulted in his presiding for a second 
term. In 1887 he was elected mayor of 
the city, and his administration was so 
acceptable to the citizens, that in 1888 he 
was re-elected without an opposing ticket, 
and, what is certainly a phenomenal case in 
Massachusetts politics, although a staunch 
Republican, yet again in 1889 he received 
the high compliment of a practically unan- 
imous election, in that there was again no 
opposing ticket in the held. 




HENRY N. FISHER 

Mr. Fisher has been identified with the 
growth and prosperity of his adopted place 
of residence as one of the owners in the 
American Watch Tool Company. He is 
president of the New Fngland North- 
western Investment Com]iany of Boston, 
and a trustee of the ^^ altham Savings 
Bank. 

He was married, August 17, 1876, in 
Limerick, Me., to Joanna E., daughter of 



Orin and Sarah A. (Sedgley) Bradeen. 
They have no children. 

FISHER, Milton M., son of Willis and 
Caroline (Fairbanks) Fisher, was born in 
Franklin, Norfolk county, on the 30th of 
January, 181 1. His first American ances- 
tor was Thomas Fisher, who settled in 
Cambridge in 1634, removing to Dedham 
in 1637. 

His early education was accomplished at 
the public schools in his native town, at 
Day's Academy in \\'rentham, and at a 
temporary classical institute in Medway. 
While fitting for college, he taught public 
and private schools in different towns, and 
entered Amherst in 1832. Ill health pre- 
vented his graduating, but he received an 
honorary degree of A. M., and in 1835 be- 
gan business in a country store in P'ranklin, 
later continuing the same business in West- 
borough and West Upton. In 1840 he re- 
moved to Medway and was engaged in 
the manufacture of straw goods till 1863, 
when he established an insurance agency, 
extending his business througli western 
Norfolk county and Boston, continuing 
the same to the present time. 

In August, 1836, he was married, in 
Medway, to Eleanor, daughter of the Hon. 
Luther Metcalf of Medway, who died 
March 13, 1885. They were the parents 
of nine children, five of whom died in 
vouth. Of the remaining children, one is 
Theodore W. Fisher, M. I)., superintendent 
of the lunatic hospital in Boston, and lec- 
turer at the Harvard medical school. The 
others are : Mary Eleanor, teacher, Helen 
Frances (wife of Walter V. Hawkes), 
Cliftondale, and Frederick Luther, treas- 
urer of the Medway Savings Bank, and in- 
surance manager. 

Among the municipal offices and public 
trusts held by Mr. Fisher are those of 
postmaster, notary public, justice of the 
peace, state commissioner for certain rail- 
roads, etc. He was elected Republican sen- 
ator from Norfolk in 1859 and '60, in which 
position he was brought into prominence 
in several public contests. In recognition 
of his public services there, he was elected 
county commissioner for Norfolk in 1863, 
and held the position for three successive 
terms, and was for three years chairman 
of the board. Many signal improvements 
were inaugurated during his term of 
office. 

Mr. Fisher was early identified with the 
temperance cause from 1829, when he 
signed his first pledge, and has held an ad- 
vanced position in the movement ever 
since. He is now a director in the Massa- 



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chusetts Total Abstinence Society, and in 
tiie Washingtonian Home in Boston. The 
anti-slaver)' cause he also warmly espoused 
while a student in 1831, and was foremost 
in the movement in Amherst College in 
1S33, firing the first anti-slavery gun in 
that institution. A year later he was 
appointed a delegate to the first anni- 
versary of the American Anti-Slavery 
Society at New York, making at the 




m^ t% 




MILTON M. FISHER. 

time an extended tour to Philadelphia 
and through Maryland and ^'irginia by 
private carriage, investigating the subject 
and distributing anti-slavery literature. 

In 1840 he assisted in organizing the old 
T.ibertv party. He was one of the original 
Free Soilers at Worcester in 1848, and 
(with the exception of Hon. E. R. Hoar) 
is the only surviving member of the com- 
mittee on the platform of the party. He 
was delegate from Norfolk county, with 
Hon. Charles Francis Adams, to the I5uffalo 
Free Soil convention in August of the 
same year 

He has been a deacon in the village 
church forty-nine years, and has always 
been identifietl with true religious pro- 
gress and Christian vvork. He is presi- 
dent of the Medway Savings Bank, and 
of the Dean I.ibrarv Association. He is 
also connected ofhciallv with the Sanford 



Woolen Mills and Sanford Hall. A prom- 
inent man in his community, he has 
always been a generous reformer, and 
has made his influence for good felt in 
many ways. 

FISK, George C, son of Thomas T. 
and Emily (Hildreth) Fisk, was born March 
4, 183 1, in Hinsdale, Cheshire Co., N. H., 
His early education was received at the 
]3ublic schools of his native town. After 
remaining there until 185 1, he went to 
Si^ringfield, Mass., where he accepted a 
position as book-keeper for T. W. Wason, 
car-builder, at a salary of one dollar a day. 
In 1854 he became a member of the firm 
of T. W. Wason iV- Co., car-builders, and 
at the organization of the ^\"ason Manu- 
facturing Company, in 1863, was elected 
treasurer. In 1869 he was made vice- 
president of the company, and became its 
president in 187 1, which office he holds at 
the present time, after thirty-six years of 
continuous connection with the business. 

On the 7th of June, 1852, Mr. Eisk was 
married in Hartford, Conn., to Maria E., 
tlau.gliter of Daniel H. and Martha J. 
Ripley. Their children are : Charles A. 
and Isabel R. F'isk. 

]Mr. Fisk is one of the signal examples 
now and then furnished in .\merica, and 
especialljr here in New FJngland, of a bov, 
whose only educational facilities were the 
district schools and the gossip of the coun- 
try store, lifting himself to the highest 
positions of financial trust and importance. 
Few have ever started with less to depend 
upon in their surroundings, and few can 
point with greater pride to the dignity 
which they have attained. 

At present Mr. Fisk is president of the 
Wason Manufacturing Company, president 
of the Springfield Steam Power Company, 
president of the F'isk Manufacturing Com- 
pany, and proprietor of the Brightwood 
Paper Mills, at Hinsdale, N. H. 

FISKE, Daniel TaGGART, son of Eben- 
ezer and Hannah (Tirrill) Fiske, was born 
in Shelburne, F'ranklin county, March 29, 
1819. 

After receiving the education of the 
district school, he prepared for college at 
Fellenberg Academy, Greenfield, and at a 
select school at Heath, together with home 
study, and entered Amherst College in 1838, 
graduating in 1842. 

He was principal of Amherst Acadeniv 
for a year after leaving college. In the 
fall of 1843 he entered the Andover Theo- 
logical Seminary, aud graduated in 1846. 
After devoting another year to study at 



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FISKE. 



FISKE. 



Andover, on the i8th of August, 1847, he 
was ordained pastor of the Belleville Con- 
gregational church at Newburyport — then 
Newbury — where he still resides. 

Mr. Fiske was first married in Boston, 
November 7, 1849, to Eliza Pomroy, daugh- 
ter of George D. and Mary (Pomroy) But- 
ton. Two children were born to them : 
Mary Fidelia, wife of Rev. C. A. Savage ; 
and George Dutton, who died October 13, 
187 1. On the 14th of February, 1867, 
Mr. Fiske was again married in Newton, 
to Mrs. Caroline Walworth Drummond, 
daughter of George and Philura (Jones) 
\\'ahvorth. 

Since 1861 Mr. Fiske has been a mem- 
ber of the board of trustees of the Andover 
Theological Seminary, and of Phillips 
Academy, and since 1885 has been presi- 
dent of the board. He is a corporate 
member of the A. B. C. F. M. In 1862 he 
received the degree of D. D. from Amherst 
College. After his pastorate of forty years 
in the Belleville church, he offered his 
resignation ; but, at the request of the 
church and parish, he still retains the pas- 
toral relation, with the assistance of a 
colleague, on whom the pulpit and pastoral 
work chiefly devolves. 

Only once during his long term of labor 
has he been absent for any length of time. 
This was in 1868 and '6g, when he spent 
nine months abroad, visiting England, 
Scotland, Wales, France, Holland, Belgium, 
Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Egypt, Pales- 
tine, Turkey and Greece. 

FISKE, JOHN, son of Edmund Brewster 
and ]^Iary Fiske (Bound) Green, was born in 
Hartford, Conn., March 30, 1842, and lived 
at Middletown, Conn., from 1843 to '60. 
His name was originally Edmund Fiske 
Green, but in 1855 he took the name of his 
maternal great-grandfather, John Fiske. 

His early education in the lower schools 
was supplemented by a preparation for 
college at Bett's Academy, Stamford, 
Conn., and at Henry M. Colton's school 
at Middletown, Conn., and in Cambridge 
with Andrew T. Bates (Harv. 1859). He 
entered the sophomore class of Harvard 
University, and was graduated A. B. in 

1863. The degree of LL. B. was con- 
ferred in 1865, and A. M. in 1866. 

He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 

1864, and began practice in the office of 
D. P. Kimball, in Boston, in 1865. 

His literary tastes were always upper- 
most, and he began writing for magazines 
in 1 86 1. Before the close of 1865 he 
abandoned the practice of law for that of 
authorship, and is still engaged in the call- 



ing for which he is so well fitted. The 
trend of his mind is toward historv, and 
he stands to-day a leader in the ranks of 
historians, as well as a prominent educator 
in the same line. 

Prof. Fiske was university lecturer on 
philosophy. Harvard, 1869 to '71; instructor 
in history, Harvard, 1870 ; assistant libra- 
rian. Harvard, 1872 to '79 ; overseer of 
Harvard, 1879 to '85, and re-elected in 1885. 
He is professor of American history, 
M'ashington University, having been ap- 




JOHN FISKE. 

pointed to that chair in 1885. He is, or 
has been, a member of the American Acad- 
emy of Arts and Sciences, American Ori- 
ental Society, British Folk-lore Society, 
American Antiquarian Society and the 
California Historical Society. From 1876 
to '81 he was president of the Boylston 
Club. 

Prof. Fiske was married in Appleton 
chapel, Cambridge, September 6, 1864, to 
Abby Morgan Brooks, of Petersham. Of 
this union are si.\ children : Maud, Harold 
Brooks, Clarence Stoughton, Ralph Brown- 
ing, Ethel, and Herbert Huxley Fiske. 

As an historian. Prof. Fiske combines 
accuracy of research with philosophic 
breadth of view. As associate editor of 
" Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Bi- 
ography," he has contributed scores of 



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articles on the most prominent men in 
American history. 

His published works are as follows : 
" Myths and Mythmakers " (1872) ; " Out- 
lines of Cosmic Philosophy" (two vols., 
1874); "The Unseen World" (1876); 
"Darwinism and Other Essays " (1879) ; 
" E.xcursions of an Evolutionist" (1883) ; 
"TheDestiny of Man"(i884) ; "The Idea 
(if (k)d "(1885); "American Political Ideas" 
(1885); " \\'ashington and his Country" 
(1887); " The Critical Period of American 
HLstory " (1888) : " The War of Independ- 
ence " (1889) ; "The Beginnings of New 
England" (1889). 

FISKE, Joseph Emery, son of Emery 

and Eunice (Morse) Fiske, was born in 
Needham (now U'ellesley), Norfolk county, 
•October 23, 1839. 

He attended the common schools of his 
native town, and afterwards the Lawrence 
Academy, at Falmouth, fitting for college 
in the English and classical school at West 
Newton. He entered Harvard in 1857, and 
was graduated with the class of 1861. 

In 1862 he enlisted in company C, 43d 
M. v., serving as private and orderly- 
sergeant ; afterwards promoted to 2d lieu- 
tenant, ist lieutenant and captain in 2d 
Massachusetts heavy artillery, serving on 
the staff of Major-General F. P. Blair, 
commanding the 17th ami)' corps. He was 
a prisoner for ten months at Andersonville 
and Savannah, Ga., Charleston and Colum- 
bia, S. C, finally escaping and joining the 
army of General Sherman. 

After his return from the war he studied 
theology at Andover Theological Semi- 
nary, from which he was graduated in 
1867. In 1868 the death of his father 
necessitated his assuming the responsibility 
of the homestead, and he is at present 
largely engaged in real estate transactions. 

June I, 1869, Mr. Fiske married Ellen 
M., daughter of Dexter and Mary (Smitli) 
Ware, who died January 17, 1871. On the 
Sth of June, 1872, Mr. Fiske married 
Abbie Sawyer, daughter of Rufus and 
Isabella (Howe) Hastings. His living 
children are : Ellen Ware and Isabella 
Howe Fiske, the latter being one of twin 
sisters. 

Mr. Fiske has held a variety of local 
offices in benevolent, religious and literary 
organizations. He is a Mason and Odd 
Fellow, and a member of Charles Ward 
Post 62, G. A. R., and also of the 
Military Order of the Loyal Legion. He 
was one of the selectmen of Needham 
from 1873 to '77 ; was chief marshal of 
the town at the centennial celebration 



of Concord and Lexington, in 1S75, and 
represented Needham in the lower branch 
of the Legislature in 1874. In 1876 he 
was a member of the state Senate, and 
received the honor of a re-election the 
following year, serving as chairman of the 
military committee. He was a member of 
the Needham school board from 1876 to 
'81, and has been the chairman of the 
school committee of Wellesley since its 
incorporation. He is usually the moder- 
ator of the Wellesley town meetings, and 
continues actively identified with all that 
tends to the welfare and permanent pros- 
perity of the town. 

Mr. Fiske traces a direct lineage to the 
family of Robert and Sybil (Gold) Fiske, 
who lived in Framingham, Suffolk county, 
England. His son, with two nephews, came 




JOSEPH E. FISKE. 

to Watertown, in 1635. Nathan, one of 
the nephews, and ancestor of Mr. Fiske, 
was one of the selectmen of Watertown 
in 1674 and '75. The direct line of descent 
is as follows : Nathaniel, 1678 ; Moses, 
1713; Moses, 1746; Moses, 1776; Emery, 
1803. These ancestors were more or less 
engaged in public matters, holding town 
offices, commissions, etc., his father being a 
member of the Legislature in 1840 and '42, 
and a member of the Constitutional Con- 
vention in 1853. 



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FITCH. 



FLAGG. 



On his mother's side Mr. Fiske was 
descended from Samuel Morse, who came 
from England in 1635, and after a short 
stay in Watertown, settled in Dedham. He 
counts among his maternal ancestors, 
Lieut. John Bacon, who was killed in the 
battle of Lexington, and whose son, also 
honored with a commission, served in the 
revolutionary war. 

FITCH, ROBERT GERSHOM, son of 
Gershom M. and Almeda L. Fitch, was 
born at Sheffield, Berkshire county. May 
19, 1846. 

LTntil twenty years of age he worked on 
the farm, when he fitted for college at the 
South Berkshire Institute, New Marlbor- 
ough, graduating at Williams College in 
1870. While at college he was editor of the 
"Williams Quarterly,'' took an honorary 
oration at commencement, and was elected 
a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. 

In iSyo-'ya he was connected as jour- 
nalist with the " Springfield Republican," 
and the latter year he associated himself 
with the " Boston Post," serving as editor 
in various departments, up to editor-in- 
chief. Although his tastes and labors have 
been mainly in the direction of journalism, 
yet in May, 1886, he became a member of 
the board of fire commissioners in thecit\' 
of Boston, and was soon after chosen chair- 
man of the board. 

Under the administration of Mr. Fitch, 
the paper with which he was last connected 
grew in public estimation, and by its posi- 
tive, independent course made many warm 
and staunch friends. The present efficient 
status of the Boston fire department, now, 
as for many years, justly a matter of pride 
to the inhabitants of the city of Boston, is 
due in no small measure to the liberal 
policy and practical efficiency of the chair- 
man of the board which controls its man- 
agement. 

Mr. Fitch was married in Detroit, Mich., 
September 26, 1878, to Emma H., daughter 
of Burton and Minerva Emmons. She 
died in 1888, leaving as issue ; Helen M. 
and Emma M. Fitch. 

FITZ, Eustace Carey, son of Jeremiah 
and Hannah (Eaton) Fitz, was born in 
Haverhill, Essex county, February 5, 1833. 

He removed to Boston in 1834, and from 
thence to Chelsea in 1841, where he was 
educated in the public schools. Excepting 
a residence in Cambridge from 1856 to '59, 
he has continued to reside in Chelsea. He 
was a member of the common council in 
1861, '62, and '63, and president during the 
last two years. He was mayor of Chelsea 



in 1864, '65 and '66, and trustee of the 
public library for eighteen years, closing 
his term of service with a gift to the city 
of a library building costing upward of 
twenty-five thousand dollars. He was in 
the House of Representatives in 1873 and 
'74 ; in the Senate in 1875 and '76, and in 
the governor's council in 1881 and '82. He 
is now chairman of the commissioners of 
prisons. 

He is a member of the firm of Fuller, 
Dana & Fitz, iron merchants, of Boston ; 
is a member of the Baptist denomination, 
and president of the trustees of Newton 
'I'heological Institution. 




EUSTACE C. FITZ. 

On the loth of January. 1S56, he was 
married to Sarah Jane, daughter of Alfred 
and Margaret C. Blanchard, of Chelsea. 
Of this union are four children : Frank 
E., Emma J., .Vlfred ^\'., and Robert F. 
Fitz. 

FLAGG, Solomon, son of Solomon 
and Esther (Brown) Flagg, was born in 
Boston, August 24, 1S04. He received his 
early education in the schools of Need- 
ham, where he has ever since resided, in 
the portion incorporated in 1881, and 
known as the town of Wellesley. His 
first service to the public was in 1825, as 
teacher in the public schools of Sherborn, 
Dover, Natick, Needham, and Wellesley, 



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219 



cluring; the summer months lieing engaged 
in farming. 

Mr. I'lagg was married in Needham, No- 
vember 15, 1S27, to KHza, daughter of Ben- 
jamin and Saraii (Brown) Hall. Mrs. Flagg 
died April 7, 1875, aged seventy-three 
years. Of this union were three children: 
Charles Henry (deceased), George H. P. 
and Charles C. Flagg. 

Mr. Flagg has been honored above most 
of his fellow-citizens, by being called to 
occupy every important office in the gift 
of the town — town clerk thirty-eigiit 
years, town treasurer twenty-one years, 
selecttnan five years, representative to the 
General Court two years (1834 and 1S61), 
assessor twenty years, and member of the 
school boaril twenty-eight years. 

It is largely due to the unostentatious 
lives of such conscientious, reliable citi- 
zens that Massachusetts holds her ]iroud 
pre-eminence in the character and stability 
of her cherished institutions. 

FLETCHER, ASA A., son of Nahor 
and Ciiloe Fletcher, was born in Mendon, 
^\'orcester county, June 23, 1823. He 
attended district schools from ten to thir- 
teen weeks in winter until seventeen years 
okl. This, with si-x months' high school 
attendance, closed his school life. 

His first connection in business was as 
traveling salesman in the boot and shoe 
interest. He traveled in Ohio, Indiana, 
and Michigan, carrying his samples on 
horseback, as was the custom in those 
days, depending upon horse-teams to dis- 
tribute merchandise, and taking in payment 
the produce of the farm, or the paper 
money of wild-cat banks, with which the 
country at that time was flooded. The 
venture was not a success, owing mainly to 
the heavy e.xchange on New York, reach- 
ing at times twenty per cent. 

Returning home, he found employment 
in a boot manufactory, where he remained 
seven years, the last few years as fore- 
man. 

Failing health compelled him to change 
his business. He removed to Uxbridge 
and engaged in the boarding, hotel, livery 
stable, and butchering business. After 
live years of success, he sold out the busi- 
ness and removed to Franklin; engaged in 
hotel business five years; sold out again, antl 
spent the three following years in Chicago 
and Toledo, engaged in the straw business. 
This, also, was a financial success. Selling 
out his interest, he returned to Franklin, 
and again took up hotel business, with 
whicii he continued to be successfully 
iiientified until 1870, when he engaged in 



Dean Academy as steward, where he re- 
mained twelve years. 

He has been selectman, assessor, and 
overseer of the poor, holding one or more 




ASA A, FLETCHER. 

of those offices continuously for sixteen 
years, and is more or less engaged in town 
business, which, with the cultivation of a 
small farm, makes up his present vocation. 
He is director and vice-president of the 
Franklin Savings Bank, director of the 
Franklin Water Company, and a member 
(.f F. & A. M., and I. O. O. F. 

Mr. Fletcher was married in Manches- 
ter, Conn., in October, 1847, to Harriet li., 
daughter of William and Ede Durkee. Of 
this union were two children : Austin li. 
and a daughter, deceased. 

FLETCHER, Daniel W., son of Rufus 

R. and Sarah M. (Whitney) Fletcher, was 
born in Groton (now Ayer), Middlesex 
county, Feb. i, 1852. 

His early education was limited to dis- 
trict schools. At the age of thirteen, his 
father needing the aid of his boy's hands 
to contribute to the family support, he se- 
cured work in R. T. Bartlett's clothing 
store. He attended school the following 
winter, and the fall and winter of i866-'67 
at Lawrence Academv, Groton, working in 
the store nights and mornings, and during 
vacations. 



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FLETCHER. 



FLETCHER. 



In the spring- of 1867 Mr. Bartlett took 
him as apprentice to learn the trade of 
custom-cutting. He learned his trade in 
the five years following, and took charge 
of the business, working until September, 
1879, making nearly fourteen years in the 
same employ. 

In the summer of 1879 he bought out 
the stock of a general clothing and fur- 
nishing goods, boot and shoe store in Ayer, 
in company with E. D. Stone, under the 
firm name of Fletcher & Stone, where he 
still continues the business. 

In 1874 Mr. Fletcher was married to 
Emma A. Phelps of Ayer. They have 
four children: two sons and two daughters. 

In 1881 he was made a director of the 
Townsend National Bank, receiving de- 
posits at Ayer. He helped to organize the 
First National Bank of Ayer, and on No- 
vember I, 1883, was chosen vice-president 
and one of the directors. In 1885 he 
helped to organize a savings bank in Ayer, 
called the North Middlesex Savings Bank, 
and was chosen trustee and auditor. 

Some of the public interests of the town 
are usually in his hands, and he is treas- 
urer of several private organizations. 

FLETCHER, GEORGE ALBERT, son of 
Timothy and Sarah Preston (Adams) 
Fletcher, was born in Boston, March 7, 
1842. 

His father was a brother of Grace 
Fletcher, first wife of Daniel Webster, and 
a descendant of Robert Fletcher, who 
came to America in 1630. His mother was 
a descendant of Henry Adams, who came 
to America the same year. His maternal 
grandfather was Dr. Samuel Adams, a sur- 
geon in the revolutionary army, and one of 
General Washington's staff. 

Boston primary schools, Milton grammar 
schools and Milton Academy, gave him his 
early educational training. From the lat- 
ter school he was graduated in 1858, having 
been fitted for Harvard College. He was 
graduated from Harvard in the class of 
1862. 

Mr. Fletcher was married in Pawtucket, 
R. I., November 19, 1873, to Jennie Fran- 
ces Clapp, a lineal descendant of Captain 
Roger Clapp of Boston (1630), and daughter 
of Dr. Sylvanus and Lucy Mari (Clapp) 
Clapp. Of this union were five children : 
Grace Webster, Lucy Mari, Sallie Pres- 
ton, Samuel Adams and Jennie Clapp 
Fletcher. 

Mr. Fletcher enlisted as private in the 
38th regiment, Ma.ssachusetts volunteer in- 
fantry, August 22, 1862 ; was promoted to 
2d lieutenant, 56th regiment, September 



9, 1863, I St lieutenant, June, 1864, and 
captain. May, 1865. 

He was a member of the Milton school 
board 1872, '73, '74 and '75 ; commander of 
Huntington F. Wolcott Post 102, G. A. R., 
1881 to '86 ; sachem of Uncataquisset 
Tribe 53, 1. O. R. M., 1888 ; treasurer of the 
N. E. Kennel Club, and of the 56th Massa- 
chusetts Veteran Association at the present 
time, and member of the Military Order 
of the Loyal Legion of the United States. 
His residence is in Milton, and he is now 
engaged in the cracker business, a member 
of the firm of Bent & Co., established iSoi. 

FLETCHER, JOHN WARE, son of Amos 
and Sarah (^\■are) Fletcher, was born in 
Norridgewock, Somerset county, Maine, 
April II, 1824. 

The town school and academy furnished 
him with his educational training. 

His first connection in business was in 
Norridgewock, Me., 1842, in a country 
store and drugs. Subsequently in Bangor 
in dry goods and carpets, 1844, and in Bos- 
ton, in the grain, hay and flour commis- 
sion business, 1 851 to '61. 




JOHN W FLETCHER 



He is at present treasurer and manager 
of the Star Manufacturing Company. 

Mr. Fletcher was first married in Port- 
land, Maine, June 3, 1846, to Elizabeth 
Douglas, daughter of William and Julia 



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221 



( Douglas) Hyde. Of this union were two 
children: John Amos and Charles Richard- 
son Fletcher. He was married the second 
time, in Chelsea, May 25, 1864, to Mary 
(iould, daughter of John and Phebe Cor- 
nish (Qould) Brown. Of this union were 
five children : Marion Ware, Lawrence 
Brown, Annie Brown, Alice Mary and 
Albert Tripp Fletcher. 

Mr. Fletcher was several years director 
of the Wnmisimmet Benevolent Society, 
Chelsea ; lieutenant in the state artillery, 
.Maine, seven years ; lieutenant 43d Massa- 
chusetts regiment, in the war of the rebel- 
lion, serving in the signal corps ; captain in 
36th U«ited States colored troops. He is a 
member of the Military Order of the Loyal 
Legion and of the Grand .-Vrmy of the 
Republic. 

He has served as president of the common 
council, member of the board of aldermen, 
and mayor of Chelsea i87i-'72 ; represen- 
tative to the General Court from Chelsea, 
1873 and '74, and president of the Chelsea 
water board three years. 

FLOWER, Richard Charles, son of 

Alfred and Elizabeth (Orange) Flower, 
was born in .Albion, Edwards county. 111., 
I )ecember 1 1, 1849. 

Private schools in his native town gave 
him advantages for his early educational 
training until he was eleven years of age. 
He then was sent to Northwestern LTniver- 
sity, Lidianapolis, Ind., where he was 
thoroughly prepared for a university course, 
and pursuing it, was graduated in the class 
of 1868. 

He studied law and was admitted to 
practice, but upon the solicitation of family 
and friends, he relinquished his plans, and 
entered the ministry. In this field he was 
blessed with remarkable success, preaching 
in the West — Illinois, Indiana and Ken- 
tucky. His last call was to the city of 
Alliance, Ohio, December, 1875. 

About this time Dr. P'lower was impressed 
with the feeling that he was not laboring 
in the sphere to which nature had ordained 
him. During his whole life he had felt 
called to another line of activities. From 
boyhood having a trend toward the natural 
sciences, and acquiring by study a love for 
organic structure — both animal and vege- 
table — he soon after graduation felt the 
longing for the professional career he ulti- 
mately must adopt. He was further inclined 
toward this by a belief in his own intuitive 
knowledge in the diagnosis of disease. 
His strong desire to become a healer of 
the sick at last directed his action, and he 
entered the Cincinnati Health College, 



having previously gone through a thorough 
preparation with Andrew Strong, M. D., of 
Troy, N. Y., who was so long connected 
with Bellevue Hosjiital. 

His early practice after graduation from 
the medical college was successful. He 




RICHARD C. FLOWER. 

built up a phenomenal business in Phila- 
delphia and New York, but always being 
anxious to live in Boston, he removed there 
in 1882, where he continued his regular 
practice, distinguishing himself by his 
peculiar manner of diagnosis, and immense 
volume of business. 

In the early part of 1889 Dr. Flower 
built and opened the now well-known 
" Hotel Flower," on Columbus Avenue, 
Boston. This institution combines the 
features of the home, hotel and hospital, 
without the disagreeable accompaniments 
of the latter. Palatial in its construction 
and appointments, it is fitted with every 
known style of bath, electro-remedial appli- 
ances, and convenience for the comfort of 
the resident, guest or invalid, furnishes 
first-class hotel accommodations and 
thoroughly trained medical attendance. 
This institution, the first of its kind opened 
in the Commonwealth, is an ornament to 
the city and a credit to its founder. 

Dr. Flower was first married in Jeffer- 
sonville, Ind., in December, 187 1, to Ella, 



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FLOYD. 



FLYNN. 



daughter of Larkin and Amanda (Spangler) 
Nicholson. Of this union were two chil- 
dren : Altus D. and Jewel Flower. His 
second marriage was in July, 1877, with 
Mayde M., daughter of C. C. and Hannah 
(Shourds) Manfull. Of this union is one 
child : Evangeline Flower. 

FLOYD, David 2d, son of Edward 
and Lucretia (Tewksbury) Floyd, was 
born in Winthrop, Suffolk county, October 
26, 1854. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in the public schools and in French's 
Commercial College. In 1884 he com- 
pleted the four years' course of study in 
the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific 
Circle, and was graduated therefrom. 




DAVID FLOYD, 2d. 

He began business life by clerking in a 
general store. In 1882 he was elected one 
of the assessors of ^^'inthrop, and finding 
need of a better system of keeping real 
estate records of this fast-growing town, he 
established the " Block " system of writing 
up and keeping the changes of every par- 
cel of land in the town — Winthrop being 
the first town in the Commonwealth to 
adopt such a system. 

Since the death of his father in 1879 he 
has had much to do with the real estate 
formerly in his charge, and in January, 
1889, he with Frank W. Tucker formed a 



co-partnership as general agents for the 
care and sale of real estate, the placing 
of mortgages, writing fire insurance, etc., 
under the firm name of Floyd & Tucker, 
with offices both in Winthrop and Boston. 

Mr. Floyd was married, June 9, 1886, to 
Belle A., daughter of Charles T. and Emily 
E. (Fernald) Seavey. They have no chil- 
dren. 

Mr. Floyd is a trustee and steward of Win- 
throp M. E. church ; president of the Law 
and Order League and the Winthrop Hor- 
ticultural Society; was clerk of the Boston, 
Winthrop & Point Shirley R. R. Co., 1879 
and '80 ; has been town treasurer since 
1883 ; was representative to the General 
Court, 1887 and '88, serving on committees 
on mercantile affairs, taxation (chairman), 
and engrossed bills ; he is a trustee and one 
of the founders of Winthrop public library, 
and was for several years chairman of 
the Republican town committee. 

FLYNN, Edward James, son of 

Maurice and Mary (McSweeny) Flynn, 
was born in Boston, June 16, 1859. 

He was graduated from the public 
schools of Boston, common and high. On 
leaving the public schools he entered Bos- 
ton College, and was graduated therefrom 
in 1881, as valedictorian of his class, re- 
ceiving the degree of A. B., and afterwards 
that of A. M. in 18S4. 

After graduation he began the study of 
law, and was graduated from the Boston 
Lhiiversity law school in 1884, with the de- 
gree of LL. B. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar the same year, and also took a 
special course of law at the Harvard Uni- 
versity law school. He began business 
in 1884, opening a law office in Boston, 
where he has since remained in practice. 

Mr. Flynn is a member of the Boston 
Catholic LInion, Harvard Law School As- 
sociation, Boston LTniversity Association, 
Boston College Alumni Association, of 
which he was the first secretary. He was 
the first president of the Paul Revere 
Division, Massachusetts LTnited Benevolent 
Association. 

He was elected to the House of Repre- 
sentatives from the 6th Suffolk district, 
and served during 1885, '86, and '88 ; 
elected a member of the governor's coun- 
cil for 1889, the only Democratic mem- 
ber ; appointed by the mayor of Boston a 
director of the East Boston ferries during 
1886, '87 and '88. He is a member of the 
Democratic city committee of Boston. 

Mr. Flynn was the youngest man who 
ever sat as a ferry director, the youngest 
man who ever sat in the governor's coun- 



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FLVXT. 



223 



cil, and one of the youngest members of 
the House of Representatives. 

He always took an active part in the 
legislative debates, and served on the 




EDWARD J FLYNN 

committees of probate and insolvenc)-, elec- 
tion laws, constitutional amendments, and 
judiciary. 

Mr. Flynn is unmarried. 

FLYNT, William Norcross, son of 

Rufus and Sarah (Norcross) Flynt, was 
born at Monson, Hampden county, March 
14, 1818. His father was one of the most 
prominent citizens of Monson, and an 
incorporator of the Monson Academy, 
where j\Ir. Flynt obtained his education. 

After leaving the academy, he entered 
upon his business career as a clerk in his 
father's store, and continued in the same 
employment for several years after his 
father's death, under the hitter's successors. 
Before his death his father had worked a 
granite quarry to a slight extent, and in 
1839, the son turned his attention to this 
industry, further developing it, so that it 
soon became his principal business, and to 
it he devoted the best energy of his life, 
forming the Flynt Clranite Company and 
tile Flynt Building & Construction Com- 
pany, of both of which he is president. 

During his life he has held many public 
offices of responsibility. He is the oldest 



trustee of the Monson Academy now in 
service, being its treasurer sixteen years. 
For thirty years he was treasurer 'of the 
town, and was the projector and first 
president of the Monson Bank. He has 
also been president of the savings bank at 
Palmer. 

In 1848, in the Legislature, he secured 
a charter for the New London Northern 
K. R. against strong opposition, and was a 
member of the House of Representatives 
again in i860 and '61. In 1865 and '66 
he was in the executive council in the 
administrations of Governors Andrew and 
Bullock. In 1888 he was elected alternate 
delegate to the national Republican con- 
vention. 

June 4, 1846, Mr. Flynt married Joanna, 
daughter of Col. Isaac King of Palmer. 
Mrs. F"lynt died in 1850, leaving a son, 
William King Flynt, who was associated 
with his father in business from 1872 till 
his decease, February 22, 1886, aged thirty- 
five. In 1852 Mr. Flynt married Eudo- 
cia Carter, daughter of Marquis Converse 
of 13rimfield. His children are : Maria 
I, von, Rufus, Lyman Coleman, Sarah Con- 




WILLIAM N. FLYNT. 

verse, Ella Eudocia, and George Converse 
Flynt. The three sons are all immediately 
associated with their father in his various 
undertakings. 



22 Af 



FOGG, 



FOOTE. 



FOGG, Ebenezer Thayer, son of 

Ebenezer Thayer and Betsey (Tower) 
Fogg, was born in Scituate, Plymouth 
county, October 30, 1S26, and educated at 
the common schools. 

He began business as a mechanical ship- 
joiner, and subsequently for twenty-nine 
years was engaged in mercantile affairs. 
At present he is occupied as treasurer of 
the South Scituate Savings Bank. 

On the 5th day of October, 1859, Mr. 
Fogg was married to Helen Louise, daugh- 
ter of Benjamin and Margaret (Tilden) 
Smith. Their children are : Ebenezer 
Thayer, Helen Hambleton, and Horace 
Tower Fogg. 

He was appointed receiver of the Scitu- 
ate Savings Bank. Among other offices 
of trust and responsibility, he has held the 
position of postmaster for twenty-nine 
years, town clerk for thirty-one years, 
town treasurer twenty-eight years, and 
he was for four years upon the school 
committee. 

In 1880 and '81 he was elected senator 
to the state Legislature, and served upon 
such important committees as fisheries, 
roads and bridges, and woman suffrage. 
He was chairman of the committee on 
the liquor law in 1880. 

FOLSOM, JOHN Sanborn, .son of John 
Tilton and Hannah Morrill (Sanborn) Fol- 
som, was born October 12, 1840, in Man- 
chester, Hillsborough county, N. H. He is 
a lineal descendant in the seventh genera- 
tion from John Folsom, who set sail April 
26, 1638, from the mouth of the Thames, 
England, in the ship " Diligent," of Ips- 
wich, and who on his arrival in America 
settled in Hingham. His father, Dr. John 
T. Folsom, was for many years a successful 
and widely known practitioner of dentistry 
in the city of Gloucester, and later in Bos- 
ton. 

Having spent his boyhood and youth in 
school, at the age of si.xteen years he en- 
tered his father's office and devoted him- 
self to the study and practice of dentistry, 
under the careful instruction and experi- 
enced eye of his father, who designed to 
give his son the best advantages for this 
profession. After two or three years' train- 
ing he went to Baltimore and then to New 
York City, spending some two years in the 
offices of the most eminent dentists in the 
country at that period. 

Dr. Folsom, about i860, returned to his 
father's office in Gloucester, a well-read 
and skilled operator in dentistry. After 
some years he, with his father and uncle, 
N. T. Folsom, also a dentist, opened an 



office in Boston, where they had a large 
practice. Meanwhile his uncle became the 
inventor of what was known as the " Fol- 
som Dental Packing Ridge," patented 
January i, 1867, which became so import- 
ant to dentistry everywhere, that they all 
were engaged for a time in introducing 
this new invention, which yielded a very 
handsome pecuniary return. 

Subseciuently Dr. Folsom engaged some- 
what in other business, but still doing more 
or less in his profession. He himself made 
some valuable inventions in saddlery and 
hardware. After his father's death, for 
some years he was in company with his 
uncle, N. T. Folsom, in Boston, where he 
gave attention to the sale of goods manu- 
factured under their several patents, and 
devoted some time to his professional prac- 
tice in the place where he resided. He 
was a prominent citizen in Medway and a 
leader in politics as a Jackson Democrat, 
being on the Democratic town committee, 
where he was a faithful and energetic 
worker. 

As a business man. Dr. Folsom has had 
a good measure of executive ability, and 
has enjoyed the entire confidence of the 
community in which he has lived. 

He was a popular candidate in 1884 for 
representative to the General Court, receiv- 
ing a heavy vote of his townsmen without 
respect to party lines. In 1885, upon the 
incorporation of the town of Millis, he was 
chosen a member of the first board of 
selectmen, and on the decease of Lansing 
Millis, Dr. Folsom became chairman of the 
board. He was a judicious, progressive 
and faithful town officer. 

Dr. Folsom married, July 6, 1865, Marion 
Augusta, daughter of Dr. James B. and 
Priscilla A. (Godfrey) Ciould. She was 
born October 10, 1843, in New England 
Village, and died February 17, 1883. 

FOOTE, Caleb, the son of Caleb and 
Martha (\\"est) Foote, was born in Salem, 
Essex county, February 28, 1803. 

His paternal grandfather served in the 
revolutionary war, under Washington at 
Cambridge, and afterward as a prize- 
master at sea, where he was captured by 
an English ship and confined in Forton 
prison till he made his escape. He was a 
descendant of Pasco Foote, who settled in 
Salem before 1637. His maternal grand- 
father, Samuel West, died in a trading 
voyage to Virginia. The father of the 
subject of this sketch lost his life at sea 
in 1 8 10. 

He was then left at the tender age of 
seven, fatherless, motherless and portionless 



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FORBES. 



225 



— wholly dependent on relatives, and began 
to earn his own living at ten years of age, 
when he left the North Salem public 
school, and his school education was ended. 
He first went to attend in the shop of an 
uncle in Salem, and later in Boston, return- 
ing to Salem again for employment in a 
liook-store. Soon after this, he was on the 
point of following the sea for a livelihood, 
and had in fact shipped as cabin-boy for a 
sealing voyage in the .\rctic regions, when 
the captain who had engaged him broke the 
agreement in order to take a larger and 
stronger boy, and thereby diverted the 
current of his life. 




CALEB FOOTE. 

He then found employment in the office 
of the "Salem Clazette ;" this was in 181 7, 
since which time he has worked his way up 
in the same establishment from apprentice 
to proprietor and editor, having, at the 
.date of withdrawal (October, 18S8), been 
in active service in the office seventy-one 
years, and sixty-three of them as senior 
proprietor and editor. 

Mr. P'oote also established a small weekly 
paper, to which he gave the name of " The 
Salem Mercury," and it became an import- 
ant addition to the influence of the ofiice, 
being subsequently enlarged, and its title 
changed to that of " The Essex County 
Mercurv." 



The "Gazette" had a hard struggle at 
the outset of its career, but for more than 
a hundred years it has been regularly issued 
under the successive direction of two per- 
sons — Thomas C. Gushing from 1786 to 
1823, and Caleb Foote from 1825 to Octo- 
ber, 1888. For the brief space of twenty- 
seven months after Mr. Cushing's with- 
drawal, Mr. Ferdinand Andrews had the 
place of senior proprietor, being succeeded 
in that capacity by Mr. Foote, who in 
1854 was joined by Nathaniel A. Horton, 
as junior editor, who now publishes the 
"(lazette and Mercury" under the firm 
name of N. A. Horton & Son. 

Such public duties as the engrossing 
labors of an editor would permit came 
early to Mr. Foote. He served on the 
school committee in 1830 and '31, and was 
a member of the House of Representatives 
in 1833 and '34, declining a re-election. 

In January, 1838, he was elected by the 
Legislature a member of the executive 
council, and again in 1839, declining a 
subsequent re-election. In May, 1841, he 
was appointed postmaster of Salem, which 
position he retained three years. 

In 1867 he took a vacation for a trip to 
Kurope. 

Mr. Foote was married, October 2, 1835, 
to Mary Wilder, the daughter of Hon. 
Daniel Appleton AMiite, judge of probate 
for Essex county. She died I>ecember 24, 
1857. Of their six children, three are sur- 
viving : Rev. Henry W. Foote and Arthur 
Foote, now of Boston, and Mrs. Mary W„ 
wife of John B. Tilestoh, of Milton. 

FORBES, ROBERT Bennett, .son of 

Ralph Bennett and Margaret (Perkins) 
Forbes, was born in Jamaica Plain, Sep- 
tember 18, 1804. His family on both 
sides originated in Scotland. His jiaternal 
grandfather was Rev. John Forbes, of 
Milton, who married Dorothy Murray, of 
that town. In 1807 his parents removed 
to Boston. Two years later his father 
went to Europe. January 17, 181 1, the 
family embarked in the topsjyl schooner 
" Midas," bound for Marseilles. After de- 
tention by British war vessels, they arrived 
in safety, and were joined by the husband 
and father. Here the children remained 
at a boarding-school, while the parents 
traveled thirteen months in Europe and 
Africa. On their return they went to Bor- 
deaux, and remained five months. 

May 13, 1813, they embarked in an 
American schooner for home, sailing under 
a letter of marque. They were captured by 
a British cruiser, taken into Corunna, Spain. 
Later on they took passage in the brig 



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FORBES. 



" Caroline," were again captured, taken 
into Tagus Roads, escaped in the "Leda," 
a fishing boat, and went to Lisbon, and 
finally reached Newport, R. I. 

Mr. Forbes went into the employ of his 
cousin, S. Cabot, and James and Thomas 
S. Perkins, Jrs. In October, 1817, he 
went before the mast in the ship " Canton 
Packet," full of determination to some 
day command the ship. The second voy- 
age he was made third mate, and was pro- 
moted to second mate when sixteen years 
of age. He was captain of the " Levant " 
when twenty. 

Since that time he has visited many 
ports, and been participator in some of the 




ROBERT B. FORBES. 

most stirring adventures that can happen 
to travelers by land or sea. At the age of 
twenty-six he commanded his own ship, 
at twenty-eight he abandoned the sea as a 
profession, and at thirty-six was at the 
head of the house of Russell & Company, 
the largest American house in China. 

In 1S32 he returned home, and on the 
20th of January, 1834, married Rose 
Creen, daughter of John .Smith. Their 
surviving children are : Robert Bennett, 
Jr., Edith Perkins, and James Murray 
Forbes, several having died in infancy. 

In 1847 Mr. Forbes participated in the 
humane and timely act of forwarding sup- 



plies to the Irish, who at that time were 
suffering all the horrors of famine and 
fever. A petition had been presented to 
Congress by Commodore De Kay, and 
through the influence of Robert C. Win- 
throp, an amendment to it was carried 
through, granting the " Macedonian " to 
De Kay, and the "Jamestown" to Mr. 
Forbes. People of Boston and vicinity 
took great interest in this relief expedi- 
tion and contributed very freely. On the 
28th of March, 1847, with a crew of only 
thirty-one able men, and with about eight 
thousand barrels of provisions on board, 
he sailed for Ireland. A remarkably quick 
passage of fifteen days and three hours 
brought them to their destination, where 
the}' were most enthusiastically received 
by the grateful people. The voyage of 
the " Jamestown " was a most pronounced 
success. Leaving as she did at an unfa- 
vorable season of the year, and heavily 
laden, she made a passage that has rarely, 
if ever, been equaled by a sailing vessel. 

Mr. Forbes returned to China in 1838 
and again in 1849. AVhile there on his 
last visit he held the American vice-con- 
sulate, and at one time acted for the 
French in the same capacity. After his 
return he was engaged in the China 
trade. 

At the breaking out of the civil war he 
organized a coast guard for the instruction 
of merchant seamen in ordnance, and acted 
as chief of a commission to superintend the 
building of nine gun-boats. He was 
elected a trustee of the Humane Society 
of Massachusetts in 1841, and was for 
several years its vice-president. He was 
one of the founders of the Snug Harbor 
at Germantown, Quincy, and for some 
years its president. He has been inter- 
ested, as owner and builder, in some 
seventy vessels. He bought the propeller 
" Pembroke," the only vessel that sailed 
during the war under a letter of marque. 

Mr. Forbes is keenly alive to all matters 
that affect maritime interests, and partic- 
ularly those that tend to the safety and 
amelioration of the sailor. He has pro- 
nounced views upon these and kindred 
matters, and hopes to live long enough to 
see " ocean lanes " and his new rig for ves- 
sels adopted. 

FORBES, William Trowbridge, son 

of Ephraim Trowbridge and Catharine 
(White) Forbes, was born in Westborough, 
Worcester county. May 24, 1850. 

His preparatory education was obtained 
in the public schools of his native town, 
Allen's classical school, West Newton, and 



FORD. 



FORD. 



V 



under the tuition of Rev. James Tufts, 
Monson. He was graduated from Amherst 
College in the class of 187 i. 

After graduation he pursued his legal 
studies at Worcester, with Bacon, Hopkins 




WILLIAM T. FORBES, 

& Bacon, was admitted to the Massachu- 
setts bar in 1878, and in 1879 commenced 
the practice of law in Westborough, where 
he still resides. 

Mr. Forbes was married in Worcester, 
February 5, 1884, to Harriette, daughter 
of William T. and Maria C (Brighani) 
Merrifield. Of this union are three chil- 
dren : William T. M., Allan White and 
Cornelia Brigham Forbes. 

Judge Forbes was instructor in mathe- 
matics in Robert College, Constantino|5le, 
Turkey, from 187 1 to '74 ; standing jus- 
tice of the ist district court of East Worces- 
ter, 1875 to '79 ; member of the House of 
Representatives, 1881 and '82 ; member of 
the state Senate, 1886 and '87, and was 
made judge of the courts of probate and 
insolvency for Worcester county, 1888, 
which position he now holds. 

FORD, William Edwin, son of Eiisha 

and Nancy (Pierce) Ford, was born in 
Milton, Norfolk county, July 20, 1823. 

He obtained his education in the com- 
mon schools of Dorchester. In 1840 he 
began life for himself, and learned the 



silversmith's trade in Boston with Newell 
Hartling. 

While learning his trade he became 
a member of the Ap])rentices' Library 
Association, making himself a valuable 
member by his attention to the various 
duties he was called upon to perform. He 
was duly elected an honorary member 
upon his retiring from the association. 

Mr. Ford was married in Boston, June 
15, 1848, to Margaret E. N. Brewster, a 
descendant of "Elder Brewster." She was 
the daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth 
(Shortridge) Brewster, of New Hampshire. 
They have no living children. 

Mr. Ford has been associated with the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows since 
1844, and has passed through the different 
grades of office in the order, from the 
most humble to that of grand master of 
the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. He is 
known by many as the " Father of the 
Flag of the Order," as it was on his report, 
as chairman of the committee, that the flag 
was adopted by the Sovereign Grand Lodge 
of Baltimore, in 1868. He was representa- 




WILLIAM E, FORD. 



tive from Massachusetts to the Sovereign 
(irand Lodge of the United States in 1865, 
upon their re-union after the war. 

The procurement of the Odd Fellows' 
burial lot in Mt. Hope Cemetery resulted 



228 



FOSS. 



FOSS. 



largely from his efforts to provide a burial 
place for members of his own lodge, 
Siloam No. 2, of IJoston. 

To him is due the credit of perfecting 
the plan for an Odd Fellows' home for the 
aged member, his widow, and orphan chil- 
dren, and he is at the present time the presi- 
dent of the board" of trustees of the same. 

For many years he was the chairman of 
the relief committee of the order in Bos- 
ton, and is now the treasurer of that body. 
Few men have been more devoted to the 
charitable work of the fraternity than this 
tireless laborer. 

In other departments of charitable work 
he has been an active and devoted serv- 
ant. For many years he was a visitor in 
the Boston Provident Association, and in 
church matters he has always been a con- 
sistent Universalist. 

Mr. Ford is a practical man — positive 
in his convictions, generous in his nature, 
and gives himself heartily to the cause he 
espouses. He has filled a position in the 
Boston public library since it first moved 
to its present site on Boylston Street, in 
1848, and has won the respect of his as- 
sociates by his fidelity and urbanity. 

FOSS, James Henry, son of Joshua 

and Eliza (Foss) Foss, was born in Charles- 
ton, Penobscot county, Maine, July 25, 
1842. 

Passing through the public schools of 
Rowley, Mass., he determined to secure 
a liberal education, and prepared for college 
at Dummer Academy, Byfield, under the 
tuition of Prof. Marshall Henshaw. 

He was graduated A. B. from Brown 
University, Providence, R. I., in the class of 
1863. While fitting for college, he taught 
school in Barrington, N. H., at the early 
age of fifteen, and at that time impressed 
with a belief that it was his mission, 
preached the gospel according to the Bap- 
tist faith in the pulpits of the surrounding 
towns. 

After graduation he made a distinguished 
reputation as an educator, teaching in high 
school, Bristol, Conn., House of Refuge, 
Randall's Island, N. Y., Williams Academy, 
Stockbridge, Mass., Brisco school, Beverly, 
grammar school, Winchester, and the 
Bigelow school, Newton. He was also 
superintendent of Rowley common schools, 
and of the Bigelow district school of 
Newton. 

Leaving his profession on account of ill 
health, he was appointed by the Hon. 
George B. Loring, deputy commissioner 
of the United States Department of Agri- 
culture. 



Mr. Foss was married in Gloucester, to 
Mary H., daughter of Parker Burnham, of 
that city. Of this union were three chil- 
dren : Mary P., Ada and Ida Foss. Mr. 
Foss was married the second time in 
Allston, June 20, 1878, to Lillian A., daugh- 
ter of Quincy A. and Betsey C. (Wedge) 
Washburn. Lillian A. Washburn was an 




JAMES H. FOSS. 

elocutionist and musician of no small 
repute. Of this union is one child : Eliza- 
beth Foss. 

Mr. Foss has always been active in state 
and national politics, an ardent Republican 
and campaign speaker. He is president of 
the Needham Republican club. 

Mr. Foss is known better to-da}- as a 
founder and builder of towns in Florida. 
While in the department of agriculture, he 
possessed opporttniities for becoming 
acquainted with the best portions of the 
undeveloped lands of Florida, and upon 
his retirement from office, he availed him- 
self of what knowledge he had gained, and 
sometimes for himself, sometimes in com- 
pany with others, purchased large tracts of 
land in the healthful highlands of Florida, 
where he has founded and built two flourish- 
ing towns, Altamont, Orange county, and 
Belleview, Marion county. In the former 
town he built the famous Altamont Hotel. 
Belleview contains already one hundred 



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FOTTLER. 



229 



houses, three hotels, schools, churches, 
.stores, manufactories, etc. Mr. Foss has 
disposed of over $250,000 worth of Florida 
lands in these two towns. His present 
vocation is furthering their interests by 
lecturing in northern cities, planting orange 
groves for investors, building houses for 
winter as well as permanent residents, sell- 
ing lands in large or small tracts, writing 
books, etc. He is energetic, persevering, 
and possesses the confidence of all who 
know him. 

FOSTER, Enoch, .son of Zephaniah K. 
and Mercv T. (Trull) Foster, was born in 
Tewksbury, Middlese.x county, April 22, 
1831. He attended the common schools, 
where he received his early educational 
training. 

He began business life as a manufac- 
turer of furniture, with his brother and 
Nathaniel P. Cole, under the firm name of 
J. & E. Foster & Co., in April, 1851. In a 
few years the firm name was changed to 
Fosters & Cole. In 1856 Fosters & Cole 
sold out to Wood Bros., and bought out 
the furniture ware-room of C. G. Weaver &: 
Co., in Lowell, and soon after admitted 
Francis Kingman of Reading. The par- 
ties who bought out the manufacturing 
business being unable to carry out their 
contract, Fosters & Cole were obliged to 
resume control of their business, and 
therefore sold their Lowell interests to 
Adams & North. 

They were afterwards interested in sev- 
eral furniture manufacturing and wholesale 
and retail establishments in Massachusetts 
and California. 

In 1886 Mr. Foster closed out nearly all 
of his interests in the wholesale, retail 
and manufacturing business, and turned his 
attention to farming, his present occupation. 

Mr. Foster was married in Reading to 
Mary J., daughter of Aaron and Mary A. 
(Jaques) Frost. They have no children. 

Mr. Foster has been called to serve his 
municipality as town clerk, selectman, 
town treasurer, justice of the peace, etc. 
He has been representative to the General 
Court two sessions. His church connec- 
tions are with the Congregational church 
and society, of which he is deacon and 
treasurer. 

FOTTLER, Jacob, son of John and 
Mary (Donald) F'ottler, was born in Dor- 
chester, Norfolk county, August 19, 1839. 

He obtained his school training in the 
common schools of Belmont and Brighton, 
and at the Eliot high school, Jamaica 
TIain. 



He worked at home on his father's farm 
— a tract of land now included within the 
boundaries of Franklin Park — also for a 
time at Hingham ; at the age of nineteen 
he left home for California, and for some 
time was employed on a ranch in that 
state ; coming back to Boston, he secured 
a situation in Faneuil Hall market. In 
1872 he was admitted as a partner in the 
firm of Sands, Furber & Co., which busi- 
ness relation still continues. 

Mr. Fottler was married in Sanbornton, 
N. H., March 12, 1865, to Lucy Ann, 
daughter of Captain Edward and Phebe 
(Morrison) Evans. Of this union are two 
children : Frances Bell and Milton Evans 
Fottler. 

Mr. F'ottler was a member of the Boston 
common council in 1885, '86 and '87, and 
served on the following committees : pub- 
lic parks, public institutions, markets, elec- 
tions, and sale of reservoir lot. He was 
a member of the House of Representatives, 




JACOB FOTTLER. 

1888 and '89, and served on the commit- 
tee on the State-house. He is a member of 
the Boston Chamber of Commerce — elect- 
ed to serve on the board of directors for a 
term of three years ; a member of the 
Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange, and 
also of the Bay State Agricultural So- 
ciety. 



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FOX. 



He is a member of the Ancient and 
Honorable Artillery Company of Massa- 
chusetts — receiving a lieutenant's commis- 
sion June 6, iSSy. Mr. Fottler visited 
England in July, 1887, as one of the dele- 
gation of the " Ancients," who were invited 
by the Honourable Artillery Company of 
London to be present and assist in the 
■ three hundred and fiftieth anniversary cele- 
bration of that company. 

FOWLER, Benjamin Austin, son of 

Benjamin Coleman and Sophia Cowdrey 
(.Stevens) Fowler, was born in Stoneham, 
Middlesex county, December 14, 1843. 

He passed through all the grades of 
school in Stoneham, including the high 
school, from which he went to Phillips 
Acadeni}', Andover, and was graduated in 
1862. He was an active member of the 
Phillips Academy Cadets, a company of pa- 
triotic young men preparing themselves for 
future service in the army, where many of 
them were found before the close of the 
civil war. 

In 1863 Mr. Fowler entered Yale Col- 
lege, and was graduated in the class of 
1868, having lost one year from illness 
contracted in the army. 

He engaged in teaching in Danvers for 
one year ; was salesman in a wholesale shoe 
store in Boston one year ; studied law one 
year, until ill health necessitated a change. 
For several years he was in the real estate 
business. Continued poor and failing 
health led him into the subscription book 
business, in 1875. Li 1881 he became in- 
terested in silver mining in New Mexico, 
and devoted his time to it until 1884, when 
he bought back the book business sold in 
1881. 

From early in 1886 he was the New 
England agent of Dodd, Mead & Co., pub- 
lishers, of New York City, and in February, 
i88g, he accepted the position of general 
manager of their subscription book busi- 
ness, with headquarters in New York, 

Mr. Fowler was married in Medford, 
October 17, 1888, to Ella Frances, daugh- 
ter of Benjamin F. and Almedia Hobson 
(Cobb) Quinby. 

Mr. Fowler was a member and secretary 
of the Stoneham school board from 1871 
to '76 ; has been delegate to various Re- 
publican conventions, county and state ; 
was superintendent of the Sunday-school of 
the First Congregational church of Stone- 
ham from 1870 to '76 ; treasurer of the 
parish, 1871 and '72; president of the 
Stoneham Choral Society, and has been 
generally active in many minor societies — • 
social and literarv. 



Mr. Fowler enlisted in August, 1862, in 
company C, 50th regiment, Massachusetts 
volunteers — nine months' troops; joined 
General Banks's expedition to the Gulf, 
and served in Louisiana ; was detailed into 
the signal corps, and there remained until 
the 50th regiment was ordered home. He 
participated in the siege of Port Hudson ; 
was then attached to General Dudley's 
staff and ordered down the Mississippi 
River to Bayou La Fourche on an expedi- 
tion to Brashear City ; was in the disastrous 
engagement at Donaldsonville, and was 
mustered out about one year from the time 
of enlistment. 

FOX, James Augustus, son of George 

Howe and Emily (Wyatt) Fox, was born 
in Boston, August 11, 1827. He traces 
his ancestry to prominent English and 
Scotch families ; on the paternal side to 
one in Lincolnshire, England, which in- 
cluded the author of the celebrated " Book 
of Martyrs ; " and on the maternal to the 
Scotch family of Forbes, represented in the 
State by Hon. John M. Forbes and Hon. 
Lincoln F. Brigham, Chief Justice of the 
superior court of Massachusetts. 

His academical education was attained 
in the public schools of Boston, after which 
his studies were in the line of his chosen 
profession, and were pursued in the law 
school of Harvard University and the office 
of the late Hon. John C. Park. He was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1854. 

In 1S48 he married Julia Elisabeth, 
daughter of Col. James and Julia (Sterry) 
Valentine, of Providence, R. L, and the 
grand-daughter of William and Elisabeth 
(Borden) Valentine, of Fall River. Her 
grandfather was one of the original pro- 
jectors of the extensive manufacturing en- 
terprises of that city. She died in 1872 
leaving three daughters : Henrietta, Julia 
and Lillian. 

He continued in practice until the out- 
break of the war of the rebellion in 1861, 
which found him as captain of the Boston 
City Guard in the militia of the State, and 
his companv became the nucleus of the 
13th regiment of Massachusetts volunteers. 
He left with his command for the front,, 
July 29, 1861. Captain Fox served in the 
perilous campaigns in Virginia during the 
remainder of that year and in 1862, receiv- 
ing the warm commendation of his superior 
officers, and the respect and love of the 
men of his command. 

He was early a member of the Military 
Order of the Loyal Legion of the United 
States, and an active comrade of the G. A. 
R., and in his Memorial Day addresses on 



FOX. 



FOX. 



2^1 



several occasions, his oratorical abilities 
were conspicuously manifest, especially in 
one oration, entitled " The Two Civiliza- 
tions," which has been published, and 
another given upon the ever memorable 
field of C^ettysburg-. 

In 1864 and '65 he was the commander 
of the .\ncient and Honorable Artillery 
Company of Massachusetts, and was one 
of the delegation of that historic organiza- 
tion at the three hundred and fiftieth anni- 
versary of the parent corjis — the Honour- 
able Artillery Company of London — held 
in London during the jubilee period of 
Oueen Victoria, in 1887. 




JAMES A, FOX. 

Li civil life Mr. Fox has had a somewhat 
extended experience, having been a mem- 
ber of the school committee of Boston for 
three years, and a member of the Legisla- 
ture in both its branches — in the House 
of Representatives in 1867 and '68, and in 
the Senate in 1870 and '71. While in the 
last named branch he delivered a merited 
and eloquent eulogy upon the life and 
military services of Major-General George 
H. Thomas, then recently deceased. 

After his removal to the university-city 
of Cambridge, in 1872, he served for two 
years in the aldermanic board, and subse- 
quently as mayor for four consecutive 
terms. 



He is identified as an active officer or 
member with several of the prominent 
beneficiary orders of the country, such as 
the Indejiendent Order of Odd Fellows, 
Lnproved Order of Red Men, and the 
Knights of Pythias ; in the latter named 
body he has been grand chancellor of 
Massachusetts, supreme representative to 
the national branch, and judge-advocate- 
general of the uniform rank, upon the 
staff of Commander-in-chief Major-(ieneral 
Carnahan, of Indiana. 

In the world-wide institution of Free 
Masonry, he has attained the very highest 
grade. Commencing with the " blue 
lodge " he has advanced through all the 
series of degrees of York and Scottish 
rites — the chapter, cryptic masonry, the 
commandery (K. T.), the consistory, unto 
the sovereign grand inspector-generalship 
of the thirty-third and last degree, and in 
most of these he has served as the presid- 
ing ofificer. 

As a legislator, municipal chief-magis- 
trate, soldier, orator, or officer of fraternal 
beneficiary societies, he has ever discharged 
his varied duties with ability and faithful- 
ness. 

FOX, William Henry, son of Henry 

Hodges and Sarah Ann (Burt) Fox, was 
born in Taunton, Bristol county, August 
29, 1837. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in the public schools of his native 
]5lace, where he was prepared for col- 
lege. He was graduated from Harvard 
in the class of 1858. Choosing the pro- 
fession of law, and having pursued the 
letpiisite preparatory reading, he was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1861. He at once 
entered active practice, and has remained 
in the same to the present time. 

In January, 1865, he was appointed jus- 
tice of the municipal court of Taunton. 
He was appointed justice of the first dis- 
trict court of Bristol in 1875, which posi- 
tion he still holds. 

Judge Fox was married in Taunton, 
October 6, 1864, to Anna M., daughter of 
James H. and Harriet M. (Yale) Anthony. 
Of this union were three children : William 
A ale, Marion and Francis Bird Fox. Wil- 
liam Yale Fox is a practicing physician in 
Taunton. 

Judge Fox has been mayor of the city of 
Taunton ; one of the trustees of the pub- 
lic library for seventeen years ; is vice- 
president of the Bristol County Sav- 
ings Bank ; member of the board of 
trustees of Wheaton Female Seminary, 
and is interested in, and an active mem- 



FRANCIS. 



FRENCH. 



ber of, various benevolent and literary so- 
cieties. 

Tlie four grandparents of Judge Fox 
could trace their ancestry back almost to 
the first settlement of this country : Thomas 
Fo.x, Cambridge, 1637 ; William Hodges, 
Boston, 1633 ; Kenelm Winslow, Plymouth, 
brother of Edward, 1629, and Richard 
Burt, one of the first settlers of Taunton 
in 1639. With this ancestry it is to be e.x- 
pected that Judge Fox would be the thor- 
ough American he is. His influence is 
always for the right, intelligent and good, 
and while conservative in judgment, he is 
prompt in decision, and acts as he decides. 
He po.ssesses the entire esteem and confi- 
dence of his fellow-citizens and profes- 
sional associates. 

FRANCIS, James BICHENO, was born 
in Oxfordshire, England, May 18, 1815. 
At the early age of fourteen he commenced 
his apprenticeship as a civil engineer, being 
engaged in dock construction in Wales, 
under Alexander Nimmo, chief engineer, 
and on the Grand Western Canal in Dev- 
onshire and -Somersetshire, under James 
(ireen, chief engineer. 

On these works he spent four j'ears, 
after which, in 1833, he came to this coun- 
try, obtaining emplovment at once as an 
assistant engineer on the Stonington R. R. 
under William Gibbs McNeil and George 
W. Whistler. In 1834 Mr. Francis went to 
Lowell with Mr. Whistler, in charge of the 
locks and canals on the Merrimack River. 
In 1837 Mr. Francis became chief engineer, 
and in 1845 he was appointed agent of the 
corporation. He retained both offices until 
1884, when, after fifty years' service with 
the companv, he retired. He was subse- 
(]uently appointed their consulting engineer, 
an office he still holds. 

In 1855 Mr, Francis published his " Low- 
ell Hydraulic Experiments," being a selec- 
tion from experiments made by him in 
connection with the distribution of the 
water power at Lowell, and in 1865 a work 
on cast-iron pillars, which was suggested 
by the fall of the Pemberton Mill at Law- 
rence in i860, — a disaster attributable to 
the weakness of the pillars. In i88o-'8i he 
held the office of president of the .\merican . 
.Society of Civil Engineers, and he has 
contributed several papers to their trans- 
actions. 

Mr. Francis was married in Lowell, 1837, 
to Sarah W., daughter of George and Lydia 
W. (Sweet) Browned. Of this union are 
four children surviving : (ieorge E., James, 
Charles and Elizabeth, wife of Henry H. 
Bennett. 



FRENCH, JOB B., son of Enoch and ^ 
Sarah (Read) French, was born in Fall 
River, Bristol county, March 6, 1806. 

His education was limited to the com- 
mon schools of those days. His first con- 
nection in business was as a clerk in his 
father's store, in 1820, the first shoe store 
ever opened in the town. He entered as 
a partner with his father and tw-o brothers 
in 1827, managing a tannery, and manu- 
facturing boots, shoes and leather. In 
1832 they divided their interest, the sub- 
ject of this sketch taking the store with 
his father. At the decease of his father, 
in 1847, he assumed the control of the 
business and continued it alone until 1864, 
when he took in his son as partner, under 
the firm name of J. B. French & Son. 

Mr. French was married in Fall River, 
in I S3 1, to .Abby .\llan, who was born in 
Newport. R. I., daughter of William S. N. 
and Mehitabel Allan. She died in 1870. 
In 1873 Mr. French was again married, to 
Mary B., daughter of Robert and Hope 
Cook ; she died in 18S2. His children are : 
Mary E., wife of D. H. Dyer (now de- 
ceased), James R. (now deceased), Edward 
A. (now deceased), .\bby M.. Julia W., 
Sarah J. (wife of William Lindsey, of Fall 
River)" 

Mr. French was representative to the 
General Court in 1836 and '41 ; was presi- 
dent of the Fall River Savings Bank some 
sixteen years, and trustee nearly half a cen- 
tury ; was a member of the common coun- 
cil several years, and has served on the 
board of assessors ; has been president of 
the Weetamoe Cotton ALanufacturing Com- 
pany from its commencement, 1870, to the 
present time. He has been a member of 
the First Baptist church since 1830. 

FRENCH, Jonas HarROD, son of 
William and Sarah (Baldwin) French, was 
born in Boston, November 4, 1829. 

He was educated in the Boston public 
schools, graduating from the English high 
school in 1845. 

He began his business career as a gro- 
cer. He afterwards became largely inter- 
ested in distilling ; to an otherwise varied 
and extensive business he has added the 
granite industry, managing a large inter- 
est as president of the Cape Ann Granite 
Company. 

Mr. French was married in Boston, in 
1857, to Fanny E., daughter of Newell A, 
and Susan (Wyman) Thompson. Of this 
union are two children : Fanny T. and 
Henry G. French. In 1883 he married 
Nella J., daughter of \\'illiam and Lucinda 
Pearson of Boston. 



FRENCH. 



FRENCH. 



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Mr. French in 1S69 org;anized the 
Cape Ann (iranite Company, the quarries 
of which are located in Gloucester. He 
has furnished the granite for numerous 
public buildings and monuments — notably 
the Boston post-office and sub-treasury 
building, Baltimore post-office, the bases 
of the Scott monument, Washington, D. C, 
the spandel walls of the great Brooklyn 
bridge, and the new court-house in Boston. 




JONAS H FRENCH 



He was scarcely of age when he en- 
rolled himself in the City Cuards, the 
favorite Boston company of those days. 
He was elected captain of the company, 
holding the position three years. He 
served two years on the staff of Governor 
Gardner. In 1861 he was commander of 
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery of 
Boston, and is to-day one of the oldest 
living commanders of that time-honored 
corps. In 1853, '55 and '56 he was a mem- 
ber of the conmion council of the city of 
Boston. 

In November, 1861, at Camp Chase, 
Lowell, he raised the regiment known as 
"The Eastern Bay State," afterwards 
designated as the 30th Massachusetts. 
In January following he sailed in com- 
mand of that regiment for Ship Island, 
attached to General Benjamin ¥. Butler's 
e.xpedition against New Orleans. He was 



provost-marshal-general of Louisiana, and 
subsequently served under (ieneral N. P. 
Banks. 

Colonel French was a delegate to the 
national Democratic convention, at Cin- 
cinnati, in 1880, and at St. Louis in 1888, 
and was a member of the state Senate, 
1879 and '80, doing brilliant work on lead- 
ing committees, and was chairman of the 
Democratic state central committee for 
three years. 

He was three years president of the 
Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis R. R., 
and ten years a director in the New York 
& New England R. R. He has been a 
director in the \\'est End Land Company 
since 1887, and has been since 1873 a 
director of the Maverick National Bank, 
Boston. He is a prominent Mason, and 
one of the founders of St. Bernard En- 
campment, and Revere Lodge. 

FRENCH, William Wesley, son of 

^Villiam B., and Mary Ann (Torrey) 
French, was born in Brockton, Plymouth 
county, January 10, 1849. 

Receiving his preparatory education in 
the grammar and high schools of Brockton, 
he entered Dartmouth College in 1867, and 
was graduated in the class of 1872. 

After graduation he taught school for a 
short time in Sandwich and in Kingsland, 
N. J., and choosing the profession of law, 
pursued his legal studies in the office of 
Knapp & Bowman, Boston. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1874, 
and immediately began the practice of his 
profession in Gloucester, where he has 
since resided. 

August I, 1878, at Gloucester, Mr. 
French was married to Lelia Fenno, 
daughter of Moses H. and Ellen M. (Low) 
Shaw. 

• Mr. French is a member of the Knights 
of Pythias, was secretary and chairman of 
the Republican city committee of (jlouces- 
ter, having held the position several years, 
and is a special justice of the police court, 
and president of Unity Club. In 1879 he 
was a memiier of the common council, city 
solicitor four years, i8So-'8i-'S2-'83, and in 
1888 was elected mayor by the city coun- 
cil, and re-elected for 1889, without oppo- 
sition. 

Mr. French, in his last inaugural address, 
indicated a laudable purpose to have an 
administration characterized by economi- 
cal and judicious expenditure of money, a 
non-partisan and paternal oversight of 
schools, and a careful attention to the 
minor details of municipal government, 
which went far to confirm the judgment 



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FROST. 



formed bj- liis fellow-citizens of the ability 
and integrity of their new chief executive 
officer. These indications have all been 
verified, and the city of (lloucester may 
well be congratulated at the result of its 
action at the polls. 

FRIES, WULF Christian Julius, son 

of Johan Carl Ludolph and Anna (Stuhr) 
Fries, was born in Garbeck-Holstein, Ger- 
many, January lo, 1825. 

He was educated in his father's school 
until he was eleven years of age, when he 
went to Ploen, in Holstein, to receive in- 
struction in music. His father being an 
amateur musician, had given him some 
instruction on the violoncello, and being 
so small he was obliged to stand and play 
it in the bass fashion. At Ploen he was 
tried at various instruments. He made 
himself useful in playing the French horn, 
violin, viola, bass, trombone, etc., when 
needed. From Ploen he went with his 
brother August to Bergen in Norway, 
where they were engaged by a Mr. Schloss- 




WULF C. J. FRIES, 

bauer, who, not treating them well, was 
obliged by law to release them. 

However, in Bergen they made friends, 
and were invited to play in the only 
theatre there, August playing the violin, 
and Wulf the 'cello. They gave con- 
certs and helped artists who came there 



to concertize, such as Ole Bull and Keller- 
man, the famous 'cellist. From hearing 
these two great artists, Wulf was decided 
as to his instrument, and became the 
world-renowned 'cellist he is. In 1847 
both brothers came to America. Wulf 
chose Boston, and has made it his home, 
where he has delighted New England audi- 
ences, and done much to raise the stand- 
ard of orchestration. 

Mr. Fries was married in St. Paul's 
Episcopal church, Boston, July 7, 185 i, to 
Louisa Ann Mary, daughter of James P. 
Gann (London, Eng.), and Mary Miles 
Goldfinch Hickins ,{ Ryder) Gann (Lanca- 
shire, Eng.). Of this union were two 
children : James Christian Charles and 
Wulf (deceased). He was again married 
near the city of Bergen, Norway, Septem- 
ber 16, 1857, to Magdalene, daughter of 
Johan Fritzner and Henrietta (Neven) 
Greve, of Norway. Of this union are 
two children : Louisa Henriette and Anna 
Magdalene Fries. 

In Boston, Wulf Fries was at first 'cellist 
at the old National Theatre, but when his 
brother, the violinist, came to Boston and 
settled, one year later, the Mendelssohn 
Quintette Club was formed by Augu.st 
Fries, at the house of John Bigelow. 
This was in 1849. Previous to this, Wulf, 
being a fine trombone player, had joined 
the Germania, and was an original member 
of the Germania Serenade Band. He was 
also to be found in almost every good con- 
cert in Boston from that time, being a mem- 
ber of the old Musical Fund Society. He 
took part in all the Handel and Haydn 
concerts, the Harvard Musical Society, the 
Jubilees, etc. The Mendelssohn Quin- 
tette Club took the most of his time and 
gave him opportunities for the best cham- 
ber music, in which he always feels partic- 
ularly happy. 

After twenty-three years with the Men- 
delssohn Quintette Club, he tired of trav- 
eling, and the Beethoven Quintette Club 
was formed. This change kept him nearer 
home, and when Rubenstein came to Bos- 
ton, Mr. Fries was called upon to play in 
trios with him and the great Wieniawski. 

His residence is Roxbury. His church 
connections are with the Lutherans. 

FROST, Henry, son of Washington 
and Samantha (Lawrence) Frost, was born 
in (Iranby, P. Q., May 18, 1832. 

His education was obtained in the dis- 
trict schools and Derby Academy, Vermont. 

He came to Boston in 1852 ; entered the 
employ of Pierce, Clark & Reed, wholesale 
dry goods merchants : in 1854 he was ad- 



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235 



mitted a partner of the firm of L. R. Hor- 
ton & Co., which took the name of Horton, 
Boon & Frost ; in 1857, Boon, Frosts Co., 
and in 1868 Henry Frost & Co. He is at 
present a large and prosperous silk manu- 
facturer, his firm representing the Eureka 
Silk Manufacturing Company, of which 




HENRY FROST. 

Mr. Frost is vice-president, and for whom 
Seavy, Foster & Bowman are selling agents. 
Of this latter firm Mr. Frost is also a 
partner. 

Mr. Frost was married in Boston, Sep- 
tember 4, i860, to Elizabeth Burrows, 
daughter of John and Ann (Burrows) Gil- 
bert. They have two children : Henry 
Gilbert ancl William Lawrence Frost. 

Mr. Frost has been a member of the 
Boston ward and city committee for ten 
years ; member of the Boston common 
council- 1886 and '87 ; member of the 
Legislature as representative 1888 and '89, 
serving on the committees on public chari- 
table institutions, cities and library. 

He has been a justice of the peace three 
terms ; was chairman of the building com- 
mittee of the Bo-Ston Young Men's Christian 
Association twelve years ; is a prominent 
member of the Boston Merchants' Club, 
Home Market Club, and Mercantile Associ- 
ation ; trustee of Home Savings Bank, and 
a number of other corporations. 



He has been a member of the Congre- 
gational denomination since 1853, antl is an 
honored member of the Congregational 
Club. 

Mr. Frost was a delegate to the World's 
Convention of the Young Men's Christian 
Association which met at Stockholm in 
18S8. 

FROST, RUFUS Smith, .son of Joseph, 
Jr., ancl Lucy (Wheeler) Frost, was born 
in Marlborough, Cheshire county, N. H., 
July 18,1826. His father, a thrifty farmer, 
was a native of this town, as were three 
successive generations of the same fami- 
ly. The English ancestor, Elder Edmund 
Frost, came to this country in the sloop 
" Great Hope," during the autumn of 1635, 
from Ipswich, England, accompanied by 
his wife and son. He settled in Cambridge, 
where he became ruling elder of the First 
church, which was organized soon after his 
arrival. 

From this most excellent patriarch seven 
generations have lineally descended, Mr. 
Frost being in the seventh. On his mater- 
nal side he derives his origin from Thomas 
Wheeler, who was established in Town- 
send as early as 1640. His grandfather 
was David Wheeler, who married Rebecca 
Hoar of Concord, and was the first town 
clerk of Marlborough, N. H., in 1776. 

Mr. Frost, the eighth child of his parents, 
left his native town at the age of seven 
years, together with his widowed mother 
and family, and removed to Boston. There 
he attended the public schools, and supple- 
mented his public school education by a 
course of academic training in Newton. 

Thus fitted for a commercial career, he 
entered a wholesale dry -goods house in 
Boston. By vigor, aptitude, and ability 
displayed in this service, he rapidly rose to 
the highest position, and at the age of 
twenty-one was admitted to partnership in 
the firm which adopted the title of Osgood 
& Frost, and continued in business for sev- 
eral years. In 1866 the present firm of 
Rufus S. Frost & Co. was organized for 
the transaction of a general commission 
business in American goods. Mr. Frost 
soon became extensively engaged in the 
manufacture of woolens. The National 
Association of Woolen Manufacturers was 
founded November 20, 1864. Of that 
association Mr. Frost was president for 
seven years. He is also chairman of the 
executive committee. 

To the astonishingly rapid development 
of American manufacture during the last 
twenty years Mr. Frost has conspicuously 
and effectivelv contributed. His adminis- 



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frotiiix(;ham. 



trative ability has been recognized by his 
fellow-citizens, and he has been called 
repeatedly to positions of public honor and 
responsibility. 

He was mayor of Chelsea (his present 
residence) in 1867, and in '68 he received 
a practically unanimous re-election. In 
1871 and '72 he was a member of the 
state Senate, serving on the committees on 
harbors and mercantile affairs, and was 
chairman of the same committees during 
the latter session. 

In 1873 and '74 he was a member of 
Governor Washburn's council. In 1874 he 
was elected to the 44th Congress from the 




RUFUS S FROST, 

4th congressional district, and served with 
marked ability on the committee on rail- 
roads, and the committee on freedmen's 
affairs. 

Mr. Frost has long been actively con- 
nected witli numerous benevolent and 
religious societies, and the educational in- 
stitutions of the .State have found in him a 
liberal patron and a wise counselor. He 
remembered his native town by a generous 
gift in the shape of an elegant granite 
library building, furnished with two thou- 
sand volumes, the deed of the whole being 
presented to the citizens of Marlborough, 
N. H., August 26, 1867. To this was added 
also a fund of five thousand dollars, the 



interest annually accruing from which to 
be used for the purchase of additional 
books. In honor of the donor, it was 
named by the town the " Frost Free 
Library." 

Mr. Frost has been twice married. His 
first wife was Ellen M., daughter of Hon. 
Charles and Amelia (Ripley) Hubbard. 
His second marriage occurred in Corning, " 
N. Y., June 18, 1879, with Catherine Emily, 
daughter of Benjamin C. and Catherine 
(Matthews) Wickham. He has had si.K 
children : Charles Hubbard, Ellen Amelia, 
John Osgood (deceased), Emma Wheeler, 
Rufus Haskell, and Albert Plumb Frost. 

FROTHINGHAM, OCTAVIUS BROOKS, 
son of Nathaniel Langton and Ann (Brooks) 
Frothingham, was born in Boston, Novem- 
ber 26, 1822. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in private schools, where he learned 
all the rudiments the regular curriculum 
then demanded. He then attended the 
Boston Latin school, where he prepared 
for college, entering Harvard in 1839. He 
was graduated with honors in the class of 
1843, being elected a member of the Phi 
Beta Kappa .Society. After graduation he 
chose theology for his life work, and entered 
the Harvard divinity school, from which 
he was graduated in 1846, 

In 1847 he was called to the North 
church, Salem, where he remained until 
1855. From Salem he went to Jersey City, 
where he remained four years, thence to 
New York City, remaining until 1879. 
Mr. Frothingham resigned the ministry on 
account of ill health, and traveled for 
some two years. Since his return he has 
given his attention to literary pursuits. 
Among his works are the lives of 
(ieorge Ripley (1882) and William H. 
Channing (1886). He has been a con- 
tributor to the "Atlantic," "Century," and 
" North American Review." 

Mr. Frothingham was married in Boston, 
in 1847, to Caroline Elizabeth, daughter 
of Caleb and Caroline Martha (Agry) 
Curtis. Of this union is one child: Eliza- 
beth Bowditch, born in 1850, wife of W. 
L. Parker, of Boston. 

Mr. Frothingham has been an active 
worker in various philanthropic societies ; 
was a strong anti-slavery man ; president 
of the Free Religious Association from 
1867 to '78; and a member of the Mas- 
sachusetts Historical Society, etc. 

He was a disciple and personal friend of 
Theodore Parker, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 
William Lloyd Oarrison, and Wendell 
Phillips. He has been a Rationalist, Trans- 



FRVE. 



FULLER 



cendentalist, a disciple of John Stuart Mill. 
and of Herbert Spencer. He is to-day an 
agnostic in his belief, and an enthusiast in 
such practical work as he deems will best 
serve the interests of society, of which he 
is no unimportant factor. 

FRYE, Newton Parker, son of Her- 
man and Eliza (Richardson) Frye, was 
born in Methuen, Esse.x county, October 
26, 1845. 

He was educated in the public schools 
of Lawrence and Phillips Academy, An- 
dover. As a youth he worked on the 
farm, and at the age of seventeen entered 
the employ of Davis cS: Furber, machinists 
at North Andover, where he remained a 
number of years, during which time he not 
only successfully mastered the trade, but 
also found time to pursue his studies with 
a view of becoming a lawyer. He finall)' 
abandoned the machinist's trade ; studied 
law with Hon. Edgar Sherman, now justice 
of the superior court, and Hon. H. W. 
Harmon, and was admitted to the bar in 
1877, and since then has been admitted 
as an attorney and counselor of the 
United States supreme court at Washing- 
ton, 1). C. 




MEWTON P. FRYE. 



He immediately began legal practice, 
and has since continued in the prosecution 
of a large and increasing business. He 



has been called to serve his town in all the 
town offices — assessor, overseer of the 
poor, selectman and town solicitor. He 
was a member of the House of Represent- 
atives in 1879, serving on the committee 
on insurance, of which he was clerk. In 
1885 he was a member of the state Senate, 
serving on the committees on probate and 
chancery, bills in the third reading, and 
public service, being chairman of the two 
latter. 

Mr. Frye was married in North .\ndover, 
April 28, 1869, to H. Jennie, daughter of 
Benjamin F. and Hannah (Patch) Pingree. 
His second marriage occurred January 9, 
1884, with Kate C, daughter of Jeremiah 
and Sarah (Moore) Field of North Andover. 
He has had no children. 

He is a regular attendant, and has 
been for many years a member, of the 
Congregational church in North An- 
dover, where he resides. He is president 
of the Merrimack Valley Congregational 
Club. In politics he is a Republican, and 
in many campaigns has taken an active 
part. He is also president of the Esse.\ 
Club. 

FULLER, Asa M. Blake, son of Asa 
and Hepzibah (Blake) Fuller, was born in 
Franklin, Norfolk county. May 17, 1813. 

Under great disadvantages he obtained 
his early education in the common district 
schools of those days. He is a descendant, in 
the si.xth generation, from Thomas Fuller, 
who was admitted to purchase land in 1 )ed- 
ham, November 25, 1642 ; also a descendant 
of Michael Metcalf (in the eighth genera- 
tion) who was admitted as a "freeman" 
in Dedham, July 14, 1637. 

In 1841 he commenced business, repair- 
ing watches and clocks, and has been 
engaged in this and the jewelry business 
to the present time. In 1852 he was com- 
missioned justice of the peace. He was 
also trial justice two terms. 

Mr. Fuller was married in Upton, May 
25, 1847, to Nancy I)., daughter of Eph- 
raim and Polly (Stowe) Furbush. Of this 
union was one child : Charles Metcalf 
Fuller. His wife died December 21, 1854. 
He was again married, January 28, 1858, 
to Mrs. Mary A. Ingram, daughter of Mat- 
thew and Elizabeth Tarleton. 

Mr. Fuller held the offices of clerk, 
treasurer and collector in the town of 
Medway from 1857 to '68 inclusive ; was 
selectman one year, 1869. He has been 
one of the trustees of the Medway Savings 
Bank, and one of the vice-presidents since 
its organization. He is one of the corpo- 
rate members of the Third Congresrational 



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FULLER, 



FULLER. 



church HI Medway, and clerk of the same 
body. 

He has also served his town in many of 
the minor offices and associations, and has 
been an active worker in all the move- 
ments that have aimed at its growth and 
prosperity. 

FULLER, Henry Weld, the second 

son of Henry W. and Esther (Gould) Ful- 
ler, was born in Augusta, Kennebec county, 
Maine, January i6, 1810, and died in Bos- 
ton, August 14, 1889. His father was a 
leading lawyer and land-owner ^ of that 
place, and for many years judge of pro- 
bate for that county. His mother was a 
sister of Hannah F. Gould, the poetess, 
and of Mrs. Rapallo, the mother of the 
late Judge Rapallo, of the New York 
court of appeals. She was a daughter of 
the old revolutionary soldier, Captain Ben- 
jamin Gould, a personal friend of General 
Washington and General Lincoln. Mr. 
Fuller was the uncle of the present Chief 
Justice of the United States. His own 
father was a lineal descendant of the late 
Rev. Habijah Weld, described by Dr. 
Dwight in his book of travels in New 
England. 

Mr. F'uUer, when about ten years of age, 
attended the Kennebunk Academy, and 
was there a school-mate of Hon. Hugh 
McCulloch, late treasurer of the United 
States. Afterwards he was a private pupil 
of Dr. Enoch S. Tappan of Augusta. At 
the age of fourteen he entered Bowdoin 
College and graduated in 182S — his com- 
mencement part being the salutatory ora- 
tion. Three years later he received the 
degree of A. M., and in 1835 he delivered 
the annual oration of the Athenian Society, 
at commencement. During a part of his 
college life, Henry W. Longfellow, Nathan- 
iel Hawthorne, Dr. Ephraim Peabody, S. S. 
Prentiss, John P. Hale, and others since 
distinguished, were among the collegians. 

After leaving school he began reading 
law with his father, and then attended the 
law school at Cambridge, under Judge 
Story and Professor Ashmun, whose warm 
friendship and favor he enjoyed while they 
lived. Soon after leaving Cambridge he 
went to Florida, bv advice of his phvsician, 
and spent several months in that locality 
greatly to his benefit. 

On his return to .\ugusta he was admitted 
to the Kennebec bar and became a partner 
with his father. This relation continued 
for ten years and until his father's death. 
In the fall of 1841 he removed to Boston 
and formed a law partnership with Elias 
Hasket Derbv, which continued for thir- 



teen years, during which time Derby & 
Fuller were engaged in many important 
cases, especially as counsel for various 
railroad corporations. 

Subsequently he was appointed clerk 
of the circuit court of the United States 
for the district of Massachusetts, and for 
eleven years filled the place most satis- 
factorily. Then, resigning that office, he 
devoted himself to other lines of activity, 
and acted as treasurer and trustee of sev- 
eral corporations and estates. 

Being always fond of horticulture and 
rural scenery, he converted a farm which 
he owned in Everett, a few miles from the 
city of Boston, into the beautiful cemetery 
of " Woodlawn," which for more than five 
and thirty years was to him a constant 
object of interest and care, and which he 
managed as its treasurer and principal 
designer. 

Other corporations and associations also 
shared his interest and influence. He was 
long an active member of the Massachu- 
setts Horticultural Society and was a vice- 
president thereof, and one of its e.xecutive 
committee. He was also a member of the 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, and of the New England 
Historic Genealogical Society, and was 
greatly interested in the Society of Arts, 
and for a long time was chairman of its 
e.xecutive committee, having been one of 
the projectors and a charter member of 
the Institute of Technology, and one of 
the original trustees of that corporation. 
His name was also placed by Griswold 
among the poets of Maine. 

He married, November 10, 1835, Mary 
Storer, daughter of Nathaniel Goddard, 
a prominent East India merchant of Bos- 
ton ; her mother, Lucretia Dana, being 
an adopted daughter of Colonel May, of 
the old " Boston tea-party," as reputed. 
Of this union w-ere five children, two sons 
and three daughters, of whom the daugh- 
ters only are now living : Mary Goddard 
Fuller, ]\Irs. Henrietta (Joddard Dorr, and 
Caroline Weld Fuller. The oldest son, 
Nathaniel Goddard Fuller, and his wife 
and five children — passengers on board 
the ship "Radiant," in 1876 — were all 
lost in a cyclone. The second son, Henry 
Weld Fuller, graduated at Harvard College 
in 1859, and died in 1863, after a long ill- 
ness caused by a fall. 

Mr. Fuller, during the course of the late 
war, was an active Union man. He de- 
voted time, money and energy to the 
raising of volunteers, and for months con- 
tinued to address the people, particularly 



FULLER 



FULLER. 



^39 



in Roxbury and its neigiiborliood, impress- 
ing tliem with the importance and neces- 
sity of immediate and decided action. 

Socially, Mr. Fuller was a delightful 
man, his sympathies were warm and ten- 
der, his manners refined and genial, and 
his conversation was full of intelligence 
and animation. His home life was espec- 
ially attractive to him, and the tributes of 
respect and affection which were inspired 
by his death, showed the deep hold which 
he had upon the hearts of all who were 
favored with his friendship. 

FULLER, LORIN L., son of David C. 
and Maria (Lovejoy) Fuller, was born in 
Readfield, Kennebec county. Me., January 
25, 1820. 

He obtained his early education in the 
public schools of his native state. 

He commenced a busine.ss career on his 
own account as carpenter, in Boston, 1843. 








LORIN L. FULLER. 

He resided for a number of years in 
Melrose, but moved to Maiden in i860, 
where he has resided for twenty-nine 
years. 

His reputation for integrity and ability 
in commercial circles for forty-five years, 
as a real-estate dealer and builder in Bos- 
ton, has been acknowledged by all who 
know him. He served his city as alder- 
man during the first vear of the organiza- 



tion of the cit}' government, and was 
mayor of the city 1884 and '85. 

For ten years he was a member of the 
water board ; has been a member of the 
Industrial Aid Society, from its organiza- 
tion to the present time, and is an active 
member of the Maiden Improvement Asso- 
ciation. He was chairman of the com- 
mittee for the adjustment and dividing of 
the township property, at the time of the 
separation of Everett from Maiden, in 
which his able and satisfactory negotiation 
gained for him the respect and esteem of 
his fellow-citizens. 

He now represents his ward in the higher 
branch of the city council. In politics he 
is a conservative Democrat. 

Mr. Fuller was married in Sebec, Me., 
November 8,1852, to Lucy P., daughter of 
John and Lydia (Brown) Lovejoy. Of 
this union are four children : Henry L., 
M. Louise, Everett L., and L. Alma Ful- 
ler. Mrs. Fuller died April 11, 1886. At 
Maiden, June 20, 1889, Mr. Fuller again 
married Mrs. Annie McHornsby, daughter 
of Thomas and Lydia Stewart. 

FULLER, Luther F., son of Alden 
and Sarah ( Faulkner) Fuller, was born in 
Acton, Middlesex county, January 3, 1827. 

He received his education in the com- 
mon schools of Acton, Roxbury and Wor- 
cester. 

April 8, 1844, he began commercial life 
as clerk in a general merchandise store at 
^Vest Cambridge, with Fowle, Prescott & 
Proctor. In 1846 he changed to West 
Acton in the same line of business. Two 
years later he entered the employ of C. & 
E, Hunt, South Sudbury. In 1854 he went 
to Saxonville in charge of a branch store 
for the same house, and soon took an 
interest in the business, under the firm 
name of Hunt & Fuller. At the breaking 
out of the civil war his partners sold their 
interest to Joseph Wilde, and the firm title 
became Fuller & Wilde. Three years later 
he bought Wilde's interest and has since 
been sole proprietor. 

August 21, 1885, Mr. Fuller was placed 
in charge of the F"ramingham Savings 
Bank by the savings bank commissioners. 
He is the present treasurer. 

Mr. Fuller was married in South Sud- 
bury, January 3, 1855, to Henrietta M., 
daughter of Luther and Elizabeth Hunt. 
Of this union were two children (deceased, 
1877). Mrs. Fuller died in 1882. Mr. 
Fuller's second marriage occurred March 
28, 1888, with Mrs. Laura A. Holman, 
widow of George H. Holman, M. D., Sax- 
onville. 



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GALLISON. 



Mr. Fuller is trustee of the Framingham 
Town Library, and of the Edgell Urove 
Cemetery ; treasurer of the Framingham 
Electric Company, and director of the 
Framingham Union Street Railway. He 
is on the board of management of the 
Framingham Home for Aged Men and 
Women, and also one of the deacons of 
the Edwards Congregational church. His 
residence is in Saxonville. 

Mr. Fuller represented his district in the 
House of Representatives in 1881, serving 
upon the committee on mercantile affairs. 

FULLER, ROBERT OLIVER, son of 
Oliver and Sarah (Richardson) Fuller, was 
born in Cambridge, Middlese.x county, Sep- 
tember 12, 1829. 

He was educated in the public schools. 
He began his commercial career in the 
iron business in 1855, under the firm name 
of Gay, Manson & Co., changed in 1857 
to Robert O. Fuller, then Fuller & Dana in 
i860, and in 1866 to Fuller, Dana & Fitz, 
which is the present title of this large and 
successful house. 

Mr. Fuller's varied attainments have 
constantly been called upon by those de- 
sirous of obtaining the active co-operation 
of a man of character and social standing. 



and the few positions of public honor and 
trust he has consented to fill could be in- 
creased many-fold were not his time and 
energies occupied with the details of his 
private business. 

Mr. Fuller is a trustee of Worcester 
Academy, Colby University, and Newton 
Theological Institution. He was one of 
the founders of the Boston Baptist Social 
Union, and its president in 1874 ; president 
of the Boston Baptist Bethel ; has been 
president of the American Baptist Home 
Mission Society, and a member of the 
executive committee of the .\merican Bap- 
tist Missionar)' Union. He was a member 
of the Cambridge common council in 1861— 
'62, but has uniformly declined all other 
city offices. 

He was a member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives, 1871 ; in i872-'73 a member of 
the state Senate, and in 1889 a member of 
the executive council of Governor Ames, 
from Cambridge, where he now resides. 

Mr. Fuller was married in Cavendish, 
Vt., May 31, 1855, to Sarah P., daughter 
of Joseph and Emma (Baldwin) Parker. 
Of this union were seven children ; Mary 
F., Robert O., Alfred C, Grace, Annie, 
Charles Sumner and Helen Fuller. 



GALLAGHER, William, son of Wil- 
liam and Emily (Collins) Gallagher, was 
born in Boston, June 6, 1849. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in the Hawes and Bigelow grammar 
schools and the public Latin school. 
Having prepared for college, he entered 
Harvard in 1865 and was graduated in the 
class of 1869. He subsequently pursued 
his studies in the Chicago Theological 
Seminary, from which he was graduateil in 
1874. 

He was engaged in teaching in Philadel- 
phia from i86g to '71 ; was called to preach 
in Illinois in 1874, where he remained 
until 1877 ; was master in the Boston Latin 
school, 1877 to '85 ; master in the girls' 
Latin school, Boston, 1885 to '86, and was 
then elected principal of Williston Sem- 
inary, Easthampton, where he still remains. 
He received the degree of Ph. D. from 
Amherst in 1889. 

Mr. Gallagher was married in Chicago, 
111., October 21, 1874, to Frances Harriet, 
daughter of Carleton Graves and Harriet 
(Pettibone) McCuUoch. Of this union are 
five children : Oscar Charles, Isabel Carle- 



ton, .\gnes Ella, William \Vithington, and 
RoUin McCuUoch Gallagher. 

GALLISON, Jefferson Gushing, 

son of John M. and Sarah A. Gallison, was 
liorn in Sebec, Piscataquis county, Maine, 
August 8, 1841. 

Flis education was received in the com- 
mon schools of his native place, Wood- 
stock high school, and Oxford Normal 
Institute. He was three years private 
pupil of Dr. J. H. Kimball, late surgeon of 
the 14th regiment Maine volunteers, Bridg- 
ton, Maine. He attended lectures a por- 
tion of two terms at Harvard medical 
school, was graduated from Boston Uni- 
versity, class of '75, and from the Col- 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, Boston, 
1888. 

He was a year m the ofiice of the " Nor- 
way Advertiser," and served an apprentice- 
ship as apothecary in Norway, Maine, pre- 
vious to his beginning his professional 
studies with Dr. Kimball. 

He first located in Medway, Mass., 1875, 
where he remained three years ; removed 
to Brookline, 1878, thence to Franklin, 
where he has since resided. 



GALVIN. 



GAMWELL. 



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Dr. Gallison was married in I'ortland, 
Me., January 2, 1864, to KUen S., daughter 
of Isaiah M. and Abigail S. Burnell. They 
have one child, Annie Louise Gallison, 
bom October 28, 1871. 

Dr. Gallison has been a member of the 
town committee five years, was president 
of the Alumni Association of Boston Uni- 
versity one year, instructor in surgery in 
the same university three years, president 
of the Phi Sigma Society, College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, one year, and is 
now demonstrator of anatomy and in- 
structor in surgery in the latter college. 
He is surgeon to the New York & New 




J GUSHING GALLISON. 

England Railroad, is a director of the 
Franklin National and the Benjamin 
Franklin Savings banks, and also of the 
Milford, Franklin & Providence Railroad. 
Dr. Gallison has successfully surmounted 
all the difficulties incident to a lack of 
means during his preparatory course, and 
by his own unaided efforts has worked his 
way up to an honorable position in profes- 
sional life. 

GALVIN, Owen A., son of Patrick 
and Mary (Hughes) Galvin, was born in 
Boston, June 21, 1852. 

After attending the public schools of 
Boston, he studied law in the Boston Uni- 
versity, and in the office of C. F. Donnelly. 



He was admitted to the bar February 29, 
1876, and began the practice of the law in 
Boston in 1881. 

Mr. Galvin was married at Boston, July 
3, 1879, to Jennie T., daughter of Timothy 
K. and Ellen (OT)riscoll) Sullivan. Their 
children are : Stephen P., Augustus H., 
and Frederick S. Galvin. 

He was a member of the Democratic 
city committee in 1879, '80, '81 and '82 — 
serving as vice-president the two latter 
years. He was a member of the House of 
Representatives in 1881, serving upon the 
committees on education and constitutional 
amendments. In 1882, '83, and '84 he was 
elected to the Senate, and received the 
entire vote of the Democratic members for 
president of that body. He served upon 
the important committees of the liquor 
law, labor, education, judiciary, and elec- 
tion laws. He also served upon a special 
committee to visit penal and charitable 
institutions, and on the report of this com- 
mittee, the reformatory prison at Concord 
and the homoeopathic hospital for the in- 
sane were established. 

He was appointed assistant LTnited States 
district attorney by Hon. George M. 
Stearns, in July, 1886, and upon Mr. 
Stearns's resignation in September, 1887, 
was appointed L^nited States attorney, the 
appointment, made tluring recess, being 
afterwards confirmed by the Senate. Mr. 
Galvin has conducted the affairs of his 
office with marked ability and success. 

GAMWELL, Harlow, son of Morgan 
and Julia (Spring) (lamwell, was born in 
Washington, Berkshire county, October 
30, 1833. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in the public schools and Hinsdale 
Academy. He chose the medical profes- 
sion, and after a course of preparatory 
study he entered the Berkshire Medical 
College, and was graduated therefrom in 
the class of 1858. 

In 1859 he began practice in Lee ; re- 
moved to Huntington in i860 ; was made 
assistant-surgeon of the 2d Massachusetts 
cavalry, 1863 ; promoted to surgeon of the 
5th Massachusetts cavalry, May, 1864; 
removed to Westfield in 1873, where he is 
still in eminently successful practice of 
medicine and surgery. 

Dr. Gamwell was married in Hunting- 
ton, November 24, 1859, to Alice, daugh- 
ter of (jilbert and Caroline (Kelsoe) Lewis. 
Of this union were two children : Ida 
Alice (deceased) and Alice Lewis Gam- 
well. His second marriage was with Sarah 
A., daughter of Thaddeus K. De Wolfe, 



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GANNETT. 



GANNETT. 



M. D., of Chester, and Correlia (Benham) 
De Wolfe. Of this union were three chil- 
dren, two of whom are living : Correlia 
De Wolfe and Grace De Wolfe Gamwell. 

While Dr. Gamwell's advantages for 
early educational training were somewhat 
limited, he made good use of what was 
within reach, and has been through life a 
willing and industrious student, and a prac- 
tical worker in medical and surgical re- 
search, until he has attained to eminence 
in his profession. 

He is a member of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society ; has been president of 
the Hampden Medical Society two years ; 
was pension examiner during President 
Cleveland's administration ; is medical 
director of the Bay State Beneficiary Asso- 
ciation, at Westfield ; member of the school 
board, serving the second term of three 
years. 

The grandfather of Dr. Gamwell came 
from northe.rn Ireland a few years previ- 
ous to the war of the revolution ; entered 
the army and served through the war ; 
was one of the sturdy settlers of New 
England ; and was the father of sixteen 
children, several of whom are living. Dr. 
Cramwell is one of a family of nine, of 
whom all but two are living. 

GANNETT, GEORGE, son of Luther 
and Olive (Washburn) (iannett, was born 
in East Bridgewater, Plymouth county, 
October 29, i8ig. 

He prepared for college at Belfast, Me., 
to which place his parents had removed 
in 1820. He graduated at Bowdoin Col- 
lege in 1842, and later received the degree 
of .A.. M. from his abna mater, and was 
also elected a member of the Phi Beta 
Kappa. 

Immediately after leaving college, he 
became principal of Strafford .\cademy, 
Strafford, N. H., and continued in his work 
here for two years. On leaving, he re- 
ceived the highest testimonials from the 
trustees, in view of his eminently success- 
ful administration, having secured the es- 
teem and affection of the students of both 
se.\es. 

Three years later, in 1847, he graduated 
at the theological seminary, Bangor, Me. 
Soon after, he was settled over the Congre- 
gational church at Boothbay Harbor, Me., 
where he remained three years, enjoying a 
pastorate full of comfort and delights. On 
account of serious ill health, however, he 
was compelled to resign, much to the re- 
gret of the people with whom he had la- 
bored, and by whom he was so well be- 
loved. 



In 1850 he opened a private school for 
young ladies in West Cambridge — now 
.Arlington. In 1857 he removed to Boston, 
and in the course of a year established a 
similar school, which has been conducted 
and become widely known under the name 
of Gannett Institute. .\ pioneer in the 
cause of higher education, it entered 
upon collegiate work before any of the 
colleges for women were opened. Dr. 




GEORGE GANNETT. 

Gannett has had under his tuition sev- 
eral thousand who have been educated 
wholly or in part by him ; and the school 
still maintains its high rank, and is re- 
ceiving patronage from all parts of the 
country. 

In 1 87 I he made an extended European 
tour for the purpose of visiting the great 
art centres of the continent, having been 
one of the earliest of New England educa- 
tors to introduce into the curriculum the 
study of history, literature and philosophy 
of art. Dr. Gannett's deep interest in this 
subject is evinced by the fact that his 
choice library of several thousand volumes 
includes a large and rare collection of val- 
uable art books. 

In 1864 he was chosen one of the exam- 
ining committee at Harvard College, and 
discharged the duties of this office for 
seven vears. 



GARDNER. 



GARGAN. 



243 



In 1SS7 he received the degree of D. D. 
from Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. 
During all these years Dr. Ciannett has 
been a constant and earnest student in 
many lines ; has been the author of a con- 
siderable number of educational and other 
articles for papers and magazines, besides 
essays and lectures on literature, art, phil- 
osophy, etc. 

In 1S47 Dr. Gannett married Mary Jane 
Shaw of Wolfborough, N. H., who died in 
1876. In 1877 he married Georgiana, 
daughter of Shubael P. and Hannah A. 
Butterworth, of Warren, Mass. 

GARDNER, CHARLES L.,,son of Elisha 
and P>lvira (Sprague) Gardner, was born in 
Cummington, Hampshire county, May 27, 

His early education was received in the 
public schools and at the academy in Ash- 
field. He chose the profession of law, 
studied with the late Judge S. T. Spauld- 
ing at Northampton, and having been 
admitted to the bar, began practice with 
the late James G. Allen at Palmer, in 1867, 
under the firm name of Allen & Gardner. 
He remained with Mr. Allen until 1870, 
when the firm was dissolved, and he has 
since practiced alone in Palmer, his present 
residence. 

Mr. Gardner was married May 19, 1S69, 
to Esther E. Gilmore of Monson, daugh- 
ter of Nathaniel and Charlotte A. Gilmore, 
and has two children : Charles Gilmore 
and Edwin Sprague Gardner. 

Mr. Gardner was at one time assistant 
internal revenue assessor ; in 1875 and '76 
he was a representative to the General 
Court ; a state Senator in 1878 and '79, 
serving on the judiciary committee each 
year ; a member of the Republican state 
central committee two years, serving on 
the executive committee ; and is at present 
a member of the board of trustees of the 
state primary and reform schools. He is 
president of the Palmer Savings Banlc, 
which position he has held for several years. 

GARDNER, HENRY JOSEPH, son of 
Henry and Clarissa (Holbrook) Gardner, 
was born in Boston, June 14, 1819. His 
father was born in the Old Province House, 
Boston, and his mother was a native of 
Milton. 

Mr. Gardner's early educational training 
was received in private schools, Boston, 
and in Phillips .Academy, Exeter, N. H., 
he having been graduated from the latter 
institution in 1831. He was graduated 
from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., in 
the class of 18^8. 



He began his commercial life as a dry- 
goods merchant in the firm of Denny, Rice 
& Gardner, remaining in this business for 
many years; afterwards changing to Read, 
(iardner & Co., Gardner, Dexter & Co., 
and Henry J. Gardner & Co. He retired 
from the dry-goods business in 1876, and is 
now actively engaged in the life-insurance 
business as resident agent in Boston of the 
Massachusetts Life Insurance Company. 

He was a member of the Boston com- 
mon council, 1850, '51, '52 and '53, and in 
'52 and 'S3 was president of that body. 
He was a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives, 185 1 and '52, and mem- 
ber of the Constitutional Convention of 

1853- 

He was governor of the Commonwealth 
in 1855, '56 and '57, being elected as the 
representative of the American party. 

In Boston, November 2, 1844, Mr. Gard- 
ner was married to Helen PI, daughter of 
Richard and Elizabeth (Wood) Cobb, of 
Portland, Me. Elizabeth Wood was a 
native of Wiscasset, Me. Of this union 
were seven children : Henry (J., Frederic 
W., Herbert, Helen C, Elizabeth, Clifford 
and Maud Gardner. 

Mr. Gardner received the degree of 
LL. D. from Harvard University. 

During his administration as chief magis- 
trate of the Commonwealth, much healthy 
and long needed legislation was accom- 
plished, and many laws enacted which time 
and experience prove were founded on 
right and reason, and which remain on the 
statute-books to-day — notably the home- 
stead act, the alien pauper act, an act 
to regulate the appropriation of school 
money, an act regulating the membership 
of the General Court, and acts relating 
to the curtailment of the powers of the 
governor, reform in special election laws, 
and the " reading and writing " clause in 
the naturalization laws. 

Mr. Gardner was always alive to the 
fact that many acts are passed during hasty 
legislation, when great majorities are the 
result of some great issue, and never hesi- 
tated to use his veto power when he con- 
sidered it for the best good of the Com- 
monwealth. 

GARGAN, THOMAS J., son of Patrick 
and Rose Gargan, was born in Boston, 
October 27, 1844. 

His education was received at the public 
schools and through private instruction in 
literature and classics by the Rev. Peter 
Krose, S. J., by whom he was fitted for the 
Boston University law school, where he was 
graduated 1873, receiving the degree of 



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GARGAN. 



GASTON. 



LL. B. He read law in the office of Hon. 
Henry W. Paine. 

His first business connection was in the 
dry-goods store of Wilkinson, Stetson & 
Co., Boston, agents for A. & W. Sprague, 
and the house of Hoyt, Sprague & Co., 
having charge of the Boston house when 
twenty years of age. 

In 1863 he responded to the call of the 
government for troops, and was mustered 
into the United States service, commis- 
sioned 2d lieutenant, receiving at the 
expiration of his service an honorable dis- 
charge. 

His present occupation is that of coun- 
selor-at-law in Boston. In 1868, '70 and 
'76 he was a member of the lower branch 
of the Legislature, a member of the board 
of overseers of the poor in 1S75, chairman 
of the board of license commissioners in 
i877-'78, and a member of the board of 
police in 1880-81. 

At Boston in September, 1868, Mr. Gar- 
gan was married to Catherine L., daughter 
of Lawrence and Catherine McGrath. 




THOMAS J, GARGAN. 

Mr. Gargan was president of the Chari- 
table Irish Society in 1873 and '74. He 
delivered the Fourth of July oration in 
Boston, in 1885, and also the oration at 
the centennial of the Charitable Irish 
Society of Halifa.x, N. S., in 1886. 



Mr. Gargan takes an active interest in 
politics and tariff reform, and has already 
made for himself an honorable record. 
His methods are in agreeable contrast to 
many prevalent in strictly party work, and 
his intelligent and eloquent advocacy of the 
vital questions of the hour betoken for him 
a brilliant future on a plane even higher 
than that on which he has already acquired 
so enviable a reputation. 

GASKILL, Francis Almon, son of 

Albert and Anna (Comstock) Gaskill, was 
born in Blackstone, Worcester county, 
January 3, 1846. 

His early education was obtained in the 
common schools of his native town, and 
his preparation for college was completed 
in the ^^'oonsocket high school. He was 
graduated from Brown University, R. I., in 
the class of 1866. He read law in the 
office of Hon. George F. Verry of Worces- 
ter, finished his preliminar}' law studies in 
the Harvard law school, and was admitted 
to the bar in Worcester, March 3, 1869. 

He remained with Mr. Verry in the prac- 
tice of law until the death of the latter in 
1883, since which time he has continued 
the business on his own account. 

Mr. Gaskill was married in Providence, 
R. I., October 20, 1869, to Katharine M., 
daughter of Anthony and Ann (Dean) 
Whitaker. She died January 25, 1889, 
leaving two children : Alary M. and George 
A. Gaskill. 

Mr. Cfaskill was a member of the Wor- 
cester common council, i875-'76, and has 
been district attorney of the Massachusetts 
middle district from 1887 to the present 
time. He was director of the Worcester 
free public library, 1878 to '84, and from 
1886 to '89, in which latter year he was 
president of the board. He has been trus- 
tee of the Worcester Academy from 1876 to 
date, and of Brown University since 1888 ;' 
director of the Worcester Natural History 
Society since 1882, and trustee of the 
People's Savings Bank, Worcester, since 
18S4, and director of the State Mutual Life 
Assurance Co. since Januar)', 1889. 

GASTON, WILLIAM, son of Alexander 
and Kezia (.Arnold) Gaston, was born at 
Killingly, Windham county. Conn., October 
3, 1820. 

Springing from an ancestry combining 
the characteristics of the French Hugue- 
nots and the Scotch Presbyterian on his 
father's side, and the early Pilgrim settler 
on that of his mother, it is not surprising 
to find in Mr. Gaston a strong man. His 
father was a well-known merchant of Con- 



GASTON. 



GATES. 



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necticut, of sterling' integrity, and of re- 
markable force of character. 

He was a pupil at the Brooklyn Acade- 
my, in Brooklyn, Conn., and later at Plain- 
field Academy, Piainfield, Conn., graduat- 
ing at Brown University, Providence, R. I., 
in the class of 1840, with honors. For his 
life work he decided upon the legal profes- 
sion, first entering the office of Francis Mil- 
liard of Roxbury, and afterwards complet- 
ing his studies with the distinguished jurists, 
Charles P. and Benjamin R. Curtis of 
Boston, with whom he remained until his 
admission to the Norfolk bar in 1844. 




WILLIAM GASTON. 

He first practiced law in Roxbury, in 
1846, continuing there until 1865, when he 
removed his office to Boston and formed a 
partnership with the Hon. Harve}' lewell 
and Hon. Walbridge A. Field, under the 
firm name of Jewell, Gaston &: Field. In 
1875 he dissolved connection with this firm, 
and after carrying on the law business for 
a time alone, formed a partnership, in 
October, T879, with C. L. B. Whitney, un- 
der the firm name of Gaston & Whitney. 
Mr. Gaston's son was added to the firm in 
1883, the firm name remaining unchanged. 

Mr. Gaston was married on May 27, 
1852, at Roxbury, to Louisa A., daughter 
of Laban S. and Frances A. (Lines) Beecher 
■of Roxbury, both, natives of Xew Haven, 



Conn., and descendants of the first settlers 
of the New Haven (Conn.) colony. They 
have had three children : Sarah Howard, 
William Alexander and Theodore Beecher 
Gaston, the latter dying in 1869. 

Mr. Gaston has seen not a little of pub- 
lic life. For two years, i86i-'62, he was 
mayor of the city of Roxbury, before its 
incorporation with the city of Boston. In 
1871 and '72 he had the honor to serve as 
the chief magistrate of their united for- 
tunes, Boston having absorbed its younger 
neighbor in 1867. In 1874 Mr. Gaston 
was the Democratic nominee for governor, 
and was elected by a majority of 7,033 
over Thomas Talbot, the candidate of the 
Republican party. His administration was 
pre-eminently wise and acceptable. l"h^ 
position he occupied was a somewhat novel 
one, as the two houses of the Legislature 
were of a different political faith from the 
chief executive, and the State had not had 
a Democratic governor for many yearri 
previous. The scrutiny directed to him 
and his acts was critical and most trying. 
His success, however, in bringing his ad- 
ministration to a happy and honorable 
termination was abundant proof of the 
inherent ability and patriotic instincts of 
the man. 

He is a member of the Laiion, Central, 
-\lgonquin and St. Botolph clubs of the 
city of Boston. 

Mr. Gaston enjoys an honorable and 
lucrative practice in his chosen profession, 
and has long held, in the opinion of those 
competent to judge, an enviable place in 
the front rank of that remarkable array of 
talent which constitutes the bar in this State. 
A thorough and conscientious worker, an 
eloquent advocate, a man of unblemished 
integrity and of modest mien, he easily 
stands as one of Massachusetts' best known 
and highly respected representative men. 

GATES, Samuel Pearly, son of 

Pearly and Mary (Burr) Gates, was born 
in Ashby, Middlesex county, June 8, 1837. 

He was educated in the district schools 
and academy of Ashby, and Bridgewater 
state normal school. 

At twenty years of age he entered the 
office of Bates, Hyde iS; Co. (now Eagle 
Cotton Gin Co.). 

In April, 1863, he enlisted in the regular 
army, U. S., and served one year at the 
war department, Washington, D. C. 

In 1864 he returned to Bates, Hyde &: 
Co., and has remained with them to date. 
In 1 87 7 this concern was incorporated, and 
Mr. Gates appointed treasurer of the com- 
pany, which office he still holds. He is 



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GAUGENGIGL. 



GERRV. 



now tlie largest stockholder in the corpo- 
ration. He has also been treasurer of 
Bridgewater Savings Bank since its incor- 
poration in 1872. 

Mr. Gates was married in Plymouth, 
October 26, 187 1, to Marcia E., daughter 




SAMUEL P. GATES 

of Jacob and Joan (Holmes) Jackson, who 
died January 20, 1873. Of this union was 
one child, who died in infancy. 

Mr. Gates holds his church connections 
with the Swedenborgian society, of which 
he is a prominent member, and holds vari- 
ous offices. 

In addition to the labors incident to the 
positions named, Mr. Gates has ever been 
foremost in any public enterprise promis- 
ing to benefit his fellow-citizens, and is in 
Bridgewater pre-eminently the man called 
to act as treasurer for various societies, or 
trustee in the settlement of estates. 

GAUGENGIGL, Ignaz Marcel Mi- 
chael Martin Josef, son of Ignaz Mar- 
cel Gaugengigl and Barbara Y. Minuzy 
(Hauser) Gaugengigl, was born in Passau, 
Bavaria, January 16, 1855. 

His early education was received in 
Munich, he having passed through the 
gymnasium, university, and the academy 
of fine arts. His tastes led him into the 
realm of art, and he became an artist in 
its full sense, imbued with the spirit of 



artistic combinations, whether in color or 
form. His knowledge of the different 
stages in the development and growth of 
artistic taste gives him his accuracy in 
avoiding anachronisms in art, and makes 
him a recognized authority in social circles 
requiring the exercise of his peculiar 
talent. 

Herr Gaugengigl came to this country 
and city in 1879, thinking to remain only 
a few months, but so pleased was he with 
the country, that, after staying two years, 
he went back to Europe and made arrange- 
ments for settling in America. He then 
returned, and has ever since made lioston 
his home. 

GERRY, Charles Frederick, son of 

Charles and Orisa Gerry, was born in Sud- 
bury, Middlesex county, June 3, 1823. He 
received his early education in the district 
schools of Sudbury, which he attended 
during the winter sessions, up to the age 
of sixteen. He then received instruction 
for two terms from the Rev. E. O. Haven, 
of Framingham (afterwards Bishop Haven), 
(ine term at the Framingham Academy, 
three terms at the Wayland Academy, one 
at the Pinkerton Academy, Derry, N. H., 
and three terms at the New Hampshire 
Conference Seminary, Tilton, N. H. 

He entered Wesleyan University, Mid- 
dletown, Conn., in 1847, and graduated in 
1 85 1. Previous to graduating he taught 
district schools during the winter months- 
for six consecutive j'ears, and after gradu- 
ating, taught several years in the Boston 
Mercantile Academy and elsewhere — the 
last term being in the Fort Hill school, Bos- 
ton, associated with the late Sheriff Kimball 
as master, and William T. Adams (Oliver 
Optic) as sub-master. After leaving college 
Mr. Gerry was for several years in the 
lecture field. He afterward went into life 
insurance, and also engaged in literary pur- 
suits, to both of which occupations he still 
devotes his time. 

He was a member of the school board 
in the town of Dorchester before its an- 
nexation to Boston ; chairman of the 
school board of Sudbury, chairman of the 
board of selectmen in the same town for 
one year ; representative to the Legisla- 
ture from Hyde Park in 1877, and from 
Sudbury in 1880; elected senator from 
the 5th Middlesex senatorial district in 
1882, and re-elected in 1883. He was jus- 
tice of the peace for some years ; presi- 
dent of the Hyde Park Savings Bank for 
about six years, resigning when he changed 
his residence to Sudbury. He was master 
of Hyde Park Masonic Lodge two years. 



GIBBONS. 



GIFFORD. 



247 



aiul has been an honorary member of tlie 
same since 1887. 

Mr. (ierry is the author of a book of 
poems, entitled " lV[eado\v Melodies," a 
work which has received very high com- 
mendation from the press. 

He was married at Sanbornton Bridge 
(now Tilton), N. H., June 5, 1852, to Miss 
Martha A. Clough, a lady who a few 
months after graduating at the New 
Hampshire Female College, won a prize 
of five hundred dollars offered by a Bos- 
ton publisher. She was afterwards for sev- 
eral years editress of the " Boston Olive 
Branch." They have fourchildren : Charles 
C, Eleanor M., Frank F., and Gilbert H. 

GIBBONS, JOHN M., son of Carlos 
and Almira (Tinker) Oibbons, was born in 
Granville, Hampden county, November 15, 
1883. 

His early education was limited to the 
country district school. He began business 
life for himself in 185 1 as a merchant, and 
has continued in the same line up to date. 

He has been thirty-eight years in busi- 
ness. He has been town clerk, and treas- 
urer for sixteen years, still holding the 
latter office ; was assistant-postmaster fif- 
teen years at East Granville and Granville 
Corners, and postmaster, from the estab- 
lishing of the Granville post-office to the 
present time. He was a member of the 
House of Representatives from the iith 
Representative district of Hampden county, 
in 1876. 

Mr. Gibbons was married in Granville, 
February 25, 1854, to Morand M., daugh- 
ter of Solomon and Nancy (Godard) Gains. 
Of this union were seven children : El- 
bert S., Clarabell E. (deceased), Edwin 
M., Myra D., Fred X., William C, and 
Benjamin F. Gibbons. 

GIDDINGS, THEODORE, third son of 
Augustine and Olive (Lydia) Giddings, 
was born in Great Barrington, Berkshire 
county, December 5, 1837, and was edu- 
cated in the public schools and at the 
academy of his native town. 

After teaching for several years in the 
state of New Jerse\' and in New York 
City, he studied medicine at the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, in that city, grad- 
uating in 1868, and immediately entered 
upon the practice of his profession at 
Housatonic. He is a member of the 
Berkshire District Medical Society, of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society, and of the 
American Medical Association. 

In 1886 he was elected to the lower 
branch of the Legislature, serving upon 



the committee on jniblic health, as House 
chairman. In 1888 he was again elected 
to the Legislature, being a.ssigned to the 
committee on drainage. 

Dr. Giddings is a man well known in 
Berkshire county, active, energetic and 
affable — a successful physician, and a man 
of high character. 

His residence is Great Barrington. 

GIFFORD, Benjamin Dods, son of 

Simeon S. and Marinda A. (Dods) Gifford, 
(daughter of Rev. John Bovee Dods), was 
born in Provincetown, Barnstable county, 
Nov. 19, 1 84 1. 

He obtained his education in the public 
schools, Westbrook Seminary, Maine, and 
liagleswood school, Perth Amboy, N. J. 
He entered Antioch College in i860, and 
was graduated from Madison Universit)', 
N. Y., in the class of 1864 ; took the de- 
gree of doctor of medicine from Albany 
Medical College in December, 1866, and 
A. M., in 1867 ; had charge of Union 
Academy, Belleville, N. Y., one year after 
completing his college course. 

He practiced medicine in Fond du Lac, 
Wis., and in Gloucester, Mass., till Febru- 
ary, 187 1, when he located in Chatham, 
where he has since resided. 

Dr. Gifford was married in Oswego, 
N. Y., December 31, 1863, to Mary E. Smith, 
of Ballston Spa, N. Y., daughter of William 
P. and Lydia P. (Dennis) Smith. Of this 
union are two children : Marinda B. and 
Romenia D. Gifford. 

Dr. Gifford has been president of the 
Barnstable District Medical Society, was 
editor of the " Chatham Monitor" from its 
foundation till 1874 ; was deputy-collector 
of customs under the Hayes and Arthur 
administrations ; and was appointed post- 
master of Chatham in 1889. 

Dr. Gifford was private secretary and 
cashier for Col. J. C. Yan Duzer from July, 
1865, to August, 1866, headquarters of the 
U. S. military telegraph lines at Nashville, 
Tenn. 

He is a prominent Ma.son, and estab- 
lished St. Martin's Lodge, A. F. & A. M.. 
in Chatham, of which he has been five 
times elected master. 

He has been connected with the editorial 
department of the " Barnstable Patriot " 
for many years. 

GIFFORD, Orrin Phillip, .son of 

Phillip R. and Parthenia (Perkins) Gilford, 
was born in Montague, Franklin county, 
April 15, 1847. 

He obtained his early educational train- 
ing in the jjublic antl private schools, and 



248 



GIFFOKD. 



GILLETT. 



in Franklin Academy, Shelburne Falls. He 
finished his preparatory course in the Con- 
necticut Literary Institute, and entered 
Brown University, from which he was 
graduated in the class of 1874. 

Feeling that he had been called to a life 
labor in the church, he entered the theo- 
logical seminary at Rochester, N. Y., and 
was graduated in the class of 1877. 

Previous to his professional training, he 
was engaged with the Lamson & Goodnow 
Manufacturing Company, Shelburne Falls, 
and subsequently in their ware-rooms in 
New York City. 

He was ordained in 1S77, at Pittsfield, 
Mass., and was called to the Baptist church 
at Pittsfield. 

He was installed as pastor of the Warren 
Avenue Baptist church, Boston, March, 
1879, where he is still settled. His labors 




ORRIN P. GIFFORD. 

in this society have been blessed, and he 
retains the love and confidence of his peo- 
ple, as well as the respect of his brethren 
in the ministry. He is alive to every move- 
ment of reform promising benefits, and in 
particular has been aggressively active in 
the work of temperance. 

Mr. Gift'ord's social qualities are a 
marked feature of the man, and he brings 
these to the platform and to the pulpit. 
His good humor, quick perception, ready 



speech, and terse manner of putting things 
render him an attractive speaker. 

Mr. Gifl'ord was married in Shelburne 
Falls, June 26, 1877, to Florence N., 
daughter of Ebenezer G. and Polly (Eager) 
Lamson. Of this union are three chil- 
dren : Flora S., Mary E. and O. P. Gif- 
ford, Jr. 

GILLETT, Edward Bates, son of 

Daniel and Edith (Kates) Gillett, was 
born in South Hadley F'alls, Hampden 
county, August 24, 1818. He is descended 
from a line of scholars well known in 
legal and theological circles in the LInited 
States. 

He fitted for college in the Hadley and 
Westfield academies, and was graduated 
from Amherst College in the class of 1839, 
notable for the many afterwards eminent 
men who were its members. 

Upon graduation he entered the law 
office of his uncle, Isaac Bates, of North- 
ampton, the brilliant leader of that bar. 
He completed his legal education at the 
Cambridge law school, and in 1843 was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar, and began 
practice in Westfield as partner of ^^'illiam 
G. Bates, already a leading lawyer. This 
co-partnership continued until 1852, when 
Mr. Gillett received as junior partner Ar- 
thur Lincoln, and after the death of the 
latter, in 1849, a partnership was formed 
with Hon. Homer B. Stevens, which con- 
tinued until 1883, under the name of Gil- 
lett & Stevens. 

In 1856 he was elected district attorney 
for the counties of Hampden and Berk- 
shire, and held the office by continuous re- 
elections till 187 1, when lie declined fur- 
ther service. 

During these years he had become emi- 
nent as an advocate .in his regular profes- 
sional practice. He is a scholarly repre- 
sentative among the brilliant leaders of the 
Massachusetts bar — classical in his ideas 
of oratory, courteous in manner, and scru- 
pulously exact in his methods of practice. 
Although closely wedded to his profession, 
he broadened by reading and study to the 
demands of society, serving his town, his 
chosen church and his party with generous 
devotion. 

In his early life a ^Vilig, and a Re|3ubli- 
can since the formation of that party, his 
voice and pen have been constantly active 
in conscientious support of party issues. 
He was delegate to the national convention 
in 1856, and presidential elector in i860. 
Never caring to accept purely political 
office, he has repeatedly refused nomina- 
tions for congressional honors, and has but 



OILMAN. 



OILMAN. 



249 



once served as member of the state Senate 

(■S52)- 

He has always manifested a deep inter- 
est in educational matters, and since 1861 
has been a trustee of .\mherst College ; 
has been vice-president of Smith College, 
Northampton, since its foundation, and was 
for many years a member of the Massa- 
chusetts board of education. He has been 
identified with all the important movements 
for the welfare of the town of Westfield — 
energetic and influential. He was presi- 
dent of the Hampden Bank from 1858 to 
'82 ; president of the Westfield Insurance 
Company : president of the board of trus- 
tees of the Westfield Academy Fund ; presi- 
dent of the Westfield Athenreum ; director 
of the American Whip Company ; for many 
years counsel for the New Haven &: 
Northampton Railroad Company and for 
the Boston & Albany Railroad. 

In 1880 he was elected a corporate mem- 
ber of the American Board of Commission- 
ers for Foreign Missions ; is one of the trus- 
tees of the Hartford Theological Seminary ; 
is president of the Hampden Bar Associa- 
tion. In 1885 he received from Amherst 
College the honorary degree of LL. U. 

Mr. Gillett has been called to manage 
many celebrated cases, and was notably 
connected with the prosecution of the 
Northampton bank robbers in 1877, con- 
ducting all cross-examinations and making 
the closing arguments. He has long been 
connected with the First church in West- 
field. 

Mr. Gillett was married in Westfiekl, 
November i, 1848, to Lucy, daughter of 
Hon. James and Lucy (Douglass) Fowler, 
of Westfield. Of this union were seven 
children, three of whom survive : Freder- 
ick H., Arthur L. and Lucy Douglass 
Gillett. 

OILMAN, Nicholas Paine, son of 

Charles and .\nnette Maria (Dearborn) 
Gilman, was born December 21, 1849, in 
Quincy, Adams county, Illinois, where his 
father practiced law and was reporter to 
the supreme court of that state. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in academies in Parsonsfield, Maine, 
and Effingham, N. H., and entering the 
Harvard divinit)^ school in 1868, was 
graduated in 187 1. In 1872 he was settled 
over the Unitarian church in Scituate, and 
in 1875 took charge of the first parish in Bol- 
ton, remaining until 1878, when he went to 
Ohio, where he was professor of English 
literature and German in .-Xntioch College 
at Yellow Springs, and preached in the 
college chapel. 



Returning to New Englanil, he luul 
charge of the Unitarian churches in Wa)"- 
land and Sudbury for a couple of years, 
and after a tour in England, fixed his resi- 
dence in West Newton, where he has since 
resided, devoting himself especially to lit- 
erary pursuits. 

Having been a contributor for a dozen 
years to the " Literary World " of Boston, 
he became editor of the paper in October, 
1888, The "Literary World" is a fort- 
nightly ]3aper, devoted to the review of 
current literature, and is the oldest journal 
of its class in the LTnited States, with a 
high reputation and a well-established cir- 
culation. It was founded by S. R. Crocker 
in 1870, and was purchased in 1877 by the 
Rev. Edward Abbott and E. H. Hames, 
chief clerk of the " Congregationalist," 
Mr. Abbott continuing in editorial charge 
until 1888. 

Mr. Gilman has contributed somewhat 
to the " Christian Register," and numerous 
articles from his pen may be found in the 
" Unitarian Review," of which he was 
assistant editor from 1885 to '89. These 
articles are mainly philosophical and theo- 
logical, with man)- reviews of new books. 
But in 1887, having a deep interest in 
social questions, Mr. Gilman began the 
preparation of a comprehensive work on 
" Profit Sharing between Employer and 
Employee " considered as one remedy for 
labor troubles, which was published by 
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., in March, 1889 
(460 pp.), with the sub-title "A Study in 
the Evolution of the Wages System." It 
soon passed into its third thousand, having 
been received with great favor by the press 
of the United States and England, where 
it was brought out in a copyrighted edi- 
tion. A tierman translation is in prepara- 
tion. English and American economists, 
with President Francis A. Walker, pro- 
nounce it a " clear and complete account 
of all the experiments in profit sharing," 
in which "the economic principles govern- 
ing such arrangements between employer 
and employee are correctly stated, and the 
practical difficulties besetting the applica- 
tion of those principles are fairly, temper- 
ately, and judiciously discussed." United 
States Labor Commissioner Carroll D. 
Wright says the work is "a great contribu- 
tion to economic literature — the very best 
work on profit sharing that has appeared 
in the English language, while it is far 
more complete in its general construction 
than any that has appeared in any lan- 
guage." It was also awarded a gold medal 
at the recent Paris Exjiosition. 



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GILMORE. 



GLEASON. 



GILMORE, Henry Hubbard, son of 

Mitchel and Czarina (Currier) Cilmore, was 
born in Warner, Merrimack county, N. H., 
August 31, 1S32. 

He obtained his early education at the 
common schools of his native jjlace, and at 
Concord, supplemented by a course at the 
academy at Concord, N. H. 

His first connection in business was in 
1857, with Joseph Ballister & Company of 
Boston. He subsequently was with John 
Button, agent for Earl, Smith & Company, 
steel manufacturers, Sheffield, England, 
and in 1854 succeeded to Mr. Button's 
business. He was for a time manager of 
the sales department of the Whipple File 
& Steel Manufacturing Company, later 
establishing an iron rolling mill at Croton, 
N. Y. He is now the proprietor of the 
Cambridge Rolling Mills, a large and liberal 
employer of labor, in the manufacture of 
wrought iron. 

On May 19, 1858, at Charlestown, Mr. 
Gilmore was married to Sarah B., daughter 
of Robert and Susan (Bearborn) Todd. 
Their children are : Robert H., James M., 
S. Helen, Frank L. and Bessie A. T. Gil- 
more. 

Previous to taking up his residence in 
the city of Cambridge, where he now re- 
sides, Mr. Gilmore lived for ten years in 
the adjoining town of Medford, where he 
held the offices of selectman, overseer of 
the poor, highway surveyor, assessor of 
ta.xes, and member of the board of health. 
Buring the war of the rebellion he was an 
active war Bemocrat. On his removal to 
Cambridge he at once became prominent 
and active in the many institutions and in- 
dustries which have made that city con- 
spicuous for intelligence and good govern- 
ment. 

Mr. Gilmore has served his fellow-citi- 
zens most acceptably in the common council 
and in the board of aldermen, and in 1884 
was elected to the state Senate, to repre- 
sent the 3d Middlese.\ district, serving 
upon the committees of mercantile affairs 
and the state-house, and was chairman 
of the committee for expediting the 
business of the session. In 1885 he re- 
ceived the unanimous nomination of the 
Bemocratic party for lieutenant-governor, 
Hon. F. O. Prince being at the head of the 
ticket. 

Although formerly an advocate of the 
high -license system, his voice and vote 
have been given to the advancement of 
the cause of " no license " for the past 
three years, and in 1888 he was placed in 
nomination as a candidate for mayor of the 



city, as one most worthy to be made the 
head of the government he had previously 
served so well. His selection was endorsed 
by his fellow-citizens at the polls, and Mr. 
(iilmore has, in his treatment of the im- 
portant questions of the day, amply justi- 
fied their verdict. 

GLEASON, Charles .4., .son of El- 
bridge and Emeline (Ranger) Gleason, was 
born on the yth of February, 1846, at New 
Braintree, Worcester county. 

He was educated in the common schools 
of New Braintree, and later studied in the 
Westfield Academy. He has always lived 
upon the farm on which he was born, which 
at present he owns and conducts. 

On the 17th of November, 1875, at 
Hardwick, Mr. Gleason was married to 
Elizabeth, daughter of Joel B. and Melinda 
H. (Winter) Mandell. 

For several years he has been superin- 
tendent of the Congregational Sabbath- 
school. He is also justice of the peace, 
president of the Worcester West Agricul- 
tural Society, and for eighteen years has 
been upon the school committee ; for sev- 
eral years he was town treasurer and select- 
man ; for fourteen years town collector. 
In 1873 he was elected as representative 
to the General Court, and was sent to the 
Senate in 1886, '87 and '88. He is a trustee 
of the Amherst Agricultural College, and 
for many years has been a member of the 
Congregational parish committee, and par- 
ish treasurer. 

He is a man whose influence is widely 
felt in his communit\', and who, without 
ostentation, has won for himself an enviable 
name in the state. 

GLEASON, Daniel Angell, son of 

John Fiskc and Maria (Tourtelotte) Glea- 
son, was born in Worcester, May 9, 1836. 

The public schools of Worcester gave 
him the preliminary training enabling him 
to enter Harvard University at the age of 
si.\teen. He graduated from Harvard in 
the class of 1856. 

After graduation he taught for three 
years in a private school in Meadville, 
Pa. Buring this period he also studied 
law and was admitted to the bar in Craw- 
ford county. Pa. Returning East, he re- 
ceived the degree of LL. B. from Har- 
vard in i860. At this time lie assisted 
Prof. Washburn in the preparation of his 
work on " Easements," and later edited 
" Bouvier's Law Dictionary," and an edition 
of " Bouvier's Institutes," and assisted Mr. 
Phillips in that author's last edition of his 
work on insurance. 



GLEASON. 



GLINES. 



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He was admitted a member of the Suf- 
folk bar in 1861, and commenced tiie prac- 
tice of law in the city of Boston. He was 
law clerk to Attorney-General Dwight 
Foster from 1862 to '64. He served as 
deputy tax commissioner from 1864 to '81, 
and as commissioner of corporations from 
1870 to '81. In 1881 he was elected on 
the general state ticket to the office of 
treasurer and receiver-general of the Com- 
monwealth, serving the full constitutional 
term of five years, till 1886. In March, 
18S7, he was appointed treasurer of the 
Fitchburg Railroad Company, which posi- 
tion he now holds. 

Mr. Gleason was married in Roxbury, 
on January 7, 1863, to Annie L., daughter 
of Richard and Mary A. (Henry) Hall. 
He has five children ; Hall, Sidney, Eliza- 
beth, Annie and Charles Bemis Gleason. 

Mr. Gleason has been exceptionally for- 
tunate in early securing and long maintain- 
ing the confidence of his fellow-citizens of 
Medford, where he has for many years 
resided. He served on the school com- 
mittee from 1864 to '85, and the high 
standing of the public schools in that place 
is in no small degree attributable to his 
care and supervision, he serving as chair- 
man for eighteen consecutive years, from 
1867 to '85. He was largely instrumental 
in the introduction of water into the town, 
and has served uninterruptedly upon the 
board of water commissioners since their 
incorporation in 1869. 

Mr. Gleason has always been a prom- 
inent and influential leader in town affairs, 
possessing unrivaled gifts of persuasive 
eloquence and convincing logic. He is 
courteous in debate, fertile in resource, 
and a powerful sujiporter of any cause to 
which he may give his sanction. 

GLEASON, JuBAL Converse, son of 

Andrew and Celia (Harwood) Gleason, was 
born in Hubbardston, Worcester county, 
November 9, 1837. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in the public schools and New Salem 
Academy. He entered Amherst College 
in 1859, and was graduated therefrom in 
the year 1863, in the first sixth of his class. 
He was graduated from the Harvard med- 
ical school, 1867. He practiced medicine 
in Gilbertville, (Hardwick) three years, 
when he removed to Rockland, where he 
has since resided in the active practice of 
his profession. 

Dr. Gleason was married in North 
Abington, July 31, 1867, to Mrs. Anna 
Pierce Sayles, daughter of the late Rev. 
Willard Pierce. Of this union were two 



children : Everett Harwood (deceased),^ 
and Emma ^Villard Gleason. 

Dr. Gleason was a member of the Hard- 
wick school board one year, of the Rock- 
land school board continuously since the 
incorporation of the town, 1874. He was 
chairman of the Rockland board of health 
three years, and has been medical ex- 
aminer of the 2d Plymouth district since 



18 



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He served as representative to the Gen- 
eral Court 1870 and '86, and in the state 
Senate 1887, '88, and '89. He is a mem- 
ber and councilor of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, member of the Massa- 
chusetts Medico-Legal Society, Phi Beta 
Kappa Society, Amherst College, and is 
also connected with the F. & A. M. and 
I. (). (). F. 

\)r. CHeason has made himself a reputa- 
tion as a public speaker, not only in the 
Senate, but on the platform. He has con- 
tributed some valuable professional papers 
to the various medical societies. 

GLINES, Edward, son of Jacob T. and 
Sarah A. (Washburn) Glines, was born in 
Somerville, Middlesex county, August 31, 

1849- 

He obtained his education in the public 
schools, graduating from the high school 
in 1869. He began to learn business as 
clerk in a general spice and coffee store, 
and was with his father in the same busi- 
ness until his father's retirement, which 
brought the son to the head of the oldest 
firm in its line in Boston. He is still carry- 
ing on the importation, manufacture and 
sale of spices and coffee. 

Mr. Glines was married in Boston, March 
5, 1872, to Frances C, daughter of Ziba P. 
and Nancy L. (Henderson) Hanks, of 
Augusta, Me. They have no children. 

Mr. Glines was an officer and member of 
the Somerville fire department ten years ; 
is a member of the Central, Webcowitt and 
Winter Hill clubs of Somerville, the Cen- 
tral, Middlesex, New England and Cereal 
clubs of Boston. He is a member of the 
Boston Chamber of Commerce. 

Mr. Glines has held office in the I. O. O. F. 
and K. of H. ; is a Mason, Knight Tem- 
plar degree ; has served in the militia as a 
private ; has been president of the Repub- 
lican city committee ; member of the Re- 
publican state central committee ; presi- 
dent of the Somerville common council ; 
overseer of the poor ; member of the 
House of Representatives two years, 1882 
and '83 ; and was a member of the state 
Senate in 1887 and '88, serving as a mem- 
ber of the committees on street railways. 



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GODFREY. 



GOOCH. 



expediting business, labor, and public 
health, and as chairman of the railroad 
committee and the committees on federal 
relations and roads and bridges. 

He was largel\' influential in the adoption 
b_v the Legislature of the important public 
improvement known as the widening and 
extension of Beacon Street, giving to the 
city of Boston one of its most elegant 
boulevards. 

As chairman of the railroad committee, 
he reported and successfully advocated the 
passage of two very important measures 
affecting the railroad and mercantile inter- 
ests of the State — the consolidation of the 




EDWARD GLINES. 

Old Colony and the Boston & Providence 
railroads, and the uniting of the larger 
and more important rival lines, the Boston 
& Maine and the Eastern railroads. 

Mr. Glines enjoys the remarkable and 
unprecedented legislative record of never 
losing a bill which was reported by either 
of three committees of which he was chair- 
man. 

He has been connected with various 
literary and religious associations, his church 
relations being with the Universalists. 

GODFREY, Nathan, son of Otis 
Smith and Susan Elizabeth (Sauveuer) 
Godfrey, was born in Cherryfield, Wash- 
ington county, Me., August 19, 1859. 



Removing to Massachusetts while quite 
young, he received the greater portion of 
his educational training in the public 
schools of Milton, and was graduated from 
the Milton high school. 

He first sought his fortune at sheep- 
raising, in Smith River Valley, Montana 
Territory, in 1877 to '80. In 1881 he en- 
gaged in the lumber business. In 1884 he 
added the coal trade, and these two have 
been his occupation up to the present time. 

Mr. Godfrey was married in Milton, 
December 25, 1880, to Georgiana M., 
daughter of Josiah F. and Susan Anna 
Twombley. They have two children : Otis 
S. and Florence L. Godfrev. 

Mr. Godfrey was president of the High 
School Association in 18S8 ; member of the 
Republican town committee for the last 
six years ; member of the present board 
of liealth, and member of the board of fire 
engineers. 

Mr. Godfrey is a lineal descendant on 
the maternal side of Surgeon AUine, or 
Allen, one of the " Boston Tea Party." 
The Sauveuer and Twombley families are 
of English and Irish descent, and on the 
paternal side are connected also with the 
ancestors of Robert G. Shaw. 

GOOCH, Daniel W., son of John 
and Olive (\\'mn) Gooch, was born in 
Wells, York county, Me., January 8, 1820. 

He was fitted for college at Phillips 
Academy, Andover, and was graduated at 
Dartmouth College in the class of 1843. 
He studied law in South Berwick and Port- 
land, Me., and also in Boston, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1846. 

He practiced law in Boston, and was a 
member of the House in the state Legis- 
lature in 1852, and the state Constitutional 
Convention in 1853. He was elected to 
Congress, and served in the 35tli, 36th, 
37th, and 38th Congresses, and, resigning 
from the 39th Congress, to which he was 
also elected, was appointed naval officer 
at the port of Boston, which position he 
held for one year, after which he returned 
to the practice of the law, in which he was 
engaged until the 43d Congress, when he 
was again elected to that body. 

In 1875 he was appointed jiension agent 
in Boston, which position he held until 
1886, after which he again returned to the 
practice of the law. During the existence 
of the joint congressional committee on the 
conduct of the war, he was its chairman 
on the part of the House. 

Among his speeches in Congress that 
were issued in pamphlet form are the fol- 
lowing : " The Lecompton Constitution 



GOODALE. 



GOOUNOW. 



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and the Admission of Kansas into the 
Union" (March 29, 1858) ; "Polygamy in 
Utah" (April 4, i860); "The Supreme 
Court and Dred Scott" (May 3, i860); 
"Organization of the Territories" (May 
II, i860); "Any Compromise a Surrender " 




DANIEL W, GOOCH. 

(February 23, 1861 ) ; "Recognition of 
Hayti and Liberia " ( June 2, 1862); " Se- 
cession and Reconstruction" (May 3, 1864). 
Mr. Gooch married Hannah H., daugh- 
ter of John S. and Theodosia L. Pope, of 
AVells, Maine, and his only living child is 
William W. Gooch, born September 8, 1857. 

GOODALE, Warren, son of Aaron 
and Elizabeth (Fales) (ioodale, was born 
September 8, 1861, at West Boylston, Wor- 
cester county. 

He attended the district schools in his 
native town, also the grammar and high 
schools, receiving a thorough course of 
academic training in the Worcester Acad- 
emy. He is a graduate of Eastman 
National Business College, Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y. 

He afterwards worked one year for W. 
R. Walker, in West Boylston, in a general 
country store. Later he worked for J. W. 
Howe & Co., Clinton, three years ; then 
went to Hudson in company with Solon 
Wood, under the firm name of Solon Wood 
& Co., and remained there one year, after 



which he returned to Clinton, and has since 
been in company with J. \V. Howe, under 
the firm name of Howe tV Goodale, carrying 
on an e.xtensive furniture and grocery 
business. 

Mr. Goodale was married in Clinton, 
September 21, 1887, to Annie Carroll, 
daughter of William N. and Mary Ann 
(Dickinson) Peirce. 

He is a member of the board of select- 
men, elected in 1889 for three years. 

GOODELL, JOHN H., son of Hosea 
B. and Harriet (Fiske) (loodell, was born 
in Southbridge, Worcester county, Septem- 
ber 15, 1851. 

His education was received in the com- 
mon schools of Southbridge and North 
Brookfield, he having moved to the latter 
town in 1862. 

He opened a retail provision market in 
East Brookfield, February, 1874. Having 
sold out the business in 1875, he returned 
to North Brookfield and went into business 
in the same line. In November, 1880, he 
disposed of his interests, and in April, 1882, 
went to South Framingham. Here he 
bought a large market business which he 
still owns. 

Mr. Goodell was married in North Brook- 
field, May I, 1873, to Emma F., daughter 
of John and Mary (Griffith) Carleton. Of 
this union are three children : Juva H , 
Florence C. and Robert H. Goodell. 

Mr. Goodell is active in all matters of 
public interest, and prominent in the mu- 
nicipal affairs of Framingham. It was 
owing much to his perseverance that the 
town secured the right and adopted the 
system of " intermittent downward filtra- 
tion sewage," improved fire-alarm, street 
fountains, etc. He was overseer of the 
poor, 1885, '86 and '87, and selectman, '86, 
'87, '88 and '89. He was vice-president of 
the Citizens' Association, now merged in 
the Commercial Club, and is a director of 
South Framingham Co-operative Bank. 

GOODNOW, Edward Augustus, 

was born at Princeton, Worcester county, 
on the 1 6th of July, 18 10. He was the 
third son of Edward and Rebecca (Beaman) 
Goodnow. The house in which he was 
born was built by his grandfather, Edward 
Goodnow, in 1786, and during his boyhood 
was occupied by his father as a tavern. 
His early training was in this tavern, on 
the farm, somewhat in the district school, 
and somewhat less in Hadley Academy, 
where, indeed, he spent only three terms. 
At the age of nineteen he went to work for 
wages in the store of his older brother in 



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GOODNOW. 



GOODRICH. 



Princeton ; then went into partnership 
with him ; then engaged in the manufac- 
ture of shoes for himself. In 1847 he sold 
out his Princeton business and left the 
town. In the period of prospecting which 
followed, he had charge for a year of the 
store connected with the large cutlery es- 
tablishment of Lanison, Goodnow & Co., 
at Shelburne Falls. But neither this nor a 
manufacturing prospect in central New 
York offered him the chance he sought. 
In the end he came back to Worcester, 
there bought out a small shoe dealer, and 
with a capital of about $7,000 began a retail 
and jobbing business. At the end of four 
years he sold the retail branch and opened 
the first exclusive jobbing house of any 
kind then in Worcester. For the first year 
the business amounted to $130,000 ; in 
the tenth year it was about $400,000. 




EDWARD A. GOODNOW. 



In the midst of a prosperous business 
the civil war broke out. Being wholly in 
sympathy with the cause of the Union, Mr. 
Goodnow patriotically gave the govern- 
ment his hearty and efficient support- 
He assisted many of his clerks to enlist 
for the war ; headed a subscription for 
Gov. Andrew's colored regiment with 
$500 ; subscribed liberally for govern- 
ment bonds, and showetl his confidence in 
its stability by his forwardness in estab- 



lishing the first bank in Worcester under 
the national banking law. Of this bank he 
became the president after retiring from 
the shoe business at the close of the war, 
and this office he .still holds. 

Of his honorably accumulated wealth he 
has been a faithful steward. Churches, 
missionary societies, schools and colleges 
in many and widely separated places have 
largely shared in his gifts. Much the 
larger part of his giving has been for edu- 
cational uses. Scholarships for needy and 
worthy girls have been founded bv him at 
Mt. Holyoke, Northfield, Wellesl'ey, Wel- 
lington, .South Africa, Iowa College, and 
Hampton, Virginia. To Iowa College he 
gave $15,500 for the erection of a library 
and observatory, and a cottage for girls ; 
to Huguenot Seminary in South Africa, 
$15,000 for a building and its furnishing ; 
to Washburn College, Kansas, $5,000 for a 
John Brown proftjssorship ; to the Young 
Women's Christian Association of Worces- 
ter $5,000 ; and to his native town about 
$40,000 to found and endow a free library 
and grammar school, and to aid in erecting 
a new town hall. These are but parts 
of his public benefactions. The whole 
amount would probably e.xceed $200,000. 

Mr. Goodnow has never been an otifice 
holder, nor an office seeker. One exception 
occurred in 1867, when Governor Andrew 
appointed him a trustee of the Westborough 
Reform School. This office, through a re- 
appointment by Governor Bullock, he held 
seven years. 

Mr. (loodnow was married in early life 
to Harriet, daughter of Dr. Henry Bagg, 
of Princeton, and subsequently, upon her 
decease, to her sister, Mary Augusta. After 
the death of the latter he was married to 
Catherine Bowman, eldest daughter of 
Seth Caldwell, of Barre. He was the 
father of but one child, who ilied many 
years ago. 

GOODRICH, Charles Artemas, 

son of .\rtemas and Lydia (Ramsdell) 
Goodrich, was born in Lunenburg, Wor- 
cester county, November 5, 1824, 

He was educated in the common schools 
until the age of fifteen, when he entered 
the Lunenburg Academy, under the tuition 
of the Hon. John R. Rollins. When seven- 
teen years of age he began teaching school, 
to which occupation he gave his attention 
for ninety-two terms in the common and 
high schools. 

In 1850 he bought a farm in his native 
place, which he has since been conducting 
in connection with land surveying, civil 
engineering, conveyancing, etc. 



GOODWIN. 



GORDON. 



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On the loth of December, 1850, Mr. 
Goodrich was married at Lunenburg, to 
Martha A. W., daughter of Samuel H. and 
Mary (Hart) Bailey. She died on the 12th 
of December, 1884, leaving two children : 
Charles Edwin and Adie Elizabeth. On 
the iSth of June, 1887, Mr. Goodrich was 
again married, to Mrs. Josephine M. Col- 
burn of Ayer. 

For fifteen years Mr. Goodrich has been 
superintendent of the Lunenburg Unitarian 






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CHARLES A GOODRICH, 

Sunday-school, and for thirty-five years 
upon the school committee, most of the 
time as its chairman. For nearly a quarter 
of a centur}' he has been upon the board 
of selectmen, assessors, and overseers of 
the poor, and for many years justice of the 
peace and notary public. His valuable 
and honorable service has been largely in 
demand as administrator and e.xecutor of 
many estates, and guardian of several 
wards. 

Mr. Goodrich is in one other respect 
a notable product of Massachusetts soil, 
being an unusually large man, measuring 
six feet five and a half inches in height. 

GOODWIN, William Watson, .son 

of Hersey Bradford and ]jucretia Ann 
(Watson) Goodwin, was born in Concord, 
Middlese.x county, May 9, 1831. He grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1851, and afterwards 



studied at Gottingen, Bonn, and Berlin. 
He was a tutor in Harvard College from 
1856 till '60, and since i860 he has been 
Eliot professor of Greek literature. 

He was the first tlirector of the Ameri- 
can school of classical studies at Athens, 
Greece, in i882-'83, and was president of 
the American Philological Association in 
1872 and again in 1885. 

Professor Goodwin is a member of the 
Imperial Archaeological Institute of Ger- 
many, of the American Academy of Arts 
and Science.s, and of the Massachusetts 
Historical Society, and is a knight of the 
Greek order of the Saviour. He received 
the degree of Ph. D. from the University 
of Gottingen in 1855, and that of LL. D. 
from Amherst College in 1881, from the 
University of Cambridge, England, in 
1883, and again from Columbia College, 
N. Y., in 1887. 

He has been a contributor to various 
literary and jshilological journals and to 
the transactions of societies in the United 
States and England. He has been the 
chief editor of the " Papers of the Amer- 
ican School of Classical Studies at Athens," 
volumes i.-iv., published in Boston in 
1885 and '88. 

His works include " Syntax of the Moods 
anil Tenses of the Greek Verb " (Cam- 
bridge, i860 ; revised edition, 1865 — Lon- 
don, 1873); " Elementary Greek Gram- 
mar" (Boston, 1870 — enlarged edition, Bos- 
ton and London, 1879); "Greek Reader," 
with Rev. Joseph H. Allen (Boston, 187 i); 
and an edition of Xenophon's " Anabasis," 
books i.-iv., with Professor John W. 
White (Boston and London, 1877). He 
also revised the old translation of " Plu- 
tarch's Morals by Several Hands," i.-iv. 
(Boston, 1870). 

Professor Goodwin was married in New 
York, February 3, 1864, to Emil}' Haven, 
daughter of Horace Howard and Mary 
Prudence (Haven) Jenks, who died in 
1874, leaving one son : Charles Haven 
Goodwin, born in 1866. He was again 
married, in 1882, to Ellen Adelaide Chand- 
ler, of Jamaica Plain. 

GORDON, AdoNIRAM JUDSON, son of 
John Calvin and Sally (Robinson) (lordon. 
was born in New Hampton, Belknap coun- 
ty, N. H., April 19, 1836. 

He received his early education in the 
common school of his native town, and sub- 
sequently entered the preparatory school at 
New London, N. H., with the distinct 
object of fitting himself for a gospel min- 
istry, thence going to Brown LTniversity, 
Providence, R. L He was graduated at 



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GOSS. 



Brown in i860, and at the Newton Theo- 
logical Institution in 1863. Before the 
completion of his course at the latter place, 
he accepted a call to the pastorate of 
the Baptist church, Jamaica Plain, his 
ordination taking place June 25, 1863, and 
until the A-ear 1869, Dr. Gordon continued 
his work in the same church. At the close 
of his labors at Jamaica Plain, he received 
a call from the Clarendon Street Baptist 
church of Boston, of which he is still 
pastor. 

Dr. Gordon was married at Providence, 
R. I., October 13, 1863, to Maria T., daugh- 
ter of Isaac and Harriet (Johnson) Hale. 




ADONIRAM J GORDON. 

They have six children : Harriet Hale, 
Ernest B., Elsie, Arthur H., Helen M., 
and Theodora F. Gordon. 

Under Dr. Gordon's pastorate, the Clar- 
endon Street church has been especially 
noted for the large and important temper- 
ance and evangelistic work it has carried 
on. He was mainly instrumental in the 
formation of the institution known as the 
Boston Industrial Home, which has been 
very successful in helping young men 
towards sobriety and self-support. 

Dr. Gordon is well known as an author, 
and among his publications may be found 
"In Christ" (1872); " Grace and Glory" 
(Boston, 1880); followed by "Congrega- 



tional Worship," also the " Ministry of 
Healing" (1882), and "Two-Fold Life" 
(18S4). He was one of the compilers of 
the hymn-book known as the " Service of 
Song." He is a trustee of Brown Uni- 
versity, from which he received the de- 
gree of D. D. in 1877. 

GORDON, George angier, son of 

George and Catharine (Hutchins) Gordon, 
was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Jan- 
uary 2, 1853, and was educated in the com- 
mon schools of Scotland. 

When eighteen years of age he came to 
this country, and for two years worked at 
various occupations, during which time he 
made the acquaintance of the Rev. L. H. 
A ngier — then settled in South Boston — who, 
with his wife, encouraged Mr. Gordon to 
continue his studies. He afterwards be- 
came a member of their family, and under 
their influence, in 1874, entered the Bangor 
Theological Seminary, graduating in 1877. 
He preached for a year after being or- 
dained, then entered Harvard College as a 
special student, joining the class of 1881 in 
its senior year,and graduated with that class. 

For three years subsequent to his 
graduation he was settled as clergyman in 
Greenwich, Conn., and in 1884 became 
pastor of the Old South church in Boston, 
which position he occupies at the present 
time. He is also one of the preachers of 
Harvard University. 

He is a man of advanced ideas and 
broad theological views. These views 
tended to create some question, and aroused 
certain opposition at the time of his settle- 
ment in Boston ; but his earnestness, 
ability, and determination won for him 
many friends who have been his firm sup- 
porters, and who have aided him materially 
in the success with which he has met since 
his settlement as pastor of the famous Old 
South church. 

GOSS, ELBRIDGE Henry, .son of Hen- 
ry and Betsey (Kendall) Goss, was born in 
Boston, December 22, 1830. From the 
age of six to twelve years he lived in Dum- 
merston, Vt., where he attended the district 
schools. He then returned to Boston, 
completing his education in the Adams 
school and the English high school. 

He began the labors of life early in the 
tailoring house of Kimball & Fisk ; for 
a year was cashier in Chandler & Co.'s dry 
goods house ; and then for five years clerk 
in W. F. Shaw's gas-fixture and lamp store. 
For thirty years he was book-keeper for the 
leather house of A. L. White & Co. and 
their successors. 



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He is now treasurer of the Melrose Sav- 
ings Bank, a position lie lias held for four- 
teen years, and is also the Boston treasurer 
of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, 
of Kansas. He has been several years 
auditor of the town of Melrose — which 
became his residence in 1856 — and trustee 
of the public library since its organization 
in 1871. He is now chairman of the 
board. 




ELBRIDGE H GOSS. 

He was representative in the Legislature 
in 1874 and '75. In religious matters he 
is known as an active worker, and holds 
many offices and trusts iti religious and 
philanthropic societies and social clubs. 
He is a member of the New England His- 
toric Genealogical and Bostonian societies, 
the American Historical Association, treas- 
urer of the Prince Society, and correspond- 
ing member of the Rhode Island and 
Wisconsin Historical societies. 

Besides attending to his many duties, he 
has also been engaged in literary matters 
— writing the Melrose Memorial, the 
Annals of Melrose during the great re- 
bellion of i86i-'65, and the life of Paul 
Revere, together with contributions to mag- 
azines and newspapers, some of which were 
published under the nom deplume " Elhe- 
gos." July 4, 1S76, he delivered the cen- 
tennial historical address for Melrose. 



On the 22d of December, 1853, Mr. Goss 
was married in Boston, to Jennie H., 
daughter of Martin and Prudence (Rich- 
ardson) Baker. Their children are : Frank 
Martin and Mary Alice Cross. 

GOSS, Franklin B., son of William 

Whittemore and Hannah Cioss, was born 
in Brewster, Barnstable county, July 17, 
.S5,. 

He was put out on a farm in Dennis at 
nine years of age, and at fourteen entered 
the " Barnstable Patriot " office as an ap- 
prentice in the printing business. He had 
the advantage of the public schools a por- 
tion of each year previous to that time. 

In 1 85 1 he started a newspaper called 
the "Cape Cod Advocate," printed at 
Barnstable and Sandwich, in company with 
Benjamin C. Bowman. In 1869 he became 
joint proprietor with George H. Richards, 
of the " Barnstable Patriot;" in 1871 its 
sole proprietor, and was editor and man- 
ager from his first joint ownership, 1869. 




FRANKLIN B. GOSS. 

He was appointed collector of customs 
for the district of Barnstable, July 8, 1876, 
by President Grant, and continued in office 
until August 8, 1887, when he was removed 
by President Cleveland. 

He established the " Provincetown Ad- 
vocate," in 1869 ; the "Harwich Independ- 
ent " and "Chatham Monitor," in 1883, 



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and the "Cape Cod Bee," in 1S80 — all 
now flourishing local papers. 

IMr. Goss was married in Barnstable, 
January 20, 1852, to Mary Ciorham, daugh- 
ter of Capt. Joseph and Lucy Josejihine 
Parker, of Barnstable. Of this union were 
five cinildren : F. Percy, Alton Parker, 
William F. M., Lillie Stanley and George 
Richards Goss — the latter deceased. 

Mr. Goss has held a position on the 
school board several years, and for manv 
years was vice-president and secretary of 
the Barnstable County Agricultural So- 
ciety. 

He was originally a Democrat, but fount! 
a political home more consonant to his 
tastes with the Republicans during Gen- 
eral Grant's first presidential campaign. 
He has ever since acted with the Republi- 
can party as its staunch supporter. He is 
now for the second time the collector of 
the port of Barnstable, having been re-ap- 
pointed to that position by President Har- 
rison, July 20, 1889. 

He is always prominent in temperance 
work, and believes in prohibition. 

Mr. Goss is the fourth child of a family 
of fifteen children. His father died in 
1884, aged eighty-two. His mother is still 
living, aged eighty. 

GOULD, John Henry, of Medfield, is 

descended from English ancestors who 
emigrated to this country early in 1600, 
and settled in Massachusetts, where his 
parents, John H. and Emiline B. (Pitcher) 
Gould were born. He was born at Paw- 
tucket, Providence count)', R. I., December 
1 1, 1829. 

His early education was obtained at the 
public schools and at a private academy. 
At an early age he entered the militia ser- 
vice of the state of Rhode Island, in which 
service, during a period of twelve years, he 
was successively promoted from the grade 
of private to that of major. 

The breaking out of the rebellion found 
him organizing a company, which was 
mustered into the United States service as 
the 3d Rhode Island artillery, of which he 
was commissioned captain. 

On January 21, 1861, he married Abbie 
B., daughter of the late Dr. Thomas J. 
and Abigail (Baker) Stevens, of Charles- 
town, Mass. Two children were the fruit 
of this marriage : May (deceased) and 
Alfred Henry (iould. 

Captain Gould sailed in 1861 in a secret 
e.xpedition which assisted in the capture of 
Port Royal, S. C. 

Major-General Hunter, commander of 
the department of the South, recommend- 



ing him for promotion, said that Captain 
Gould was an officer of e.xcellent ability, 
and had rendered important service to 
the department, (leneral Gilmore subse- 
cpiently assigned him to the command of 



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J, HENRY GOULD 

Fort Pulaski and of the batteries on Tybee 
Island, and he, also, recommending him 
for promotion, said that he considered that 
Captain Gould was one of the most intel- 
ligent, capable and valuable officers in the 
volunteer service. 

Captain Gould was commissioned as 
major, and in 1864 was honorably dis- 
charged on account of injuries incurred in 
the service of his country. 

His political record begins with his ser- 
vice as a member of the board of health 
and of the school committee of the town 
of Medfield. In 1882 he was elected to 
the Republican state central committee, 
and served two years as chairman of its 
executive committee, and in 1886 he was 
re-elected and chosen chairman of the 
whole committee, and ably and successfully 
managed one of the hottest political cam- 
paigns ever fought in the State. 

As a member of the state Senate in 1886 
and '87, Mr. Gould was chairman of the 
committee on military affairs and member 
of the committee on railroads and agri- 
culture ; subsequently was chairman of the 



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committee on railroads and a member of 
the committee on the state-house and cities. 
He was one of the organizers of the Nor- 
folk County Club, and with the late (Jeorge 
Draper of Hopedale, he took an active 
part in organizing the Home Market Club, 
which was established for the protection of 
home labor and home industries, which has 
a membership of nearl\- twenty-five hundred 
members, and of which he is now one of 
the executive committee. 

Major Gould is also a member of the G. 
A. R., being past commander of Post 117 
of Medfield ; is a Mason of high standing, 
and a member of the Military Order of the 
Loyal Legion. He assisted in the organi- 
zation of the Republican League of the 
United States, which has a membership of 
over one million, and he was chosen one of 
a sub-executive committee of nine of this 
organization. He is also the father of the 
State Republican League. He has been 
repeatedly urged to be a candidate for 
Congress, with an excellent prospect of 
success. In June, 1888, he was chosen a 
delegate to the national Republican con- 
vention held at Chicago, and was elected 
vice-president, representing Massachusetts. 
As a recognized leader among the friends 
of General Harrison, voting for his can- 
didate on every ballot, he was enabled 
to perform signal service towards secur- 
ing the vote of the Massachusetts and 
other delegations for the successful candi- 
date. 

Major Gould, as he is familiarly known, 
has also been actively and successfully en- 
gaged as a shipper of grain and coal on his 
own account for nearly a quarter of a cen- 
tury, is a member of the Boston Chamber 
of Commerce, and enjoys an excellent 
reputation. 

GOULD, Levi SWANTON, son of Dr. 
Levi and Elisabeth Webb (Whitmore) 
Gould, was born March 27, 1834, at Dix- 
mont, Penobscot county, Maine. His an- 
cestors were John Gould, an inhabitant of 
Charlestown in 1635, who died in Stoneham 
in 1690, and Francis AVhitmore, ancestor 
of the Whitmore and Wetmore families, 
w'ho lived in Cambridge in 1649, and who 
•died there in 1685. 

When six months old, his parents moved 
to his father's native town, Stoneham, and 
in 1843 settled in North .Maiden, now Mel- 
rose. He was educated in the public 
schools of Maiden and at Waitt's and In- 
jfalls academies in Melrose. 

Early in life Mr. Gould learned the shoe- 
maker's trade and worked at the bench in 
North Maiden, where, according to the 



custom of the time, he would make up a 
lot of shoes, pack them in a bag prepared 
for the purpose, carry them on his back 
to Stoneham, two miles away, receive his 
pay and a new lot of stock, and return for 
another season of work. 

Li 1850 he became a clerk in the fancy 
goods house of Messer, Warren & Davis 
in Boston. In 1857 he went West and 
found emploj^ment with Alexander Leitch, 
a prominent druggist of St. Louis. Upon 
the election of Abraham Lincoln, Mr. 
Gould received an appointment in the 
office of the secretary of the treasury at 
Washington, and was later in the navy 
agent's department in Boston. Li i866 he 
became connected with F. M. Holmes & 
Co., manufacturers of furniture, and in 
1878 purchased Mr. Holmes's interest in the 
business, which he has since continued as 
senior partner, under the firm name of 
F. M. Holmes Furniture Company, the fac- 
tory of which concern is in Charlestown, 
and the ware-rooms in Boston. 

On the 23d of February, i860, Mr. Gould 
was married in Melrose, to Mary Eliza 
Payne. Their two children are: Mary Pearl 
and .Vnnie Elizabeth Gould. 




LEVI S GOULD. 



During the two sessions of 1868 and '69 
Mr. (iould was representative in the Gen- 
eral Court, of the district of Melrose, Wake- 



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GOVE. 



field and Stoneham. He was first elected 
as selectman of Melrose in 1869, was chair- 
man of the board of selectmen in 1885, '86, 
87, '88 and '8g, and has served fifty-five 
times as moderator of the town meetings, 
and with the adjournments, had presided 
over one hundred and four meetings up to 
May 22, 1889. He has been for many years 
a member of the board of health, one of the 
overseers of the poor, and chairman of the 
highway surveyors of the town of Melrose. 
Four times he has been chosen worshipful 
master of Wyoming Lodge, F. & A. M. 
of Melrose. 

Mr. Gould was president of the New 
England Furniture Exchange in 1883 and 
'84, and president of the Furniture Club 
of Boston in 1886. He is a member of 
the Boston Executive Business Association 
as a delegate of the New England Furni- 
ture Exchange, and a director of the 
Farmers' Loan & Trust Company of Kan- 
sas.- 

For forty-six years Mr. Gould has re- 
sided in Melrose, where he has always been 
known as active and energetic in all social 
and town matters, and an earnest Repub- 
lican politician. 

GOVE, Jesse Morse, son of Dana b. 

and Susan (Morse) Gove, was born in 
Weare, Hillsborough county, N. H., De- 
cember II, 1852. The American ancestry 
of Mr. Gove is easily traced back to John 
Gove, who came from London in 1646, and 
settled in Charlestown. He died in 1648, 
leaving two sons, John and Edward Gove, 
Edward subsequently went to New Hamp- 
shire, and there settled, becoming one of 
the leaders in a rebellion against some of 
the coercive measures of the crown. He 
was with one of his sons arrested and sent 
to England and imprisoned in the Tower 
of London. He was pardoned and re- 
turned to his home. From lulward Gove, 
Jesse M. is of direct descent. 

He was educated at the public and pri- 
vate schools of Lowell, and in 1872 he 
commenced the study of law in the office 
of his father, being admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 1875, since which time he has prac- 
ticed law in Boston. 

Mr. Gove was elected a member of the 
Boston common council in 1881 ; a mem- 
ber of the state Legislature in 1883, '84 
and '85 ; a member of the Boston ward 
and city committee in 1886, '87 and '88 — 
for the last two years holding the position 
of president of the same. He was elected 
a delegate to the national Republican 
conventions at Chicago in 1884 and in '88. 
Upon his return in 1884, he was tendered 



a banquet by the Republicans of the 4th 
congressional district, for his fealty to them 
in supporting their choice at the conven- 
tion, as against the wishes and choice of 
all other delegates from Massachusetts, 
during the contest, he having been the 
only delegate from Massachusetts who 
voted for James G. Blaine as candidate 
for the presidency. His native shrewdness 
and positive views upon the political situa- 
tion gave him at once a national prominence 
as "the original Blaine man." During his 
presidency of the ward and city committee, 
the prominent members of the Republican 
party of Boston tendered him a banquet in 




JESSE M. GOVE, 

honor of his exertions in their behalf. 
Like honor was conferred by the 4th Con- 
gressional District Club at one of their 
monthly gatherings, 

Mr. Gove is at present a member of the 
board of aldermen. He is a member of 
the Masonic fraternity, and also of the 
Knights of Pythias, 

He was married at Lowell, August 17, 
1882, to Agnes E., daughter of James and 
Jane Ballantyne. Of this union are two 
sons : Dana 15. and Edward J, Gove. 

Mr. Gove is a man of strong convictions, 
is forcible in his utterances, and believes 
in earnest work to accomplish the desired 
results. 



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GOVE, Wesley Austin, son of Austin 

and Louisa (.Ann) Gove, was born in 15os- 
ton, September 9, 1836. 

He received his early education at tiie 
public schools of Boston, and at the Wes- 
leyan .\cadeniy, \\'ilbraham. 

In i860 he entered the wood and coal 
business, at East Boston, under the firm 
name of Austin Gove & Son ; but since 
the death of the senior member of the 
firm, he has carried on the business 
alone. 

Mr. Gove was married in East Boston, 
September 9, 1858, to Mary Jane, daughter 
of William and Jane Kelley. Their chil- 
dren are : William A., Robert J., Louisa J., 
Alice M. and Wesley A. Gove. 

Mr. Gove was a member of the House 
of Representatives in 1869 and '71, and of 
the state Senate in 1885 and '86, serving 
upon important committees in either 
branch. He is a director of the Erie 
Telegraph & Telephone Company, a di- 
rector of the First Ward National Bank, 
and a trustee of the East Boston Savings 
Bank. 

In 1862 he enlisted, as a private, in 
the 41st regiment of infantry, afterwards 
changed to the 3d Massachusetts cavalry, 
taking the different grades to captain. He 
was wounded and taken prisoner of war at 
Port Hudson, and was in Andersonville, 
and also under fire at Charleston, at the time 
the rebels were retaliating for General But- 
ler's placing their men under fire at the 
Dutch Gap Canal. 

GRANT, Robert, son of Patrick and 
Charlotte Bordman (Rice) Grant, was born 
in Boston, Januar}' 24., 1852. 

His early education was obtained at a 
private school in that city, and at the Bos- 
ton public Latin school, he being a Frank- 
lin medal scholar. He entered Harvard, 
graduating an A. B. in 1873, receiving 
subsequently the degree of Ph. D. in phi- 
lology in 1876, and LL. B. in 1879. He 
was the poet of his class, and while an un- 
dergraduate was editor of the " Harvard 
Advocate." While in the law school he 
was editor of the " Harvard Lampoon." 

He was admitted to the bar in 1879, and 
has since resided in Boston, engaged in 
the practice of his profession, and in writ- 
ing and publishing. 

His first publication was " The Little 
Tin Gods on Wheels," in 1879, a bright 
and taking work in verse, which first at- 
tracted public attention in its previous 
publication in the " Harvard Lampoon." 
This venture was immediately followed 
by "The Confessions of a l''rivolous Girl " 



(1880), a book that confirmed the expec- 
tations which had been raised by the pre- 
vious work from an author new to the 
general public. His other publications are 
" The Lambs " (verse), first published in 
the "Century Magazine" (1882), ".An 
.Vverage Man," first published as a serial 
in the same magazine (1883), "The King's 
Men " (1884), written in co-operation with 
John Boyle O'Reilly, F. J. Stimson and 
J. T. Wheelwright, " The Knave of Hearts " 
1885), "A Romantic Young Lady" 
1886), "Jack Hall, or the School Days of 
an American Boy" (1887), and "Jack in 
the Bush" (1888). The.se later works 
show no diminution of the power of the 
author in graphic delineation of character, 
and in artistic construction of plot. 

Besides these, all published in book 
form, Mr. Grant has been a frequent con- 
tributor of various articles, stories and 
verses to the standard magazines. The 
reading public await with much interest 
further productions from his pen. 

He delivered the Phi Beta Kappa poem 
before the alumni of Harvard University 
in June, 1883, and was honored by being 
selected as poet on the two hundred and 
fiftieth anniversary of the Boston Latin 
school, which occurred April 23, 1885. 

Mr. Grant possesses characteristics 
which qualify him for other than a literary 
life. He was private secretary of Mayor 
Green of Boston during 1882. In 1888 he 
was appointed by Mayor O'Brien water 
commissioner of the city of Boston, to fill 
a vacancy occasioned by the resignation of 
Horace T. Rockwell. In April, 1889, he was 
re-appointed to the same position for a 
period of three years, and was chosen 
chairman of the board. 

Mr. Grant was married in Montreal, 
Canada, July 3, 1883, to Amy Gordon, 
the daughter of Sir Alexander T. (ialt, 
G. C. M. G., and Amy Gordon (Torrance) 
Gait. They have three children : Robert, 
Alexander and Patrick Grant. 

GRAVES, George S., the son of 
John J. and Lucy Graves of Groton, was 
born in Groton, Middlesex county, Novem- 
ber 22, 1840. 

He received his early .education at the 
public school at that place, finishing at 
Lawrence Academy, Groton. 

In 1 86 1 he went into the provision busi- 
ness at Groton with his father, but the 
war breaking out vet)' soon after, he left 
and embarked in the shipping trade to 
North Carolina and the We.st Indies, in 
which he continued tluring the war, carry- 
ing several cargoes to Newbern, N. C. 



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GREEN. 



Mr. Graves served on the school board for 
three years, and in 1876 and '77 was select- 
man, assessor, and overseer of the poor. 

In 1878 he made a trip to Europe for 
six months. 

He is an honorary member of company 
F, state cavalry militia. 

Mr. Graves was married June 20, 1866, 
to Anne S., the daughter of Edmund Tiles- 
ton of Dorchester. 

He represented his native town in the 
Legislature of 1887, serving on the com- 
mittee on mercantile affairs. 

GRAVES, Henry Clinton, son of 

Newcomb and Almira (Phillips) Graves, 
was born in Deerfield, Franklin count}-, 
September 22, 1830. 

His early educational training was ob- 
tained in the private and public schools of 
his native place until he was si.xteen years 
of age, then in preparation for college at 
Shelburne Falls Academy, and at East- 
hampton. 

Entering Amherst in 1852, he remained 
four years, and was graduated A. B. with 
the class of 1856. After graduation he 
was a teacher at the Mt. Pleasant .School 
for Boys in Amherst, also in Leicester 
Academy. He then studied theology at 
Newton Theological Institution under Drs. 
Hackett, Hovey, Ripley, and Arnold, in 
the class of 1859. He received the degree 
of A. M. in course at Amherst, 1859, and 
of D. D. from the Central L'uiversity of 
Iowa in 1888. 

Dr. Graves was married in Braintree, 
in 1859, to Susan Elizabeth, daughter of 
Ferley and Harriet P. (Hayward) Sted- 
man. Of this union are three children : 
Henry S. (Brown University, 18S3, and 
New York Medical College, 1885), Alice 
T. and Fred C. Graves. 

He was secretary of the Rhode Island 
Baptist state convention from 1865 to '70 ; 
elected president of the Massachusetts 
Baptist Charitable Society in 1884, which 
office he now holds ; president of the New- 
ton Theological Institution alumni for the 
year i886-'87 ; vice-president of the Am- 
herst College alumni in 1885, and regular 
correspondent of " The Watchman," since 
1880. 

He was pastor of the Bunker Hill Bap- 
tist church, Boston, from 1858 to 1863, 
then accepted a call to the pastorate of 
the Brown Street Baptist church. Provi- 
dence, R. I., in 1863, where he remained 
until he accepted the pastorate of the Sec- 
ond church in Fall River, 1874 ; he was 
called to the First Baptist church in Flav- 
erhill, 1880, where he remained si.x years. 



and to the North Baptist church. New 
Bedford, 1S86, where he is still settled. 

He is the author of "The History of 
the Baptist Religious Society of Haver- 
hill, Mass.," "The Life of David Benedict, 
D. D.;" several essays and sermons; let- 
ters from Europe on religious and educa- 
tional matters, and editor of "Benedict's 
History of the Donatists." 

GRAY, Horace, son of Horace and 
grandson of William Gray, was born in 
Boston, March 24, 1828. 

His early education was obtained at 
private schools in the city of his birth. 
He was graduated from Harvard College 
in 1845. He then entered the Dane law 
school, receiving on his graduation the 
degree of LL. B., after which he continued 
the study of law, under \\'illiam Sohier 
and John Lowell. He was admitted to the 
bar in 1851, and at once began to practice 
in Boston. Six years later he formed a 
law partnership with Hon. E. Rockwood 
Hoar, which continued till i860. 

In 1854 Mr. Gray was appointed report- 
er of the Massachusetts supreme judicial 
court, and served in that capacity for seven 
years. In 1864 he was appointed justice 
of that court, by Governor Andrew, and 
was appointed Chief Justice of the same by 
Governor Washburn in 1873. Here his 
dignity, integrity, learning, and e.xecutive 
ability placed him in the front rank of the 
able chief justices of the State. In 1882 
he was made associate justice of the 
supreme court of the United States, which 
office he now holds. 

On the 4th of June, 18S9, in Washing- 
ton, I). C, Justice Gray was married to 
Jeanette, daughter of the late Stanley 
.Matthews, his fellow associate justice. 

GREEN, Samuel Abbott, son of Dr. 

Joshua and Eliza (Lawrence) Green, was 
born in (Proton, Middlese.x county, March 
16, 1830. 

His early education was obtained at 
Lawrence .Academy, Groton. He was 
graduated at Harvard, 185 i, and received 
his medical degree three years later, after 
which he spent several years in Europe. 
On his return he began practice in Boston, 
and became one of the district physicians 
for the city dispensary. 

On May 19, 1858, he was appointed by 
Governor Banks surgeon of the 2d militia 
regiment. At the beginning of the civil 
war he was commissioned assistant-surgeon 
of the ist Massachusetts regiment of vol- 
unteers, and was the first medical officer 
from the State mustered in for three years' 



GKEEX. 



GREEN. 



service. He was pi'omoted to the sur- 
geoncy of the 24th Massachusetts regiment 
on September 2, 1S61, where he remained 
until November 2, 1864, serving in the 
meanwhile on the staff of various general 
officers He had charge of the hospital 
ship " Recruit " in the 15urnside expedition 
to Roanoke Island, of the hospital ship 
" Cosmopolitan " on the coast of South 
Carolina, and during the siege of Fort 




SAMUEL A GREEN. 

Wagner was chief medical officer on Morris 
Island. For gallant and distinguished ser- 
vices in the field in 1S64, he was breveted 
lieutenant - colonel of volunteers. Dr. 
Green organized " Roanoke Cemetery " in 
the winter of 1862, which was one of the 
first regular burial-places for national sol- 
diers established during the rebellion. 

After the close of the war Dr. Green 
was from 1865 until '72 superintendent of 
the Boston dispensary ; a member of the 
Boston school board, i86o-'62 and 1866 
-'72; trustee of the public library, 1868 
-'78, and acting librarian from dctober, 
1877, to October, 1878. 

In 1870 (lovernor Claflin appointed him 
one of a commission to care for disabled 
soldiers. In 1871 he became city phy- 
sician of Boston, and retained the office 
till 1882. He was chosen a member of 
the board of experts authorized by Con- 



gress in 1S78 to investigate the yellow 
fever, and in 1882 was mayor of Boston. 
In 1883 he was elected a trustee of the 
Peabody education fund, as well as the 
secretary of the board, and from 1885 to 
'88 was the acting general agent. 

Dr. Green has for twenty-one years been 
librarian of the Massachusetts Historical 
Society. Among his publications may be 
mentioned " My Campaigns in .America,'' 
translated from the F'rench of Count W'm. 
de Deux Fonts (Boston, 1868); " Epitaphs 
from the Old Burying Ground in Gro- 
ton " (1878); "The Early Records of 
Gr(iton, 1662-1707" (1880); "History 
of Medicine in Massachusetts " (Boston, 
1881); " Groton during the Indian Wars" 
(Groton, 1883); "Groton during the 
Witchcraft Times " (1883); " The Bound- 
ary Lines of Old Groton" (1885); "The 
(ieography of Groton," prepared for the 
use of the Appalachian Mountain Club 
(1886), and " Clroton Historical Series" 
(32 numbers, i883-'9). 

GREEN, Samuel SWETT, son of James 
and Elizabeth (Svvett) Green, was born in 
Worcester, February 20, 1837. 

He was first made acquainted with books 
in private schools ; afterwards attended 
the public common schools, and prepared 
himself for college work in the Worcester 
high school. He entered Harvard College, 
and was graduated in the class of 1858. 
He then entered the divinity school of 
Harvard University (1861), and was gradu- 
ated therefrom in 1S64. He then became 
book-keeper in the Mechanics' National 
Bank, Worcester, and a few months later 
became teller in the Worcester National 
Bank. 

January 15, 1871, he became librarian of 
the free public library, Worcester, a po- 
sition he still holds. He received the 
degree of A. M. from Harvard University, 
1870 ; was chosen an honorary member of 
the Phi Beta Kappa Society by the chapter 
of the same university, June 28, 1877 ; 
was director of the free public library, 
Worcester, 1867 to '71 ; was chosen first 
vice-president of the American Library 
Association, in September, 1887 ; was dele- 
gate of the same association to the Inter- 
national Congress of Librarians, held in 
London, October, 1877, and member of 
the council of that body ; was chosen 
honorary member of the Library Asso- 
ciation of the United Kingdom in July, 
1878 ; for many years has been mem- 
ber of a committee to examine the library 
of Harvard University ; lecturer on "Pub- 
lic Libraries as Popular Educational Insti- 



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GREEN. 



tutions" in school of library economy, 
recently connected with Columbia College, 
New York City ; was chosen fellow of the 
Royal Historical Society of Great Britain, 
May 8, 1879 ; member of the American 
Antiquarian Society, April 28, 1880 ; mem- 
ber of the council of that society since 
October 22, 1883 ; member of the Ameri- 
can Historical Association ; was chosen 
a trustee of Leicester Academy, October 
12, 18S2 ; president of the Worcester High 
School Association, i886-'87 ; vice-presi- 
dent of the Worcester Art Society ; and 
trustee of the Worcester County Institu- 
tion for Savings. 

Mr. Green has written two books, and 
made numerous contributions to magazines 
and the general press, on subjects con- 
nected with the arrangement of libraries, 
and several papers containing results of 
historical investigation. His residence is 
Worcester. Mr. Green is unmarried. 

He is too widely known as a librarian 
and critic to need extended comment. He 
makes of his work a profession, pecul- 
iarly so. His aim is to make of a free 
library a power to educate the com- 
munity, and to this end all his methods 
for selection, arrangement and distribu- 
tion, tend. 

GREEN, William A., the son of Wal- 
ter and Levina (Colvin) Green, was born 
at Clarendon, Rutland county, Vt., Novem- 
ber 6, 1823. 

The only educational advantages he re- 
ceived were those afforded by the common 
schools of his native place six months of 
the year up to the age of nineteen, the 
alternate six months being spent on the 
farm. He then continued to work on the 
farm until October, 1842, when he came to 
Boston and hired himself out to work on 
the wharves, which occupation he carried 
on for a number of years. 

In the meanwhile he had occasionally 
assisted the members of a fire engine com- 
pany, the Boston Hand Engine Company, 
No. 15, better known in those days as the 
"Boston fifteen," and in May, 1847, he 
became a regular member of the company, 
and in October, 1851, he was elected its 
foreman. In February, 1858, he was elected 
assistant engineer of the Boston lire depart- 
ment. Subsecjuently he was appointed 
superintendent, and organized the Boston 
Protective Department Company, combin- 
ing the office of assistant engineer and 
superintendent, until .April, 1874, when he 
was elected chief engineer. He was ap- 
pointed one of the fire commissioners of 
the city of Boston in 18S4. 



Mr. Green has possessed rare (|ualifica- 
tions for the administration of the respon- 
sible and important positions he has held. 
The fire department of the metropolis of 
the State has long held a national reputa- 
tion for bravery and efficiency. This has 




WILLIAM A, GREEM. 

not happened by chance. It is the result 
of patient, intelligent and laborious work 
on the part of those who have had charge 
of its interests, and whose example at crit- 
ical and trying times has been an inspira- 
tion to the faithful members of the force. 

GREEN, William Barker, son of Fred- 
erick and Mary (Hathaway) Green, was 
born May 13, 1835, in Adams, Berkshire 
county. 

The district schools of the town were the 
fountain from which he drew his book- 
knowledge, but they were district schools 
of an exceptionally high order, embracing 
in their curriculum most of the branches 
now taught in high schools. 

He began his business life as clerk and 
book-keeper in Pittsfield, at the age of 
fifteen. Three years later he entered the 
employ of W. W. Freeman of Adams, and 
succeeded him in the business in April, 
1863. The firm of Green i\: Haft" was 
formed in 1874, for carrying on the grocery 
business. This continued three years, Mr. 
Green conducting at the same time his old 



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GREENE. 



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business of dr)--goods, carpets and paper- 
hangings. In the spring of 1888, \\'. W. 
Warren of New Haven, Vt., came in as a 
|iartner, and the business was increased 
by the addition of an upholstery depart- 
ment. 

Mr. Green was married in Adams, ^^ay 
r, i860, to Martha, daughter of Chester 
and Anna (Keyes) Crossett. Of this union 
were two children : William C. (who died 
when eleven months old), and Anna Keyes 
Green. 

Mr. Green is senior deacon of the Con- 
gregational church, superintendent of the 
Sabbath-school and treasurer of the church; 
member of the board of investment and one 
of the vice-presidents of the South Adams 
Savings Bank, and one of the trustees of 
the Adams Library Association. He has 
been a member of the school board, and 
for nine years one of the fire district com- 
missioners. He was a stockholder and a 
director in the Adams Paper Company. 

Mr. Green was in Leavenworth, Kansas, 
during the latter part of the struggle be- 
tween the Free State party and the Pro- 
Slavery party, where he was associated in 
business with J. M. Dickson, one of the 
leading Free State men of the territory. 
Ill health obliged him, in the autumn of 
1858, to return East to his native town, 
where he now resides. 

GREENE, William Stedman, son of 

Chester W. and Abby S. (Stedman) Greene, 
was born in Tremont, Tazewell county, 111., 
April 28, 1841. 

He obtained his school training in the 
public schools of Fall River, to which 
place his parents came in 1844. 

He entered business life in 1856 as clerk 
in the millinery and fancy-goods business. 
Here he remained two years, then was 
employed as insurance clerk from March, 
1858, to May, 1865. He then engaged in 
real estate and insurance business on his 
own account, and, since 1866, as a member 
of the firm of Greene & Son. He is also 
general superintendent of prisons for the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Mr. Greene was married in Fall River, 
March 8, 1865, to Mary E., daughter of 
Pardon A. and Elizabeth W. (Spink) White. 
Of this union are three children : Mabel 
Lawton, Chester White, and Foster Regnier 
Greene. 

Mr. Greene has been trustee of St. Paul's 
M. E. church, and superintendent of the 
Sabbath-school; trustee of Fall River Hos- 
pital ; director of Odd Fellows' Building 
Corporation; member of the board of asso- 
ciated charities ; vice-president of Bristol 



County Agricultural Society, and director 
in Massachusetts Real Estate Company. 

He was a member of the Fall River 
common council in 1876, '77, '78 and 
'79, and president of that body the last 
three years. He was mayor of Fall 
River in 1880 and '81 ; was elected an 
alternate delegate from the ist congres- 
sional district to the national Republican 
convention at Chicago in 1880, and 
attended the convention. 

He resigned the office of mayor in 
March, 1881, and was appointed post- 
master by President (iarfield, serving 
until 1885. In December, 1885, he was 



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WILLIAM S. GREENE. 

again elected mayor for the year ending 
December 31, 1886. He was appointed 
general superintendent of prisons of 
Massachusetts by Governor Ames, in 
July, 1888. 

Mr. Greene has never failed to avail 
himself of the privileges of a good citizen. 
He has always been an ardent Republican 
in politics, and an active worker in munici- 
pal, state and national campaigns. He has 
been connected with the Masonic order 
since 1864; is a member of Mt. Hope Lodge, 
Fall River R. A. Chapter, Fall River Coun- 
cil and Godfrey De Bouillon Commandery, 
K. T. He is also a member of the J^Iount 
Hope Lodge of I. O. O. F. 



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GREENHALGE. 



GREENOUGH. 



GREENHALGE, FREDERIC THOMAS, 
son of William and Jane (Slater) Clreen- 
halge, was born in Clitheroe, EnuJand, July 
19, 1842. 

He was brought to this country by his 
father in early childhood. His early edu- 
cational training- was received at home and 
in the public schools of Lowell. He was 
graduated from the Lowell high school in 
1859, receiving the first Carney medal ever 
given. Having fitted for college, he en- 
tered Harvard, and was graduated in the 
class of 1863. 

He chose the profession of law, and 
having pursued his legal studies with 
that aim, was admitted to the Middle- 
sex bar in June, 1S65. He first associated 
himself in practice with Charles F. Howe. 
In 1870 this partnership was dissolved, 
and he has since continued in practice 
alone. 

Mr. (jreenhalge has been in active 
legal practice since 1865, and is widely 
known as an able counselor and a suc- 
cessful advocate. Li business circles he 
is known as a man of strict integrity, 
shrewd foresight, and possessed of a 
judgment broad, conservative, and safe 
to follow. Socially, his popularity is 
not questioned, neither is it confined to 
class, nor limited by local circles. He 
has been called by the people to many 
positions of honor and trust, and never 
having been found wanting in humbler 
offices, he was called to accept con- 
gressional honors in 1888, and was 
elected to the national House of Repre- 
sentatives from the 8th congressional 
district. 

Among the more important offices Mr. 
Greenhalge has held are : president of 
the Lowell Humane Society ; president 
of the History Club ; president of the 
People's Club ; special justice of police 
court, Lowell ; member of common council, 
1868 and '69 ; member of school board, 
Lowell, 1 8; I to '73 ; mayor of Lowell, 1880 
and 'Si ; delegate to national Republican 
convention, 18S4; city solicitor of Lowell, 
18S8 ; representative to the Legislature, 
1885, and trustee of City Institution for 
Savings, of Lowell, from 1876 to present 
time. 

Mr. Greenhalge was married in Lowell, 
October i, 1872, to Isabel, daughter of 
John Nesmith (lieutenant-governor with 
Governor Andrew) and Harriet (Mansur) 
Nesmith. Of this union were four chil- 
dren : Nesmith (deceased), Frederic 
Brandlesome, Harriet Nesmith and Rich- 
aril Spalding Greenhalge. 



GREENOUGH, WiLLiA.M Whitewell, 

son of William and Sarah (tiardner) Green- 
ough, was born in Boston, June 25, 1818. 

He was fitted for college at the Boston 
Latin school and by private instruction. 

After graduating at Harvard College in 
1837, he became a member of the firm of 
William Gree.nough & Co., remaining with 
that firm for twelve years, when he became 
agent and treasurer of the Boston Gas 
Light Company, holding that office until 
that company's plant and business were 
purchased by the Bay State Gas Company, 
in 1889. 

j\lr. Greenough was married in Boston, 
June 15, 1841, to Catherine Scollay, daugh- 
ter of Charles P. and Anna (Wroe) Curtis. 
Their children are : William, Charles Pel- 
ham, Malcolm Scollay and Edith, now 
Mrs. Barrett Wendell.' 




WILLIAM W. GREENOUGH. 

Mr. Greenough was for three years a 
member of the city council of Boston, 
i847-'49 inclusive ; for many years a trus- 
tee of the public library, and president of 
the board from 1866 to '88 ; a trustee of 
the Museum of Fine Arts ; first president 
of the New England Association of Gas 
Engineers; a member of the Massachusetts 
Historical Society, and of the New Eng- 
land Historic Genealogical Society, and 
other organizations. 



GREENWOOD. 



UKIKFIS. 



267 



Mr. Greenough has been an intelligent 
writer, his addresses and reports being 
mostly in the line inspired by his duties as 
trustee of the public library. He deliv- 
ered the Fourth of July oration before the 
city authorities of Boston, 1849. His con- 
tributions to various reviews and period- 
icals evince a mind gifted with original 
thought, and a style evidently polished by 
culture. 

GREENWOOD, MORRILL A., son of 
Lvman and Augusta Greenwood, was born 
in' Hubbardston, Worcester county, Decem- 
ber 22, 1839. He received his early edu- 
cation in the common schools. 

In 1862, '63 and '64 he worked in a tlour 
and grain store, and at the grocery Inisi- 
ness. 

In July, 1864, he enlisted in company G, 
42d regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, 
and was discharged in November of the 
same year. He was clerk in a store in 
Hubbardston from December, 1864, to 
February i, 187 1, when he went to Leo- 
minster, and opened a retail boot and shoe 
store, where he has remained to date. 

Mr. Greenwood was married in Hub- 
bardston, April 12, 1865, to Mary E., daugh- 
ter of Samuel G. and Augusta Nichols. 
Of this union are two children : Lizzie M. 
and Helen W. Greenwood. 

He has served on the Republican town 
committee four years, represented the 14th 
Worcester district in the House of Repre- 
sentatives, 1887 and '88, serving on com- 
mittees on claims and towns. 

Mr. Greenwood is a member of Leomin- 
ster Lodge 86, I. O. O. F.; Post 53, 
G. A. R.; Lodge 23, A. O. V. W., of which 
he is past master workman. 

GREGG, David, son of David and 
Mary M. CiVegg, was born in Pittsburgh, 
Allegheny county, Pa., March 25, 1846. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing at the public schools of Pittsburgh, 
and at the age of thirteen years attended 
Allegheny City College ; at fifteen years 
he entered the freshman cla.ss of the 
Washington and Jefferson College, where 
he graduated in 1865. He also grad- 
uated from the Iron City Commercial Col- 
lege in Pittsburgh in 1866. He received 
the degree of D. D. from the New York 
LTniversity in 1888. 

He was educated as a Scotch Covenan- 
ter, and at the age of twenty-three began 
preaching in the Scotch church on West 
Twenty-third Street, New York. He later 
accepted a call from the Park Street church 
in Boston, where he began on the first of 



February, 1887, the pastorate which he 
holds at the present time. 

Dr. Gregg was marrietl in New York, on 
the 2d of March, 1871, to Kate, daughter 
of Robert and Catherine Etheridge. They 
have two sons, Robert E. and David, and 
two daughters, Mary M. and Katharine \V. 
Gregg. 

Dr. Gregg's family trace their ancestry 
directly back to the Scotch Covenanters of 
1638. His first public address was delivered 
in defense of Abraham Lincoln's emanci- 
pation proclamation. He claims to have 
been " a born Abolitionist." When Gen- 
eral Lee invaded Pennsylvania, he en- 
listed as an emergency man, and his com- 
pany took the place, in Camp Howe, 
of the men who marched to (Gettysburg 
and who were the first to fall in the Union 
army. 

GRIFFIS, William Elliot, son of 

John Limeburner and Anna Maria (Hess) 
Griffis, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sep- 
tember 17, 1843. 

He was educated at the common and 
high schools of Philadelphia, and was 
graduated from Rutgers College, New 
Brunswick, N. J., in 1869. For a year 
thereafter, he studied at the theological 
seminary at New Brunswick, N. J. 

In 1 86 1 he entered the jewelry manu- 
factory of Carrow, Thibault & Co., Phila- 
delphia, where he learned the jewelry 
trade and worked as a journeyman while 
preparing for college. 

He traveled in Europe after leaving col- 
lege, and, having been appointed by the 
government of Japan to organize schools 
there on the American principle, he arrived 
at Yokohama in 1870, and spent a year in 
Fnkui and three years in the capital, 
Tokio, in the Imperial Lhiiversity; then, 
declining further offices from the Japanese 
government, he returned to the United 
States and completed his theological course 
at the Union Theological Seminary, in 
New York City, where he was graduated 
in 1877. 

For nine years he was pastor of the First 
Reformed church at Schenectady, N. Y., 
and from 1886 to the present time has 
been pastor of the Shawmut Congrega- 
tional church, Boston. 

He was married in Schenectady, N. Y., 
June 17, 1879, to Katharine Lyra, daugh- 
ter of the late Benjamin Stanton of Union 
College, and Catherine P. (Coffin) Stanton. 
Their children are : Lillian Eyre antl 
Stanton Griffis. 

During General Lee's invasion of Penn- 
sylvania, Mr. Griffis served in the 44lh 



268 



GRUVER. 



GUILD. 



regiment of Pennsylvania militia as color 
corporal, and was honorably discharged. 

During 1883 he was acting professor 
of mental science at Union College, Sche- 
nectady, at which time the college con- 
ferred upon him the degree of doctor of 
divinity. 

Among the literary productions of Dr. 
Griffis may be mentioned the following : 
"The -Mikado's Empire," " Corea, the 
Hermit Nation," " Mathew Calbraith Per- 
ry, a Typical American Officer," "Japan- 
ese Fairy World," "The Tokio Guide," 
" Arendt Van Curler," and many contribu- 
tions to magazines and the daily press, 
some of which have been translated into 
Japanese. 

GRUVER, Samuel J., sun of John 

and Sarah (Correll) Gruver, was born in 
Lower Mt. Bethel, Northampton county. 
Pa., August 27, 1846. 

He pa.ssed through the district schools 
of his native town, and attended Lafayette 
College, Easton, Pa., after which he en- 




SAMUEL J, GRUVER. 

tered the medical department of the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, 
and was graduated in the class of 1869. 

He commenced the practice of medicine 
and surgery in Portland, Pa., immediately 
after graduating, and soon developed a 
large and lucrative business. In 1881 he 



removed to Brockton, Mass., where he has 
met the same success. 

Dr. Gruver was married in Portland, Pa., 
November 28, 1872, to Elizabeth S., daugh- 
ter of Franklin and ALartha K. (Thomp- 
son) .\mes. Of this union were three chil- 
dren, but none are living. 

Dr. Gruver was member of the board of 
aldermen for the city of Brockton, 1887 
and '88. 

GUILD, Curtis, son of Curtis and 
Charlotte Louisa (Hodges) Guild, was born 
in Boston, January 13, 1827. His father 
was a graduate of Harvard College, class 
of 1822, and subsequently became a well- 
known merchant of Boston. His mother 
was the daughter of Ezra Hodges, of 
Maine, a soldier of revolutionary fame. 

Mr. Guild was disappointed in his ex- 
pectation of a matriculation at Harvard, 
on account of his father's business reverses, 
and received his early education in the 
grammar and English high schools ; but 
he was by nature a student, and by indus- 
try and perseverance he still studied as 
opportunity offered, until he became a 
scholar of culture and varied information. 
His training for his life work he received 
in the trying school of mercantile life. 

He started as clerk in the Boston mer- 
cantile house of Barnard, Adams & Co., 
on Commercial Wharf. Here he had ex- 
cellent practical instructions in the princi- 
])les, laws and details of commercial trans- 
actions in a large mercantile business. 
Having become fitted for a more profitable 
employment, he, in 1847, became assistant 
book-keeper in the office of the " Boston 
Journal," and remained in this capacity 
nearly two years. The publishers of that 
paper soon discovered that he was a man 
of literary taste, an original, ready writer 
and especially adapted to the work of 
graphic reporting. His talents were there- 
fore utilized in that direction, and being 
successful in his new line, he also performed 
work on the regular staff of the " Journal." 

Mr. Guild, soon after, also became a 
frequent contributor to the " Knicker- 
bocker Magazine," then under the man- 
agement of Louis Gaylord Clarke, and 
other leading periodicals. He next ac- 
cepted a position as chief clerk in the office 
of the' "Evening Traveller," and in 1856 
was admitted to partnership in the firm. 
Here his energies and inventive genius 
found scope in ways and means employed 
to impart more push to the motor power 
controlling metropolitan journalism. He 
introduced the display bulletin board, 
which at that time save a shock to some 



GUILD. 



GUNN. 



269 



conservative journals, it being then re- 
garded as exceedingly undignified to ad- 
vertise themselves in that manner. 

On January i, 1859, the "Commercial 
Bulletin " made its appearance, with Curtis 
Guild as editor and sole proprietor. He 
was already widely and favorably known 
as a prolific writer. In his travels through 
the West he had noticed that none but New 
York papers reached the hotels and offices 
of the towns and cities there. The idea 
of a commercial paper to be issued from 
Boston, representing the manufacturing, 
commercial and business interests of New 
England, suggested itself to him. For 
half a century or more the merchants and 
business men of the country had looked 
principally to New York for their supply 
of purely mercantile news, and not until 
the judicious enterprise of Mr. Guild in 
1859 did this state of things begin to pass 
away. 

To compete successfully with his ener- 
getic contemporaries, he realized that his 
paper must be ably edited, contain valuable 
news, and be brought directly to the notice 
of those he assnmed to please. To secure 
the latter object, he introduced new and 
entirely original features of journalism into 
the "Commercial Bulletin." Special de- 
partments were created, and all its features 
were distinctive and its style and make-up 
original. It was a decided success from 
the start, and the unwearied zeal and com- 
prehensive genius of Curtis Guild made 
that success permanent. 

In 1867 Mr. Guild spent the summer in 
Europe, and his volume, " Over the Ocean," 
published by Lee & Shepard, gave the 
public the advantage of his travel. Si.x 
years later " -Abroad Again " was received 
by the public with equal favor, and in 1888 
a third volume, entitled " Britons and Mus- 
covites," was issued. These volumes all 
have an extensive sale, and are among the 
most popular books of travel issued. 

Mr. Guild has never sought nor listened 
to calls to offices of political preferment. 
He has simply served his native city twice 
as member of the common council and once 
as alderman. He is known as a true 
"Bostonian," and is proud of the title ; is 
an enthusiastic admirer of his city, her in- 
stitutions and peculiar characteristics. As 
a patriotic antiquarian, he is ever found in 
opposition to the unnecessary destruction 
of ancient landmarks. 

Mr. Guild was married in September, 
1858, to Sarah C, daughter of D. G. W. 
and Abby (Crocker) Cobb, grand-daughter 
of General David Cobb, aide to General 



Washington through the revolutionary war. 
His eldest son, Curtis (niild, Jr., was gradu- 
ated with honor from Harvard in the class 
of 1 86 1, and was class orator. His second 
son, Courtenay Guild, graduated at Har- 
vard with honors in the class of 1886. 

Mr. Guild has been president of the 
Commercial Club of Boston, being one of 
its founders ; president of the Bostonian 
Society, in which the Boston Antiquarian 
Club was merged, and president of " The 
Club of Odd Volumes." 

He has also been successful as a public 
speaker, as his oration at the centennial 
celebration in 1878, at Norwood, the birth- 
place of his father, his address to Char- 
lotte Cushman on the occasion of her fare- 
well to the stage, in Boston, in 1875, and 
the first address delivered by him to the 
English High School Association of Bos- 
ton, in 18S2, bear witness. 

Besides being a practical and successful 
business man, Mr. Guild's literary tastes 
have led him to the acquisition of a re- 
markably choice and unique Hbrary, con- 
taining many of what are known as " extra 
illustrated " or " extended " works, some of 
which are very valuable ; also rare and 
curious portraits, engravings, documents 
and manuscripts, and a choice collection 
of autographic memorials of great interest. 

GUNN, James a., the son of Henry 
A. and Susan Gunn, was born in Mon- 
tague, Franklin countv, September 3, 
1S48. 

He received his early education in the 
public schools of his native town and at 
Wesleyan .\cademy, Wilbraham. Until 
about nineteen years of age he was engaged 
in working upon the home farm. In 1873 
he commenced business in Turner's Falls, 
in the grocery and provision trade, under 
the firm name of Clapp & Co. In 1876 he 
bought his partner's interest, and carried 
on the business alone till 1887, when he 
disposed of it altogether. 

Mr. Gunn has held the office of select- 
man, assessor, overseer of the poor, and 
road commissioner for Turner's Falls. He 
is a trustee of the Crocker Institution for 
Savings, and has been a member of its 
finance committee and investment board 
for many years. He is also treasurer of 
the George F. Littlefield Shoe Company at 
the present time. In 1882 he was elected 
a member of the Legislature. 

Mr. Gunn married, in 1875, Ellen C, 
daughter of Jeremiah and Mary Dugan 
of Montague, who died in 1886. He has 
two sons : Wilford J. and James A. Gunn, 
Ir. 



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GUNN. 



HADLOCIv. 



GUNN, Levi J., son of Levi and Delia 
Dickinson Gunn, was born in Conway, 
Franklin county, June 2, 1830. He ob- 
tained his education in the public schools. 

Early in life he turned his attention to 
manufacturing, and his first connection in 
business was with Charles H. Amidon, at 
Greenfield, in 1S61. In 1868 a company 
was organized under the name of Miller's 
Falls Company, for the manufacture of 
hardware, of which he has been treasurer 
for twenty-one years. 

Mr. Gunn was married in Sunderland, 
October 5, 1853, to Esther C, daughter of 



Cephas and Miranda C. Graves. Of this 
union was one child : Levi \V. Gunn. 

Mr. Gunn has been called to serve his 
town in various municipal offices, select- 
man, assessor, etc. He was elected to the 
state Senate in 1S85, and re-elected in 1886. 
He was a member of the Republican state 
central committee nine years, and also 
served as a member of the governor's 
council two years. 

He is a director of the Franklin County 
National Bank, and trustee and member 
of the investment committee of Greenfield 
Savings Bank. 



HADLOCK, Harvey Deming, was 

born at Cranberry Isles, Hancock county, 
Me., on the 7th day of October, 1845, on 
the estate which has been in the possession 
of his family for three generations. His 
father, Capt. Edwin Hadlock, was born at 
Cranberry Isles, January 17, 1814, and 
in early life followed the sea. He married 
Mary Ann Stanwood, born July 22, i8i6, 
by whom he had a family consisting of 
three sons : William Edwin, Clilbert and 
Harvey Deming. 

The education of Mr. Hadlock up to 
November, 1856, was under the instruction 
of his mother, who was a woman of superior 
intellect and education, and in the schools 
of his native place. His parents then 
moved to Bucksport, Maine, so that he 
could enjoy the educational advantages 
afforded by the East Maine Conference 
Seminary at that place, in which institu- 
tion and under private instructors he pur- 
sued an advanced course of classical study 
which he supplemented with a partial 
scientific course in the Maine State Semi- 
nary (now Bates College), and in the scien- 
tific department of Dartmouth College. 

In September, 1863, he commenced his 
legal studies in the office of Hon. Samuel 
F. Humphrey, at Bangor, Maine, and such 
was his application, that on the 6th day of 
January, 1865, having pursued the requi- 
site course of study (designed as a three 
years' course), and passed the required ex- 
amination, he was in that city, admitted an 
attorney and counselor of the supreme 
judicial court of Maine, and commenced 
practice at Bucksport, where he continued 
to reside until 1S6S, with the exception of 
six months in the fall and winter of 1865 and 
'66, when he studied civil and maritime law 
at New Orleans, under the direction of the 



late Christian Roselius. He then moved 
to Boston, where, on the 7th of October, 
1868, he was admitted an attorney and 
counselor of the supreme judicial court 
of Massachusetts, and commenced practice 
in that city. 




HARVEY D, HADLOCK. 

In the spring of 1869 he was admitted to 
practice in the courts of New York, and was 
engaged as counsel in an important case 
in the United States circuit court, which 
caused him to reside in New York until the 
following autumn. He then returned to 



HAGAR. 



HAGAR 



Boston and resumed liis practice, wliich 
was largely in criminal cases. 

In 187 I, the construction of the ]5ucks- 
port & Bangor Railroad being contem- 
plated, he returned to Bucksport and con- 
tinued in practice there for about ten years, 
during which period of time he was engaged 
as counsel in some of the most important 
cases tried in Maine, and established his 
reputation as an accomplished jurist and 
elocjuent advocate, and earned for himself 
a leading position among the ablest men at 
the Maine bar. He was for several years 
a director, and acted as counsel for the 
B. & B. R. Co. 

In January, 18S1, Mr. Hadlock movetl 
to Portland, where he resided until April, 
1887 ; and in the number and importance 
of the cases in which he was retained while 
in Portland, he maintained his high rank 
as a jurist and advocate. 

He now resides in Boston, in the practice 
of his profession, which includes cases in 
the state and federal courts of Maine, 
Massachusetts, and New York, and in the 
supreme court of the United States. 

January 26, 1865, Mr. Hadlock married 
Ale.xene L. Goodell, of Sears])ort, Maine, 
by whom he has had three children, two of 
whom are now living : Inez Blanche and 
AVebster Deming Hadlock. His eldest son, 
Harvey Deming Hadlock, Jr., a youth of 
rare promise of some fifteen years, acci- 
dentally six it liimself while handling a 
revolver, on the 22d day of January, 1886. 

HAGAR, Daniel Barnard, son of 

Isaac and Eunice (Stedman) Hagar, was 
born in Newton Lower Falls, Mitldlese.x 
county, April 22, 1820. His ancestors 
were among the earliest settlers of Water- 
town. 

His early educational training was .se- 
cured in the village district school and in 
the private academy of Seth Davis, in 
West Newton, who lived to the age of one 
hundred years. He prepared for college 
in Newton, chiefly under private tutors, 
and entering Union College, was gradu- 
ated in the class of 1843. 

When a boy he spent several years in a 
paper mill in his native village, and was 
later a clerk in a Boston dry-goods store 
two years. While connected with college 
he taught in the academy at Schuylerville, 
N. Y., and at Kingston, N. Y. 

Mr. Hagar was Phi Beta Kappa, A. B., 
and commencement orator in 1843 ; A. M., 
1846; Ph. D., 1 87 I — degrees conferred 
by Union College — principal of academy, 
Canajoharie, N. Y., five years — i844-'48 
inclusive ; Norwich Academv, N. Y., 



i84S-'49 ; ICliot high school, Jamaica 
Plain, i849-'65 ; and of the state normal 
school, Salem, since 1865. 

He was also superintendent of schools, 
Canajoharie, N. Y., 1846 to '48 ; member 
of the school board, Salem, 1866 to '75 ; 
president of Montgomery County (N. Y.) 
Teachers' Association, 1846 ; of the Nor- 
folk County Teachers' As.sociation, 1853 
and '54 ; of the Massachusetts State 
Teachers' Association, 1856 and '58 : of 
the American Institute of Instruction, 
i860 and '61 ; of the American Normal 
Association, 1858 ; of the National Teach- 
ers' Association, 187 1 ; of the National 




DANIEL B. HAGAR 

Council of Education, 1885 and '86 ; ])res- 
ident of the Y. M. C. A. of Salem ; vice- 
president of Essex Institute, Salem ; Unit- 
ed States presidential elector for Massa- 
chusetts, 1884; editor of "Massachusetts 
Teacher," 1852 to '56 and 1865 to '70 ; 
author of " An Abstract of the Proceed- 
ings of the Massachusetts Teachers' Asso- 
ciation from 1S45 to 1880 ; " of numerous 
educational addresses, and of a series of 
mathematical te.xt-books (Philadelphia, 
1871). 

Dr. Hagar is, and has been for a long 
series of years, one of the strong pillars in 
the temple of our state and national edu- 
cation. He has been tempted to leave 



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HAILE. 



normal school work by invitations to other 
fields, but has uniformly declined ; among 
these, the position of state commissioner 
of schools in Rhode Island, supervisor of 
public schools in the city of Boston, and 
superintendent of schools in four other 
cities of the Commonwealth. 

Dr. Hagar was married in Schenectady, 
N. Y., August 28, 1845, to Mary Bradford, 
daughter of John and Augusta R. (Porter) 
McKim. Of this union were seven chil- 
dren : John McKim, Mary Gertrude, 
Antoinette, Hamilton Rice, Mary, Walter 
Calvin and Anna Gertrude Hagar. 

HAIGH, JOHN, son of George and Han- 
nah (Parkinson) Haigh, was born in Duk- 
infield, Cheshire, England, December 31, 
1832. 

He obtained his early knowledge of 
books in the grammar schools of his native 
land. At the age of seventeen he was ap- 
prenticed to the trade of calico printer. 

He came to America in December, 1855, 
and in the early part of 1856 engaged with 
the Pacific Mills, Lawrence. In 1873 he 
severed his connection with the above firm, 
to take charge of the printing department 
of the Middlesex Bleachery & Dye U'orks 
at Somerville, of which he has since be- 
come half owner. 

Mr. Haigh was married in Perkins, 
Maine, April 12, 1859, to Lucy Jane, 
daughter of Captain Redford D. and Jane 
(Bowker) Tallman. They have no chil- 
dren. 

Mr. Haigh has always been associated 
with the Methodist Episcopal church, not 
as a communicant, but as a thorough be- 
liever in its governmental policy. Liberal 
always, and charitable toward others of 
different denominational views, he has been 
a strong supporter of his special choice, 
generous in church contributions, whether 
for local or missionary interests, and this 
liberality has kept full pace with his in- 
creasing means. 

Mr. Haigh has long been an enthusiastic 
devotee and worthy e.xemplar of the Ma- 
sonic fraternity, which he joined in Law- 
rence in 1859. He has been master of 
two lodges, and by regular election has 
been at the head of chapter, council, and 
commandery ; in the grand chapter was 
a district deputy, grand high priest, and 
deputy grand high priest — holding the 
latter place in 1878. For several years he 
was grand recorder of the grand council 
of Royal and Select Masters, and from this 
was elected most illustrious grand master 
three years consecutively. In 1883 he was 
elected grand conductor of the general 



grand council, R. & S. M., of the United 
States for three years. He is the repre- 
sentative of grand bodies in chapter, 
council, and commandery organizations, 
and is an active member of the supreme 
council of the United States in the Ancient 




JOHN HAIGH. 

Accepted Scottish Rite, being also past 
most puissant sovereign grantl commander 
of that body. His private library at his 
residence in Somerville is perhaps the first 
in choice Masonic literature in New Eng- 
land. His cabinets of rare coins, medals, 
and other articles of virtii^ are the result of 
intelligent study and judicious selection, 
eminently characteristic of their owner. 

In politics Mr. Haigh is a pronounced 
Republican, but is not an aggressive poli- 
tician in his views or action. 

HAILE, William Henry, son of Wil- 
liam and Sabrana (Walker) Haile, was born 
in Chesterfield, Cheshire county, N. H., 
September 23, 1833. His father was a suc- 
cessful merchant and manufacturer, and 
was the first Republican governor of New 
Hampshire. 

When Mr. Haile was very young, his 
father removed to Hinsdale, N. H., and in 
that town his boyhood was passed. There 
he attended the public schools, and subse- 
quently prepared for college at Kimball 
Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. He 



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Studied about a year and a half at Amherst 
College, but left that institution to enter 
Dartmouth College, where he graduated 
with high honor in 1856. After graduation, 
he studied law in Springfield, Mass., and 
was admitted to the bar and practiced for 
a short time in Boston, after which he re- 
moved to Hinsdale, N. H., to engage in 
the-manufacture of woolen goods, and be- 
came a partner with his father and Hon. 
Rufus S. Frost, of Chelsea, under the firm 
name of Haile, Frost & Co. The business 
of this partnership has been transferred to 
a corporation called The Haile & Frost 
Manufacturing Co., of which Mr. Haile is 
now president. 

He was married, January i, 1861, to 
.Amelia L., daughter of Ethan S. and Louisa 




WILLIAM H. HAILE. 

Burns Chapin, of Springfield. Their chil- 
dren have been : William Chapin, born 
December 2, 1863 (died August 14, 1864), 
Alice and Henry Chapin Haile. 

Mr. Haile was a representative in the 
New Hampshire Legislature from the town 
of Hinsdale in 1865, '66 and '71. In 1872 
Mr. Haile removed his residence to Spring- 
field, of which city he was elected mayor in 
1881. In 1882 and '83 he represented the 
ist Hampden senatorial district, in the state 
Senate, serving as chairman of the com- 
mittee on militarv affairs, and of the 



committee on mercantile affairs, being also 
a member of the committees on banks and 
banking, and manufactures. 

Mr. Haile has always esteemed it a priv- 
ilege and a duty to render his full share in 
poUtical work expected of a good citizen, 
and has long been recognized as a wise 
counselor among the leaders of the Repub- 
lican party. His recent nomination by the 
Republican state convention to the lieu- 
tenant - governorship emphasizes the fact 
that he belongs to a class of men whose 
personal character and unquestioned integ- 
rity invite the suffrages of those who desire 
to unite in their public officials good morals 
as well as good politics. 

HALE, Edward Everett, a son of 

Nathan Hale, LL. D., and Sarah Preston 
(Everett) Hale, was born in Boston, April 
3, 1822. 

After studying at the Boston Latin 
school, he was graduated at Harvard in 
1839. He then spent two years as an 
usher in the Latin school, and prepared 
for the ministry with the Rev. Samuel K. 
Lothrop, and the Rev. John G. Palfrey. 

In 1842 he was licensed to preach by 
the Boston Association of Congregational 
Ministers, after which he spent several 
years in ministering to various congrega- 
tions, passing the winter of 1844 and '45 
in Washington. His first regular settle- 
ment was in 1846, as pastor of the Church 
of the Unity in Worcester, where he re- 
mained until 1856. In that year he was 
called to the South Congregational (Uni- 
tarian) church in Boston, where he still 
remains. 

Mr. Hale's influence is extensively felt 
in all philanthropic movements. Few men 
are called upon so frequently in social and 
benevolent circles, and none respond with 
more alacrity to the calls of sympathetic and 
practical deeds of charity than this large- 
hearted, wise and diligent worker. His co- 
operation in the organization of beneficent 
enterprises is a guarantee of their worth 
and success. His book, " Ten Times One 
is Ten " (Boston, 1870), led to the estab- 
lishment of clubs devoted to public spirit, 
which are now scattered throughout the 
United States, with chapters in FZurope, 
Asia, Africa, and the islands of the Pacific. 
These associations have a membership that 
is supposed to exceed fifty thousand in 
number, and are called " Harry Wads- 
worth clubs." They have for their motto : 
" Look up and not down ; look forward 
and not back ; look out and not in ; and 
lend a hand." The " Look-up Legion," 
one of these organizations among the 



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Sunday-schools, includes upwards of five 
thousand members. 

He also has taken great interest in the 
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, 
of which he is one of the councilors, and 
is a frequent contributor to " The Chau- 
tauquan." Mr. Hale has served his col- 
lege as a rriember of the board of over- 
seers for successive terms, and as preacher 
to the university, and has been very active 
in advancing the interests of Harvard. He 
has also held the office of president of the 
Phi Beta Kappa Society, and in 1879 re- 
ceived the degree of S. T. D. from his 
alma mater. 

As a boy he learned to set type in his 
father's printing office, and he has served 
on the " Daily Advertiser " in every capac- 
ity, from reporter to editor-in-chief. Be- 
fore he was of age he wrote his full share 
in the monthly issues of the "Monthly 
Chronicle " and the " Boston Miscellany.'" 
In later years he edited the " Christian 
Examiner " and also the " Sunday-school 
Gazette." 

In 1869 he founded, with the American 
Unitarian Association, " Old and New," 
for the purpose of giving wider currency 
to liberal Christian ideas through the medi- 
um of a literary magazine. Si.x years after- 
wards this journal was merged into " Scrib- 
ner's Monthly." In 1886 he again returned 
to journalism, and began the publication 
of " Lend a Hand : a Record of Progress 
and Journal of Organized Charity." 

As a writer of short stories, Mr. Hale has 
achieved signal distinction. His " My Dou- 
ble, and How He Undid Me," published in 
the " Atlantic Monthly " in 1859, at once 
caught the popular fancy. "The Man 
AVithout a Country " had a large circulation. 
Among the bsst known of Mr. Hale's 
numerous literary productions may be 
named the following : " Letters on Irish 
Emigration" (1852), "Kansas and Ne- 



braska " 
Europe ' 
Country 
(1869), 
Stories " 
" Philip 



(•854), 



Ninety Days' Worth of 
(1861), "The Man Without a 
(1868), "The Ingham Papers" 
" His Level Best, and other 
(1870), " In His Name " (1874), 
Nolan's Friends" (New York, 
'What Career?" (1878), "The 
Life of Oeorge ^Vashington " (New York, 
1887), " Ups and Downs," "Franklin in 
France" (2 vols., Boston, 1888), " How 
they lived in Hampton " (Boston, 1888). 

October 13, 1852, at Hartford, Conn., 
Mr. Hale married Emily Baldwin, daugh- 
ter of Thomas C. and Mary Foote 
(Beecher) Perkins. Their children are : 
Ellen Day, Arthur, Charles (deceased). 



Edward Everett, Philip Lesley, Herbert 
Dudley, Harry Kidder (deceased) and 
Robert Beverly Hale. 

HALE, Jeremiah Ballou, son of 

Gardner and Ann S. (Ballou) Hale, was 
born in what was Smithfield, Providence 
county, R. I., February 22, 1830. 

He obtained his education in public and 
private schools of Taunton, Mass., and at 
Adelphi Academy, North Bridgewater, now 
Brockton. 

His father needing him in his cotton 
factory, his schooling was stopped for a 
more convenient time to finish — which 
never came. At sixteen years of age he 
was put in charge of the carding and 
spinning department ; at eighteen went to 
Prattvilie, Alabama, to take a much larger 
charge in the same business, staying there 
three and a half years. In 1852 he re- 
turned, and entered the employ of the 
Union Straw Works, Foxborough, for six 
years. Next we find him superintendent 



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JEREMIAH B, HALE. 

of the Bay State Straw Works, Middle- 
borough, remaining there four years, then 
four years again at F'oxborough with his 
old employers. 

In 1866 he moved to Medfield, entering 
into partnership with Warren Chenery, in 
the straw and |5alm-leaf hood business. 
After one year he leased the factory for 



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HALL 



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three years, and took sole charge of the 
business, buying all the machinery, selling 
his goods in Boston and New York. In 
1870 he bought the whole property 
where he still lives. His business was 
prosperous up to 1873 ; from then to 
1887, it being poor, he turned to the insur- 
ance business, during this time spending 
most of two years in copying and arrang- 
ing the town records from 1649 to 1875, a 
work which has been much commended by 
those competent to judge. He was ap- 
pointed postmaster of Medfield in 1880, 
holding the office five years. He is now 
general manager of the Excelsior Straw 
Works in Medfield. 

Mr. Hale was married in North Attle- 
borough in March, 1848, to Eliza 15., daugh- 
ter of William and Betsey (Cole) Grover, 
of Mansfield, who died in 185 1. Of this 
union two children were born, who died in 
infancy. His second marriage was in Med- 
way, in June, 1852, to Mary Jane, daugh- 
ter of George and Mary (Tolman) Plimp- 
ton, of Sharon. Of this union there were 
four children : Merton and Clarence, who 
died young at Fo.xborough, Charles Everett 
(drowned in 1881, aged nineteen), and 
l.illian J. (now wife of Dr. C. E. Bigelow, 
of Leominister). 

Mr. Hale's public spirit has been re- 
warded by being called upon to serve his 
fellow-citizens in the several capacities of 
selectman, assessor, overseer of the poor, 
and town clerk. He has been a member of 
the school committee for nine years, and 
justice of the peace nineteen years. His 
judgment and business tact have fre- 
quently been recognized in local affairs of 
importance — notably in serving as chair- 
man of the committees for the remodeling 
of the Baptist church, with which he has 
long been connected, and the rebuilding 
of the Medfield town house. 

HALL, Granville Stanley, son of 

Ciranville Ba.sc(mi and Abby (Beals) Hall, 
was born in Ashfield, Franklin county, in 
1846. 

His preparatory educational training 
was received in Sanderson's Academy, 
Ashfield, and in Williston Seminary, East- 
hampton, where he was fitted for college. 
He was graduated from Williams College 
in the class of 1867. Subsequently he 
spent five years in study in the universities 
of Europe. 

Entering upon his life work as an edu- 
cator, he first accepted a professorship in 
Antioch College, Ohio, from which he was 
called to Harvard, and later to Johns 
Hnpkins Universitv, where he has held the 



chair of psychology seven years. Profes.sor 
Hall has also held the position, to which 
none but the most critical scholar may 
aspire, that of editor of the " American 
Journal of Philology," which was founded 
by him. 

He was married in Berlin, Germany, in 
1880, to Cornelia, daughter of James and 
Julia (Brigham) Fisher. Of this union are 
two children : Robert and Julia Hall. 

Professor Hall was the unanimous choice 
of the trustees of the new Clark University, 
lately founded by Jonas G. Clark, Worces- 
ter, as the first man to fill the presidential 
chair. He needs no introduction to the 
scholars of this country. The recognized 
head of one of the great departments of 
hurnan knowledge and research, he ex- 
changes one place of usefulness and influ- 
ence for another, and becomes the respon- 
sible head of the intellectual side of this 
new university. 

President Hall, immediately after closing 
his professorship in the early summer of 

1 888, assumed the duties of his new position. 
In August of the same vear he went to 
Europe, where he spent ten months in the 
careful study of the systems of all tlie 
leading universities on the Continent and 
in England. He returned in the spring of 

1889, and formulated the general scheme 
of the university, which, when carried out, 
will place this institution on an elevated 
plane — having no academic course, but 
rather supplying advantages for post- 
graduate study, research, and publication, 
in the line of pure and abstract science, 
and in extending the boundaries of human 
knowledge. 

HALL, James Morris Whiton, son 

of Samuel Whitney and Margaret Bass 
(Knowlton) Hall, was born in Boston, 
September 28, 1842. 

Lyman school. East Boston, l!oston Latin 
school, and Roxbury Latin school furnished 
the advantages for his education. 

He began business life as clerk with the 
house of Edward D. Peters & Co., who 
were succeeded by George H. Peters & 
("()., and after dissolution, the present firm 
of Wellman, Hall & Co., wholesale lumber 
merchants. Mr. Hall is at the present 
time the head of the Boston house. 

He was married in West Medford, June 
23, 1868, to Orianna Antoinette, daughter 
of Horace A. and Sarah (Smith) Breed. 
Eight children have blessed this union : 
Alice Knowlton, Marion Breed, Helen 
Whitne)', Orianna Phillips, James Ran- 
dolph, Stanley Breed, Henry Bass, and 
Horace Whitn'ev Hall. 



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HALL. 



Mr. Hall has been superintendent of the 
Shepard Sunday-school eight years, and is 
deacon of the Shepard Memorial (First 
Congregational church), Cambridge ; was 
trustee of Cambridge Savings Bank four 
years ; is director Howard National Bank, 
Boston ; president Cambridge Club ; presi- 
dent Bay State Lumber Association ; was 
president Congregational Club, Boston, in 
1885 ; is trustee Sunday-school Publishing 
Society ; member advisory board, Avon 
Place Orphan Home, Cambridge ; director 
of Congregational Union. He was a mem- 
ber of the Cambridge board of aldermen 
in 1S79, and was in 1880 elected the city 
mayor. He is now a member of its board 
of water commissioners. 

Mr. Hall has long been identified with 
the Republican party and was a ]5residen- 
tial elector in 1880 on the Garfield and 
Arthur ticket. 

Mr. Hall settled in Cambridge after his 
marriage. His father's maternal ancestor, 
Mary Hall, settled in Cambridge in 1639, 
where lands were granted her. Her sons 
settled in Medford, where her descendants 
are now found, and in Cornish, N. H., 
from which place his father came to Bos- 
ton about 1817. His mother's ancestor, 
Joseph Bass, married Ruth Alden, tlaugh- 
ter of John Alden, and settled in Braintree 
and Boston, where his mother's ancestors 
have always since lived, and several of 
whom were prominently identified with the 
revolutionar}' war. 

H.ALL, Luther, son of Thomas and 
Hepsey Hall, was born in Dennis, Barn- 
stable county, November 5, 1842, where he 
received a common school education, ob- 
tained at intervals between the demands 
of farming, which was his first occupa- 
tion. 

He twice enlisted in the civil war, and 
by Governor Andrew was commissioned 
captain of the militia. For several years 
he was engaged as a merchant, but soon re- 
turned to his original vocation, and became 
extensively interested in the cultivation of 
cranberries. He was made chairman of 
the school committee and superintendent 
of schools. 

He held the office of postmaster ten 
years, resigning the office in 1885. 

On the 27th of May, 1869, :\[r. Hall 
was married to Minerva H., daughter of 
Howes and Minerva (Bassett) Chapman. 
Their children are : Frank ]5urnham, Ner- 
nie Abby, and Howard Luther Hall. 

His present residence is at his birth- 
place, in Dennis, where he is justly held in 
high esteem by a large circle of friends. 



HALL, Richard HENRN , son of Rich- 
ard H. and Mary A. (Bates) Hall, was born 
in Norton, Bristol county, November 7, 
1830. He is a direct descendant of George 
Hall, one of the founders of the town of 
Taunton, in 1639, through his great grand- 
father, Brian Hall, who was born in Taun- 
ton, July 9, 1727, and who removed to the 




RICHARD H HALL 

adjoining town of Norton (formerly a part 
of Taunton) about the year 1755. He is 
also connected by intermarriage with most 
of the early families of 'I'aunton. 

He received his education in the public 
schools of Norton, at Bristol Academy, 
Taunton, and at Pierce Academy, Middle- 
borough. 

At the age of nineteen he entered the 
employ of Crocker Brothers & Co. (now 
the Taunton Copper Company). He re- 
mained with this company for thirty-four 
years, filling the various positions of refiner, 
chemist, metallurgist, superintendent and 
general manager. In 1884, on account of 
ill health, he resigned his position with the 
company, and after spending some time in 
Kurope, was elected mayor of Taunton, in 
December, 1885. 

Mr. Hall was married in Norton, Janu- 
ary 3, 1859, to Susan Jane, daughter of 
James C. and Lydia T. (Packard) Drake. 
Of this union were three children : Henrv 



HALL. 



HALLOWELL. 



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Liiidsey, Frederick Stanley and I'klward 
George Hall. 

Mr. Hall has been identified for many 
years with the various Masonic organiza- 
tions ; has been connected with St. Thomas 
Episcopal church, and one of the vestry- 
men for many years, still holding the rela- 
tion. He has been one of the board of 
trustees of the Bristol County Savings 
Bank for many years, and is one of the 
board of trustees of the Morton hospital. 

He is serving his third term as mayor of 
Taunton, having been elected the present 
year without opposition, being nominated 
by both the Citizens' and Republican 
conventions. Previous to his first elec- 
tion as mayor, his only political service 
had been that of common councilman of 
Taunton, and member of the Norton school 
board. 

Mr. Hall has exhibited many eminent 
qualifications for the various positions he 
has been called to fill, and the executive 
ability shown has deservedly won for him 
much commendation. 

HALL, William T., son of Zachariah 
and Hannah (Tucker) Hall, was born in 
Chelsea, Suffolk county, November 7, 1822. 






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WILLIAM T. HALL, 



He was educated in the public schools 
of that part of Chelsea which is now 
Revere, and at Phillips Academy, .Andover. 



He chose the occupation of farmer, ami 
is still living on the farm on which he was 
born. AVith the exception of a few years 
at sea in early life, he has always followed 
this business, dealing principally in milk 
and fruit. He is now quite largely inter- 
ested in real estate. 

Mr. Hall was married in Francestown, 
N. H., October 4, 1854, to Betsey S., daugh- 
ter of Moses W. and Louisa (Lawrence) 
Eaton. His second marriage was in Revere, 
Llecember 31, 1874, with Fannie J., daugh- 
ter of Cyrus and Betsey P. Goss. He 
has five children : William E., Arthur L., 
Alice L., Hannah F. and Harvey W. Hall. 

Mr. Hall was elected to the oiifice of 
town clerk and assessor in 1855, and held 
the office of town clerk for thirty consecu- 
tive years He was elected town treasurer 
in 1865, holding this office twenty years. 
He is also justice of the peace. 

Mr. Hall served in the House of Repre- 
sentatives in 1867. He issued the call for, 
and presided at, the first Republican meet- 
ing ever held in North Chelsea (1856). 

He was appointed and acted as enumer- 
ator for taking the state census and statis- 
tics fur the years 1855, '65 and '75. 

HALLOWELL, NORWOOD PENROSE, 

son of Morris Longstreth and Hannah 
(Penrose) Hallowell, was born in Philadel- 
phia, Pa., April 13, 1839. 

In early life he became a conforming 
member of the religious society of Friends, 
and prepared for college in the schools 
of that order. He was graduated from 
Harvard University in the class of 1861. 

After graduation he connected himself 
with the commission house of \\'atts, Crane 
& Co., New York, subsequently with his 
brother Richard, forming the partnership 
of Hallowell Brother.s, followed by another 
change to Hallowell, Prescott & Co., — 
Ixith in New York City. In 1869 he came 
t(il5oston and has since that time conducted 
the business of wool-broker in that city, 
without a partner. 

In 1886 he was elected vice-president of 
the National Bank of Commerce of Boston 
and now holds that position. 

On January 27, 1868, in New York 
City, he married Sarah Wharton Haydock. 
He has six children : Anna Norwood, 
Robert Haydock, Norwood Penrose, John 
White, Esther Fisher and Susan Morris 
Hallowell. 

June 10, 1861, Mr. Hallowell received a 
commission as 1st lieutenant, 20th regi- 
ment, Massachusetts volunteers. He was 
engaged in the battle of Ball's Bluff, and 
was jiromoted captain, November 26, 1861. 



HALLOWELL. 



HALLOW ELL. 



He was present at the siege of Yorktown, 
under fire at \\'est Point, in action at Fair 
Oaks and at Savage's Station, and was 
wounded at Glendale. Later he was pres- 
ent at the battle of Malvern Hill, and sub- 
sequently took part in a reconnoissance 
from Harrison's Landing to that place ; 
was in the third line of battle at Chantilly, 
and at Antietani, September 17, 1862, was 
severely wounded. 

April 17, 1863, he was appointed lieu- 
tenant-colonel, S4th Massachusetts, and 
May 30, at the request of Governor John 
A. Andrew, he accepted the colonelcy of 
the 55th Massachusetts — the second Mas- 
sachusetts colored regiment brought into 
service — and was stationed for a brief 
period at Newbern, N. C. He took part in 
the reduction of Fort Wagner. 

November 2, 1863, he was honorably dis- 
charged from the service for disability 
arising from wounds. He took up his resi- 
dence in Medford in 1869, where he has 
since resided, an active mover in all phil- 
anthropic and benevolent enterprises, a 
citizen much respected for his integrity 
and manly advocacy of what he considers 
worthy projects. A striking illustration of 
devotion to principle was manifest in the 
conduct of Colonel Hallowell and his 
brother, General Edward N. Hallowell, 
when they voluntarily offered their services 
in connection with the first colored regi- 
ments raised during the war. The preju- 
dice against the employment of colored 
troops was very strong in the North, as 
well as the South. Their gallant bearing, 
however, in the field, and loyal devotion to 
the Union cause, ilid much to reconcile the 
public mind to the wisdom of the move, 
and the heroic death of Colonel Robert G. 
Shaw, while leading his command in the 
assault upon Fort Wagner, stirred the pub- 
lic heart to a just appreciation of their 
worth and service. The Hallowell brothers 
are entitled to lasting honor for the cour- 
ageous part they took in thus espousing the 
cause of the once despised race. The 
seed sown has borne abundant fruit. 

HALLOWELL, RICHARD PRICE, sun of 
Morris Longstreth and Hannah (Penrose) 
Hallowell, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
December 16, 1835. 

His early education was obtained at 
Haverford College, Pa. At an early age 
he entered at once upon the business with 
which he has ever since been connected, by 
engaging as a boy in the wool house of H. 
Robinson & Co., Philadelphia. He came 
to Boston in 1858, where he started busi- 
ness on his own account, forming the part- 



nership of Hallowell >.V- Hnwland. after- 
wards changed to Hallowell & Coburn, 
the present title. 

October 26, 1859, at Philadelphia, he was 
married to Anna Coffin, daughter of Ed- 
ward M. and Maria (Mott) Davis. Her 
mother was the daughter of James and 
Lucretia Mott. His children are : Maria, 
Penrose (deceased), James Mott, Lucretia 
Mott and Frank \\'alton Hallowell. 

Mr. Hallowell has long been identified 
with the leading movements for reform, 
and by wise counsel and energetic work 
has contributed not a little to popularizing 
what at first may have been considered ili- 
timed agitation of the vital questions which 
have done so much to enliven and regener- 
ate modern society. He was an abolition- 
ist of the Wende'll PhiUips-John Brown 
school, and since slavery was abolished 
has advocated the rights, without for- 
getting the duties, of labor. He has 
held official position in the New England 
Woman's Suffrage Association from the 
first day of its organization. He co-oper- 
ated with other free religionists in the or- 
ganization of the Free Religious Associa- 
tion of America, of which he was treasurer 
for many years. He has been a frequent 
contributor with his pen to the press, and 
has himself published two notable works 
upon the Quaker element in Massachusetts 
life — " The Quaker Invasion of Massachu- 
setts " (1883) and "The Pioneer Quakers " 
(1886). The two books cover an inter- 
esting but sad epoch in our colonial his- 
tory, from the time when brutality in the 
treatment of Quakers was a promment 
factor in the orthodo.x religion of Massa- 
chusetts, to 1724, when the Friends secured 
exemption from the iniquitous and oppress- 
ive tax levied for the support of the clergy. 
It is greatly to his credit that he has prac- 
tically reversed current history upon that 
subject. His loyalty to the oppressed has 
not been, however, confined to this most 
honorable and successful work. At a crit- 
ical time in the history of another despised 
and down-trodden people, he was honor- 
ably conspicuous. During our civil war, 
at the time the S4th regiment of Massa- 
chusetts volunteers was called into the ser- 
vice of the United States, a rendezvous 
camp was opened at Readville, by Captain, 
afterwards General, Edward N. Hallo- 
well, his younger brother. A line of re- 
cruiting depots for colored troops was 
established, running from Boston to St. 
Louis in the West, and F'ortress Monroe in 
the South. One cavalry and two infantry 
regiments, the 54th and S5th, were raised 



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and their ranks kepi at the maximum num- 
ber throughout the war, by unremitting 
efforts on the part of such men as Richard 
P. Hallowell and (leorge L. Stearns, both 
residents of Medford, backed by (iovernor 
Andrew, Lewis Hayden, Amos A. Law- 
rence, John M. Forbes, William Endicott, 
Jr., and men of like calibre. 

H.AMILTON, JOHN WILLIAM, son of 
the late Rev. \V. (_'. P. Hamilton of Ohio, 
and Henrietta M. (Dean) Hamilton, was 
born in \\'eston, Lewis county, Va., March 
i8, 1845. 

He was educated in the common schools 
in the different towns in Eastern Ohio, 
where his father had been appointed as 
pastor, and at Mount Union College, Ohio, 
where he was graduated in 1865. He sub- 
sequently entered Boston L^niversity, and 
was graduated in 1871. 

He was licensed to preach, June 3, 1S65, 
and joined the Pittsburg conference of the 
M. E. church the following April. After 
his graduation and before his admission to 
the conference, he was appointed agent 
for the endowment fund of Mount L'nion 
College. 

From 1866 to '68 he was pastor in New- 
port, one of the first settlements in Ohio ; 
was ordained deacon while a member of 
the Pittsburg conference ; was transferred 
to the New England conference in 1868, 
and appointed to the church in Maplewood, 
where he remained two years. At the close 
of this pastorate he w'as ordained elder, 
then went to Somerville for three years, 
and thence to Boston, becoming pastor of 
the First church in Temple Street, which 
was a union of the Grace church and the 
church in Hanover Street, a society hav- 
ing nine hundred members, and at. that 
time the largest church of the denomina- 
tion in New England. After three years' 
pastorate he became the founder and 
builder of the People's Church, one of the 
largest and widest known enterprises in 
the nation. It is probable that no single 
church enterprise in Boston ever enlisted 
the sympathies and support of more peo- 
ple, irrespective of their denominational 
preferences. Here he remained nine years 
— until the church was completed. 

Mr. Hamilton was first married in Cov- 
ington, Ky., December 24, 1873, to Julia 
Elisabeth, daughter of Rev. Gordon Bat- 
telle, D. D., and Maria L. (Tucker) Bat- 
telle. His second marriage was in Buf- 
falo, N. Y., December 18, 1888, with Emma 
Lydia Battelle, sister of his first wife. 
He has one child : Gordon Battelle Ham- 
ilton. 



He is prominently connected with the 
reform movements of the State ; presided 
in the state convention for the nomination 
of officers by the Temperance party, and 
has frequently declined the use of his 
name when brought forward by this party 
for the first place in the list of candidates 
for the state offices. He has been twice a 
member of the legislative conference of 
the Methodist Episcopal church. In the 
last session, held in the Metropolitan Opera 
House, New York, he was leader of the 
party which asked for the admission of wo- 
men to the conference. He was a prominent 
candidate for the episcopacy — receiving 




JOHN W HAMILTON. 

more votes than any other minister from 
New England who has not been elected to 
the high office. He is at present pastor 
of the Saratoga Street church, I-^ast Boston. 

He has been quite an extensive writer. 
His principal publications are : " Lives of 
the Kishoiis," " People's Church Pulpit," 
" Memorials of Jesse Lee and the Old 
Elm," and " The Hills and Homes of 
Somerville." 

He received the degree of master of 
arts from the Wesleyan University at 
Middletown, Conn., and the Baker Uni- 
versity in Kansas, in i88o, conferred upon 
him the degree of doctor of divinity, 
which he declined. In 1888, he was prof- 



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HAMILTON. 



fered the presidency of his alma mate,- in 
(-)hio, and a committee came to Boston 
to urge upon him the acceptance of the 
ottice. After careful consideration, he de- 
chned, preferring to remain in the pastorate. 

. H.AMILTON, Samuel K., son of Ben- 
jamm K. and Sarah (Carl) Hamilton, was 
born m Waterborough, York county, 
Mame, July 27, 1837. 

He was educated in the district school 
Limerick Academy, public high school' 
baco, Mame, and Chandler scientific school' 
Dartmouth College, from which he was 
graduated in the class of 1S59 and re- 
ceiyed the degree of master of science in 
1&69. 

After his graduation he chose the pro- 
fession of law and pursued his legal studies 
in the office of Hon. Ira T. Drew at Alfred 
Maine. He was admitted to the York 
county bar in June, 1S72, and practiced in 
company with Mr. Drew at Alfred until 
1867, when he remoyed to Biddeford 
Maine, and remained there till 1872 when 
he removed to Wakefield and opened an 
ottice m Boston, where he is still in nrac- 
tice. ' 

Mr. Hamilton was married in Newfield, 
Maine, February 13, 1867, to Annie E 
daughter (,f Joseph B. and Harriet N 
(""'") J^a^-'s- 'I'liey have no children 

Mr Hamilton was a member of the board 
of aldermen, Biddeford, 1870 and '71 • 
member of the Maine House of Representa- 
tives 1872; member of the \Yakefield school 
board nine years, si.x years of which he was 
chairman ; chairman of the board of select- 
men, 1887 and '88, and was for many vears 
chairman of the board of trustees of the 
Beebe town library, which position he .still 
holds. He has been treasurer of the Pine 
Tree State Club of Boston since its oraani- 
zation. " 

Mr. Hamilton was delegate to the na- 
tional Democratic convention in 1880 from 
the 5th congressional district of Ma.ssa- 
chusetts In 1883 when the people 'of 
Uakefield were about erecting a handsome 
brick school building, they voted unani- 
mously in open town meeting that the 
same should be called " Hamilton school 
building, in recognition of Mr. Hamilton's 
valuable services in behalf of the public 
schools. ' 

HAMMOND, Edward H., son of Ed 

ward and Lucy M. (Kimball) Hammond 
was born in Bradford, Esse.v county, Sep- 
tember 4, 1823. ' ' 

Receiving his early education in the 
public schools, he prepared for teaching 



HAMMOND. 

under preceptor Benjamin Greenleaf of 
Bradford, and afterward fitted for coUeee 
at Atkinson Academy, but was prevented 

™Tt.'"'H"%-'°''^^*^ by the state of his 
health He first engaged in teaching in 
Haverhill in 1847, and permanently in 
i>S53, and later became the first principal 
of the A\ inter Street grammar school of 
that city. Here he remained until 1868 
wlien he was appointed principal of the 
Bennett grammar school in Brighton 
which was annexed to Bo.ston in 1S74 He 
re-organized and consolidated that school 
in the present building, erected in 187 s_ 
74, and continued in the service of the 
city of Boston at the head of that school 
un d the fall of 1882, when ill health 
obliged him to resign. 

He now lives in Groveland, retired from 
active duty, but still, as chairman of the 
school committee, maintains his interest in 
educational work. 

Mr. Hammond was married in Haver- 
hil in 1856, to Dollie A., daughter of 
}\illiam H. and Mary (Patten) Nichols 
I hey have no children. 

He was noble grand of Mutual Re- 
hef Lodge, I. O. O. F., Haverhill ; secre- 
tary \. M. C. A. of Haverhill ; chairman 
and secretary of the Rej^ublican town com- 
mittee, and chairman of the school board 
Groveland. He was also very influential 
in the establishment of the Groveland 
pubhc library in 1888, and is the first 
president of the board of trustees. During 
an experience of nearly thirty years in 
teaching, he has had charge of only two 
schools, and has never been without a 
position. 

HAMMOND, JOHN Wilkes, son of 

John Wilkes and .Maria Loui.sa (South- 
worth) Hammond, was born December 16 
1837, in that part of Rochester, Plymouth 
county, now called .Mattapoisett. 

His father died when he was f^ve years 
old, and he was brought up in the village 
of Mattapoisett, attending the common 
district school. He was subsequently fit- 
ted for college in the academy in his na- 
tive village, and was graduated "from Tufts 
College m the class of 1861. 

He engaged in teaching in Stoughton 
in 1 86 1 and '62 ; in Tisburv, spriii".^ and 
summer of 1862, and left the school one 
morning in September of that year to en- 
list m company I, 3d regiment, Massa- 
chusetts volunteers (nine months' regi- 
ment). He returned in June, 1863; taught 
the high school in Wakefield and Melrose, 
and then choosing the profession of law' 
prosecuted his legal studies in the office of 



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Sweetser & Gardner, Boston, and at the 
law school of Harvard University. He 
was admitted to the bar in March, 1861, 
practiced in Middlesex county, was ap- 
pointed to the bench of the superior court 
of Massachusetts, March jo, 1886, which 
position he still liokis. 

Judge HaniuKJiKl was married in Taun- 
ton, August 15, 1 866, to Clara Ellen, 
daughter of Benjamin F. and Clara (Fos- 
ter) Tweed. Of this union were three 
children : Frank Tweed, Clara Maria and 
John Wilkes Hammond, Jr. 

Judge Hammond was a member of the 
House of Representatives from Cambridge, 
1872 and '73 ; was city solicitor of Cam- 
bridge by annual elections continuously 
from April, 1873, to March 10, 1886, when 
he resigned to accept the judgeship. His 
residence is Cambridgeport. 

Judge Hammond attributes his success 
in life to the careful and judicious training 
of a good mother. He is one of many 
cases which show that in this country it is 
possible for a boy without wealth or social 
distinction, by temperance, industry and 
perseverance, to acquire an education and 
win success in professional life. 

HAMMOND, Watson Freeman, s on 

of John and Catherine E. (Cushing) Ham- 
mond, was born in Boston, May 24, 1837. 

His early education was obtained in the 
common schools of Boston and Mashpee. 
He spent some years following the sea, 
whaling, and in the merchant service. He 
finally chose farming as a vocation, and 
settled in Mashpee, where he now resides. 

Mr. Hammond was married in South 
Sandwich, January 22, i860, to Rebecca 
C, daughter of Rev. Joseph and Abigail 
(Wickhams) Amos. They have seven chil- 
dren : Mary E., Charles H., Ellen W., 
Alice C, Lorenzo T., Edith L. and Carrie 
F. Hammond. 

Mr. Hammond was representative to the 
General Court in 1886. He is a deacon of 
the Baptist church at Mashpee. 

HANNUM, Leander Moody, son of 

Alexander C. and Laura A. Hannum, was 
born in Northampton, Hampshire county, 
December 22, 1837. 

He first attended school at Northani])- 
ton, afterward the grammar and high 
schools of Chico|3ee, and Williston Semi- 
nary at Easthampton. 

He left Williston Seminary at the age 
of seventeen, and passed two years in the 
mining fields of California, returning in 
1856. He then entered the English and 
classical institute, Springfield, where he 



remained one year, then was two years 
with J. W. Hale &: Company, Springfield, 
as salesman in the wholesale grocery busi- 
ness, then until 1864 with Mr. Howe, of 
Howe's Sewing Machine, New York City. 
Coming to Cambridge, he engaged in busi- 
ness for himself — at first in the grocery, 
and also in the ice business. He is now 
extensively engaged in real estate enter- 
prises. 




Mr. Hannum was married in Cambridge, 
December 15, 1869, to Anne H. Demain, 
of that city. Of this union there are no 
children living. 

Mr. Hannum was a member of the com- 
mon council, Cambridge, 1873 ; alderman, 
1874 and '75, and represented his city in 
the House of Representatives, 1876 and '77, 
serving in 1876 as chairman of the com- 
mittee on public buildings, and 1877 as 
chairman of the committee on street rail- 
ways. He was elected to the Senate, 1881 
and '82, serving the last year as chairman 
of the committee on prisons, and state- 
house, also on the committee on insurance. 
He has served seven years as chairman of 
the Republican city committee, and since 
1883 has been a member of the board of 
water commissioners. He was elected, and 
served for several years, as special com- 
missioner for Middlesex county. 



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HARDING. 



Mr. Hannum is always in the front in 
public matters, is a prominent and widely 
known member in the order of F. & A. M., 
a member of Amicable Lodge, Cambridge 
Royal Arch Chapter, and Boston Com- 
maadery. His church connections are with 
the Third Congregational church, Cam- 
bridge, where he has served for many 
years as chairman of the parish com- 
mittee. 

HANSON, Charles Henry, son of 

Charles and Mary Folsom (Copp) Hanson, 
was born in Barnston, P. Q., July 7, 1844. 

His educational training was received in 
the conmion schools of Lowell. 

His first connection in business was with 
LTtlev, Bovnton tV Pickett, wholesale pro- 
vision merchants, Boston, in 1862. Here he 
remained a number of vears, and upon re- 
moving to Lowell, engaged in the teaming 




CHARLES H, HANSON. 

business. Later on he established the firm 
of C. H. Hanson & Co., dealers in horses, 
hay, straw and grain. 

On the 14th of June, 1866, at Nashua, 
N. H., Mr. Hanson was married to P211en 
Jane, daughter of Samuel and Elmina 
(Hadley) Smith. Of this union were three 
children : Charles H., Jr., Fred and Mamie 
Hanson — the two latter deceased. 

Mr. Hanson is a member of William 
North Lodge of Masons, chapter and coun- 



cil ; Middlesex Lodge of Perfection, Low- 
ell ; Joseph Cernean Lodge of Perfection, 
14th degree; DeWitt Clinton Council of 
Princes, i6th degree; DeWitt Clinton 
Chapter of Rose Croi.x, iSth degree; De 
Witt Clinton Council of Kadosh, 30th de- 
gree ; Grand Consistory of the State of 
Massachusetts, 32d degree ; member of 
Merrimac Lodge, L O. O. F., and of Wam- 
esit Lodge, K. of P., and Lowell Lodge 
B. P. O. Elks. 

Li 1872 he was elected to the Lowell 
common council, and re-elected the follow- 
ing year. He was superintendent of 
streets in 1885 and '86, and a member of 
the lower branch of the state Legislature 
in 1888, serving as one of the committee 
on railroads. 

HARDING, ALPHEUS, son of Rev. 
Alpheus and Sarah (Bridge) Harding, was 
born January 12, 18 18, at New^ Salem, 
Franklin county. He there attended the 
public schools and the New Salem Acad- 
emy, from which institution he entered 
Amherst College in 1832, where he re- 
mained but a single year, being compelled 
by ill health to abandon his studies. 

In the winter of 1834 he taught a district 
school in Warwick, and in the spring of 
that year entered the country store of 
Jonathan Haskell & Co., in New Salem, in 
which, and in the store of Wetherell 
& Hamilton, of Petersham, he remained 
until the spring of 1841, when he bought 
the store in New Salem in which he first 
entered, where he remained as a trader 
and manufacturer of palm-leaf hats until 
1856. 

During the fifteen years of his mercan- 
tile life in New Salem, he served as post- 
master, town clerk and treasurer, holding, 
a part of the time, also, the offices of chair- 
man of the boards of selectmen, assessors 
and overseers of the poor ; trustee of New 
Salem Academy (which he still retains). He 
represented the town in the Legislatures of 
1 85 1 and '53, taking an active part in the 
long struggle which resulted successfully 
in the first election of Charles Sumner to 
the United States Senate. 

In August, 1856, he was appointed cash- 
ier of the Miller's River (now National) 
Bank of Athol, and removed to that place, 
where he still resides. In 1863 he was 
chosen to represent, in the Legislature, the 
8th Worcester representative district, com- 
posed of the towns of Athol and Royalston, 
and again in 1867. During the session of 
1867 he obtained a charter of the Athol 
Savings Bank, which commenced business 
in April of that year, of which institution 



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HARLOW. 



283 



he was made treasurer, which office he still 
retains. 

He served as cashier of the Miller's River 
Bank eleven years,_ until its conversion to 
the Miller's River National Bank, of which 
he was made president, which office he still 
holds, having been an officer of the two 
institutions thirty-three years. 

He was a member of the state Senate 
for the years 1879 and '80, and was a dele- 
gate to the national Republican conven- 
tion, at Chicago, in 1880. 

He has been interested in, and connected 
with, two of the principal manufacturing 
corporations of the town, and has seen the 
town of his adoption double in wealth and 
population. He was active in forming the 
Second L'nitarian church, and in building 
the beautiful edifice in which that society 
worships. 

While residing in New Salem, on the 6th 
of September, 1842, he married Maria P. 
Taft, of Dudley, Worcester county, daugh- 
ter of Reuben and Prudence (Healey) 
Taft, by whom he had four children, two 
of whom died in infancy — the others still 
live : Ella Maria (now wife of Col. A. L. 
Newman, president of the National Bank 
of the Commonwealth of Boston), and Wil- 
liam Piridge Harding, formerly teller of the 
Miller's River National Bank, but now a 
resident of Denver, Col. 

HARDY, John Henry, son of John 

and Hannah (Farley) Hardy, was born in 
HoUis, Hillsborough county, N. H., Feb- 
ruary 2, 1847. 

He attended the Hollis common schools, 
fitted for college at Appleton .-Vcademies at 
Mount Vernon, N. H., and New Ipswich, 
N. H. He entered Dartmouth College, 
1866, and was graduated 1870, work- 
ing his way by teaching during vacations. 
He attended Harvard law school, studied 
law with R. M. Morse, Jr., Boston, while 
he was engaged in teaching in Chauncey 
Hall school, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar, January, 1872. 

Mr. Hardy formed a partnership with 
(leorge W. Morse, the firm name being 
Morse & Hardy. This relation continued 
two years, after which he formed a partner- 
ship with Samuel J. Elder and Thomas W. 
Proctor, the firm name being Hardy, Elder 
& Proctor, which continued until his ele- 
vation to the bench. May, 1885, when he 
was appointed associate justice of the 
municipal court of the city of Boston. 
This position he still holds. His appoint- 
ment was eminently a wise one, as his 
mental balance better fits him for the 
bench than the bar. 



He enlisted at fifteen years of age in 
the 15th regiment. New Hampshire volun- 
teers, anil was at the siege of Port Hudson. 

Judge Hardy was married in Littleton, 
August 30, 1871, to Anna J. Conant, a 
lineal descendant of Roger Conant, who 
first settled at Salem, in colonial days, 
and who was the daughter of Levi and 
Anna (Whitney Mead) Conant. Of this 
union are two children : John H., Jr., and 
Horace D. Hard}-. 

Judge Hardy was elected to the House 
of Representatives from the Arlington 
district, 1883, and was counsel for the town 
of Arlington, 1873 to '85. He is a member 
of the New England Historic Genealog- 
ical Society. He worships with the Unita- 
rian Society. 

HARLOW, RUFUS KENDRICK, .son of 
Major Branch and Lurany (Keith) Har- 
low, was born March 28, 1834, in Middle- 
borough, Plymouth countv. 

He attended the public schools, and 
prepared for college at Pierce Academv in 
his native town. In 1865 he was gradu- 
ated from .\mherst College, and in 1868 




RUFUS K. HARLOW. 

from the theological seminary in Bangor, 
Maine. 

He was ordained to the gospel ministry 
in his home church, the (.Central Congrega- 
tional, in Middleborough, October 15, 1868, 



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HARRIS. 



HARRIS. 



having previously received a unanimous 
call to the pastorate of the St. Lawrence 
Street church, Portland, Me. Owing- to 
impaired health, this call was declined, but 
Mr. Harlow served this church as supply 
for thirteen months, when continued ill 
health forced him to suspend his ministe- 
rial labors for a year. 

Subsequently he supplied the First Con- 
gregational church in Belfast, for a year, 
and was invited to accept the pastorate of 
that church, but declined. In the latter 
part of 1 87 1 Mr. Harlow was called to the 
pastorate of the Evangelical Congrega- 
tional church in Medway, as associate 
pastor with the Rev. David Sanford. The 
call was accepted, and he was installed 
February 13, 1872. 

During his ministry the church has been 
blessed spiritually and materially, as evi- 
denced by the gain of one hundred and 
eighty-nine members, the remodeling of 
the edifice and beautifying of the grounds, 
and the amount of benevolent contribu- 
tions, the latter aggregating more than 
ten thousand dollars to January i, 1889. 
The church celebrated its semi-centennial 
September 7, 1888, and published a full re- 
port of the e.xercises, edited by the pastor. 

Several addresses and biographical 
sketches and discourses delivered by Mr. 
Harlow have been published. The rela- 
tions between pastor and people have been 
e.xceptionally cordial. 

HARRIS, Benjamin Winslow, son of 

William and Mary Winslow (Thomas) 
Harris, was born in East Bridgewater, 
Plymouth county, November 10, 1823. 
His father was a respected citizen, town 
officer, and member of the General Court 
four years. His mother was a lineal de- 
scendant of Kenelm Winslow, brother of 
Governor Winslow of the Plymouth Colony. 

Mr. Harris received his education in 
the public schools of his native town, the 
East Bridgewater Academy, and in the 
classical department of Phillips Academv, 
Andover, where he remained about two and 
a half years. For several years he taught 
school winters, and so procured the means 
of pursuing his studies. In April, 1847, 
he entered the Harvard law school, from 
which he was graduated in June, 1849, 
when he at once entered the law office of 
John P. Putnam (late justice of the 
superior court), in Boston, where he re- 
mained till the 12th of April, 1850, when 
he was admitted to practice. 

He went to East Bridgewater, June 22d 
of that year, and formed a law partner- 
ship with Hon. Welcome Young for one 



year, at the close of which he opened a 
law office on his own account, where he 
remained, with the exception of a few 
year.s, till the fall of 1864, securing a good 
practice and acquiring a county reputation 
as an able advocate 

On July I, 1858, Governor Banks ap- 
pointed Mr. Harris district attorney for the 
-southea.stern district, to fill the vacancy 
caused by the resignation of Hon. James 
M. Keith, of Roxbury. 

During the winter of i863-'4 Mr. Harris 
opened a law office in Barristers' Hall, 
Court Sijuare, Boston, and in the year fol- 
lowing associated himself in partnership 




BENJAMIN W. HARRIS. 

with Payson E. Tucker, a learned and able 
lawyer, under the firm name of Harris & 
Tucker. 

On the 20th of June, 1S66, he was ap- 
pointed collector of internal revenue for 
the 2d congressional district of Massachu- 
setts, which office he held until the con- 
solidation of the districts in 1872, when 
he returned to East Bridgewater, where he 
has ever since resided. 

In November, 1872, he was elected to 
Congress, as a Republican, to succeed 
Hon. Oakes Ames — and was re-elected in 
1874, '76, '78 and '80, serving ten years. 
During this time he was a member of 
important committees — and in the 47th 



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HART. 



28; 



('ongress was chairman of the committee 
on naval affairs. 

On retiring from Congress, March 4, 
1883, he actively resumed his legal prac- 
tice, his son, Robert O. Harris, becoming 
a member of the firm of Harris & Tucker. 

On the 7th of September, 1887, he was 
appointed by Governor Ames judge of 
probate and insolvency for the county of 
Plymouth, to succeed Hon. Jesse E. Keith, 
deceased, which office he now holds. 

The firm of Harris & Tucker was dis- 
solved January i, 1889, Mr. Harris and 
his son each having an ofifice in East 
Bridgewater, and Mr. Tucker continuing 
the business alone in Boston. 

Mr. Harris was married in Boston, June 

4, 1850, to Julia A., daughter of Robert 
and Melinda (\N'ilbor) Orr, by whom he 
had four children, three of whom are now 
living : Robert O. Harris, of East Bridge- 
water, Mary M. Edson, wife of Charles 
H. Edson, of Whitman, Mass., and Alice 
M. White, wife of Hon. John D. White, of 
Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Harris died October 

5, 1872- 

HARRUB, Fred Magoun, son of 

George W. and Mary Harrub, was born in 
Plympton, Plymouth county, July 2, 184.S. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in the common schools. In 1867 he 
be.gan business life as a tack manufacturer. 
Later on he became a dealer in carriages, 
sleighs and harnesses. 

Mr. Harrub was married in Plympton, 
January 14, 1868, to Juliet T., daughter of 
Ebenezer T. and Rebecca Dean. Of this 
union is one daughter, Mary L. Harrub. 

i\Ir. Harrub was elected representative 
to the General Court from the 4th Plym- 
outh representative district in 1883 and 
'84, serving on the committee on manufac- 
tures both years, and acting as chairman 
the latter year. He was elected selectman 
and assessor in 1879, and held those offices 
continuously by election until 1884. 

HART, Thomas Norton, was born 

on January 20, 1829, at North Reading, 
Middlesex county. His father was Daniel 
Hart, whose ancestors settled in Lynnfield. 
He died when the present mayor was a 
child, and is buried in Lynnfield. Mayor 
Hart's mother was Margaret Norton, a 
woman of exceptional refinement. Her 
father was Major John Norton, of Royals- 
ton, who fought in the revolution. 

Thomas N. Hart received a modest edu- 
cation, such as the country schools afford- 
ed in the thirties. In 1842 he came to Bos- 
ton to earn his living, and found employ- 



ment with Wheelock, Pratt & Co., drv- 
goods dealers. In 1844 he entered a hat 
store ; he became later on a partner in the 
firm of Philip A. Locke & Co. He after- 
wards founded the house of Hart, Taylor 
& Co., which became in its line one of 
the largest in the country. He retired 
from business some ten years ago, but 
soon after assumed the presidency of the 
Mount Vernon National Bank, which posi- 
tion he still holds. 

Mr. Hart was married at Boston, 1S50, 
to ICIisabeth, daughter of John and Elisa- 
beth (Potter) Snow, of Bowdoin, Maine. 
They have one child : a daughter. 

Mr. Hart is identified with many socie- 
ties. He is treasurer of the American 
LTnitarian Association, an officer in the 
Church of the Unity, a member of the 
Algonquin Club, of the Hull Yacht Club, 
and of many eleemosynary institutions. 
His city home is at 298 Commonwealth 
Avenue, his summer home at Galloupe's 
Point, Swampscott. 

In politics Mr. Hart has always been a 
loyal Republican. He was a member of 
the Boston common council in 1879, '80 
and '81 ; of the Boston board of aldermen 
in 1882, '85 and '86. In 1886 he was 
nominated mayor by the Republican city 
convention, and received the like honor in 
1887 and '88. He was elected in 188S, the 
official vote being Hart, 32,712 ; O'Brien, 
30,836. From the outset he proclaimed 
the principle of equality, equal rights, and 
equal duties, as against government by fac- 
tion or for faction. He holds that the mis- 
sion of the Republican party is not so much 
to establish Republican party government 
as to secure good government. For this 
reason he believes that a Republican ad- 
ministration should not employ exclusively 
Republicans, though it should purge the 
public service of those who abuse the gen- 
erous policy of the Republican party. Mr. 
Hart was formally supported, in 1887 and 
'88, by independent conventions. He has 
never sought a nomination for office. 

HART, William H., son of William and 
Elizabeth (Bruce) Hart, was born in Lynn, 
Essex county, December 22, 1836. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in the public schools of his native city. 
Choosing the profession of law, he entered 
Boston LTniversity law school, and was 
graduated in the class of 1874. Previous 
to this he had become acquainted with 
Ijusiness life in the shoe trade, in which he 
had been brought up, and in which he con- 
tinued up to the breaking out of the war 
of the rebellion. 



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HART. 



HARTWELL. 



He enlisted as a private soldier in the 
1st Massachusetts heavy artiller)-, March 
20, 1862 ; was promoted to sergeant, ist 
sergeant, and 2d lieutenant in that regi- 
ment. In 1864 he resigned his commission 
in the ist heavy artillery, and immediately 
joined the 36th regiment, United States 
colored troops, as captain. He was pro- 
moted to major and lieutenant-colonel of 
the 36th, and was breveted colonel of 




WILLIAM H. HART. 

Ignited .States volunteers by President 
Johnson. He commanded the 36th regi- 
ment for nearly two years of the three it 
was in service. He was for a time assis- 
tant adjt-ftant-general of a brigade in the 
25th army corps, and was also assistant 
inspector-general of the same corps. He 
served continuously for four years and ten 
months, and during the whole time was on 
active duty. 

After his retirement from service he was 
a customs officer in Boston for several 
years. He is now in practice as attorney 
and counselor-at-law, with offices in Chelsea 
and Boston. 

He has always been an active politician 
in the Republican ranks, and has partici- 
pated extensively as a campaign speaker 
in all the campaigns, both state and 
national, for many years. He has, how- 
ever, held no political office and has never 



sought political preferment. He was com- 
mander of Post 35, G. A. R., Chelsea. 1878 ; 
since then has been aide-de-camp, judge- 
advocate and senior vice-commander of 
the department of Massachusetts, G. A. R. 

At the present time he is trustee and 
corporation counsel of the Chelsea Day 
Nursery and Children's Home ; corporation 
counsel of the Old Ladies' Home, Chelsea, 
and secretary of the Chelsea Mutual Bene- 
fit Association. He is also senior special 
justice of the Chelsea police court, justice 
of the peace, and vice-chairman of the 
Chelsea school board. 

Besides the campaign speaking cited, he 
has delivered many addresses and lectures 
upon various topics. He always speaks 
for some G. A. R. post on Memorial Day, 
and occasionally has spoken for three 
organizations on the same day, and has 
been compelled to decline as many more 
invitations to perform the same service. 
He has been in active practice since his 
admission to the bar in 1874. 

Colonel Hart was married in Spring- 
field, February 1, 1866, to Susan J., 
youngest daughter of Samuel and Susan 
(Waterman) Harris. Of this union are 
two children : Lucv Humphrey and Mar- 
ian Lovis Hart. 

Colonel Hart is a man of strong individ- 
uality and possessed of the necessary 
courage to defend his convictions. 

HARTWELL, BENJAMIN Hall, son of 
Benjamin Franklin and Knmia (Whitman) 
Hartwell, was born in .\cton, Middlesex 
county, February 27, 1S45. 

His preparatory education was obtained 
in the public schools and Lawrence Acad- 
emy, Groton, he having been graduated 
from the latter institution in the class of 
1865. He entered Jefferson Medical Col- 
lege, Philadelphia, and was graduated in 
1868. He immediately began the prac- 
tice of medicine in Troy, N. H., but re- 
moved to Groton Junction, Ayer, in 1869, 
where he is still in practice. 

Dr. Hartwell was married in .^yer, Sep- 
tember 10, 1879, to Helen E., daughter of 
the late Eusebius S. Clark (major of the 
26th Massachusetts volunteers — killed at 
Winchester, Va., 1864) and Mary J. (Shat- 
tuck) Clark. He has no children. 

Dr. Hartwell was connected with the 
medical department, Massachusetts volun- 
teer militia, 10th regiment, on staff of Col- 
onel J. W. Kimball for three years; has been 
United States medical pension examiner 
since 1875 ; is a member of the Massachu- 
setts Medical Society, and corresponding 
secretary of the Massachusetts Medico- 



HAKTWELL. 



HARVEY. 



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Legal Societ)- ; is one of the medical 
examiners for Middlesex county, and presi- 
dent of Worcester North Medical Society 
at Fitchburg ; has served seventeen years 
on the school board — several years its chair- 
man ; is one of the trustees of Lawrence 
Academy, (iroton ; president of the Mid- 
dlesex North Savings Bank, and one of 
the directors of the National Bank of Ayer. 
He served one year in the Legislature 
(1888), acting on the committees on tinance 
and expenditures. 

Dr. Hartweli is a lineal descendant on 
the maternal side, in the fifth generation, 
from (Governor (iardner, and on the pater- 
nal from William Hartweli, who settled in 
Concord, Mass., coming from Kent, Eng- 
land, in 1636. 

HARTWELL, HARRIS C, son of Ben- 
jamin Franklin and Emma (Whitman) 
Hartweli, was born at Groton, Middlesex 
county, December 28, 1847. 

He was fitted for college at Lawrence 
Academy, Groton ; entered Harvard Col- 
lege in 1865, and graduated in the class ot 
1869. 

After graduating, he studied law with 
Hon. Amasa Norcross in Fitchburg, and 
was admitted to the bar in 1872, when he- 
at once commenced the practice of law 
with him, under the firm name of Norcross 
& Hartweli, and still continues to practice 
under the same firm name. 

He -was city solicitor for the city uf 
Fitchburg from 1876 to '86 ; a member of 
the House of Representatives in 1883, '84 
and '85, and a member of the Senate in 
1887 and '88, and was re-elected in 1889, 
receiving at the hands of his fellow-mem- 
bers a unanimous vote for the presidency 
of that body. He was chairman of the 
House judiciary committee in 1885,' and 
chairman of the Senate judiciary commit- 
tee in 1887 and '88. 

He was married in Groton, November 
22, 1877, to F>ffie M. F., daughter of Hon. 
Daniel Needham, of Groton, by whom he 
has one child : Norcross N. Hartweli. 

Mr. Hartweli has always taken a lively 
interest in all matters affecting the city of 
Fitchburg, and is an active member of the 
Worcester county bar. 

HARVEY, Edwin Bayard, son of Eben 

and Rozella (Winslow) Harvey, was born 
in Deerfield, Rockingham county, N. H., 
April 4, 1834. 

His early education was received in the 
common schools. Subsequently he at- 
tended the Military Institute, Pembroke, 
N. H., and the New Hampshire Conference 



Seminary, Northfield, N. H. He was 
graduated from the Wesleyan University, 
Middletown, Conn., in the class of 1859. 
The year following he taught in Poultney 
Academy, Poultney, Vt. In i860 he was 
elected principal of Macedon Academy, 
Wayne county, N. Y., which position he 
resigned after two years' service, to accept 
the professorship of natural science in 
Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham. Li 1864 
he entered the medical department of Har- 
vard Universit)'. After receiving the de- 
gree of doctor of medicine in 1866, he 
immediately commenced practice in West- 
borough, where he still resides. 

In 1872 he visited the principal universi- 
ties in Europe in the study of his profes- 
sion. He is widely known as a skillful 
practitioner ; has a large consultation 




EDWiN a MAKvEY. 

practice, and is recognized as the leading 
surgeon in his locality. For fifteen years 
he has been councilor of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, and was its anniversary 
chairman in 1886 ; has been censor, orator, 
vice-president, and president of the Wor- 
cester District Medical Society. 

For nearly twenty years he has been a 
member of the school board, and at the 
present time is superintendent of schools. 
Lender his management, the schools have 
made great progress and taken rank with 



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IIARWOOD. 



HARWOOD. 



the best in the State. He is president of the 
board of trustees of the public hbrarv, and a 
trustee of the Westborough Savings Bank. 

In 1873 he was appointed trustee of the 
state reform school by Governor (iaston, 
and re-appointed by Governor Washburn, 
serving six years ; was elected to the 
House of Representatives in 1884, and re- 
elected in 1S85, serving on the committee 
of public charitable institutions, of which 
committee he was chairman during his 
second term. 

Durmg his first year in the Legislature 
he introduced the free text-book bill, and 
it was mainly through his persistent efforts, 
in the face of great opposition, that the bill 
became a law. 

He has always taken an active part in 
politics, both local and state, and is favor- 
ably known throughout the Commonwealth. 

He was married in Concord, N. H., in 
i860, to Abby K., daughter of Eldad and 
Sarah E. (Fellows) Tenney. They have 
no children. 

HARWOOD, Joseph Alfred, son 

of Colonel Nahum and Sophia (Kimball) 
Harwood, was born in Littleton, Middle- 
sex county, March 26, 1827. 

He obtained his school training in the 
public schools of his native place, and in the 
academies of Westford, Exeter, N. H., and 
Groton. 

He began farming and stock-raising on 
the old homestead at the age of sixteen ; 
taught district schools, winters, from the 
age of seventeen to twenty-four. 

In 1868 he went into partnership with 
his brother Nahum, under the firm name 
of J. A. & N. Harwood, for the manufac- 
ture of leather board, with factory at Leo- 
minster, and store in Boston. He follows 
the same business at present, having added 
the manufacture of chair-seats and chairs 
for public halls, etc., under the company 
title, " Harwood Manufacturing Co." 

He is still extensively engaged in farm- 
ing and stock-raising on the old homestead, 
which has been in his family more than 
150 years, and under his management has 
grown to be one of the finest estates in 
the Commonwealth. 

Mr. Harwood was married in Littleton, 
February 1 1, 1852, to Lucy Maria, daughter 
of Hon. Jonathan and Elizabeth Briard 
(Walker) Hartwell. Of this union were 
two children : Herbert Joseph, who gradu- 
ated at Harvard College, 1877, and Edward 
Alfred Harwood, who died in infancy. 

Mr. Harwood has been a member of 
the school board ; postmaster of Littleton 
twenty-one years ; first president Farmers' 



Club of Littleton ; trustee of Middlesex 
County Agricultural Society ; was on the 
staff of Governor Washburn, also of act- 
ing-Governor Talbot ; senator in the 
Legislature of 1875 and '76 ; executive 
councilor 1877, '78, '79, with tlovernors 
Rice and Talljot. 

He is at present trustee of the Westford 
Academy, and Massachusetts Agricultural 
College, Amherst ; president of the Live 
Stock Insurance Company, Boston ; and 
tlirector in the New York Mutual Reserve 
Fund Insurance Company. He is a mem- 
ber of the Unitarian Club, the Middlesex 
Club, and the Home Market (.'lub. 




JOSEPH A. HARWOOD. 

He was influential in getting the United 
States cattle quarantine established at 
Littleton. When in the Senate, it was 
through his influence and efforts that the 
state prison was built at Concord. 

During Colonel Harwood's second term 
as senator occurred the celebrations of the 
Lexington and Concord centennials, and 
he was made chairman of the joint special 
committee of the Legislature which had 
the matter in hand, including the enter- 
tainment of General Grant and his cabinet. 
General Grant afterwards wrote him an 
autograph letter expressing his apprecia- 
tion of the manner in which he and his 
suite had been received. 



HASELTINE. 



HASKELL. 



289 



Colonel Harwood was a prominent can- 
didate for lieutenant-governor in the Re- 
publican convention of 1882. He is of 
old English stock, being a descendant of 
Nathaniel Harwood of colonial days. 

HASELTINE, PHINEAS WALTER, son 
of Isaiah W. and Jane S. (Hall) Haseltine, 
was born in Windham, Rockingham county, 
N. H., May 15, 1846. 

His education was limited to the com- 
mon schools. As a boy he worked on a 
farm, .going to Lawrence in 1865, where 
he was employed in the grocery business. 
He has remained in the same line up to 
date. He is a member of the firm of Dean 
& Haseltine, groceries and provisions. 

Mr. Haseltine was married in Lawrence, 
June 15, 1876, to Georgiana, daughter of 
William and Elizabeth (Joplin) Dean, Of 
this union were two children : Frank 
Arthur and Helen Dean Haseltine. 

Mr. Haseltine has held office in the fol- 
lowing orders : Tuscan Lodge, F. & A. M. ; 
\V'analancet Tribe, I. O. R. M., and Bay 
State Council, LInited Friends. In 1885 
he was a member of the Lawrence com- 
mon council, and in 1889 was a member of 
the House of Representatives, serving on 
the committee on public service. 

HASKELL, Andrew L., son of Nathan 
and Anna (Lackey) Haskell, was born in 
Newbury, Essex county, August 22, 1806. 
His father was a descendant of A\'illiam 
Haskell, born in England, 1643, who came 
to America and settled in Ciloucester, 
where he died in August, 1693. 

Mr. Haskell had the advantages of pri- 
vate and public school education in New- 
buryport. From school he at once entered 
his father's furniture establishment as clerk, 
salesman and book-keeper, and at the age 
of twenty conducted a branch store in 
Dover, N. H. Later, he became assistant 
in the Newburyport Chair Factory, remain- 
ing until 1831, when he came to Boston 
and began business with Moses Mellen in 
one of the largest furniture ware-houses 
then existing. He connected himself later 
with Joseph J. Russell in the same business. 

In 1841 he became associated with Al- 
bert H. Brown, a large dealer, and satis- 
factorily settled a complicated partnership 
account between Mr. Brown and his former 
partners, which necessitated his visiting 
New Orleans and other places where they 
had opened stores. In 1843 he resumed 
his former position with Mr. Mellen, 
remaining until 1850, when he began busi- 
ness for himself at Nos. 8 and to LTnion 
Street, as manufacturer antl dealer in 



feathers, mattresses, curled horse-hair and 
bcdtling supplies. He subsequently re- 
moved to Nos. 100 and 102 Hanover Street, 
where the same business is conducted 
under the firm name of A. L. Haskell & 
Son, the latter, Mr. William A. Haskell, 
having been admitted to partnership in 
1S62. This concern was distinguished for 
its enterprise in furnishing the government, 
during the civil war, with tents (Mr. Has- 
kell's invention), also the navy and hospi- 
tals with their bedding, the amount of 
contracts being very large during the war 
of the rebellion. 

Mr. Haskell was married in Newbury- 
port, July 23, 1829, to Sarah Ann, daugh- 
ter of Capt. Benjamin Newman. Mrs. 
Haskell died in Chelsea, February 29, 1884, 
universally mourned for her eminent vir- 
tues. Of this union were the following 
named children : Sarah Elizabeth (Mrs. 
Cleorge H. Wyman, Boston), deceased 
January 25, 1857 ; Annie, deceased Feb- 
ruary 27, 1837 ; and William A. Haskell, 
born in Chelsea, October 6, 1841. 

Mr. Haskell distinctly recalls the prin- 
cipal events of the war of 181 2. His 
father supplied sails for the sloop-of-war 
"Wasp." He was the intimate friend of 
William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp 
of the " Liberator." 

Removing to Chelsea, in 1837, he took 
an active part in municipal affairs and 
public benevolent work. He was one of 
the projectors of the Winnisimmet Benevo- 
lent Society, founded in 1843, and was at 
one time its president, remaining one of 
its directors to date. He was connected 
with the Chelsea Savings Bank, and one 
of its vice-presidents for several years. 
After Chelsea became a city, he held vari- 
ous public positions, was a member of the 
common council in 1858, '59 and '61, and 
alderman in 1866, '67 and '68, and was 
elected to the Legislature in 1869 and '70. 
In Boston he was inspector of elections 
from ward 3 in 1836, '37. 

Liberal in his reli.gious sentiment, he be- 
came connected with the Unitarian society 
of Chelsea in 1848, of which he is an active 
member. He has always manifested a 
deep interest in the public schools, and is 
ever found in the front rank of those 
reformers who are combating the evil of 
intemperance. 

At a ripe old age, his vigor displays the 
effect of a well-spent life. 

HASKELL, Edward H., son of Wil- 
liam H. antl Mary (Smith) Haskell, was 
born in Gloucester, Essex county, October 
5. 1845- 



290 



HASKELL. 



HASKELL. 



He received a common and high school 
education in his native city, and then 
adopted the profession of journalism, en- 
tering the office of the " (iloucester Tele- 
graph " in 1859. 

On the 28th of September, 1861, he en- 
listed in company C, of the 23d Massachu- 
setts volunteers. AVhile at Annapolis, Md., 
in December, he was ordered to special duty 
with the signal corps of the Burnside ex- 
pedition, then fitting out. His first engage- 
ments were at Roanoke Island, Newbern 
(where he was slightly wounded) and at 
Fort Macon. Jul)' 5 he was ordered to 
the army of the Potomac, then on the 
fames River ; and immediately afterward 
to the army of \'irginia, under Cleneral 
Pope, and participated in the engagements 




EDWARD H HASKELL. 

at Cedar Mountain, Kelly's Ford, Rappa- 
hannock Station, Manassas Junction, Bull 
Run and Chantilly, and was at the side of 
(ieneral Kearney when he fell in the last 
named battle. From September, 1862, to 
September, 1863, he was an instructor in 
the camp of instruction of the signal corps 
at Georgetown, D. C. While on duty 
there he took part in the short campaign 
of ("lenerals Buford. Kilpatrick and Custer, 
against the rear of Lee's army in Maryland. 
He next saw service under General 
Burnside in the East Tennessee campaign 



of the winter of i863-'64. Early in June, 
1864, he was ordered to report with a ile- 
tachment of the signal corps under his 
command to General Schofield, then with 
Sherman in Georgia, and participated in 
that exciting campaign. He narrowly es- 
caped capture at Altoona. and was almost 
continuously under fire at Kennesaw Moun- 
tain, Lost Mountain, Marietta, and in the 
investment of Atlanta, which closed his 
military service. Leaving Georgia in Sep- 
tember, he reported at Knoxville, and was 
mustered out of service October 4, 1864. 

On his return to Gloucester he resumed 
the profession of journalism, but after- 
wards became interested in the paper busi- 
ness, Boston, as manufacturer and dealer, 
in which pursuit he is now successfully 
engaged, with his residence at Newton. 

Colonel Haskell has been prominent for 
several years in public life. In 1878 he 
represented his native city in the House of 
Representatives, serving on committees on 
printing and on mercantile affairs. In 1880 
he was appointed assistant adjutant-gen- 
eral on the staff of Governor Long, and 
served in that capacity for three years. In 
1879 he was elected secretary of the Re- 
publican state central committee, and ren- 
deretl efficient service in the memorable 
political campaigns of the three years fol- 
lowing. The perfection of the organiza- 
tion of the Republican party during these 
years was largely due to his able and in- 
telligent direction. In 1880 he was elected 
delegate to the national Republican con- 
vention, Chicago, and in 1884 was again 
selected for that position, and served as one 
of the secretaries of the convention. 

In 1882 Colonel Haskell was elected as 
an executive councilor to represent the 
5th district, and was associated with Gen- 
eral Butler during his incumbency as gov- 
ernor of the State, serving on committees 
on pardons, prisons, harbors and public 
lands, and military affairs. In 1884 he 
was a member of Governor Robinson's 
council, and served on committees on par- 
dons, charitable institutions, railroads and 
Hoosac Tunnel, military affairs, and ac- 
counts. 

Colonel Haskell was married June 27, 
1866, to Hattie J., daughter of William and 
Sarah (Higgins) Munsey. Of this union 
were four children : Edward A., William 
.\saph (deceased 187 1), Marion R. and 
Edith L. Haskell. 

HASKELL, Edwin Bradbury, was 

born in Livermore, .\ndroscoggin county. 
Me., August 24, 1837. His father was 
Moses Greenleaf Haskell, and his mother, 



HASKELL. 



HASKINS. 



291 



Rosilla Haines, daughter of Captain Peter 
Haines, who emigrated from New Hamp- 
shire to the then district of Maine in 1795. 

Mr. Haskell was etlucated in the district 
school and at Kent's Hill Seminary, and 
was prepared for college at the age of six- 
teen. The limited means of his parents 
prevented him from taking up his college 
connection, and when seventeen, he entered 
the office of the " Portland Advertiser," 
then edited by Henry Carter. 

After staying one year and learning the 
art of type-setting, he went to New Orleans 
in the autumn of 1855, and worked there 
and in Baton Rouge as a journeyman 
printer until the following June. He then 
returned to Boston and took a situation as 
compositor on the " Saturday Evening 
Gazette," then published by \\'illiam \Y. 
Clapp, now of the " Boston Journal." In 
the sprmg of 1857 he was employed on 
the " Boston Journal " as printer and re- 
porter, and went to the " Boston Herald " 
as a reporter, in the spring of i860. 

The " Plerald " was then owned antl 
managed by Colonel E. C. Bailey, who 
<|uickly discovered the newspaper abilities 
of Mr. Haskell, and added him to his staff 
of editorial writers. In that position he 
remained until 1865, when he and four 
other employees of the " Herald " bought 
the paper of Colonel Bailey. Mr. Haskell 
was then installed as editor-in-chief, a 
position which he held uninterruptedly 
(save during a year's absence in Europe) 
until October, 1887, when he sold a large 
moiety of his third proprietary interest in 
the " Herald," and has since had nothing 
to do with the management of the paper, 
save as one of the directory of the " Bos- 
ton Herald Company." This company 
succeeded the partnership under the firm 
name of R. M. Pulsifer & Co. 

By his good judgment he was enabled 
to steer this independent journal between 
partisan e.vtremes and make it a widely 
recognized conservative power and author- 
ity. 

As an editorial writer, Mr. Haskell was 
terse and direct, going to the core of the 
theme under discussion, and his keen sense 
of humor was a no less noticeable trait of 
his professional outfit. 

Mr. Haskell is chief owner in two daily 
newspapers in Minneapolis, holding with 
his associates there, including his eldest 
son, a monopoly of the press franchise in 
that city. 

Mr. Haskell's fortunate business and pro- 
fessional career has been happily matched 
by his social and domestic life at his ele- 



gant and beautiful home overlooking the 
valley of the Charles River in Auburndale, 
Newton. 

In 1877 and '78, accompanied by his 
family and a small retinue of invited 
friends, he made a tour of Europe. Hence 
the unique descriptive serial sketches in 
the " Herald " of the adventures of " The 
Scribbler Fainily Abroad." 

In 1882 he declined a nomination to 
Congress, which would have been ecjuiva- 
lent to an election, preferring journalism 
to what he held to be a more limited field 
of usefulness and honor. 

Mr. Haskell was married in August, 1861, 
to Celia, daughter of Jonas and loanna 
(Hubbard) Hill, of Fayette, Me. Of this 
union were seven children, of whom four 
are living. The eldest son, William, is 
editor of the " Minneapolis Tribune," 
having graduated at Harvard in the class 
of 1884. The second son, Harry Hill, is 
a student in Harvard, preparing for a 
medical education. 

HASKINS, David Greene, the sec- 
ond son of Ralph and Rebecca (Creene) 
Haskins, was born in Boston, May i, 1818. 
Ralph was the sixteenth and youngest 
child of John and Hannah (Upham) Has- 
kins. The father of John was Robert, who 
came to Boston from England in the 
early part of the last century. Ralph was 
a well-known Boston merchant. He began 
life in 1800 in the employ of Theodore 
Lyman (with whom he was afterwards in 
partnership) as supercargo of the ship 
"Atahualpa" on a three years' voyage to 
the northwest coast in search of furs. 
Rebecca Greene was the eldest daughter 
of David and Rebecca (Rose) Greene. 
David was a direct descendant of John, 
who was associated with Roger \\'illiams 
in the Providence purchase. His wife was 
a daughter of John Rose, of Antigua, W. I. 

Mr. Haskins was fitted for college at 
the academy of his uncle, Charles W. 
Greene, at Jamaica Plain. He was grad- 
uated from Harvard University in the 
class of 1837, and was immediately em- 
ployed as assistant teacher in Mr. Greene's 
Academy. In 1839 he entered the junior 
class of the theological seminary, Andover. 

From 1 84 1 to '44 he was preceptor of 
the Portland .\cademy, at Portland, Maine. 
Removing to Roxbury in 1844, he con- 
ducted a private school for girls, and at 
the same time studied for the ministry 
under the direction of Rev. Dr. Howe, 
now bishop of central Pennsylvania. 

He was admitted to deacon's orders in 
1847, and to priest's orders the next year. 



292 



HASKINS. 



HATHEWAV. 



During his diaconate he had charge for six 
months of Christ church, Gardiner, Me. 
From 1847 to '51 he Hved at Medford, 
where he gathered a society and built 
Grace church, of which he was the first 
rector. For a part of this period he was 
treasurer of the diocesan convention. 

Subject at this time to an occasional loss 
of voice, he decided to take a temporary 
rest from regular preaching. For some 
months he taught a class of girls in Lowell. 
Removing to Roxbury in 1853, he estab- 
lished and conducted a private school for 
young ladies at the South End, Boston ; 
this school, at the time of its fullest devel- 
opment, occupied the two upper floors of 
the large Concord Hall Building on Con- 
cord Street, and numbered about sixty 
pupils. It was known as the Concord Hall 
school. 

While in charge of this institution he 
published " Selections from the Old and 
New Testaments for Use in Families and 
Schools," also "The French and English 
First Book." 

For one year of this period he supplied 
the Sunday services of the infant church 
at Hyde Park. In 1862, when his son en- 
tered college, he removed to his present 
home in Cambridge. Soon afterwards, 
transferring his school interests to the Rev. 
Charles C. Shackford and Miss M. C. 
Pratt, he resumed ministerial work and 
organized the first Episct>pal church in 
Brighton, of which he was the rector till 
the latter part of 1866. In 1868 and '69 
he was chaplain of the McLean Asylum 
for the Insane, Somerville. In 1873 and 
'74 he traveled in Europe with his family. 

From 1875 to '80 he was rector of St. 
John's, Arlington, having gathered the 
society and erected the church building. 
Since January, 1889, he has had charge of 
St. Bartholomew's Mission, Cambridge. 

In 1876 he was chosen dean and profes- 
sor of ecclesiastical history in the theo- 
logical school of the University of the 
South, Sewanee, Tenn. He declined these 
positions, but acce^pted the appointment of 
commissioner of education for the uni- 
versity, which he still holds. In 1877 he 
prepared an illustrated sketch of the uni- 
versity, which was printed by this institu- 
tion. The same year he received the de- 
gree of S. T. D. from Columbia College. 

In addition to the works above men- 
tioned, he has published treatises in pam- 
phlet form on the following subjects: " Con- 
firmation," " The Study of the Larger 
English Dictionaries," " The Religious 
Education of Children in New England," 



" The Requisites for a Church School for 
Girls." He is also the author of a volume 
recently issued entitled, " The Maternal 
Ancestors of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with 
some Personal Reminiscences of Him." 
Mr. Haskins was a cousin of Mr. Emerson, 
and went to his school in Roxbury. 

Mr. Haskins was married in Portland, 
Me., December 20, 1842, to Mary Cogs- 
well Daveis, daughter of the Hon. Charles 
Stuart Daveis, of that city, and Elizabeth 
Taylor (Gilman) Daveis (the daughter of 
Governor John Taylor Gilman of Exeter, 
N. H.) . He has one son and two daughters 
now surviving : David G. Haskins, Jr., 
(H. U., 1866), Mary Cog.swell Daveis 
Haskins (now Mrs. James O. Watson, of 
Orange, N. J.) and Frances Greene Has- 
kins. 

HATHAWAY, GUILFORD H., son of 
Edmund and Betsey Hathaway, was born 
in Freetown, Bristol county. May 3, 180S. 

His educational advantages, besides the 
common school, were the military school, 
Norwich, Vt. (Captain Alden Partridge). 

In 1836 he became director of the Fall 
River Bank, which position he still holds. 
He has been president of the same bank 
since 1876. He is the oldest living and 
senior member of the board of investment 
of the Fall River Savings Bank. 

He was collector of taxes, Freetown, 
four years ; selectman five years ; chair- 
man Fall River board of assessors thirteen 
years ; member of the common council, 
1864 and '65 ; alderman, 1866 and '67 ; 
county commissioner Bristol county, 1868 
to '77, and representative to the Legislature 
in 1837. 

Mr. Hathaway was married in Fall River, 
November i, 1832, to Betsey, daughter of 
Edward and Hannah Wilson. Of this 
union were seven children : ( )thalia W., 
Abiah, Edmund, Edward W., Fklmund 2d, 
Emma F. and Charles G. Hathaway. 

HATHEWAY, NICHOLAS, son of Elna- 
than P. and Salome (Cushman) Hathe- 
way, was born in Freetown, Bristol county, 
September 3, 1824. He was the eldest of 
eleven children, and comes of Puritan 
stock on both sides. His mother was a 
direct descendant of Robert Cush- 
man, who preached the first sermon on 
Plymouth Rock. His father was a lawyer 
of distinction and an acknowledged leader 
of the Democratic party. 

Passing through the public schools of 
his native town, he supplemented his early 
educational training by attendance at Phil- 
lips Academy, Andover, and fitted for 



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college at Pierce Academy, Middleborough. 
He was graduated from Brown University, 
Providence, R. I., in the class of 1847. 

Choosing the profession of law, he passed 
the preparatory studies in his father's 
office, and was admitted to the bar, and 
began the practice of law in Freetown, in 
1850. In 1856 he was elected a member 
of the state Senate. He was appointed a 
weigher and ganger in the custom house, 
Boston, 1857, and held the office until 1861. 
In 1857 he reuKJved to Dorchester, which 
was his home for ten years. In 1861 he 
became a member of the Stock Exchange, 
Boston, and remained until 1867, when he 
resumed the practice of law, removing to 
Fall River, where he has ever since resided. 

Mr. Hatheway was elected alderman in 
1874 ; a member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives, 1875 ; and was postmaster at Fall 
River under the administration of President 
Cleveland. 

Mr. Hatheway was married in Freetown, 
January i, 185 i, to Fanny P., daughter of 
Benjamin and Rosamond (Hatheway) 
Dean. Of this union are two sons : Nel- 
son D. Hatheway, M. D. (deceased), and 
Nicholas Hatheway, Jr., graduate of PJrown 
University, class of 1883, now a practicing 
lawyer in Fall River. 

Mr. Hatheway is a Mason of the thirty- 
third degree, and an active member of the 
order. Politically he has always been a 
worker in the ranks of the Democratic 
party. He has been a delegate to state 
conventions for the past forty years ; also a 
delegate from the ist congressional district 
to the national Democratic conventions of 
1868, '72, '76, and '80, and a member of 
the Democratic state committee for many 
years. He isM'ell and favorably known as 
a political speaker. 

HAWKINS, Richard P., son of Alpheus 

and Celia A. (Rhodes) Hawkins, was born 
in Lowell, Middlese.\ county, on the 9th 
day of March, 1837. 

His early education was obtained at the 
common schools and the high school of 
Springfield. At the age of sixteen he 
began work as office boy for Stone iS: 
Harris, railroad and bridge builders. In 
1862 he became a partner of D. L. Harris 
in the same business, succeeding to the 
entire control in 1867, which extensive 
business he still conducts, under the name 
of the R. F. Hawkins Iron Works, whose 
products are bridges, steam-boilers, iron 
castings, machinery, etc. 

September 3, 1862, Mr. Hawkins was 
married in New York to Cornelia Morgan, 
daughter of A. B. and Sarah (Cadwell) 



Howe. Their children are : I'aul, Flor- 
ence, Edith, Ethel and David Hawkins. 

Mr. Hawkins has for years been identi- 
fied with all the Cuirrent matters of interest 




RICHARD F HAWKINS, 

in the community, but has never aspired to 
become a politician, preferring to spend 
his time and energies in the more conge- 
nial details of his prosperous business inter- 
ests. He held the office of alderman for 
three years, but though often offered 
other positions, has invariably declined. 

HAYDEN, Edward Daniel, son of Eze- 

kiel and Elizabeth Hayden, was born in 
Cambridge, Middlesex county, December 

27, 1833- 

After passing the common schools, he 
fitted for college in Lawrence Academy, 
(Jroton, and having honorably and suc- 
cessfully pursued his course at Harvard, 
was graduated from that university in 1854. 

His first connection in business was with 
J. IS. Winn & Co., who conducted a large 
tanning establishment at Woburn. 

Mr. Hayden was first married in Wo- 
burn, February 9, 1862, to Marcia A., 
daughter of Jonathan B. and Nancy W. 
\\'inn. His second marriage was with 
I'llk-n F., daughter of George and Lucy 
A. Champnev. He has no children. 

Mr. Hayden was paymaster in the United 
States navy, 1S62 to '65 ; member of the 



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HAYDEN. 



House of Representatives 1880, '81, and 
'82, serving on some of the most import- 
ant committees. In 1885 he was elected 
to represent the 5th congressional district 
in the 49th United States Congress, and 
received a very flattering re-election to the 
Soth, by a largely increased majority. 

He has been president of the First 
National Bank nf Woburn since 1874, and 




EDWARD D, HAYDEN. 

was one of the trustees of the ^V(}burn 
public library — a library not only a matter 
of local pride to the citizens of Woburn, 
but one of the finest in the Common- 
wealth. 

HAYDEN, JOSEPH ORUN, son of Elizur 
Boise and Lucinda E. (Simmons) Haydcn, 
was born in Blandford, Hampden countv, 
July 8, 1847. 

His early education was obtained in the 
district school and academy at Granville, 
and the high school at Chicopee Falls. 

With a preference for a business life, he 
first engaged as a dealer in real estate in 
Minnesota, which business he relinquished 
in 1869, and entered the newspaper busi- 
ness, as treasurer of the Times Publishing 
Company, of Boston, where he remained 
till 1876, when he purchased the " Somer- 
ville Journal," with which he has ever 
since been identified. The paper under 
his management has proved a literary as 



well as a financial success. Its influence is 
not confined to the city where it is pub- 
lished, but its bright and witty sayings 
have found their way into the acknowl- 
edged leaders in the newspaper world. 

In 1883 he was placed, by the city coun- 
cil, upon the Mystic water board, and in 
1884 became its president, which position 
he still retains. In 1885 he was elected 
treasurer of Middlesex county, and re- 
elected in 1888. He is a charter member, 
and since its organization has been a 
trustee of the Somerville Savings Bank. 
He is also a vice-president of the Suburban 
Press Association, and fills several positions 
of trust in various social and charitable 
societies. 

Mr. Hayden was married in Somerville, 
August 18, 1870, to Mary Elizabeth, daugh- 
ter of William and Mary E. (Cleves) Pond, 
of that city, where they reside. 

HAYDEN, Lewis, was born a slave in 
Lexington, Ky. His age is not definitely 
settled, but he is believed to have been 
born in 1S09. He was owned by a Pres- 
byterian minister of the town, named Rev. 
.•\dam Rankin. When ten years of age he 
was sold for a pair of horses. He was 
afterwards owned by several prominent 
southern families, where he had opportu- 
nities for seeing many of the famous states- 
men of that period, including Henry Clay. 
In 1844, while at work in the field one day, 
young Hayden resolved to make his escape 
from slavery. He told his wife of his in- 
tention. They immediately left for the 
North. They crossed the Ohio River at 
Ripley, September 10th. 

They were supposed to be in attendance 
upon a couple matrimonially inclined, who 
were crossing into Ohio to consummate a 
clandestine marriage. On the Ohio side 
they were received by the agents of the 
" underground railway." They were pur- 
sued, and large sums of money were offered 
for their capture and return. In four 
months, however, they reached the Cana- 
dian border. Six months later Mr. Hayden 
returned to Detroit, Mich., and established 
a school and church for colored people. 
He then came to Boston, where he formed 
the acquaintance of John A. Andrew, then 
unknown to fame. IVIr. Andrew took great 
interest in him, and they became firm 
friends. The colored men of ward 6 (now 
9) were the first to plead with Mr. Andrew 
to allow his name to be used as candidate 
for the Legislature. To this he reluctantly 
consented. He had no idea of being elected, 
judging from the party make-up of this 
district. But his popularity as a man car- 



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29s 



ried him through, ami to his disappoint- 
ment he was elected. 

Mr. Hayden had reached Boston in the 
hottest of the anti-slavery struggle, and as- 
sisted in the work of (larrison, Phillips and 
their coadjutors, running double risks on 
account of his color. His home on Phillips 
Street was the home of the fugitive slaves 
until they could be despatched to Canada. 
He was notably connected with the cases of 
William and Ellen Crafts, Anthony Burns, 
Simms and Shadrack. When Batchelder,. 
an officer, was killed, while resisting the 
crowd in the attempt to take Burns out df 
the court-house, Mr. Hayden was arrested 
with others and tried for murder. A verdict 
of not guilty was returned. 

In 185 1 Mr. Hayden opened a clothing 
store on Cambridge Street. In 1855 and 
'56 his store was the second largest estab- 
lishment in Boston managed by colored 
men. His store was the place where Phil- 
lips, Garrison, Parker and their friends 
often congregated for conference. He did 
a good business, but in the panic of 1857 
he went down with thousands of others. 
In 1858 Mr. Hayden was selected as a 
messenger in the state department, which 
position he has held to the date of his death, 
which occurred April 7, 1889. 

Mr. Hayden was the first man to suggest 
to Governor Andrew to put colored troops 
in the field. The suggestion was acted 
upon. Governor Andrew went immediately 
to Washington and laid the suggestion 
before President Lincoln. The result is 
known. Mr. Hayden served one term in 
the House of Representatives in 1873. 
He was a prominent Mason, and author of 
"Caste among Masons," "War of Races" 
and "Ancient York Masons." The " Hay- 
den Commandery," Knights Templar, was 
named for him. The Crispus Attucks 
Monuinent erected on Boston Common 
was the crowning work of his life. He 
was a member of Robert A. Bell Post 134, 
G. A. R. — the first colored man in the 
United States to receive the honor. He 
had but one child, a son, killed during the 
war in a naval engagement under Admiral 
Farragut, New Orleans. 

Mr. Hayden, in spite of race or color, 
did exceptionally possess the warm personal 
friendship and entire confidence of the 
best men in the Commonwealth with whom 
he was brought in contact. His char- 
acter was untarnished, and had he been 
possessed of early educational advan- 
tages, would have found his place well 
to the front in the ranks of political lead- 
ers. 



HAYNES, Emory James, son of Zadoc 

S. and Marion W. (Bayley) Haynes, was 
born in Cabot, Washington county, Vt., 
February 6, 1847. 

In 1863 he entered Wesleyan University, 
Middletown, Conn., where he soon won a 
leading class position. He excelled in elo- 
cution, winning the president's prize. He 
was graduated with honors in 1867. 

During the third year in college he 
preached his first sermon in Royalton, Vt., 
his father being the pastor, and among his 
hearers. In his senior year, at the urgent 
request of the Main Street M. E. church, 
Norwich, Conn., he consented to supply 
the pulpit for the year. Here he was suc- 
cessful, and after graduating, and joining 
the Providence conference, he was regu- 
larly appointed pastor of the same church, 
and remained three years. It was during 
his ministry in this place that he married 
Jennie P., daughter of Zadoc C. and Mary 
(Phillips) Crowell. Obtaining leave of ab- 
sence from his church, he spent four 
months traveling in Europe with his wife. 

In 1870 he went to St. Paul's church, 
Fall River. His next appointment was to 
the Hanson Place M. E. church, Brooklyn, 
New York East conference. Here he was 
phenomenally successful, the society and 
congregation increasing so in numbers that 
in 1873 the corner-stone of a new and much 
larger church edifice was laid. It is now 
the largest Methodist church on this con- 
tinent. This church was finished and dedi- 
cated in January, 1874. During his min- 
istry here occurred the death of his wife, a 
lady much beloved by all who knew her. 

His next call was to the Seventh Avenue 
M. E. church. He left the Hanson Place 
church with the mutual expectation that he 
would return at the end of three years, 
the Episcopal limit. Before the close of 
the second year he was no longer a Metho- 
dist. His convictions had forced him to 
sever his connection with the M. E. church, 
and unite with the Baptist denomination. 

In 1877 he accepted the call from the 
Washington Avenue Baptist church, and 
remained its pastor until 1885, when he re- 
ceived an earnest call from the Union Tem- 
ple church, Tremont Temjile, Boston, the 
pastorate of which he accepted, and where 
he yet remains, blessed in his labors and 
loved and esteemed by church and people. 

His present pastorate is one of the most 
laborious and influential in the Christian 
world, — the aggregate audiences gathered 
at all religious services in Tremont Tem- 
ple, each Sunday, numbering ten thousand 
people. It is a free " church of the stran- 



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HAYNES. 



gers." His sermons have now been pub- 
lished weekly for several years. 

His style is brilliant, his sermons full of 
religious fervor, and his presence com- 
manding. He is the author of several 
works of fiction : " Dollars and Duty," 
"A Wedding in War Time," and many 
short stories. He received the degree of 
doctor of divinity from Colby University 
in 1888. 

On the 29th of April, 1874, at New 
York, Mr. Haynes married for his second 
wife, Grace, daughter of William and Mary 
E. (Rousseau) Forby. They have five chil- 
dren: Blanche, Alice, Mary, Francis S., and 
Helen Haynes. 

HAYNES, John Cummings, son of 
John Dearborn and Eliza Walker (Stevens) 
Haynes, was born in Brighton, Suffolk 
county, September 9, 1829. 

He was educated in the public schools of 
Boston, finishing with the English high 
school, under masters Bacon and Robin- 
son. He left school at the age of fifteen, 
as his parents needed his active help. 

In July, 1845, he went as a boy into the 
employ of the late Oliver Ditson, Boston, 
the celebrated music publisher. He re- 
mained with Mr. Ditson until his majority, 
when he became interested in the business, 
receiving a percentage of the sales. Jan- 
uary I, 1857, he became a partner, and the 
style of the firm was changed to Oliver 
Ditson & Co. The death of Oliver Ditson, 
in December, 1888, dissolved the firm in 
which Mr. Haynes had been a partner for 
thirty-two years. The surviving partners 
of the firm (Mr. Haynes and Mr. Charles 
H. Ditson, son of Oliver Ditson) and the 
executors of the estate of Oliver Ditson at 
once organized a corporation, under the 
laws of Massachusetts, under the title of 
the " Oliver Ditson Company," admitting 
as stockholders several of the best of the 
young men who had grown up with the 
business, Mr. Haynes becoming the presi- 
dent and Charles H. Ditson treasurer of 
the new corporation, with headquarters in 
the buildings 449 and 451 Washington 
Street. The branch houses are as follows: 
John C. Haynes & Co., Boston, Charles H. 
Ditson & Co., New York, and J. E. Ditson 
& Co., Philadelphia. 

The growth of the publishing house of 
Oliver 1 )itson & Co. has been identical 
with, and a powerful factor of, the growth 
of musical taste and culture in the United 
States. The influence of this house as a 
civilizing and refining agent, as our country 
has been developed, can scarcely be esti- 
mated. 



Mr. Haynes has also been interested in 
large and successful real estate ventures 
that have materially added to the assessed 
valuation of the city of Boston, where he 
has resided for over fifty years. \\'hen a 
young man he was instrumental in organ- 
izing the Franklin Library Association, 
and his many years' connection with it 
was of great advantage to him in his early 
training and culture. He is a life member 
of the Mercantile Library Association, and 
of the Young Men's Christian Union, also 
of the Women's Industrial LInion, and of 
the Aged Couples' Home Society ; is one 
of the trustees of Franklin Savings Bank ; 
director in the Massachusetts Title Insur- 
ance Company, and Prudential Fire Insur- 
ance Company ; treasurer of the Free Re- 
ligious Association ; member of the Mas- 
sachusetts Club and Home Market Club, 
also of the Boston Merchants' Associa- 
tion. 

He joined the Free Soil party when a 
young man, went with it into the Repub- 
lican party, with which he is still identified, 
and was a member of the Boston common 
council four years, from 1862 to 1865 in- 
clusive. 

In early life, after having been for many 
years a scholar in one of Boston's Baptist 
Sunday-schools, he became interested in 
the preaching of Theodore Parker in 1848, 
and ever since has been connected with 
the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society, 
which was organized to allow Mr. Parker 
to be heard in Boston, serving for many 
years as chairman of its standing commit- 
tee. He was active in the construction of 
Parker Memorial Building, and in its re- 
cent transfer to the Benevolent Fraternity 
of Churches, Boston, the object of this 
transfer being to perpetuate the memory 
of Theodore Parker in practical, charita- 
ble, educational and religious work. 

Mr. Haynes was one of the org?nizers 
of the Parker Fraternity of Boston, for 
many years a powerful social and religious 
society. The " Parker Fraternity Course 
of Lectures," inaugurated and sustained 
for nearly twenty years, were remarkable 
for their influence in moulding and direct- 
ing public opinion — especially during the 
war of the rebellion and the years of re- 
construction immediately following. In 
the first course Mr. Parker delivered his 
celebrated lectures on Washington, Frank- 
lin, Adams and Jefferson. 

Mr. Haynes was married, in Boston, by 
Theodore Parker, May i, 1855, to Fanny, 
daughter of Rev. Charles and Frances 
(Seabury) Spear. Of this union were 



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seven children: Alice Fanny (Mrs. M. Mor- 
ton Holmes), Theodore Parker (deceased), 
Lizzie Gray, Jennie Eliza (.Mrs. Fred O. 
Hurd), Cora Marie (Mrs. E. Harte Day), 
Mabel Stevens, and Edith Margaret 
Haynes. 

HAYNES, TiLl.Y, son of Lyman and 
Caroline (Hunt) Haynes, was born in Sud- 
bury, Middlesex county, February 13, 1828. 
f)n his father's side he was a direct de- 
scendant of Walter Haynes, who was born 
in England 1583, and came to America in 
1635 from the parish of Sutton — Mande- 
ville, Salisbury, county of Wilts. From 
the General Court of the colony he obtained 
a grant of land in Sudbury, where he set- 




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TILLY HAYNES 

tied, being one of the original founders 
of that town. On the maternal side Mr. 
Haynes is directly descended from William 
Hunt, who came over in 1635 and settled 
in Concord, where he received a grant of 
land, and was one of the original founders. 
When Tilly Haynes was but two years 
old, his father removed to Billerica, and 
there the young man received his educa- 
tion in the schools of that place. In 1842 
he went to North Reading and obtained 
work in a country store ; three years later 
he entered the employ of Josiah Crosby, 
in the first, and for some time the only, 
store in Lawrence. 



In April, 1S49, at the age of twenty-one, 
he went to Springfield, and opened a small 
store for the sale of men's goods, and, as 
the demands of an increased trade neces- 
sitated, he added two adjoining stores. 
He was one of the original stockholders 
in the Indian Orchard Mills. 

In connection with others, he built a 
small button factory in Springfield, manu- 
factured flax machines at Mill River, and 
sewing machines at Chicopee. In 1857 he 
built the music hall and theatre, corner of 
Pynchon Street, Springfield, which was 
destroyed by the great fire of 1864. This 
was replaced by the new music hall, and 
the Haynes Hotel was built and success- 
fully opened within the next twelvemonths. 

Mr. Haynes was married in 1853 to 
Martha C, daughter of Archelaus and 
Elizabeth (Hacket) Eaton, of Salisbury. 
Mrs. Haynes died in 1876, and Mr. Haynes 
disposed of the hotel and music hall which 
he had run so successfully, and relin- 
quished all business. Not desiring to lead 
an idle life, however, in 1880 he accepted 
the invitation of the directors of the old 
United States Hotel, Boston, to take 
charge of that property, which was con- 
sidered a hopeless undertaking. He has 
made a most phenomenal success in its 
management, doubling the value of the 
property and quadrupling its business. 

Mr. Haynes served in the first city gov- 
ernment of Springfield ; was a member of 
the lower branch of the Legislature 1867, 
'68, '69, and '70 ; was a member of the state 
Senate 1875 and '76, 1877 and '78, and in 
1878 and '79 served as a member of the 
executive council of Governors Rice and 
Talbot. He was chairman of the commit- 
tee on State-house during its rebuilding in 
1869 ; chairman of the railroad committee 
1876, and served on various other commit- 
tees of the House and Senate, and in every 
position secured the respect and confidence 
of his associates. He is one of the metro- 
politan sewage commissioners recently ap- 
pointed by Governor Ames. 

The name of Haynes was originall}' 
spelled Hayne, as evidenced on the Flaynes 
coat-of-arms, "confirmed to Thomas Hayne 
of F'ryer Waddon, County Dorset, by Sir 
William Segar, Garter, 1607." 

HAYWARD, JOSEPH WarREN, son 
of (jeorge W. and Svlvia S. (Pratt) Hay- 
ward, was born in Easton, Bristol county, 
July 1 1, 1841. 

His early education was received in the 
common schools, and the academy at North 
Middleborough. He was afterwards grad- 
uated from the Bridgewater normal school, 



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HEMPHILL. 



and studied medicine in the Harvard med- 
ical school, from which he graduated in 
1864, and in the medical school of Maine. 
In 1866 he formed a partnership with 
George Barrows, M. I)., 'Faunton. 

In 1872 the partnership was dissolved, 
and he has continued the practice of med- 
icine and surgery by himself. His school 
of practice is homoeopathic. 

Dr. Hayward was married in Easton, 
January 9, 1866, to I.emira Harris, daugh- 
ter of John R. and Lemira H. (Daily) 
Drake. Of this union are four children : 
Ernest Lowell, Ralph Morris, Walter Bar- 
rows, and Josepiiine Lemira Hayward. 

Dr. Hayward has been a member of the 
Taunton school board nine years. 

He was medical cadet in the LI. S, army 
from March, 1863, to March, 1864, assist- 
ant-surgeon and brevet-major, U. S. volun- 
teers, from date of graduation till Novem- 
ber 25, 1865 ; was present, on General 
Ord's staff, at the fall of Petersburg and 
the surrender of General Lee ; surgeon 3d 
regiment, Massachusetts volunteer militia, 
and medical director ist brigade, Massa- 
chusetts volunteer militia. He has been a 
member of the pension board, a lecturer on 
surgery, Boston LTniversity medical school, 
vice-president and president of the Massa- 
chusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society. 

HEDGE, Frederic Henry, son of 

Levi and Mary (Kneeland) Hedge, was 
born in Cambridge, Middlesex county, De- 
cember 12, 1805. 

He was educated at home until 181 8, 
when he went to Germany, under the guard- 
ianship of ("reorge Bancroft, and entered 
a gymnasium or German school at Ilfeld ; 
subsequently studied in the gymnasium at 
Schulpforte ; returned to America in 1823; 
entered Harvard College, and was gradu- 
ated in the class of 1825. 

After leaving college he studied in the 
Harvard theological school, and was or- 
dained a minister in 1828, being settled 
over the Congregational church of West 
Cambridge (now Arlington). From this 
church he went io Bangor, Me., as pastor 
of the Unitarian church, where he re- 
mained until 1850. He was then called to 
the Westminster Congregational church, 
Providence, where he remained si.x years. 
He was pastor of the First Congregational 
church, Brookline, from 1856 to '72, when 
he left to become professor of (ierman in 
Harvard University, which professorship 
he held until 1881. He w'as also professor 
of ecclesiastical history from 1857 to '76. 

Dr. Hedge was married in Brookline, 
September 10, 1830, to Lucy, daughter of 



John Pierce, D. D., and Lucy (Tappan) 
Pierce. Of this union were: Frederic 
Henry, Jr., Charlotte Augusta, Ellen Eliza- 
beth and Caroline Farrar Hedge. 

Dr. Hedge is the author of several 
works, among which are " Prose \\'riters 
of Germany" (1848); "Reason in Re- 
ligion" (1865); "Primeval World in He- 
brew Tradition" (1S70); "Ways of the 
Spirit" (1877); "Atheism in Philosophy, 
and Other Essays " (1884); "Hours with 
German Classics " (1886); " Martin Luther, 
and Other Essays " (1888). In conjunction 
with Mrs. A. L. Wister he published " Met- 
rical Translations and Poems " the same 
year. Dr. Hedge, together with L. Noa, 
also edited an edition of (ioethe's works, 
published by Estes & Lauriat, 1883. 

HEMPHILL, ASHTON ERASTUS, son of 
Freeland and Lydia (McKeen) Hemphill, 
was born in Acworth, Sullivan county, 
N. H., September 17, 1849. 

His early education was secured in the 
schools of Acworth, and high school of 
Walpole, N, H. He was graduated at the 




MDnluN E HEMPHILL. 

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, Bos- 
ton, in the class of 1876. 

From 1871 to '73 he was with George 
L. Brown & Co., Holyoke, druggists, and 
their successor. Dr. L. M. Tuttle. He had 
virtual charge of the store from July, 1882. 



HENRY. 



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299 



While in Boston attending lectures, he was 
with C. E. Tappan & Co., and their succes- 
sors, F. M. Loring & Co. 

He returned to Holyoke after gradua- 
tion, and was with Dr. ]^. M. Tuttle 
and E. W. Gridley, druggists, until June, 
1882. Since the autumn of 1882, he has 
been in the storage-warehouse business for 
himself. 

Mr. Hemphill was chairman of the Re- 
publican city committee of Holyoke for 
several years ; organized the Holyoke Re- 
publican Club in 1888, and was its secretary 
during the Harrison and Morton campaign ; 
has been chairman of the board of regis- 
trars of voters since its organization under 
the law of 1884. He was in the House of 
Representatives in i88i, and again in '85 ; 
was on the committee on printing in 1881 ; 
in 1885 was chairman of committee on print- 
ing, and on public health. 

He has written for local papers on polit- 
ical and economic subjects. 

His residence is Windsor Hotel, Hol- 
yoke. He is an active worker in the Re- 
publican party ; has been a delegate to 
every state convention held in Massachu- 
setts since 1881. 

HENRY, Benjamin Tho.mas, the son 

of John and Jane (Farmer) Henry, was 
born in Boston, May 12, 1858. 

The only education he received was that 
at the common school of his native place. 

Upon leaving school he went into a 
printing-office and learned the printing 
trade. He was for several years engaged 
in a printing-office in West Newton, and 
afterward worked in the " Franklin Senti- 
nel " office. He then removed to Rowe, 
and commenced business as a merchant, 
which business he still carries on. 

Mr. Henry has served on the school 
committee for three years. He is also 
town clerk, treasurer, trustee of the public 
library, and has been postmaster since 1884. 

He is much interested in the Unitarian 
society of Rowe, in which he is chairman 
of the parish committee, and parish clerk. 

He was married at Rowe, February 16, 
1886, to Anna Laura, the daughter of Rob- 
ert and Laura Z. (Ballon) Wells of Rowe. 
He has one child, a daughter. 

MERRICK, Henry K., son of Thomas 
and Marv .\nn (Kno.x) Herrick, was born 
at Blandford, Hampden county, on the 24th 
day of August, 1839. 

His preliminary education was acquired 
at the public schools as opportunity was 
offered, while from his earliest boyhood, 
labor upon the farm claimed his attention, 



and at the age of twenty-four he began in- 
dependent farming, which vocation he has 
followed successfully throughout his life. 

On the 20th of November, 1862, he was 
married at Blandford, to Sarah E., daugh- 
ter of Lewis and Mary E. (Cook) Parks. 
Their children are : Hattie P., Jennie M. 
and Sadie E. Herrick. 

Mr. Herrick has filled almost all of the 
offices of responsibility in his native town 
of Blandford, where he still resides. He 
was town clerk for one year, and select- 
man, assessor, and overseer of the poor for 
six years in succession. 

He is at present chairman of the school 
committee, and president of the Union 
Agricultural Society of Blandford, which 
office he has held for two years. He has 
at different times been director, secretary, 
chief-marshal, vice-president, and delegate 
to the state board of agriculture for three 
years for the above society. In 1886 he 
was elected to the state Legislature by the 
Democrats, the district comprising at the 
time six towns. 

HIGGINSON, Thomas Wentworth, 

the son of Stephen and Louisa (Storrow) 
Higginson, was born in Cambridge, Middle- 
sex county, December 22, 1S23. 

He is in the seventh generation of descent 
from the Rev. Francis Higginson, an Eng- 
lish clergyman, who, for conscience' sake, in 
1629, exchanged his position in the bosom 
of the old church for the toilsome experi- 
ence of a New England Puritan minister. 
He was settled over the first parish in 
Salem, and in his day was not unknown as 
an author. 

The subject of our sketch was graduated 
from Harvard LTniversity in the class of 
1841, and spent the customary years in 
study for a profession, and was graduated 
from the divinity school. He was settled 
as pastor of the First church in Newbury- 
port in 1847, and after being dismissed 
from that parish because of anti-slavery 
preaching, he organized the F'ree church 
in Worcester, where he remained nearly six 
years. During these years he was an 
enthusiastic soldier in the anti-slavery 
ranks, whose work it was to prepare the 
way for freedom, and was the intimate 
associate and friend of (iarrison, Parker, 
Phillips, and other famous leaders in the 
great movement. He, with the two dis- 
tinguished agitators, was indicted for com- 
plicity in the attempt to rescue Anthony 
Burns from the hands of the federal 
authorities. 

His theories were not formulated senti- 
ment merelv, for earlv in the civil war, he 



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HILDRETH. 



threw himself into the thick of the fray, 
recruited two companies near Worcester, 
and received a commission as captain in the 
51st regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, 
September 25, 1862. He was, while in 
camp, appointed colonel of the ist regi- 
ment of colored troops enlisted in South 
Carolina, this being the first regiment of 
freed slaves mustered in during the war. 
Col. Higginson captured and held Jack- 
sonville, Fla., but was seriously wounded 
in a skirmish at Wiltown Bluffs, S. C, in 
August, 1863, and was honorably discharged 
October 27, 1864. 

But however creditably he fulfilled his 
mission as clergyman and soldier, it was 
not on either of these planes that the bur- 
den of his soul was to find its loftiest 
expression. The higher development of 
human nature, physically, mentally, morally 
and socially, — this was his life work, and 
whether as essayist, poet, novelist, or lec- 
turer, this was the germinal motive of his 
every effort. 

Col. Higginson's earliest recognition by 
the reading public, as an original prose 
writer, was through a series of essays con- 
tributed to the " Atlantic Monthly." 'I'he 
most famous of these is " Saints and Their 
Bodies," one of the most attractive papers 
ever written on the subject of physical 
development and its relation to moral and 
intellectual health. Besides these, his 
principal works are " Malbone ; An Okl- 
port Romance " (1869); "Army Life in a 
Black Regiment" (1S70) ; "Atlantic Es- 
says" (1871); " Oldport Days" (1873); 
"Young Folks' History of the United 
States " (1875) ; " Short Studies of Ameri- 
can Authors" (1879); "Common Sense 
about Women " (i88i) ; " Larger HLstory 
of the United States" (1885); "The 
Monarch of Dreams" (1886) ; "Hints on 
Writing and Speech-making " (1887) ; and 
a volume of essays contributed to "Har- 
per's Bazar " under the title of " Women 
and Men." He has lately published 
another prose volume, " Travellers and 
Outlaws" (1888), and a volume of poems 
entitled " The Afternoon Landscape " 
(1889). 

As a lecturer. Col. Higginson stands in 
the very foremost rank. In the days when 
the lecture platform was a high plane of 
intelligence and cultivation, he made a 
national reputation in the " Aristocracv of 
the Dollar." 

His devotion to the interests of humanity 
has led him to espouse with vigor the 
cause of woman, not only in her higher 
education, but in her emancipation from 



intellectual subjection and political servi- 
tude. 

While not seeking political honors. Col. 
Higginson has been called twice by his 
fellow-citizens of Cambridge to serve his 
representative district in the (leneral Court, 
1880 and '81, and in 1888 he received the 
nomination for congressional honors, heart- 
ily voiced by his fellow-citizens, though not 
successful. 

HILDRETH, JAMES 2d, son of Ceorge 
antl Lucy Torrey (AVinslow) Hildreth, was 
born in Shirley, Middlesex county. May 
29, 1S39. His mother is a direct descend- 
ant of John Winslow, who married Marv 




JAMES HILDRETH, 2d 

Chilton, she being the first person to step 
upon Plymouth Rock at the landing of the 
Pilgrims. 

He gathered his knowledge of l)ooks in 
his early youth in the common schools 
of Lunenburg, to which place his father 
moved while he was an infant. His ad- 
vantages were limited, but he made dili- 
gent use of those at his command. 

Upon the death of his father the charge 
of the home farm fell upon him at the age 
of seventeen. This was in 1856, and he 
worked without pay until he became of 
age. At his majority he bought the several 
interests of the other heirs, excepting that 
of his mother. 



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He taught scliool in the winter of i860 
and '61. 

He was married in Cambridge, Septem- 
ber 18, 1867, to Abbie AmeHa, daugiiter of 
William T. and Abigail Burnam (Story) 
Shattuck. They have no children. 

Mr. Hildreth has served his town as 
selectman, overseer of the poor for several 
terms, member of the school board, etc. In 
1872 he was chosen moderator of the town 
meeting, and has since continued to serve 
in that capacity at every annual meeting. 
In 1878 he was a member of the House of 
Representatives, and the same year he re- 
ceived the appointment of justice of the 
peace, which position he still holds. 

In 1879 he was chosen secretary of the 
Farmers' Club (the oldest town club in 
the State), serving in that capacity to the 
present time — he had served two years 
previous to this as president of the club. 
In 1888, at the organization of the grange 
in his town, he was chosen master, and re- 
elected at the next annual meeting. 

In politics Mr. Hildreth has been actively 
identified with the Republican party, hav- 
ing cast his first vote for Abraham l,incoln, 
and has attended many of the conventions 
called in its interests. He is always promi- 
nent in public matters, and has ever been 
ready to aid any educational, social or lit- 
erary enterprise that may affect the pros- 
perity of Lunenburg, where he still resides. 
His success in life is due entirely to his 
industry and intelligent economy. 

HILDRETH, MiLO, was born in Town- 
send, Middlesex county, August 17, 1824. 
His ancestors came from England in early 
colonial times. He is the sixth, child of 
Zachariah and Hannah Sawtelle Hildreth. 

Until he attained the age of sixteen, his 
life was spent on the paternal farm. He 
secured his early education in the district 
schools of East Townsend. 

April I, 1 84 1, he was apprenticed to a 
manufacturer of combs in Leominster, 
where he was to serve four years in learn- 
ing the trade. He enjoyed the i)rivileges 
of a good district school during the winter 
season, and here became deeply interested 
in the study of physiology and phrenology, 
and felt strongly inclined to prepare him- 
self for the medical profession. At the 
expiration of his apprenticeship he entered 
the Townsend Academy, a select school 
of high reputation at that time, and there 
applied himself earnestly to the work. He 
taught school and worked at his trade in 
order to supplv himself with funds to 
again defray his expenses while in school ; 
but in the sjiring of 1847 he was offered a 



partnership in the manufacture of combs, 
which he accepted, and since 1849 he has 
been senior partner in the management of 
the same business — in i860 tortoise-shell 
jewelry and novelties were added to the list 
of manufactures. The brother of the sub- 
ject of this sketch is associated with him, 
the firm name being Milo Hildreth & Co. 




MILO HILDRETH. 

On the 31st of December, 1846, Mr. 
Hildreth married Frances J. Hooker, of 
North Brookfield. The children were: Alice 
J., Clara F., Mary E., Jennie F., Annie C., 
Walter H. and Florence G. Hildreth. Of 
these, only four are now living ; Marv, 
Jennie, Annie and Walter. 

Mr. Hildreth was a member of the House 
of Representatives in 1858, of the Senate 
in 1865, and of the governor's council in 
1872, '73 and '74. In 1876 he was ap- 
pointed by Covernor Rice a member of the 
board of managers on the Centennial Ex- 
position, at Philadelphia. He has been 
thirty years justice of the peace. He 
has served as trustee of the state reform 
school at Westborough, was appointed one 
of the trustees of the state primary and 
reform schools by Governor Talbot, when 
the board was first organized, and has re- 
ceived a re-appointment for a term of five 
years each by Governors Long and Rob- 
inson. He has been calleil to numerous 



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HILL. 



Other positions of trust by the citizens of 
his state and town. He has ever been a 
leader in measures for the pubUc good, is 
a total abstainer from the use of intoxi- 
cating liquors and tobacco, and believes in 
the policy of prohibition. His church con- 
nections are with the evangelical Con- 
gregational church. In politics he is a 
Republican. 

During the late civil war, in 1864, he 
was delegated by the United Christian 
Commission to labor among the wounded 
soldiers. His special fields of service were 
at Fredericksburg, Va., immediately after 
the battle of the Wilderness, where he re- 
mained until General (Irant gave it up in 
his progress toward Richmond — afterward 
at the White House Landing, and lastly at 
Cold Harbor. He arrived at Cold Harbor 
the day after the terrible battle between 
the 1 8th corps and General Lee's army, 
and remained there until General Grant 
moved still farther on toward Richmond. 

HlLl,, ARTHUR Asa, son of Alfred and 
I^hiL-be (Emerson) Hill, was born in Green- 
wich, Hampshire county, October 3, 1853. 

After receiving the education afforded 
bv the common and high schools, he went 




ARTHUR A, HILL. 



to Springfield and entered the " Republi- 
can " office to learn the business. Like 
manv other ambitious but misguided voung 



men, however, he desired to begin at the 
top rather than at the bottom, and after 
working in various departments, he left 
for New York City, and entered White- 
horne's publishing and printing house, at 
the corner of Nassau and Ann streets. He 
soon went to Ohio and entered Oberlin 
College, where he remained long enough 
to get a smattering of the classics, paying 
his way by work in the local printing-ofiice. 
An unusually restless disposition led him 
to make other changes, and long before he 
was twenty-one he had been a reporter for 
the " Cincinnati Gazette," a compositor on 
the "Chicago Times," and for a year a 
reporter and city editor of the Toledo 
(Ohio) "Democrat and Herald." He then 
drifted back to New York City, became 
one of the original members of the New 
York Press Club, and led a Bohemian life* 
for several years, during which time he 
was a partner in establishing two papers, a 
weekly, called " The Lantern," and a daily, 
" The Morning Telegraph " — both of which 
were started without capital and soon came 
to an end. 

Seven years ago Mr. Hill, with a partner, 
purchased the " Haverhill Evening Ga- 
zette," a journal at that time with an uncer- 
tain tenure of life. Under his editorial 
management the "Gazette" has increased 
more than five-fold in circulation. 

Mr. Hill has served on the school board, 
but he has never been an office-seeker nor 
fond of public prominence. As an editor, 
he is aggressive and energetic. Politically 
he is a Republican. 

Mr. Hill is unmarried. 

HILL, ARTHUR GaYLORD, son of Samuel 

Lapham and Ro.xana M. (Gaylord) Hill, 
was born in Northampton, Hampshire 
county, December 6, 1S41. 

The public schools furnished him with 
his early educational training. He fitted 
for college in the Allen Brothers' school. 
West Newton, and was graduated bachelor 
of science from Harvard College in the 
class of 1864. 

From 1865 to '85 he was assistant 
treasurer of the Nonotuck Silk Company, 
Florence. He was afterwards partner in 
the firm of Martin & Hill, manufacturers 
of cash-railways. 

He is president of the Whitney Safety 
Fire Arms Company ; president of the 
Northampton board of trade ; director in 
the Florence Furniture Company ; treas- 
urer of the Florence Kindergarten ; vice- 
president of the Lilly Library Association, 
and interested in several manufacturing 
companies and social organizations. 



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303 



He has been grand dictator of the Knights 
of Honor for Massachusetts ; a prominent 
member of the Free Congregational society 
of Florence, and member of the school 
board of Northampton. He has also served 
as alderman and ma\-or of Northampton. 

In his earlier years, Mr. Hill enjoyed 
considerable celebrity in the national game 
of base ball, having been captain of the 
Florence club, 1865, '66 and '67, when this 
team was one of the most noted in New 
England. He was also manager of the 
Florence Dramatic Club, organized in 1863 
to raise funds wherewith to purchase and 
send supplies to the soldiers. This organ- 
ization is still in e.xistence. 

Mr. Hill was married in Northampton, 
July 7, 1869, to Kate Elizabeth, daughter 
of Eli and Julia C. (Clapp) F^dwards. Of 
this union were four children : Florence 
(Jaylord, Marion Louise, Annie Edwards 
and .Samuel Irving Hill (the last two de- 
ceased). 

HILL, Don GleaSON, son of George 
and Sylvia Hill, was born July 12, 1847, 
at West Medway, Norfolk county. His 
father, who was a carpenter, had not the 
means to give his children an education, 
but taught them his trade, at which Mr. 
Hill was early put to work in order to earn 
the money necessary for future study. 

By close application and strict economv 
he was enabled at an early age to attend 
school at the Wesleyan .\cademy, Wilbra- 
ham. He was educated at Amherst Col- 
lege, class of 1869, and at the law school 
of the LTniversity of .-\lbany, N. Y., from 
which he received the degree of LL. B., 
May, 1870, and .soon after was admitted to 
the bar of New York. 

Returning to Medway he was for a time 
a student in the office of Charles H. Deans, 
but in June, 187 1, he removed to Dedham, 
and entered the law office of the late Hon. 
Waldo Colburn. Upon the recommenda- 
tion of Mr. Colburn he was admitted to 
the Norfolk count)^ bar, September 25, 
1871, and remained with him until June, 
1875, when Mr. Colburn was appointed to 
the bench. Mr. Hill then began active 
practice in the office left him by his able 
instructor. 

In October, 1S75, a law partnership was 
formed with Charles A. Mackintosh, an- 
other of Judge Colburn's students, under 
the firm name of Hill & Mackintosh, 
which continued a number of years. For 
several years past Mr. Hill has devoted 
himself almost e.xclusively to practice in 
probate and real estate law and convey- 
ancing. 



In 1875 he succeeded Judge Colburn as 
attorney of the Dedham Institution for 
Savings, and is also one of its trustees ; 
he is also the attorney of the Braintree 
Savings Bank, and frequently employed by 
other banks throughout the county. In 
1880 he was elected to, and has since con- 
tinued to hold, the office of town clerk of 
Deilham. 

He takes a lively interest in antiquarian 
pursuits, and has recently edited two 
important volumes of ancient records — 
one of the births, marriages, and deaths 
recorded with the town records from 1635 
to 1S45 ; the other t)f the church records in 




DON GLEASON HILL. 

the town, covering the same period. .\t 
his suggestion, and under his direction, 
the town has caused them to be printed. 

In 1882 he was elected a selectman, 
assessor, and overseer of the poor, to which 
offices he has at times been re-elected, 
and at present is serving in the same 
capacity. He is a director in the Dedham 
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and one 
of the trustees of the Dedham public 
library. The Dedham Historical Society, 
of which he is president, owes much of its 
present prosperity to his efforts during his 
membership. He has for several years 
been a member of the New England His- 
toric Genealogical Societv. 



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HILL. 



At the 250th anniversary of Dedham's 
incorporation, in 18S6, his familiarity with 
the ancient landmarks of the town ena- 
bled him to be of great service on the 
committee having in charge the marking 
of historic spots. The county commis- 
sioners of Norfolk county having deter- 
mined to have the proprietors' records in 
the ancient towns in the county tran- 
scribed, have recently appointed Mr. Hill 
to superintend this work. 

He is a member of the first committee 
appointed to distribute the interest of the 
fund recently bequeathed the town by the 
late Hannah Shuttleworth for the relief of 
the needy poor. The work of the com- 
mittee is to try to prevent people from 
becoming paupers, by assisting and ena- 
bling them to help themselves. 

In December, 1876, he married Carrie 
Louisa Luce of Dedham, and has five chil- 
dren : Carrie Frances, Helen Florence, 
Don Gleason, Jr., Maria Louisa, and Alice 
Laura Hill. 

HILL, Frederic Stanhope, son of 

Frederic Stanhope and Mary Welland 
(Blake) Hill, was born in Boston, August 
4, 1829. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in Brattleborough, Vt., and at the 
Friends' Academy, New Bedford. 

In 1842, following the fashion of other 
youths of Boston, and the traditions of his 
family, he went to sea, and as is the fre- 
quent e.xperience of those who for a few 
years are attracted by a sailor's life, he 
abandoned the ocean, was in California in 
i84Q-'5 I, then returned East. He was then 
emploved in the Boston post-office, 1852 to 
'56, and in the custom house, 1856 to '60, 
and at the same time he was a writer on 
the " Boston Post," and a regular corre- 
spondent of "The New Yorker," a literary 
journal of that city. 

At the outbreak of the civil war he was 
appointed acting master, United States 
navy, and ordered to the U. S. S. " Rich- 
mond." He was in all of Farragut's bat- 
tles, eight engagements, and at the admi- 
ral's special request, after the capture of 
New Orleans, in 1863 was promoted to 
lieutenant. United States navy, and ordered 
to a command on the blockade of the coast 
of Texas, and later commanded the iron- 
clad " Benton " and the " Tyler " in the 
Mississippi squadron. 

After the war was over, he resigned, and 
re-entering journalism, founded the " Daily 
News," Chester, Pa., and later the " Daily 
Pres.s," Middletown, N. Y., both still flour- 
ishing journals. He passed five years in 



Europe, and in 1886 he purchased the old 
" Cambridge Chronicle," Cambridge, which 
he owns and successfully manages at the 
present time. He has also done much 
other literary work in various directions. 

Mr. Hill is a warden and treasurer of 
Christ church, Cambridge, and a member 
of the Episcopalian Club of Massachusetts. 

He was married in Philadelphia, Pa., in 
1 86 1, to Caroline, daughter of Samuel and 
Evelina (Brown) Tyson. Of this union isone 
child : Gertrude Blake Hill, who married 
Dr. Lawrence Montgomery Stanton of 
New York City. 

Mr. Hill is a member of the C. A. R. 

HILL, Hamilton Andrews, son of 

Hamilton and Anna (Andrews) Hill, was 
born in London, England, April 14, 1827. 

His early school training was received 
in the public schools of his native city. 
After coming to this country, he studied in 
Oberlin College, Ohio, of which his father 
was treasurer for many years. He left be- 
fore completing his full collegiate course, 
but subsequently received his degree of 
A. M. from that institution in 1867. He 
also received the honorary degree of A. M. 
from Williams College in 1868. 

He entered business life in Boston, in 
1849, as a shipping and commission mer- 
chant, in the British-American and English 
trade. In 1867 he was made secretary of 
the Boston board of trade, and held the 
position until 1873. He has been secre- 
tary of the national board of trade, with 
a brief interval when he was living in 
Europe, since 1868. He was special com- 
missioner of the Chicago, Burlington & 
(^uincy R. R. Co., on European immigra- 
tion, from 1873 to '75. 

Mr. Hill was a member of the House of 
Representatives, 1878, '79, '80 and '81, 
serving as chairman of the committee on 
finance, and the committee on harbors and 
public lands. In 1878 and '79 he was a 
member of the board of state charities. 
He is a member of the American Philo- 
sophical Society, and of the American 
Historical Association. He is a vice-presi- 
dent of the American Statistical Associa- 
tion, and he has been a director in, and 
treasurer of, the American Social Science 
Association ; he was corresponding seci'e- 
tary of, and is now a director in, the New 
England Historic Genealogical Society, and 
a director in the Bostonian Society. 

He was chairman of a commission ap- 
pointed by the mayor of Boston to report 
upon annexation in 1873. 

Mr. Hill is the author of "A Memoir of 
Abbott Lawrence," "The History of the 



niLL. 



HILL. 



305 



Old South Church," aiul various commer- 
cial and historical pamphlets and reports ; 
he was contributor of one of the chapters 
in the " Memorial History of Boston," 
vol. iv., published by Ticknor & Co. 

Mr. Hill was married in Roxbury, May 
4, 1859, to Miriam Phillips, daughter of 
Samuel Hurd and Mehetabel ' Sumner 
(Bates) Wallev. She died August 31, 
1862. 

Mr. Hill's second marriage occurred in 
Boston, May 27, 1869, with Anna Frances, 
daughter of Charles and Mary Anna 
(Bachi) Carruth. He has two children : 
Anna Carruth and Hamilton Hill. 

HILL, Herbert E., son of Enos and 
Sarah (Randall) Hill, was born in Boston, 
December 18, 1845. He came of ances- 
tral stock noted in the annals of military 
fame. His father, a prosperous pierchant, 
losing his health through an accident, re- 
moved to Vermont, where he died, leaving 
a widow and five children. 

Herbert, the eldest son, received his 
education in the grammar and high schools 
of that state, and at the age of seventeen 
entered the ranks of the 8th Vermont vol- 
unteers ; was in every battle and skirmish 
after his enlistment with that famous regi- 
ment, in the campaigns in Louisiana, Miss- 
issippi, and the renowned campaign of 
Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. After 
this campaign. Colonel Hill was detached 
from the regiment and assigned to duty at 
headquarters, in Washington, where, among 
other work, he was connected with the 
search for J. ^^■ilkes Booth, the assassin of 
Abraham Lincoln. He was promoted for 
meritorious conduct, and came home with 
a most honorable record. 

At the close of the war Colonel Hill re- 
turned to Boston, where he resided four 
years, and then removed to Somerville, his 
present residence. Governor Rice com- 
missioned him captain and senior aide-de- 
camp on the staff of General Moore, Massa- 
chusetts militia. Governor Talbot made 
him assistant adjutant-general of the State, 
with rank of colonel. He followed Colo- 
nel King as commander of Willard C . Kins- 
ley Post 139, G. A. R., of Somerville. For 
four years Colonel Hill was a department 
officer, G. A. R., serving in the council of 
administration as vice-commander of the 
department, and afterward was honored by 
being made vice-commander-in-chief of tlie 
G. .\. R. in the United States. 

No citizen of Somerville has done more 
than Mr. Hill to perpetuate historic spots 
and memories. The beautiful memorial 
battery on Central Hill, Somerville, the 



marble shaft on the battie-field of Win- 
chester, Va., and the monument on the bat- 
tle-ground of Cedar Creek are witnesses 
of his generosity and perseverance. No- 
vember 2, 1S66, the \'ermont Senate and 
House of Representatives unanimously 
adopted resolutions declaring " That the 
patriotic act of Col. Herbert E. Hill (now 
of Boston) in placing enduring monu- 
ments to mark these sacred spots, merits 
the gratitude of the people of this State, 
and we hereby tender him the thanks of 
the General -Assembly." 

Colonel Hill has written several war 
articles, descriptive of battle scenes, for the 
Vermont State Military History recently 
published, also a notable account of " Sher- 
idan's Ride," which has been copied by 
the press throughout the country. 

Politically, Colonel Hill has been promi- 
nent and active. In 1S80 he was chosen 
to bear the electoral vote of Massachu- 
setts to Washington for Garfield and Ar- 
thur. He was elected to represent Somer- 
ville at the centennial celebration at Le.K- 
ington and Concord ; had charge of the 
regimental troops at the centennial cele- 
bratipn. Bunker Hill, June 17, 1875; was 
on the Massachusetts examining board for 
admission of candidates to West Point, 
and was delegate to the Soldiers' national 
convention at Chicago. He was three 
years secretary of the Middlese.x Club, 
Boston, and personally secured from Gen- 
eral Grant a week's visit to the city of Bos- 
ton in 1880. 

Colonel Hill is a successful Boston mer- 
chant, a member of the large cotton house 
of Hill & Cutler ; he has never accepted 
local office except as commissioner of water- 
works, and in connection with charitable 
work, member of the board of overseers 
of the poor, and one of the board of man- 
agers of the Perkins Institution for the 
Blind, in Boston, and trustee of one of 
Moody's schools for Christian workers in 
Springfield. 

Colonel Hill was married at Somerville, 
on the 9th day of January, 1873, to J^mma 
O., daughter of Richard and Sarah Jane 
(Wheelwright) Rich. They have one child; 
Herbert Pierce Hill. 

HILL, Luther, son of Washington and 
.Mmira (Kent) Hill, was born in Spencer, 
\\'orcester countv, November 22, 1825. 

He obtained his early education in the 
common schools of his native town, sup- 
plemented by short terms of attendance at 
\\'ilbraham and Leicester academies. 

From the time he left school, at fourteen 
years of age, till he reached his majority, 



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his occupation was teaming, farming and 
clerking in his father's store. He was apt 
and ready, more fond of adventure than 
of stud_v. Soon after his majority he pur- 
chased a store in Spencer, where he 
carried on the business of general trade. 
He was soon appointed postmaster, which 
position he held eight years. He was also 
deputy sheriff under Col. James Esta- 




LUTHER HILL, 

brook, then Democratic sheriff of Worces- 
ter county. Mr. Hill was a Jeffersonian 
Democrat in those days, and a leader in 
that political faith up to the breaking out of 
the civil war, and for some time thereafter 
was classed as a "War Democrat." He 
was appointed a trial justice, and has tried 
more than six thousand criminal cases, 
there being no district court established in 
Spencer. Mr. Hill's law came to him by 
intuition, his decisions reaching to the 
justice of the case, trimmed of technicali- 
ties and quibbles. 

In 185 1 he sought the gold-fields of 
California, going by way of the Isthmus. 
En route he made the acquaintance of a 
gentleman with whom he formed a part- 
nership in the hotel business. In a few 
months he returned East, for the purpose 
of settling his affairs, e.vpecting to return 
to the Pacific slope for a permanent resi- 
dence. Circumstances, however, did not 



favor his return. His business in San 
Francisco was sold, and he remained in 
Massachusetts, retaining his former offices. 

Mr. Hill has always been distinguished 
for his public spirit, and is among the fore- 
most to advocate liberal appropriations for 
public schools, and the furnishing of suit- 
able buildings. It was largely through his 
influence that Spencer has a paying rail- 
road connecting the village with the Bos- 
ton & Albany. The town is also indebted 
to him for its excellent water and sewage 
systems. They are literally the work of 
his hands. The Spencer gas works are also 
the result of his public spirit. 

Mr. Hill is emphatically a self-made 
man, and his sympathies are with the labor- 
ing classes. He is a natural leader of 
men, prompt and fearless in following his 
convictions — never shirking a responsi- 
bility. 

His business life, successful as it has 
been, experienced a reverse in 1862 that 
left him without a dollar. This was 
brought about by the rebel Quantrell's 
raid into Kansas, burning the town of 
Lawrence, where Mr. Hill was so heavily 
mvolved that he was obliged to turn over 
all of his eastern property to his creditors. 
To a man of his energy this was, however, 
only a matter incident to chances in busi- 
ness life. 

Mr. Hill has represented his district in 
the Legislature for six times, five in the 
House, and once in the Senate. He has 
been selectman of Spencer thirteen years, 
and was the leading spirit in town affairs 
during the war, both before and after he 
left the ranks of the Democrats. He is 
the president and general manager of the 
Spencer Gas Company, and the Spencer 
Railroad Company. 

Mr. Hill was married in Spencer, March 
2, 1856, to Louise A., daughter of Daniel 
and Fannie (Mead) Ciranger. They have 
no children. 

Mr. Hill is a staunch Republican. His 
attitude on the temperance question is 
most satisfactory to the friends of law and 
order. They rely upon him with implicit 
confidence to execute the law. He wor- 
ships with those " who live to help one 
another." This is his religion, but his con- 
tributions are liberal to the support of all 
church organizations in town, of whatever 
creed. 

HILL, William Henry (Jr.), onlv son 

of William H. and Abhy F. (Remich) Hill, 
was born in Boston, July 14, 1838. 

His early education was obtained in the 
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Roxbury. After his graduation from tiie 
Roxbury high school, he made an early 
connection in business as a clerk in the 
jiublishing firm of Sanborn, Carter & Ba- 
zin, and continued with their successors, 
Brown, Taggard & Chase. At his major- 
ity he became a partner in a publishing and 
book concern, under the firm name of 
Chase, Nichols & Hill. Two years later he 
retired from the firm and continued a book 
and publishing business under his own 
name for a period of six years, until the 
spring of 1869. 

Mr. Hill was married in Boston, January 
8, 1S63, to Sarah E., daughter of William 
B. and Susan J. (AVarren) May. They 
have had as children : A\'arren May, Har- 
old St. Jar.iKs, Marion, Clarence Harvey, 




WILLIAM H. hILL. 

Spencer Richardson, Ernest Lawrence, 
William Henry Reginald, Donald Mackay, 
Barbara, Philip Sanford and Kenneth 
Amory Hill, of whom Harold, Barbara and 
Philip are deceased. 

Mr. Hill is at present a member of the 
firm of Richardson, Hill & Co., bankers, 
Boston. He is also president and general 
manager of the Boston & Bangor Steam- 
ship Company, and as president, director, 
or trustee is connected with, and interested 
in, many manufacturing, insurance, and 
transportation companies. 



-Mr. Hills career has been one of con- 
tinued growth and strength. It has been 
somewhat unusual in one regard : while the 
son of a prominent and wealthy merchant 
(one long known in the mercantile commun- 
ity of the city of Boston, especially among 
the older merchants, for his sagacity and 
integrity), yet he has by his own unaided 
efforts made his own fortune, and acquired 
a conspicuously honorable standing among 
the enterprising, successful, and reliable 
men of affairs in the city of his birth. 

HILL, William M., son of Alexander 
A. and Ruth (Millett) Hill, was born in 
Salem, Essex county, August 16, 1831. 

He received his early education in the 
public schools of Salem. 

Upon leaving school he learned the cur- 
rier's trade, and continued in various de- 
partments of that trade for twenty years. 
In 1884 he commenced in the real estate 
and fire insurance business at Salem, which 
he now carries on. 

He was for several years a member of 
the state detective force, chief of police in 
Salem three years ; served in the common 
council four years, being president of that 
body three years ; member of the school 
committee four years ; was trustee of the 
Salem water loan sinking fund for four 
years, and mayor of the city of Salem for 
1883 and '84. 

He was grand master of the Grand 
Lodge of Odd Fellows of Massachusetts, 
in which capacity he attended sessions of 
the Sovereign Grand Lodge at Denver, 
Col., in 1887, and at Los Angeles, Cal., in 
1888. 

Mr. Hill was married at Salem to Annie 
M., daughter of Daniel B. and Nancy 
(Koote) Lord. He has one daughter: 
Annie Lord, wife of Edward F. Dalton of 
Salem. 

HILLMAN, BERIAH T., son of Owen 
and Charlotte Hillman, was born in Chil- 
mark, Dukes county, January 28, 1843. 

He received his early education in the 
public schools of his native town, and at 
the age of nineteen entered the normal 
school, Bridgewater, where he remained 
one term, then enlisted in company K. 
43d regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, 
which took part in the campaign under 
General Foster in North Carolina during 
the winter of i862-'63, and the following 
spring. The term of service of the regi- 
ment had expired and it had reached Bal- 
timore on its way home while the battle of 
Gettysburg was being fought. He then 
volunteered to go to the front, where he 



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remained until tlie Confederate army was 
all south of the Potomac. In the autumn 
of 1863 he re-entered the school, and 
remained there until the following summer, 
and then enlisted as 2d lieutenant in 
company C, 60th regiment, Massachusetts 
volunteers. Having served out his term 
of enlistment, he again returned to the 
normal school, and was graduated July 
26, 1865. After graduating he engaged 
in teaching in the Boston " Farm school," 
and later in the towns of Chilmark, Barn- 
stable and Quincy. From 1874 to '76 he 
carried on a country store at West Tisbury. 
He is now a teacher in Chilmark. 

Mr. Hillman was married at Woonsocket, 
R. I., August 7, 1867, to Abby B., daugh- 
ter of Horace M. and Anna H. Pierce. 
Of this union are six children : Anna 
Helen, Horace Owen, Fannie Beal, Arthur 
Beriah, Walter Pierce and Charlotte Hill- 
man. 

Mr. Hillman has been treasurer of the 
town of Chilmark fifteen years, collector of 
taxes four years, and member of the school 
board seven years. He represented Dukes 
county in the Legislature, 1875 and '86, 
the latter year serving on the committee 
on education. He is a trial justice, and 
chairman of the Republican county and 
town committees. 

His church connections are with the 
M. Fl church, where he holds the positions 
of steward, trustee, class-leader, and Sun- 
day-school superintendent. He is secre- 
tary of the Dukes County Educational 
Association, and also of the Martha's 
Vineyard Agricultural Society. 

HINCKS, Edward W., son of Elisha 

and Elizabeth Hopkins (Wentworth) 
Hincks, was born in Bucksport, Hancock 
county. Me., May 30, 1830. He is a lineal 
descendant of Chief-Justice John Hincks, 
of New Hampshire, the first of the name 
to arrive in the country, and who was also 
president of the council both in New Hamp- 
shire and Massachusetts, almost continu- 
ously from 1683 to 1708. 

He received his early education in the 
common schools. He removed to Bangor, 
Me., 1845, and worked as printer on the 
Bangor "Whig and Courier" till 1849, 
when he went to Boston. He was a mem- 
ber of the House of Representatives, 1855. 

In December, i860, he tendered Major 
Robert Anderson a volunteer force to aid 
in the defense of Fort Moultrie. At the 
call of President Lincoln for troops, April 
15, 1861, he was the first man in Massa- 
chusetts to offer his services to the gov- 
ernor for immediate duty, at 9 o'clock. 



A. M., of that day, and was directed by 
Governor Andrew to warn the companies 
of the 8th regiment, of which he was ad- 
jutant, to assemble at Faneuil Hall on the 
morning of the i6th. 

He became lieutenant-colonel of the 8th 
regiment, April 17th, and marched with it 
for Washington on the i8th. At Annapolis, 
Md., April 21st, he commanded a party that 
cut out and saved the frigate " Constitu- 
tion," and on the following day commanded 
another detachment that finally opened 
communications with Washington that had 
been closed for several days, since the 




EDWARD W. HINCKS. 

assault on the troops in Baltimore, April 
19th. Reaching Washington with his regi- 
ment, April 26th, he was on that day com- 
missioned 2d lieutenant, 2d LT. S. regular 
cavalry, and May i6th, was promoted to 
the colonelcy of the 8th Massachusetts, 
which he commanded during its three 
months' term of service. 

August 3d, of this year, he was commis- 
sioned colonel of the 19th Massachusetts 
volunteers. He became brigadier-general 
of volunteers, November 29, 1862, was on 
court-martial duty in AVashington in the 
spring of 1863, and superintendent of re- 
cruiting service, provost marshal-general 
and military commander in New Hamp- 
shire, from July, 1863, to March, 1864, and 



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commanded the camp of prisoners-of-vvar, 
Point Lookout, Md., March and April, 1864, 
and a division of the army of the James 
during field operations of that year. He 
commanded the draft rendezvous on Hart's 
Island, N. Y., October, 1864, and until the 
close of the war was chief mustering ofificer 
for the United States, in New York City 
and Harrisburg, Pa. 

He was breveted a brigadier-general, 
U. S. army, for gallant and meritorious 
services in the assault on Petersburg, Va., 
June 15, 1864, and major-general of volun- 
teers for meritorious services during the 
war, March 13, 1S65. 

He was governor of the National Sol- 
diers' Home from July 6, 1866, to March, 
1867. Having been appointed lieutenant- 
colonel of the 40th U. S. infantry (regu- 
lars), July 28, 1866, he was provost marshal- 
general of North and South Carolina, in 
1867 ; commanded the eastern district of 
North Carolina in 1868, and, on the reduc- 
tion of the army, was transferred to the 
25th U. S. infantry, March 15, 1869, sta- 
tioned at New Orleans. In May, 1870, he 
was ordered to the southwestern frontier 
of Texas to oppose the Comanche Indians, 
then hostile to the United States. He was 
retired with the rank of colonel, December 
15, 1870, on account of wounds. 

From 1872 to '80 he was deputy-governor 
and treasurer of the National Soldiers' 
Homes at Hampton, \'a., and Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin. 

He was wounded at the battle of Glen- 
dale, Va., June 30, 1862, and again severely 
— for a time supposed mortally — at the 
battle of Antietam, Md., September 17, 
1862, and received injuries in the assault 
upon Petersburg, Va., June 15, 1864. 
From the effects of these wounds he still 
sulTers severely. 

HINSDALE, Henry, son of Chester 
and Lucy (Allen) Hinsdale, was born in 
Monroe, Franklin county, June 25, 1830. 

He received the thorough education of 
the common school, but his father being a 
poor man with a large family, he was then 
obliged to assist in the general support, 
and worked upon the farm for his board 
and clothes till he was twenty-eight years 
old. Upon the death of his father the 
farm fell to him and to his younger 
brother, and they conducted it together 
for five years, when his brother died, and 
he has since carried on the farm alone. 

On the 31st of August, 1862, in Florida, 
Mr. Hinsdale married Hannah L., daugh- 
ter of Joseph and Oratha (Whitcomb) 
Porter. Their children are : Lvman K. and 



Eunice M. Hinsdale. His wife died Jan- 
uary I, 1884, and on the 3d of April, 1885, 
he married Isabel A., daughter of Nahum 
P. and Sarah (Pettingill) Brown. 

As a philanthropist. Air. Hinsdale is an 
active agent in the work of the prevention 
of cruelty to children. He has held nearly 
all of the town offices, and he is a man 
highly respected by all who know him. His 
church relations are with the Universalists. 

HITCHCOCK, Calvin, .son of Abner 
and Susan (Gardner) Hitchcock, was born 
in Homer, Cortland county, N. Y., March 
22, 1817, but was reared in Brimfield, 
Hampden county, Mass., the native place 
of his parents. He gleaned his knowledge 
of books from the public schools of those 
days, and from a few terms' attendance at 
Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham. 

After passing through the vicissitudes of 
a poor New England boy during the hard 
and oppressive business years between 
1825 and '50, he settled in Belchertown, 
in business with S. D. Greggs, and later 
with Joel Packard and George Chandler, 
as partners in the carriage business, with 
a country store as an annex. In 1858 he 
removed to Ware, where he now resides, 
and where he has carried on a general 
mercantile business for thirty-one years. 

Mr. Hitchcock was married in Belcher- 
town, October 16, 1846, to Delia, daughter 
of Lemuel and Erepta (Pike) Chandler. 
Of this union were two children : Charles 
C. and Julia E. (now Mrs. Webber, Den- 
ver, Col.). 

Mr. Hitchcock has been frequently 
called to serve in the local offices — assess- 
or, selectman, etc. He is trustee of Ware 
Savings Bank, and has been director in 
Ware National Bank for many years, and 
was representative to the General Court in 
1888. In religion he is nominally an 
Orthodox, in politics he was originally a 
Whig, but has been associated with the 
Republican party from its inception, hav- 
ing been a member of the first convention 
called for consultation in the city of Wor- 
cester in 1854. 

HIXON, William Southerland, son 

of William F. and Eliza (Fancher) Hixon, 
was born in Cornwall, Orange county, 
N. Y., November 3, 1848. 

He received his early education in the 
public schools of his native town. He re- 
moved 'to Massachusetts in 1868, and in 
1872 began business life in the provision 
business, Washington market, in the city 
of Boston. In 1879 he opened a wholesale 
conniiission business. He continued in 



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HOAR. 



this business until 1S84, when he became 
interested in the manufacture of soapstone, 
and is at present engaged in that industry. 
Mr. Hixon was married in Boston, 
December 11, 1875, to Martha L., daugh- 
ter of Ezekiel and Catherine (Ring) An- 
drews. Of this union were four children : 
Imogene Willis, Heulah .Sinclair, William 
Edwin and I.eona \\hitnev Hixon. 




WILLIAM S HIXON. 

Mr. Hixon served three years in the 
United States navy, having enlisted Janu- 
ary 17, 1864. He served on board the 
gunboat " Rhode Island," the "Saratoga " 
and the monitor "Chimo." 

He has been three times a delegate to 
the national encampment, G. A. R. ; three 
years treasurer of the Temple Council, 
R. A. ; treasurer of the Cone Axle Com- 
pany, and president of the Collett Car- 
brake Company. 

Mr. Hixon was a member of the common 
council of Chelsea in 1887 ; a member of 
the House of Representatives in 1888 and 
'89, serving upon the committee on harbors 
and public lands. 

His residence is Chelsea. 

HOAR, E. ROCKWOOD, son of Samuel 
and Sarah (Sherman) Hoar, was born in 
Concord, Middlesex county, February 21, 
1816. He is the brother of the United 
States senator, George Frisbie Hoar, of 



Worcester. On the paternal side he is de- 
scended from a long line of cultured, patri- 
otic and influential ancestors ; and on the 
maternal side is a grandson of Roger Sher- 
man. 

Having been well fitted in primary and 
academic schools, he entered Harvard Uni- 
versity, from which he was graduated in 
the class of 1835. He then taught school 
a year in the city of Pittsburgh, Pa. ; later 
on he studied law in the law school of 
Harvard University, receiving therefrom 
his degree of LL. B. in 1839. The same 
year he was admitted to the bar. In 1846 
he was elected to the state Senate ; served 
as judge of the court of common pleas 
from 1849 to '55, and judge of the supreme 
judicial court from 1859 to '69. 

The honorary degree of LL. D. was sub- 
sequently (186 1.) conferred by Williams, 
and a second time (1868) by his ahna 
mater, whom he has so long and faithfully 
served. For nearly a quarter of a century 
he was a member of the board of overseers 
of Harvard, and for nearly half of that 
period he served as president of the board. 

In March, 1869, Mr. Hoar was appointed 
by General Grant attorney-general of the 
United States, and discharged the duties 
of that office until June, 1870. This posi- 
tion, as member of the president's cabinet, 
and his confidential adviser on all points 
involving questions of inter-state or inter- 
national law, proved for him a school pre- 
paratory to the highest diplomatic triumph. 
In consultation with President Grant on 
the affairs and administration of the gov- 
ernment, its relations to foreign powers, 
and particularly to Great Britain, neces- 
sarily and frequently came under protract- 
ed discussion. 

The result was his appointment as one 
of the members of the joint high commis- 
sion which negotiated the treaty between 
the United States of America and the 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 
187 1. The settlement of this treaty of 
Washington was one of the most notable 
events of the nineteenth century, dispos- 
ing, as it did, of five different subjects of 
controversy between Great Britain and 
the United States, some of which dated 
from the very proclamation of American 
Independence, and were perpetually rising 
to the surface of discussion to vex and dis- 
turb the good understanding between the 
kindred nations. The treaty has already 
attained the dignity of a monumental act 
in the estimation of mankind, and is des- 
tined to occupy hereafter a conspicuous 
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and international jiirisjirudence of Europe 
and America. It has fallen to few men to 
perform such signal service to mankind in 
the removal of all difficulties between the 
friendly intercourse and beneficent co-oper- 
ation of the two leading powers of the 
world. The American nation owes and 
gladlv pays Judge Hoar the meed of a re- 
spectful and grateful acknowledgment, and 
the State of Massachusetts will long cher- 
ish the fame of the son who reflected such 
glory upon her training and institutions. 

Another and scarcely less conspicuous 
service, and one not so generally known, was 
his influential agency in arranging for the 
first loan made by the United States gov- 
ernment at another critical period of its 
history. He was one of a few patriotic 
citizens who, in connection with Secretary 
Chase and President Lincoln, successfully 
negotiated this important financial opera- 
tion with capitalists of Boston, New York 
and Philadelphia, instead of going abroad 
for assistance. 

Mr. Hoar was a presidential elector-at- 
large in 1872, and was elected to the 43d 
Congress as a Republican, receiving 11,742 
votes against 5,989 cast for the Democratic 
nominee. 

Mr. Hoar was married in Concord, No- 
vember 20, 1840, to Caroline D., daughter 
of Hon. Nathan and Caroline (Downes) 
Brooks. Of this union were seven chil- 
dren : Caroline, Sarah Sherman (deceased), 
Samuel, Charles Emerson, Clara Downes, 
Elizabeth and Sherman Hoar. 

In a long and eventful life Mr. Hoar has 
belonged to many social and political clulis, 
but of all the organizations with which he 
has been connected, the Saturday Club has 
been to him the occasion of rarest delight 
and choicest companionship, meeting there 
in fraternal converse the artistic and liter- 
ary stars, \\\m&&\i parnobile fratrum, which 
have shone so brilliantly in the firmament 
of belles-lettres. 

HOAR, George FRISBIE, was horn in 
Concord, Middlesex county, August 29, 
1826. John Hoar, Senator Hoar's earliest 
ancestor, in Massachusetts, was one of 
three brothers who came with their wid- 
owed mother from Gloucestershire, Eng- 
land, in early colonial days. One brother, 
Leonard Hoar, was one of the early presi- 
dents of Harvard College. Senator Hoar's 
father, Samuel Hoar, was one of Massa- 
chusetts' great legal lights, contemporary 
with Mason, Webster and Choate. His 
mother, Sarah Sherman, was the youngest 
daughter of Roger Sherman of Connecti- 
cut. 



After the school-days spent in Concord 
Academy, he entered Harvard College, 
and was graduated in the class of 1846. 
Choosing the law for his profession, he 
studied at the Harvard law school, and in 
the office of the late Judge Thomas in 
Worcester. Upon his admission to the 
bar, in 1849, he began practice in Worces- 
ter, and that city has ever since been his 
home. 

He was for a time associated in practice 
with the late Hon. ?>mory Washburn, and 
later with the Hon. Charles Devens and J. 
Henry Hill. He quickly rose to a very 
high rank in his profession. 

Mr. Hoar married, in 1853, Mary Louisa 
Spurr, who died a few years after, leaving 
a son, Rockwood, and a daughter, Mary, 
both of whom are living. In 1862 he mar- 
ried Ruth Ann Miller. 

Mr. Hoar's first appearance in political 
life was as chairman of the committee of 
the Free Soil party for Worcester county 
in 1849, which was more efficiently organ- 
ized there than in any other county in the 
United States. In 1851, at the age of 
twenty-five he was elected a representa- 
tive to the General Court. He was the 
youngest member of that body, and be- 
came the leader of the coalitionists in law 
matters, antl to him was given the task of 
drawing resolutions protesting against the 
compromise measures of the national 
government in 1S50. In 1847 he became 
a member of the state Senate and chair- 
man of its judiciary committee. In that 
capacity he drew a masterly report, de- 
fining the boundaries of the executive and 
legislative authority. 

While burdened with professional, state 
and national affairs, he was yet always 
ready to render service in behalf of enter- 
prises for the public welfare of his own 
city. He aided in the establishment of 
a free public library and reading-room, was 
a member of the board of directors, and 
one of its early presidents. He aided in 
founding the Worcester County Free Insti- 
tute of Industrial Science (now the Worces- 
ter Polytechnic Institute). He was also 
an early advocate of woman suffrage, hav- 
ing made an address on that subject in 
Worcester in 1868, and before a legislative 
committee in 1869. 

In 1868 i\Ir. Hoar was elected a represen- 
tative in Congress, as the successor of the 
late Hon. John D. Baldwin. In this Con- 
gress (the 41st) he served as a member of 
the committee on education and labor, and 
his chief work was the preparation and ad- 
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During his first term in Congress, Mr. 
Hoar, by a timely and convincing speech, 
saved the bureau of education, when the 
committee on appropriations had reported 
it ought to be aboHshed. In this Congress, 
too, he vindicated General Howard from 
the charges preferred b)' Fernando Wood, 
supported Sumner in his opposition to 
President Grant's Santo Domingo scheme, 
and became knowm as a formidable antag- 
onist in debate. In the next Congress (the 
42d) Mr. Hoar, b)' his conscientious and 
judicious dealing in contested election 
cases, was notably regarded as an impartial 
judge, honored by Republicans and Demo- 
crats alike. In the 43d and 44th Con- 
gresses he was the life and power of many 
movements in behalf of education, labor 
and internal improvements. In the man- 
agement of the impeachment of Secretary 




GEORGE F. HOAR. 



Belknap, in 1876. he awoke the conscience 
of the people, and gave the initial impulse 
to the wave of official and political reform 
whicli has not yet spent its force. 

But Mr. Hoar's most distinguished ser- 
vice in the 44th Congress was that con- 
tributed to the delicate and important 
work so successfully accomplished by the 
Electoral Commission. He declined re- 
nomination for representative in the 45tii 
Congress. 



Mr. Hoar was elected to the United 
States Senate, as a Republican, to succeed 
George S. Boutwell, taking his seat March 
5, 1877. He was re-elected in 1883 and 
again in i88g without a note of party 
dissent, a distinction not accorded to anv 
man since the days of Webster and Sumner. 
His present term expires in 1S95. 

In the Senate Mr. Hoar has been a 
member, and for some years chairman, of 
the committee on privileges and elections, 
and a member of the committee on claims, 
on the judiciary, library and others of less 
importance. 

In general, Mr. Hoar has occupied him- 
self in Congress with matters of wide 
scope and fundamental importance. His 
powerful arguments in the Senate on the 
tariff issues are embalmed in the classics 
of forensic debate. 

Mr. Hoar presided over tlie Republican 
state conventions of i87i,'77, '82 and '85, 
was a delegate to the national Republican 
conventions of 1876, '80 and '84, presid- 
ing over that of 1880. 

He was regent of the Smithsonian In- 
stitute in 1880 ; was vice-president and is 
now ]:)resident of the American Antiqua- 
rian Societv; is a trustee of the Peabody 
Museum of Archaeology; is a member of 
the Massachusetts Historical Societ}'; was 
an overseer of Harvard College, i874-'8o, 
and has been officially connected with 
many other educational institutions. 

The record of Senator Hoar is one re- 
plete with brilliant and patriotic service to 
the State, whose favorite son he stands 
to-day. In every position of honor and 
responsibility to which he in a long and 
eventful career has been called to fill, not 
a single instance can be mentioned wherein 
he has failed to correctly interpret and 
energetically defend the public voice of 
his constituents. Nor has his powerful in- 
tluence been confined to the border of his 
own loved Commonwealth. The nation 
claims him as one of its strong, wise, in- 
corruptible leaders. His conservatism is 
founded upon the faith given the early 
fathers. His radical views are in a line 
with a quickened public conscience, and 
keenly alive to the maintenance of an abso- 
lutely free and enlightened Republic. He 
is indeed " one of a thousand " — one whom 
the old Bay State delights to honor. 

HOBART, FRANCIS A., son of John A. 
and Ann Francis (Arnold) Hobart, was 
born in Braintree, Norfolk county, Sep- 
tember 18, 1833. He worked on a farm 
till nineteen years of age, gathering a com- 
mon school education the while, and then 



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entered a boot and shoe store in Boston, at 
fifty dollars a year. When twenty years 
old he became a partner in the boot and 
shoe firm of Holbrook iS: Arnold, afterwards 
Holbrook, Hobart & Porter, in which he 
continued until 1882, when he retired from 
active business. 




FRANCIS A. HOB» 



January 1, 1855, Mr. Hobart was mar- 
ried in Boston, to Susan A., daughter of 
Joel E. and Susan A. Holbrook. Their 
two children are : Ella S. and John 1'. 
Hobart. 

\\'hen only twent\'-one years old, Mr. 
Hobart was taking an active part in poli- 
tics, and was chosen chairman of the Re- 
]iublican town committee, which office he 
held for thirty years. He has also been a 
member of the state central committee for 
eighteen years. He was sent from Brain- 
tree as representative to the state Legisla- 
ture in i860 and '6r, and was a member of 
the Senate in 1865, '69 and '70. He was a 
delegate to the national Republican con- 
vention at Chicago in 1880, and was one of 
the famous " 306 " who voted for General 
Grant. He has been a trustee of the Brain- 
tree Savings Bank ever since its incorpora- 
tion, and for two years was president of the 
Braintree Water Company. 

Mr. Hobart has always resided in Brain- 
tree, where he has been moderator of the 



town meetings for nearly twenty years, 
having served eighty-two times. He is 
chairman of the committee which erected 
the Soldiers' Monument, and delivered the 
centennial address, by invitation of the 
town in 1876. He is a highly respected 
citizen, and has been frequently entrusted 
with man\- other local offices of responsi- 
bility. 

HOBBS, George Miller, son of Wil- 
liam and Maria (Miller) Hobbs, was born 
in Waltham, Middlesex county, April 11, 
1827. 

He attended the common schools of his 
native place until the age of twelve, when 
he was placed in a store in Cambridge, 
where he remained three years. During 
this time he came in daily contact with 
many law students, whose superior attain- 
ments inspired him with an ambition to 
make himself an equal with them. As a 
beginning, he took up the study of Latin, 
without a teacher, the only time attainable 
for the object being after the shutters were 
put up at nine o'clock at night. With the 
small amount of Latin thus obtained, and 
without knowing a letter of the Greek 
alphabet, he placed himself under the care 
of that most e.xcellent scholar and woman, 
Mrs. Ripley, at Waltham and at Concord 
for one year, when he presented himself 
for examination for Harvard. He success- 
fully passed the same, and was matriculated 
as a member of the freshman class, gradu- 
ating in the class of 1850. 

After graduation Jre was engaged as a 
private tutor in Upper Marlborough, Md., 
and then went to Ale.Kandria, Va., where 
he remained for some years, teaching. He 
then returned, to Cambridge, entered the 
law school, receiving his degree therefrom 
in 1857. While there he acted as proctor, 
and was librarian of the law school for a 
year. He was admitted to the bar in Bos- 
ton in 1858, and immediately after became 
associated with the Hon. Edward Avery, 
which connection has ever since con- 
tinued. 

Mr. Hobbs was married in Boston, Octo- 
ber 26, 1859, to Annie M., daughter of Dr. 
Samuel and Ann (Carter) Morrill. Of this 
union are two children : Alice Avery and 
Edith Morrill Hobbs. 

Mr. Hobbs was a member of the House 
of Representatives in 1868 ; a member 
also of the Roxbury and Boston school 
boards for twenty-three years, serving as 
president of the Boston board two years. 
He was one of the water commissioners for 
the city of Boston two years. In connec- 
tion with his partner, Mr. Avery, he pub- 



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HODGKINS. 



lished a work on bankruptcy, upon the 
enactment of the bankrupt act. 

He has been law reporter for the " Bos- 
ton Post " for twenty-five years, writing 
many of the reviews and notices of law 
books published in that paper. 

HODGDON, Richard Lord, son of 

Richard and Eunice (Lord) Hodgdon, was 
born in South Berwick, York county, Maine, 
April 1 1, 1825. 

His foundation training was received in 
the public schools of those days, and his 
preparation for a classical course in college 
acquired at South Berwick Academy. En- 
tering Bowdoin College in 1841, he finished 
the course and was graduated therefrom in 
1845. Choosing the medical profession, he 
entered the Jefferson Medical College, 
Philadelpiiia, from which he received his 
diploma in 1S52. 

].)r. Hodgdon began the practice of med- 
icine in West Cambridge (now Arlington), 
in 1853, where he has since resided. 

Dr. Hodgdon was married in West Cam- 
bridge, November 9, 1854, to Maria W., 
daughter of Dr. Timothy and Lydia (Yates) 
Wellington. The children of this union 
are : Frank W., Andrew H., and Ellen W. 
Hodgdon. 

Dr. Hodgdon has been a member of 
the school committee for many years, and 
also superintendent of schools. He has 
also been a member of the state board of 
lunacy and charity. 

HODGKINS, William E., .son of Jo- 
seph W. and Sarah (Barnes) Hodgkins, 
was born in Plymouth, Plymouth county, 
September 26, 1829. 

The common and high schools of Plym- 
outh furnisned his early education. After 
leaving school he entered his father's tail- 
oring establishment in Plymouth. Coming 
to Boston shortly afterwards, he entered 
the employ of Charles A. Smith, who had 
about that time leased the old state-house, 
after the removal of the post-office to Mer- 
chants E-xchange on State Street, where he 
remained until 1S66, in which year the firm 
again changed its location to its present 
commodious quarters on School Street. 
From this time, and by this change, the 
business received a new impetus, and met 
with phenomenal success, not only retain- 
ing the first-class trade which they then 
enjoyed, but increasing the same nearly 
three-fold. 

In 1867 Mr. Hodgkins formed a co-part- 
nership with Mr. Smith, under the firm 
name of Charles A. Smith & Co., and dur- 
ing their long business career thev b.ave 



catered to the wants of three generations, 
and numbered among their customers many 
of the most distinguished men in the coun- 
try. Mr. Hodgkins has taken many trips 
abroad in the interests of the business 
which he has so judiciously and success- 
fully managed. 

He was the first president of the Boston 
Tailors' E.xchange, having been instru- 
mental in its organization. He was second 
vice-president of the Merchant Tailors' 
National E.xchange, which was organized 
in Philadelphia in 1866. He has been in- 
variably prominent in promoting the inter- 
ests of his trade, and is looked to as an 




WILLIAM E HODGKINS. 

authority in his particular line. In 1874 
Caleb G. Beal, whose previous energy and 
tact had added much to the success of the 
firm, was admitted as co-partner in the 
business. Mr. Hodgkins has a son con- 
nected with him in the house, thus com- 
pleting a third generation engaged in the 
same pursuit. 

Mr. Hodgkins was married in Cam- 
bridge, September 7, 1853, to Ann M., 
daughter of Captain John (U. S. N.) and 
Eliza (Candler) Bubier of Marblehead. 
Of this union were five sons and one daugh- 
ter : William C, Joseph W., Susan C, Ed- 
ward W., Arthur B. (deceased), and Howard 
G. Hodgkins. On the maternal side Mr. 



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Hodgkins is descended from John Barnes, 
one of the earliest settlers of Plymouth 
colony. 

HOLBROOK, ELISHA EVERETT, son 
of Elisha N. and Relief Holbrook, was 
born in Holbrook (then East Randolph), 
Norfolk county, April 23, 1835. 

After completing the public school 
course, he finished his school life at Phil- 
lips Academy, Andover, and entered busi- 
ness in connection with his father in the 
manufacture of boots and shoes, being 
in due time admitted to partnership un- 
der the firm name of E. N. Holbrook & 
Son. 

The upright private life and successful 
business career of Mr. E. N. Holbrook 
formed an essential element in the growth 
and welfare of his native town for more 
than half a century. It was largely in 
consequence of his energy, judgment, and 
munificence that East Randolph was made 
a separate town, and, as a voluntary trib- 
ute from the citizens, it was re-christened 
Holbrook. No small part of the inheritance 
of his son is the thorough integrity, relig- 
ious principle, and unassuming benevo- 
lence which were the strong characteris- 
tics of the father. 

Mr. Holbrook's life has not been event- 
ful in a public way, but has been a source 
of good to the community and to a large 
circle of devoted friends. He was the 
first Republican representative to the Gen- 
eral Court after the incorporation of the 
town. He is a director of the Randolph 
National Bank, and an active member of 
the Winthrop Congregational church. 

Mr. Holbrook was married in December, 
1865, to Mary Jane, daughter of Rev. Dr. 
Russell of Holbrook, and has two daugh- 
ters : J. Louise and Mary S. Holbrook. 
The death of his wife occurred in 1886. 
In February, 1889, he married Mrs. Isabel 
N. Dana of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

Mr. Holbrook has spent two years in 
European travel and several winters in the 
South, having retired from active manufac- 
turing business soon after the death of his 
father, in 1872. 

HOLLEY, Richard, son of Richard 
and Patience Hoi ley, was born at Edgar- 
town, Dukes county, on the island of 
Martha's Vineyard, January 30, 1829. 

His early education was limited, being 
such as was obtainable by attendance u|inn 
the common schools until the age of thir- 
teen, when he slii|5ped for a whaling 
voyage and " completed his education " — 
as appears from the biographical sketches 



of members of the General Court of 1875 
— " in the North and South Pacific." Hav- 
ing decided to make whaling his vocation 
in life, Mr. Holley entered upon the pros- 
ecution of the work with characteristic 
energy and perseverance. Two voyages 
of twenty-two and thirty-two months re- 
S|3ectively made him a boat-steerer, in 
which capacity he displayed such pro- 
ficiency in general seamanship, as well as 
skill and pluck in the taking of whales, 
that on the succeeding voyage he was pro- 
moted at once over the intervening grades 
to the first officer, and at the early age of 
twenty-three was given the command of 
the ship " Washington," of New Bedford, 
Jonathan Bourne, agent — being, with one 
e.xception, the youngest shipmaster from 
the Vineyard. He then commanded in 
the order named, ship " Thomas Nye, " 
Thomas Nye, Jr., agent; bark " Waverley," 
D. B. Kempton, agent — which was taken 
from him and burned by the " Shenan- 
doah " in Behring Strait in 1865 — and the 
bark "Islander," all of New Bedford, and 
the last two under the same agency. In 
all of these voyages he was uniformly suc- 
cessful, enjoying the unbounded confidence 
of agents and owners. 

Retiring from the whaling service with 
a competency in 1869, he continued to 
reside in his native town, enjoying the 
fruits of his enterprise and industry, and 
without active employment until 1877, 
when he became interested in the grocery 
business, and continues so engaged at the 
present time. 

He married, in Edgartown, 1852, So- 
phronia S., daughter of S. W. Lewis of 
that town. 

Though never a seeker for local offices. 
Captain Holley has always taken an active 
and intelli.gent interest in home affairs, 
generally contributing to the discussion of 
matters coming before the town for its 
action, and rendering acceptable service 
on its committees. Notable among these 
were the committees appointed to oppose 
the division of the town in 1879 and '80, 
of both of which he was a member, resist- 
ing division in the former year, but favor- 
ing a settlement when the question again 
came before the Legislature in 1880. He 
has also taken a deep interest in the fish- 
ing industries incident to his island home, 
always and actively espousing the cause 
of the resident fishermen against outside 
aggressive or local monopolies, which he 
believes prejudicial to the general weal. 

He was twice returned to the General 
Court (in 1875 and '76^ where he rendered 



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HOI. MAN. 



HOLMES. 



good service on committees and in gen- 
eral legislation, and to the acceptance 
of the great body of his constituents at 
home. 

HOLMAN, Frank Edward, son of Asa 

and Caroline I). (Sawyer) Holnian, was 
born in Clinton, Worcester county, August 
8, 1853. His ancestor settled in Bolton, 
and held |5rominent social positions in that 
town. 

He received his early training in the 
public schools of Clinton and Cambridge, 
but has acquired no meagre fund of prac- 
tical knowledge from the exercise of his 
love for general reading. 

April, 1870, he entered the employ of 
H. E. Starbird, hardware dealer, remained 
as clerk until January i, 1875, then was 
admitted as a partner, with firm name of 
H. E. Starbird & Co. This relationship 
existed until April, 1884, when the firm was 
dissolved by the death of Mr. Starbird. 
From 1884 until the present time the busi- 
ness has been carried on by Mr. Holman, 
under the business signature of F. E. Hol- 
man & Co., he being the sole active and 
managing partner. 

Mr. Holman was married in Shirley, 
November 24, 1886, to Nellie C, daugh- 
ter of N. C. and Lucy E. (Hathaway) 
Munson. Mr. Mun.son was the contractor 
who filled up the Back Bay in Boston. 

Mr. Holman has been a member of the 
school board since 1885. He was elected 
to represent his district (13th Worcester) 
in the House of Representatives in 1888, 
and served on the committee on mercantile 
affairs. He was re-elected in 1889, and 
assigned to drainage committee. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. 

Mr. Holman has been for some year> 
chairman of the parish committee of the 
Unitarian society, and an active member 
in the work pertaining to it. 

He is a director in the Clinton board of 
trade. 

HOLMES, HORACE M., son of Jesse 
C. and Orinda (Oakes) Holmes, was born in 
Waterville, Lamoille county, Vt., Novem- 
ber 2, 1826. 

His early education was accomplished 
in the schools of his native town and at 
the Bakersfield Academical Listitute, Ba- 
kersfield, Vt. Thereafter, for a short 
period, he taught school in Illinois and in 
Pittsfield, Mass.; then studied medicine 
with the late Drs. H. H. & T. Childs, 
graduating at the Berkshire Medical Col- 
lege in November, 1852. Soon after grad- 
uating he moved to .^dams, where he has 



since lived and practiced his profession. 
He is also a partner in the firm of F. E. 
Mole & Co., druggists, and dealers ii. 
hardware, paints, etc. 

On the nth of October, 1855, Dr. 
Holmes was married in Pittsfield, to Helen 
C, daugliter of Merrick and Susan (Big- 
elow) Ross. His wife died December 11, 
1880. Their two children are : Jessie R. 
and Harry B. Holmes. 

Dr. Holmes is a charter member of the 
Berkshire lodge, F. & A. M., and for two 
years was its master. Since its organiza- 
tion, in i860, he has been a vestryman of 
St. Mark's Episcopal church, and was for 
several years chairman of the board of 
health. In 1878 and '79 he was elected to 
the Legislature from the towns of Adams 
and North Adams, and served on the com- 
mittee on public health. He has never 
been an aspirant for political honors, much 




HORACE M HOLMES. 

preferring to devote his time wholly to 
his profession ; but in the course of his 
active and valuable life he has filled 
various offices in the Berkshire Medical 
.Societv, of which he was president in 1881 
and '82. 

HOLMES, HOWLAND, was born in 
Halifax, IMymouth county, January 16, 
1815. He is a lineal descentlant on his 
mother's side from John Alden, the Pilgrim, 



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and on his father's side from John Holmes, 
who was in Plymouth in 1632. 

His education began in the district 
school in an outer district in the sparsely 
populated town of Bridgewater, and was 
continued in Bridgewater Academy, and 
in Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H. He 
took the degree of A. B. in 1843, ''"d his 
degree of A. M. in 1846 — both from Har- 
vard University. He spent a year in Eu- 
rope in attending a course of lectures at 
L' Ecolc de Medicine, in Paris, antl in the 
hospitals of Paris and London. He took 
his medical degree from Harvard Univer- 
sity in 1848, and became a member of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society the same 
year. 

He began practice in West Cambridge 
(now Arlington), and moved to Lexington 
in 185 I, where he is now in active success- 
ful practice. He served several years as 
vice-president and president of the Mid- 
dlesex South District Medical Society, and 
many years as councilor of the parent 
society, which he represented in 1876 at 
the annual meeting of the New Hampshire 
Medical Societ\', in 1S82 at the annual 
meeting of the State of Maine Medical 
Association, and in 1884 at the American 
Medical Association, at Washington, D. C. 

He has published several works — 
among them a paper on " Puerperal Con- 
vulsions," one on "Imperforate Anus," antl 
another on "Tetanus following Labor," 
etc. 

He was the originator of the society for 
shading the streets and public places in 
Lexington, 1853, and one of the first mem- 
bers of the Lexington Farmers' Club, 
1854. He was instrumental in founding 
two public town libraries — one in Plym- 
outh county, for which he rendered pecu- 
niary assistance, the other in Middlesex 
county, where, at his request, a person of 
wealth founded a free town library, the 
name and the form of trusteeship being 
furnished by him. 

He has held a commission of justice of 
the peace about twenty-five years. He 
has held the office of town physician sev- 
eral years, both in West Cambridge and 
Lexington, and was a trustee of the public 
library in West Cambridge. He was 
chairman of the town committee to induce 
the trustees of the agricultural college to 
locate it in I,exington. He was one of the 
general centennial committee for the ob- 
servance of April 19, 1875, in that place ; 
chairman of the town committee to induce 
the trustees of the state normal school to 
re-locate it there ; chairman of the com- 



mittee to resist before the Legislature the 
efforts of the town of Arlington to take 
water from Vine Brook. 

He was for many years a member of the 
school committee, both in M'est Cambridge 
and Lexington, wrote some of the annual 
reports, and served on other committees 
of importance. He is a resident member 
of the New England Historic Genealogi- 
cal Society. 




HOWLANO HOLMES. 

He has lived the quiet life of a country 
physician, who, penniless and without the 
aid of wealthy friends, by indomitable 
perseverance in teaching and studying 
alternately, secured his credentials for 
future usefulness and activity. 

He married in Albany, N. Y., August 28, 
1849, S. Maria W., daughter of William 
Cotting, of West Cambridge, and has two 
children. 

HOLMES, Nathaniel, son of Samuel 
and Mary (Annan) Holmes, was born at 
Peterborough, Hillsborough county, N. H., 
July 2, 1814. His ancestors of the names 
Holmes, Hunter, Moore, Allison, Steele, 
McFarland, Smith, Harkness and Annan, 
came from Scotland and the North of Ire- 
land, and were among the earlier settlers 
of Peterborough and Londonderry, N. H. 
He lived with his parents on a farm in 
Peterborough until seven years of age, and 



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HOLMES. 



then at Springfickl, \'t., where his father 
had a maehine shop and cotton factory. 
Soon after the death of his mother, in 182S, 
he returned with his father to tiie farm in 
Peterborough. 

He attended the common schools of 
those places, and at the age of ten years 
began the study of Latin with the Rev. 
Addison Brown, of Peterborough, and con- 
tinued the same at the academy in Chester, 
Vt., under the Rev. Uriah Burnap. After 
pursuing English studies for one term at 
the academy in New Ipswich, N. H., he 
was sent, in the summer of 1831, to Phil- 
lips Academy, Exeter, N. H., to fit for 






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NATHANIEL HOLMES 

college, entered Harvard College in 1833, 
and graduated in the class of 1837. He 
was a member of several college societies, 
and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa 
Society at the end of his junior year. 

While continuing his studies, he taught 
school in winter at Milford, N. H., Billerica 
and Leominster, Mass., and in Weld's Latin 
school at Lamaica Plain. In the first year 
after leaving college he was engaged as a 
private tutor in the family of the Hon. John 
N. Steele, near \'ienna, on the eastern shore 
of Maryland, where he began the study of 
law. 

In i838-'39 he completed his legal 
studies in the Harvard law school, at 



Cambridge, and in the otifice of Henry H. 
Fuller, of Boston. On being admitted to 
the bar in Boston, in September, 1839, he 
went directly to St. Louis, Mo., and began 
practice there in 1840. In the next year 
he entered into partnership with Thomas 
B. Hudson, who had been several years in 
practice, and from 1846 to '53 was in part- 
nership with his younger brother, Samuel 
A. Holmes. 

In 1846 he was appointed circuit attor- 
ney for the county of St. Louis, and be- 
tween 1850 and '55 was a director of the 
St. Louis Law Library Association, and 
held for two years the office of counselor 
of the board of St. Louis public schools, 
having important litigation concerning 
lands granted by Congress for the use of 
schools. Following changes in the direct- 
ory of the North Missouri Railroad Com- 
pany, occasioned by the war, he was chosen 
counselor of that corporation in 1862, and 
held the place until June, 1865, when he 
became one of the judges of the supreme 
court of the state, b}" the appointment of 
Gov. Thomas C. Fletcher, under the new 
constitution. He resigned this office in 
1868 to accept the Royall professorship of 
law in Harvard Universitv, and upon resig- 
nation thereof, in 1872, he returned to the 
practice of law' at St. Louis. 

He was for several years, and while re- 
siding at St. Louis, one of the trustees of 
the St. Louis Medical College. In 1S56 he 
took part in organizing the Academy of 
Science of St. Louis, and was for twenty- 
two years its corresponding secretary, and 
assisted in editing its published transac- 
tions. He received the degree of A. M. 
from Harvard L^niversity in 1859. In 1870 
he was elected a fellow of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, in the 
section of philosophy and jurisprudence. 

Judge Holmes retired from prt)fessional 
business at St. Louis in 1883, and returned 
to Cambridge, Mass., where he now re- 
sides. His judicial opinions are contained 
in vols, xxxvi. to xlii. of the Missouri 
Reports. A paper on the " Geological and 
Geographical Distribution of the Human 
Race " was read before the St. Louis 
Academy of Science, in 1879, and was pub- 
lished in vol. iv. of the Transactions. 

Between 1874 and '82 he delivered sev- 
eral lectures and addresses at St. Louis, 
some of which were printed in public jour- 
nals. In 1 866 he published a book on the 
"Authorship of Shakespeare," of which a 
third edition with an appendix was issued 
in 1875, and a last edition, in two volumes 
with a supplement, in 1886 ; and in 18SS 



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HOLMES. 



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was published liis latest work, entitled 
" Realistic Idealism in Philosophy Itself," 
in two volumes. 

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, was born 

in Cambridge, Middlesex county, August 
29, 1809. He was the son of the Rev. 
Abie! Holmes, I). I)., and Sarah (Wendell) 
Holmes. His father was a native of Wood- 
stock, Conn., a graduate of Yale in the 
class of 1783, and pastor of the First Con- 
gregational church, Cambridge, 1792 to 
1832. His mother was the daughter of the 
Hon. Oliver Wendell of Boston, a graduate 
of Harvard, and the son of Hon, Jacob 
Wendell, an eminent Boston merchant. 

Dr. Holmes obtained his preparatory 
education under the tuition of various 
instructors, during the year i824-'5 at 
Phillips Academy, Andover, and matricu- 
lated at Harvarci, graduating therefrom in 
the famous class of 1829. 

.\fter graduation he devoted a year to 
the study of law, but not finding it quite 
congenial to his tastes, abandoned it for 
that of medicine. In 1S33 he visited 
Europe, previous to which he had chosen 
the medical profession, and for two years 
and six months had studied with Dr. James 




OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 



Jackson and his associates. While in 
Europe he attended L' Ecolc de AleJiciiic, 
Paris, and spent between two and three 



years in attendance on the hospitals in 
Europe. In 1835 he returned to Boston, 
rejoined the medical school of Harvard 
University, and in 1836 received his degree 
of M. D. In 1838 he became professor of 
anatomy and physiology in Dartmouth 
College, and on the resignation of Dr. 
John C. Warren, in 1847, was elected his 
successor to the chair of anatomy in the 
medical department of Harvard University. 

In 1849 he retired from general practice, 
and although holding his professorship, he 
devoted himself now more especially to 
the pursuit of letters. He is still Profes- 
sor Emeritus, Harvard University. He is 
professionally distinguished as an accurate 
anatomist and skillful microscopist and 
auscultator. 

But the widest fame of Oliver Wendell 
Holmes is as a poet, wit, and man of let- 
ters. From boyhood the Muse has been 
his constant attendant, and while the sun 
of prosperity has wooed him to enjoy, the 
genius of his life, the love of the beauti- 
ful, has led him on to accomplish. Many 
of his most charming effusions have never 
been embalmed save in the memory of 
his friends ; but his best known works 
are " Terpsichore," " Urania," " Astrasa," 
" Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," 
" Professor at the Breakfast Table," " El- 
sie Venner," "The Guardian Angel," 
" Songs of Many Seasons," Memoirs of 
John I,. Motley, Ralph \\"aldo Emerson, 
etc. 

During the winter Dr. Holmes resides 
principally in Boston. 

He was married June 15, 1840, to Amelia 
Lee, daughter of Hon. Charles Jackson, of 
Ijoston. Of this union were born three 
children : Oliver Wendell, Jr. (associate 
iustice of the supreme judicial court of 
Massachusetts), Amelia Jack.son (widow 
of the late Turner Sargent), and Edward 
Jackson Holmes. 

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, Jr., son 

of C)liver Wendell and Amelia Lee (Jack- 
son) Holmes, was born in Boston, March 
8, 1 84 1. 

His early educational training and prep- 
aration for college was obtained in E. S. 
Dixwell's private Latin school. He was 
graduated from Harvard College in the 
class of 1861. 

At the breaking out of the civil war he 
entered the service of his country, and was 
commissioned first lieutenant in the 20th 
Massachusetts volunteer infantry ; was 
promoted to captain ; wounded in the 
breast at the battle of Ball's Bluff, Octo- 
ber 21, 1861 ; wounded in the neck at 



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HO. MANS. 



Antietam, September 17, 1S62, and in the 
foot at second Fredericksburg, May, 1863 ; 
commissioned lieutenant-colonel, but not 
mustered, and finally was promoted to 
brevet-colonel U. S. volunteers. 

Mr. Holmes, on returning from the war, 
having chosen the profession of law, pur- 
sued his studies at the Harvard law school, 
then with Robert M. Morse, Jr., and later 
with G. O. Shattuck, Boston, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1866. 

He edited the twelfth edition of " Kent's 
Commentaries," since recognized as the 
standard edition of that famous work, also 
the "American Law Review " for three 
years. He then went into active practice 
with Shattuck &: Munroe, the firm name 
being Shattuck, Holmes & Munroe. 

He gave at the Lowell Institute a course 
of lectures upon the common law, which 
were subsequently published in book form, 
and it was this work that placed him at 
once in the front rank of profound legal 
thinkers, giving him not only a national, 
but a world-wide reputation ; and it was 
this, undoubtedly, which led to his selection 
as professor in the Harvard law school in 
1882, and in December of the same year to 
his appointment as associate justice of the 
supreme judicial court, which honorable 
position he still holds. 

Li 1886 Yale conferred upon him the 
degree of LL. D. 

Judge Holmes was married in Boston, 
June 17, 1872, to Fanny Bowditch (Dix- 
well). They have no children. 

HOMANS, John, son of John and 
Caroline (\\'alker) Homans, was born in 
Boston, November 26, 1836. 

He fitted for college in the Boston Latin 
school, entered Harvard College, and was 
graduated in the class of 1858. Choosing 
the profession of medicine and surgery, he 
entered the Harvard medical school in 
1858, from which he was graduated M. D. 
in the class of 1862. Dr. Homans comes 
from old revolutionary stock, his grand- 
father. Dr. John Homans, having been a 
surgeon at Bunker Hill and during the 
revolutionary war. 

In 1862 he was appointed assistant-sur- 
geon, U. S. army (regulars), holding a 
commission till 1865. He was on General 
Banks's staff in the department of the 
Gulf, and in charge of St. James Hospital 
in New Orleans ; was afterwards medical 
inspector of the middle military division, 
on the staff of Major-General Sheridan, in 
1864 and '65. He was also assistant-sur- 
geon in the United States navy in 1861 
and a portion of 1862, before he entered 



the army. He is surgeon upon the regular 
staff of the Massachusetts General Hos- 
pital, and a general surgeon in very active 
practice; consulting surgeon to the Carney 
Hospital, and the Children's Hospital ; is 
member of the Military Historical Society 
of ^lassachusetts, the Boston Society for 
Medical Improvement, the American Acad- 
emy of Arts and Sciences, and numerous 
other societies connected with his profes- 
sion. 




JOHN HOMANS. 

Dr. Homans is Harvard Lfniversity lec- 
turer on the diagnosis and treatment of 
ovarian tumors, and is one of the leading 
ovariotomists in the country, and although 
a visiting surgeon of one of our largest 
metropolitan hospitals, it is especially dur- 
ing the last sixteen years that his name 
has been connected with the practice of 
abdominal surgery. Up to the present 
time he has opened the abdominal cavity 
for the removal of ovarian or other tumors, 
or for other diseases and injuries, about 
seven hundred times. 

Dr. Homans was married in Boston, De- 
cember 4, 1872, to Helen Amory, daughter 
of William and Catherine Callender 
(.'^mory) Perkins. Of this union were six 
children : Robert, Katherine Amory, John 
Alden, Marion Jackson, Helen and William 
Perkins Homans. 



HOOKER. 



HOPKINS. 



HOOKER, Henry, son of William and 
Octavia (Hale) Hooker, was born in West- 
field, Hampden county, Jime 27, 1820. 

He attended the district school imtil ten 
years of age, then four years in the West- 
field Academy, of which Rev. Kmerson 
Davis was principal. 

At the age of fifteen years he was inden- 
tured until his majority to the Phoeni.K 
Bank of Hartford, Conn. He was in the 
employ of that bank twelve years, serving 
through the various grades of clerkship. 
In August, 1847, he received the appoint- 
ment of cashier of the Mahaiwe Bank of 
(ireat Barrington, which office he held till 
August, 1 85 1, when he resigned it to ac- 
cept a similar position in the Westfield 
bank. In 1864 this bank was merged with 
the First National Bank, to the cashiership 
of which he succeeded, which position he 
still holds. He is now, and has been since 
its organization, the treasurer of the Bay 
State Beneficiary Association. 

Mr. Hooker was married in Greenfield, 
October 10, 1844, to Sarah, daughter of 
Richardson and Sybilla (Hale) Hall. Of 
this union are two children : Charles Hall 
Hooker (now with Kidder, Peabody tV 
Co., Boston), and Lucy Ashman Hooker 
(now Mrs. John Cotton Eastman, New 
Haven, Conn.). 

Mr. Hooker has been treasurer of the 
Second Congregational church of West- 
field for many years. He is a representa- 
tive bank cashier, devoting his life to the 
theory and practice of banking, havini; 
.served a long series of years to the accejjt- 
ance of the public, and always secure in 
the confidence of bank ofiicers and asso- 
ciates. He is a lineal descendant of Rev. 
Thomas Hooker, of Hartford, Conn. 

HOOPER, George Mitchell, son of 

Mitchell and Jane (Mitchell) Hooper, was 
born in Bridgewater, Plymouth county, 
September i, 1838. 

After his district school preparation he 
attended Bridgewater Academy, and Pierce 
Academy, Middleborough. He was grad- 
uated from the Bridgewater state normal 
school, February 17, 1857. 

In 1859 he first engaged in business as a 
manufacturer of brick. He is still inter- 
ested in the business. 

Mr. Hooper was married in Bridgewa- 
ter, October 17, 1861, to Mary Edes, 
daughter of Hervey and Elizabeth H. 
(Tallman) Josselyn. His second marriage 
was with Catherine, daughter of Edward 
and Margaret Mitchell, in Bridgewater, 
January 15, 1889. He has had eight chil- 
dren, si.K of whom survive ; Jane Mitchell, 



Louise Guild, George Mitchell, Frederick 
Warren, Mary Edes and Mitchell Hooper. 
The fifth and si.\th in order of birth, Har- 
rison Keith and Theodore Wright Hooper, 
are deceased. 

Mr. Hooper has been a member of the 
school board, trustee of the public library, 
treasurer of Plymouth County Agricultural 
Society ; clerk and trustee of Bridgewater 
Savings Bank, and was a member of the 
House of Representatives in 1888. 

HOPKINS, James Hughes, son of 

Smith K. and Mary A. (Hughes) Hopkins, 
was born in North Truro, Barnstable 
county, February 20, 1861. 

After attending the public schools of 
Truro, he passed through the Prescott 
grammar school, Somerville, and was grad- 
uated from the Somerville high school in 
the class of 1878. He then entered Har- 
vard College, from which he was graduated 
in the class of 1882. 




JAMES H, HOPKINS. 

After graduating he engaged in teach- 
ing in Eastham and Barnstable, 1882 and 
'83, and until February, 1884. He chose 
the profession of law, and was admitted to 
practice in October, 1883. 

He began practice in New Bedford, 
P'ebruary, 1884, but removed to Province- 
town in June of the same year, where he 
has since continued in practice. He also 



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HURTON. 



has an office in Barnstable. In i8S6 he 
became editor of the " Provincetown Ad- 
vocate." Mr. Hopkins was elected a com- 
missioner of insolvency for the county of 
Barnstable from 1S87 to '90; appointed 
one of the trial justices for the county of 
Barnstable in 18S5. In 1888 he was made 
treasurer of the First Universalist church 
of Provincetown ; has been secretary, 
treasurer, and trustee of Mayflower coun- 
cil, loii Royal Arcanum ; director of the 
Provincetown Building Association, and 
clerk of the Provincetown Boot & Shoe 
Company. In 1888 he was elected a 
special commissioner for the county of 
Barnstable, and was elected one of the 
trustees of the Provincetown public library 
in 1889. 

HORTON, Edward Augustus, son 

of William Marshal and Ann (Leonard) 
Horton, was born in Springfield, Hampden 
county, September 28, 1843. 

He studied at Springfield, in the public 
schools; moved to Chicago in 1856, and 
lived there six years. During that time 
the civil war broke out, and he enlisted in 
the navy, going to Brooklyn. N.Y., for that 
purpose. He was then eighteen years old. 
Mr. Horton served as landsman in the 
South Atlantic squadron, under Commo- 
dores Dupont and Dahlgren, a little more 
than a year. His craft, the steam gun- 
boat " Seneca," assisted in blockading 
Charleston, in attacking Forts Wagner 
and Sumter, and in destroying the priva- 
teer " Nashville." 

On his return to civil life he began 
vigorous preparations for college, crowd- 
ing the successive steps, and entering with- 
out conditions the class of 1869 at the 
University of Michigan. Owing to cer- 
tain obstacles not easily overcome, of a 
kind which young men without means 
usually encounter, he remained but a little 
while at the university. Feeling the need 
of abridging his time of study, he went 
at once to the theological school at Mead- 
ville, Pa., and there not only prosecuted 
the regular course of three years, but 
maintained other studies, graduating in 
1868. A graceful act was done by the Uni- 
versity of Michigan in 1880, in conferring 
on Mr. Horton the honorary degree of A. M. 

On graduating he had two invitations 
to settle — one from Flint, Mich., and one 
from Leominster. Mass. The latter was 
accepted, and Mr. Horton held the pastor- 
ate of that very large parish for seven 
years. During that period, in 1871, he 
visited England, Switzerland and Germany, 
and spent a year in study at Brunswick 



and Heidelberg, his church generously 
granting a leave of absence. In the sum- 
mer of 1875 he accepted a call to New 
Orlean,s, but a severe and almost fatal ill- 
ness fell upon him, and the result of hard 
work was summed up in the order of the 
physicians to rest for two years. 

On December i, 1875, at Lancaster, he 
married Josephine Adelaide, daughter of 
Nathaniel and Ruth (Miles) Rand. They 
have one child : Ruth Horton, born Feb- 
ruary 24, 1877. 

The very day of his marriage he started 
for the South to regain his lost health. 
Two years seemed too long for idleness, 
and in a year's time he was at work 
again, having accepted a call to Hingham, 
as minister of the Old Church, famous 
for its quaint edifice, over two hundred 
years old. Here he remained, happy in 
his relations to his people and the town, 
three years, and then went to Boston, as 
pastor of the Second Church, Copley 
Square (founded in 1649). Since 18S0 
Mr. Horton has not only served this 
parish, but has been identified with various 
religious and philanthropic movements. 
Among his predecessors were the three 
Mathers, Henry \\'are, Jr., Ralph Waldo 
Emerson, and Chandler Robbins. The 
society has steadily grown under his 
charge, and is now full of vigor and pros- 
perity. 

Mr. Horton has been president of the 
Benevolent Fraternity of Churches ; presi- 
dent of the L^nitarian Sunday-school Soci- 
ety, and director of the American L'nitarian 
Association. He is a director of the Wash- 
ingtonian Home, of the North End Mis- 
sion, of the Home for Intemperate Women, 
and other organizations. He is closely 
connected with the Grand Army of the 
Republic, having served as chaplain of the 
State, and holding now the chaplaincy of 
E.W.Kinsley Post 113, in Boston. He 
is a trustee of Derby Academy, Hingham ; 
superintendent of Westford Academy, and 
visitor to the Howard Collegiate Institute. 
His literary reviews of books, and occa- 
sional contributions on general subjects, 
are confined mostly to the Boston press, 
and to the denominational papers and 
magazines. Among the other publications 
from his pen are discourses on Emerson 
and Garfield, delivered at the time of their 
death ; an address to the graduating class 
of 1888, at the Boston College of Phar- 
macy ; three sermons on ITnitarianism ; 
and a historical discourse commemorative 
of the 250th anniversary of the building of 
the Old Meeting House, in Hingham. 



HORTON. 



HORTON. 



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HORTON, Everett S., son of Gideon 
M. and Mary (Smith) Horton, was born in 
Attleborongh, Bristol county, lune 15, 
1836. 

Public schools and a private academy 
furnished his advantages for an education. 

He entered a country store with his 
father, and succeeded him in the business. 
After the war of the rebellion he was en- 
gaged as salesman in the largest whole- 
sale house in groceries, flour, etc., in Provi- 
dence, R. I., and remained there fifteen 
years. 

In iSSo he entered the jewelry manu- 
facturing establishment of his brother, tak- 
ing the place of a brother deceased. He 
continued in this line of industry, becom- 
ing senior member of the firm of Horton, 
Angell & Co., Attleborough. 

Mr. Horton was first married in Attle- 
borough, June 12, 1861, to Mary Ann, 
daughter of Jesse and Mary (More) Car- 
penter. He was married the second time, 
September 24, 1873, to Eliza B., daughter 
of Horace and Rahanna (Ordway) Free- 
mont. Of the first marriage is Mary Edith 
Horton, and of the second, Gertie E. 
Horton. 

In the war of the rebellion Mr. Hortun 
was lieutenant and captain in the 47th 
regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, and 2(1 
lieutenant, captain, and major in the s8th 
Massachusetts. He was taken prisoner 
September 30, 1864, and paroled F"ebruary 
22, 1865. He was confined in Libby 
Prison, in Salisbury, N. C, and in Dan- 
ville, Va. 

Mr. Horton is one of the directors of the 
Attleborough Savings and Loan Associa- 
tion, and president of the public library. 
He is one of the trustees of the Richardson 
school fund, and an officer in several com- 
mercial and social organizations. He is 
always active in any public or private en- 
terprise that aids in building up the town 
and ministers to its welfare. 

He is a member of the G. A. R. Post 145, 
the ^Military Order of the Loyal Legion, 
and the Masonic fraternity, being a Mason 
of the 32d degree. 

Mr. Horton is a staunch Republican, and 
an active worker in the ranks of that party. 

HORTON, Nathaniel Augustus, son 

of Nathaniel and Martha (Very) Horton, 
was born in Salem, Essex county, where 
he has always resided, April 16, 1830. 

He was educated in the public schools 
of Salem, graduating at the English high 
school March 6, 1S46 On the 23d of the 
same month he entered the ofiice of the 
"Salem Gazette"' — then published by 



Caleb Foote and William Brown — and 
served a regular apprenticeship until he 
was twenty-one. 

In January, 1854 (Mr. Brown having left 
the office to take a public position under 
the administration of Zachary Taylor), 
Mr. Horton was admitted as a partner 
with Mr. Foote, which position he retained 
until the latter retired from the l)usiness, 
October i, 1888. At that time Mr. Horton 
took his son, William A. Horton, into part- 
nership, and the business is now continued 
under the title of N. A. Horton & Son. 

June 20, 1854, Mr. Horton married 
Harriet Maria, daughter of Nathaniel G. 




NATHANIEL A HORTON 

and Harriet (Fillebrown) Symonds. Their 
three children were : Martha Osgood (wife 
of Henry M. Batchelder), George Nathan- 
iel (who died in childhood), and William 
Augustus, junior member of the present 
" Salem Gazette " firm. 

Mr. Horton has always taken a warm 
interest in public affairs. He was in 
sympathy with the Whig party, casting his 
first presidential vote for Winfield Scott, 
in 1852. Upon the dissolution of that 
party, he joined with those who formed 
the Republican party, and has since been 
uniformly itlentified with that political 
organization, though his party affiliations 
have never been strong enough to prevent 



3^4 



HORTON. 



HOVEY. 



him from exercising an independent judg- 
ment of men and measures, according to 
the exigency of the occasion. 

Mr. Horton was a member of the com- 
mon council of Salem in 1861 and '62. He 
was elected to the House of Representa- 
tives in 1859 for the year i860, when there 
were two sessions. He was also a mem- 
ber of the House in 1879 and '80, and of 
the Senate in 1881 and '82. In 1880 he 
was elected a delegate from the 6th con- 
gressional district to the national Repub- 
lican convention, held in June of that 
year ; and, with the majority of delegates, 
he voted first for Edmunds, next for Sher- 
man, and finally for Garfield, who became 
the nominee. 

He has been a member of the Massachu- 
setts Press Association from its beginning, 
and was for two years its president. He 
is a Unitarian in his religious affiliations, 
and has for several years been the presi- 
dent of the Essex conference of liberal 
Christian churches. He is also one of the 
original trustees of the Salem public 
library, chosen for life. 

Mr. Horton began his political writings 
for the " Gazette " before he had reached 
his majority, and has been a regular con- 
tributor to its various departments to the 
jiresent time. His writings have contrib- 
uted much to the editorial character and 
political influence of the "Gazette." While 
in the Senate, his disinterested judgment, 
independence of character, and forcible 
way of presenting his views upon pub- 
lic questions, always gave weight to his 
opinions and reasoning. His minority re- 
port, adverse to woman suffrage, has gen- 
erally been regarded one of the strongest 
presentations upon that side of the ques- 
tion, as well as one of the most courteous 
and temperate in tone ; and it has been at 
least once reprinted with a view to in- 
fluencing votes in a subsequent Legisla- 
ture. 

Mr. Horton has, at several times, but not 
with great frequency, delivered set ad- 
dresses upon special occasions. On sol- 
diers' Memorial days he has given addresses 
at Somerville, Groveland, Arlington and 
Salem. He also delivered an address be- 
fore the members of the Salem city gov- 
ernment, on the occasion of the setting up 
of a tablet to commemorate the resistance 
to Colonel Leslie at North Bridge in 1775. 
Though filling with credit the various pub- 
lic positions to which he has been called, 
Mr. Horton has never aspired to public 
life, nor sought public honors ; but — 
like many others bred to newspaper life 



after the old ways — he has found that 
calling, with such public influence as may 
be carried with it, most congenial to his 
taste. 

HOVEY, ALVAH, son of Alfred and 
Abigail (Howard) Hovey, was born in 
Greene, Chenango county, N. Y., March 5, 
1S20. His parents returned to Thetford, 
Vt., in the autumn of that year. 

He attended the common schools of 
Thetford until fifteen years of age, work- 
ing on the farm with his father during the 
summer seasons after he was six years old. 
At the age of fifteen he attended Thetford 
Academy two terms, and the next year be- 
gan his preparation for college in Brandon, 
Yt.., teaching in winter and studying the 
remainder of the year. At the age of 
nineteen he entered Dartmouth College, 
from which he was graduated in the class 
of 1844. He was obliged to fall back one 
class, having been out of college two 
years, as principal of the academy at 
Derby, Vermont. After his graduation he 
was principal of an academy in New Lon- 
don, N. H., one year and three months, 
then entered Newton Theological Insti- 
tution in the autumn of 1845, ^"^ ^^'^^ 
graduated in 1848. 

He preached in New Gloucester, Me., 
one year. He then (1849) became in- 
structor in Hebrew in the Newton Theo- 
logical Institution. In 1853 he was made 
professor of church history, professor of 
systematic theology in 1855, and president 
of the Institution in 1S68, which position 
he still holds. 

In 1 86 1 and '62 he visited Europe, and 
studied in the universities of Berlin, Gijt- 
tingen and Heidelberg. 

Dr. Hovey was married in Newton Cen- 
tre, September 24, 1852, to Augusta Maria, 
daughter of Marshall Spring and Mary 
(Livermore) Rice. Of this union were 
five children : George Rice, Agnes Curtis, 
Helen Augusta, Harriet Lee, and Frederick 
Howard Hovey. He received the degree 
of D. D. from Brown University, and that 
of LL. D. from Denison University and 
Richmond College. 

Dr. Hovey has efficiently served on the 
Newton school board ; was trustee and 
afterwards fellow of the corporation of 
Brown LTniversity ; trustee of Wellesley 
College, and of the New England Conserva- 
tory of Music ; trustee of Worcester Acad- 
emy ; member of the executive committee 
of the American Baptist Missionary Union ; 
director of the Northern Baptist Education 
Society, and president of the same for sev- 
eral years ; also trustee and director of 



HdWARU. 



HOWARD. 



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the Gardner Colby Ministerial Relief So- 
ciety. 

He is anther of the following' books : 
"A Memoir of the Life and Times of the 
Rev. Isaac Backus, .\. M.," (1859); "The 
State of the Impenitent Dead " (1858) ; 
" The Miracles of Christ Attested by the 
Evangelists" (1864); "The Scriptural 
Law of Divorce " (1866): " God with Us " 
(1872); " Religion and the State " (1876); 
" The Doctrine of the Higher Christian 
Life Compared with the Scriptures " 
(1877); "Manual of Christian Theology 
and Ethics" (1878); " Commentary on the 
Gospel of St. John" (1885); and "Bibli- 
cal Eschatology " (1888). He is also 
general editor of " An American Commen- 
tary on the New Testament," of which 
seven volumes have been published. 

HOWARD, Charles D., son of James 
and Harriet (Shaw) Nowell, was born in 
Haverhill, Esse.x county, October 20, 1829 
— the name being changed to Howard by 
an act of the Legislature in 1849. 

His early education was obtained in the 
public schools of Salem, limited to a gram- 
mar school course. 

He entered the office of the " Salem .Ad- 
vertiser," a Democratic paper, in 1846, to 
learn the printing business. After work- 
ing there four years, he went to the " Essex 
County Freeman " office, a Free Soil paper ; 
from this to H. J. Kutterfield's office in 
Lynn, where he worked at job printing. 
He afterwards worked on " Gleason's Pic- 
torial," in Boston, a number of years, and 
then for several years was foreman of the 
Lynn " Bay State " office. 

In 1858 he went to South Danvers (now 
Peabody) and started a job printing office. 
Two )'ears later he issued the first number 
of the " South Danvers Wizard " (now the 
" Peabody Press "), and published it until 
1882, when he sold out to Fernald & Vit- 
tum. In July, 1882, he went to Salem and 
published the " Salem Evening Post," a 
penny daily. In February, 1885, he sold 
the office to the " Evening Telegram " 
Company. He then went to Natick and 
took the " Citizen " office, where he is at 
present located, doing a large business, 
publishing the "Citizen," the " Wellesley 
Courant," " The College Courant," and the 
" Sherborn Tribune." 

Mr. Howard has been in the printing 
and publishing business more than thirty 
years, and has achieved an honorable finan- 
cial success without a single reverse. 

Mr. Howard was married in Lynn, Feb- 
ruary 8, 1854, to Sarah C, daughter of 
John C. and Sarah (Thayer) Blaney. Of 



this union are three children : L. Flora 
(now Mrs. Dr. A. F. Story), William Thayer, 
and Charles Nowell Howard, 

Mr. Howard held the surveyorship of 
the port of Salem during President Grant's 
first term, and was trustee of the Peabody 
Institute, in Peabody, for si.x years. 

HOWARD, Robert, son of Dennis 
and Elizabeth (Miller) Howard, was born 
in Northwich, Cheshire county, England, 
February 8, 1845. 

His early education was limited to the 
common schools. 

He began life as a back-boy in the spin- 
ning room of a cotton mill when eight 
years old. He was engaged in the various 
lines of work in the spinning department 
until 1879, when he became secretary of 
the Fall River Spinners' Union, at a salary 
the same as wages received by a spinner. 
This selection was made after a si.x years' 
residence in Fall River — he having come 
to America and settled in Fall River in 

1873- 

I\Ir. Howard was master workman of the 
Knights of Labor (State of Massachusetts) 
in 1886. Robert Howard .Assembly,Knights 
of Labor, was named in his honor. 

He was a representative to the General 
Court in 1880, and declined to serve for a 
second term. He was elected as state 
senator, 1886, '87, '88 and '89. He is a 
Democrat, but represents a strong Repub- 
lican district. He has been chairman of 
the committee on labor the last three 
years. 

He has been director of the People's 
Co-operative Loan .Association ; president 
of the Fall River Boot & Siioe Company, 
and associate editor of " Fibre and Fabric." 

As the executive of the Fall River Spin- 
ners' Association, Mr. Howartl's policy has 
been to adjust differences by arbitration, 
in a quiet and business-like manner. Nearly 
all differences between Fall River spinners 
and their employers are now settled prompt- 
ly and satisfactorily, after a conference be- 
tween the secretary and a representative 
of the board of trade. 

Mr. Howard has been called upon to 
confer with the directors of labor move- 
ments throughout New England, has fre- 
quently addressed public meetings and 
appeared before legislative committees, 
and has exerted a controlling influence in 
shaping legislation to limit the hours of 
labor, and to lighten the burdens of women 
and children, not only in Massachusetts, 
but throughout the country. 

Mr. Howard is unmarried. His residence 
is Fall River. 



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HOWE. 



HOWELLS. 



HOWE, Francis Augustine, second 

son of tlie Rev. James and Harriet (Nason) 
Howe, was born at Pepperell, Middlesex 
county, April 20, 1S27, and obtained his 
early education at the Pepperell Academy. 
He graduated at Amherst in the class of 
1848, and attended medical lectures at the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, New 
York, in 1853, and at the Harvard medical 
school in i852-'54, and received his de- 
gree of M. D. from Harvard in 1854. 

For three years he practiced medicine in 
Pepperell, and in 1857 located in Newbury- 
port, where he has since resided and led an 
active professional life. He has also tak- 
en a deep interest in public affairs, and 
been prominent in whatever has tended to 
promote the social and moral welfare of 
the city. 

On the loth of June, 1857, in Pepperell, 
Dr. Howe married Mary Frances, daugh- 
ter of Hon. James and Harriet (Parker) 
Lewis. Their children are : James Lewis 
Howe, professor of chemistry in Louisville, 
Ky., Francis Freeman, and Edith March 
Howe. Of these, the second son died in 
December, 1868. 

Dr. Howe is a member of the American 
Medical Association, Massachusetts Medi- 
cal Society, and was for two years presi- 
dent of the Esse.x North District Medical 
Society. Li 1881 he was appointed by the 
governor to the board of consulting physi- 
cians of the Danvers Hospital. He has 
been president of the corporation, and one 
of the trustees of the Anna Jaques Hos- 
pital at Newburyport since its organiza- 
tion, and was prominently instrumental in 
its foundation. For many years he has 
been a member of the board of trustees of 
the Putnam free school, and has served 
several terms on the school board. He 
has been president of the Y. M. C. A. since 
1887, and is one of the officers of the Belle- 
ville church. Li 1888 he was elected a 
member of the board of aldermen of New- 
buryport, serving one year. During the 
war he was stationed at the Wheaton Hos- 
pital, in Yorktown, Va., in May and June, 
1862, as contract surgeon. He was the 
first physician in Newburyport to make use 
of the hypodermic syringe, the clinical 
thermometer, and the aspirator, in medical 
practice. 

HOWE, Samuel I., son of Calvin and 
Mary (Wyman) Howe, was born in Shrews- 
bury, \\'orcester county, February 8, 1822. 

He obtained a common school educa- 
tion. 

He first began business for himself in 
1847. He engaged in mining in California 



in 1852, and continued in the mines two 
years. In 1854 he opened a dry-goods 
and grocery business in Shrewsburv. which 
he carried on until 1885, when he retired 
from business and continued in the gen- 
eral country justice employment of con- 
veyancing, and preparation of law papers, 
until the day of his death, which occurred 
May 13, 1889. 

Mr. Howe was first married in Berlin, in 
April, 1847, to Sarah, daughter of Daniel 
and Hannah Carter. His second marriage 
was in Shrewsbury, to Lucy A., daughter 
of Jesse and Laura A. Perry. He has five 
children : Walter C. and Nellie C. by the 
first, and Jennie L., Frank P., and May W. 
Howe by the second marriage. 

Mr. Howe served his town and State in 
various offices. He was town clerk, chair- 
man of the board of selectmen, assessors, 
and overseers of the poor ; constable, 
moderator at town meetings, etc. These 
offices he held the greater part of the time 
for twenty-five years. He was postmaster 
nearly the same length of time ; a member 
of the General Court of 1877 ; a delegate 
to the various Republican conventions in 
the Commonwealth ; chairman of the Re- 
publican town committee, etc. 

Mr. Howe will be remembered as the 
author of the bill known as the " Guide 
Board Bill " in the House of Representa- 
tives. This bill was held up to ridicule, 
and reported upon adversely, but by his 
persistent efforts he carried it through 
House and Senate without a dissenting 
vote, and he afterwards received, as was 
his due, the thanks of almost the entire 
press of the Commonwealth. 

HOWELLS, WILLIA.M Dean, son of 
William Cooper and Marv Dean Howells, 
was born at Martin's Ferry, Belmont 
county, Ohio, March i, 1837. 

His ancestors on his father's side were 
Welch Quakers, and people of property; 
his great grandfather introduced the man- 
ufacture of flannel into his town, and built 
three mills ; his grandfather emigrated to 
this country and became an ardent Metho- 
dist, while his father adopted the doctrines 
of Swedenborg, in which the son was 
educated. Li all these generations this 
family was an educated race, living in an 
atmosphere of books and religious refine- 
ment. 

L^p to ten years of age, Mr. Howells 
atteniled small private and public schools, 
pursuing his studies in rather a desultory 
manner, .\lmost as soon as he could read 
he began to make verses and put them in 
tvpe in his father's printing office. He 



IIOWELLS. 



now LAND. 



327 



pursued no collegiate course, but his ex- 
tensive reading, his inherited literary 
tastes, his contact with thoroughly demo- 
cratic society, and his early habit of self- 
dependence, with other peculiar factors 
that went to make up his environment 
from sixteen to twenty-one, doubtless gave 
him his orthodox Americanism, his pro- 
found sympathy with the realities of life, 
and his charm as a writer. 




WILLIAM D. HOWELLS. 

His early life work was made up of the 
different departments of journalism — 
type-setter, reporter, news editor, etc. 

During his residence in Columbus, Ohio, 
he published five poems in the " Atlantic 
Monthly " during one year : " The Poet's 
Friends," " The Pilot's Story," " Pleasure 
Pain," "Lost Beliefs," and "Andenken." , 

He was appointed by President Lincoln 
consul to Venice, where he resided from 
1861 to '65, devoting his spare time to the 
study of the Italian language and litera- 
ture, and the general cultivation of letters. 
The first fruit of his labor was " Venetian 
Life," in which his original style was at 
once caught and appreciated by the read- 
ing public of this country and Europe. Re- 
turning home, Mr. Howells was for some 
time editorial writer for the New York 
"Tribune," the "Times," and the "Na- 
tion," and in 1SS6 he became assistant 



editor of the " Atlantic Monthly." From 
1S72 to '81 he was editor of that maga- 
zine. 

During this period he was a contributor 
to the " North American Review," and was 
a member of the coterie that gathered at 
Longfellow's home in Cambridge to con- 
sider his translation of Dante. Latterly 
he has pursued the career of a profes- 
sional man of letters, devoting himself 
mainly to fiction, with the occasional pro- 
duction of plays, travel sketches and 
literary criticism. Since 1881, the"Ceu- 
tury " and " Harper's Magazine " have 
given preliminary publication to the 
greater portion of his works. After a 
second sojourn in Italy, the residence of 
Mr, Howells has been in Boston and 
New York. To him this is a new era in 
fiction. Realism is the keynote, and in 
his opinion this idea is best exemplified 
in the fiction of the Russian no^-elist. Count 
Leo Tolstoi. 

Mr. Howells was married in Paris, De- 
cember 24, 1862, to Elinor G., sister of 
Larkin G. Mead, the sculptor. Of this 
union were born three children : Winifred, 
John ^L, and Mildred Howells; the eldest, 
no longer living, contributed several poems 
to the " Century." 

Among Mr. Howells's later works of 
fiction, " The Rise of Silas Lapham " 
perhaps is best known, although twenty- 
live or thirty of this author's books have 
delighted the readers of this and other 
countries. 

HOWLAND, Weston, son of Weston 
and Abigail (Hathaway) Howland, was 
born in New Bedford, Bristol county, June 
18, 1815. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in the private schools of New Bedford, 
and the Friends' school at Providence, 
R. I. 

He started out in life as cabin boy in a 
merchant ship ; rose to seaman, officer and 
captain. His first connection with mer- 
cantile business on shore was as ship 
chandler and general commission mer- 
chant. 

F'rom i860 to '77 Mr. Howland was en- 
.gaged in the manufacture and refining of 
petroleum. He is now collector of the 
port of New Bedford, under appointment 
of President Cleveland. 

Mr. Howland was married in Dartmouth, 
May 14, 1846, to Rebecca S., daughter of 
George and Abby (Smith) Kirby. Of this 
union were twelve children : Mary S., 
Thomas H., Rebecca, Weston, Jr., Rachel, 
Abby S., Thomas H., George K.., Abby S., 



328 



ROWLAND. 



HOYT. 



J. Sedgwick, Rebecca, and Alice How- 
land. 

Mr. Rowland built and established, in 
New Bedford, the first factory in the coun- 
try for distilling and refining the products 
of petroleum. These products he shipped 
to New York and Boston markets as early 
as September, i860. 

His residence is Fairhaven. 

HOWLAND, WlLLARD, son of Jairus 
and Deborah L, Howland, was born in 
Pembroke, Plvmouth county, December t, 
1852. 

His early education was obtained in the 
public schools of Kingston and Woburn. 
Ill health prevented "his full academic 




WlLLARD HOWLAND. 

course, and not until after some years of 
mercantile life did he take up his studies. 
He finally began to carry out a long cher- 
ished purpose of studying law, and entered 
Boston University law school 

He had at eighteen years of age be- 
gun a business career, and- remained in 
it until just previous to his admission 
to the bar. He was admitted to practice 
November n, 1878, and has since been 
engaged in the practice of law as a pro- 
fession. 

In the meantime he married (1S73) 
Lottie Barry, of Boston, to which city he 
had removed w-hen he was seventeen vears 



of age. Of this union are two children : 
Fred C. and Lizzie A. Howland. 

Mr. Howland was elected to the Legis- 
lature from the 27th Suffolk district in 
1888, and served on the committee on the 
judiciary. He is a member of various 
secret and benevolent societies, in which 
he has held prominent office. He is an 
officer in the military order of Sons of Vet- 
erans, and is somewhat prominently known 
m that order throughout the State' 

Mr. Howland has been clo.sely engaged 
in the labors of his professional fife, during 
the time he has resided in Chelsea, and has 
only come to the front as a public man 
when his fellow-citizens have demanded 
it, but has carefully and diligently made 
the most of his opportunities. 

HOYT, Warren, son of William and 
Harriet (Hooke) Hoyt, was born in North 
Danville, Rockingham county, N. H., Jan- 
uary 4, 1843. 

His early education was received in the 
common schools of his native town, and he 
afterwards supplemented this by attend- 
ance at Kingston Academy, N.' H., and 
I'hetford Academy, \'t. 




WARREN HOYT, 



During his early manhood he engaged 
for a time in teaching. He was clerk in 
the internal revenue office of James M. 
Lovering, E.xeter, N. H., in 1864 and '65. 



HUBBAKU. 



HUNNEWELL. 



329 



In April, 1S72, Mr. Ho}^ went to Haver- 
hill, and was employed on the reportorial 
staff of the " Daily Bulletin." In 1875 he, 
in company with I. L. Mitchell, became 
proprietor, and as.sunied the editorial man- 
agement of that paper, which greatly in- 
creased in circulation and intUience. He 
still holds the position of editor. 

Mr. Hoyt was married May 4, 1S71, to 
A. Isabelle, daughter of Joseph and 
Almira P. (Dearborn) Cook, of South Dan- 
ville, N. H. Of this union were four chil- 
dren ; Lewis Carleton (deceased), Howard 
William (deceased), Bernard Allison, and 
Lillian Gracie-Belle Hoyt. 

Although holding no political office, Mr. 
Hoyt is always active in public matters, 
and a consistent advocate of Republican 
principles. His church connections are 
with the Universalist society. 

Mr. Hoyt came from that sturdy New 
England stock that has given stability and 
character to our national life. He has 
been able to gratify his artistic tastes in 
decorative gardening, his love of flowering 
plants and shrubs being evidenced by the 
beautiful grounds that adorn his residence 
in Haverhill. 

HUBBARD, Silas Graves, son of John 

and Clarissa (Clapp) Hubbard, was born 
in Hatfield, Hampshire county, January 
13. 1827. 

The common schools gave him his early 
educational training, which was su|)ple- 
mented by four terms' attendance at Willis- 
ton Seminary, Easthampton. 

From 1844 to '51 he 'was manager of a 
large farm. He was appointed postmaster 
in 1851, and also elected a member of the 
school board. He was elected town treas- 
urer in 1854; chairman of selectmen in 
1855 ; a member of the Legislature in 1857 ; 
a director of the Holyoke Bank of North- 
ampton, 1859 — -being a director when it was 
merged into the First National Bank of 
Northampton, and held the office eighteen 
years. He has also been engaged in the 
work of civil engineer. He employs his 
time at present in managing his farm and 
attending to the duties of treasurer of 
Smith Academy. 

Mr. Hubbard was married in Hatfield, 
April 16, 185 1, to Rhoda Waite, daughter 
of Justin and Dully (Waite) Hastings. 
They have no children. 

Mr. Hubbard has been president of the 
New England Tobacco (Growers' Associa- 
tion for three years, up to the present time. 
In 1884 he wrote in pamphlet form an 
appeal to Congress for the better protec- 
tion of certain agricultural industries. 



He wrote an argument, wiiich was read 
at a hearing before Judge Maynard, assist- 
ant secretary of the treasury, at Washing- 
ton, July 20, 1887 — advocating a plan of a 
new decision under the tobacco schedule 
of the tariff law to prevent fraud and un- 
dervaluation, which was adopted by the 
government. He was empowered to visit 
custom houses to see the new rule enforced, 
and report to the department. This mis- 
sion was successfully accomplished. 

HUNNEWELL, James Frothingham, 
son of James and Susan (I>amson) Hunne- 
well, was born in Charlestown, Middlesex 
county, July 3, 1832, in the house which 
he still occupies. The Hunnewell family 
have lived in Charlestown since 1698, and 
the Frothinghams since 1630. 

He received his education mostly in 
private schools, and then was engaged 
with his father in the shipping business, 
chiefly with foreign ports, especially with 
Honolulu, and in the export of American 
products to them — the mercantile house 
founded by his father at Honolulu, in 1826, 
being still in a flourishing condition. For 
some years he has not been engaged in 
mercantile pursuits, but is occupied with 
private and trust affairs, and with antiqua- 
rian and historical subjects. 

Mr. Hunnewell was married in Boston, 
April 3, 1872, to Sarah Melville, daughter 
of Ezra and Sarah (Parker) Farnsworth, of 
Boston. They have one child : James 
Melville Hunnewell. 

Mr. Hunnewell has served upon the 
Charlestown school board ; was a trustee 
of the Charlestown public library for 
eight years from its formation ; is chair- 
man of the standing committee of the First 
parish ; president of the Charlestown Gas 
Company ; vice-president of the Winches- 
ter Home for Aged Women ; a trustee of 
the Free Dispensary ; trustee of the Five 
Cents Savings Bank ; a director of the Bun- 
ker Hill Monument Association ; an officer 
of the Society for Propagating the Gospel, 
and in connection with the Hawaiian Is- 
lands, president of the Hawaiian Club, 
and treasurer of United States Endowment 
of Oahu College. He was also for several 
years an ex-officio director of the New 
England Historic Genealogical Society, 
and since 1868 has been a member of the 
American Antiquarian Society. He is also 
connected with the Massachusetts, Reform, 
St. Botolph, LTnion, and Boston Art clubs, 
and holds a membership in various other 
organizations. 

He has published several historical works 
of interest, which represent a large amount 



330 



HUNT. 



HUNTINGTON. 



of careful study, and has collected in his 
extensive travels many rare books, plates 
and records. Among the more important 
of his published works may be mentioned : 
" The Lands of Scott ; " " Bibliography of 
Charlestown, Mass., and Bunker Hill;" 
" The Historical Monuments of France ; " 
" The Imperial Island ; " " England's 
Chronicle in Stone ; " " A Century of Town 




JAMES F, HUNNEWELL. 

Life;" "Historical Sketch of the Society 
for Propagating the Clospel among the 
Indians and Others in North America ; " 
" Civilization at the Hawaiian Islands ; " 
"An American Shrine ; " " Records of the 
First Church, Charlestown ; " " Journal of 
the Voyage of the Missionary Packet, 
Boston to Honolulu." 

HUNT, Cyrus Dexter, son of Cyrus 
and Lucy (Porter) Hunt, was born in East 
Weymouth, Norfolk county, November 15, 

1833- 

He attended the common school until 
seventeen years of age. At twenty-seven 
he entered the Bridgewater normal school, 
and was graduated in the class of 1863. 

Before his entrance into the normal 
school, he learned the trade of nail-making, 
and worked in the factories at East Wey- 
mouth and Somerset. After leaving the 
normal school, he entered the employ ot 
the American Tack Company as agent and 



manager, and still retains that position 
with the company. 

In 1885 he went to Europe, where he 
spent six months studying the condition of 
manufacturing, and of the laboring and 
producing classes in those countries which 
compete with the LTnited States in the for- 
eign markets of the world. 

Mr. Hunt has always been a Republican, 
but has never held any political office, 
having devoted his time entirely to his 
business. He was president of the Repub- 
lican campaign clubs during the last five 
presidential campaigns, and worked to pro- 
mote the interests of the party to which 
he belonged. 

He is a director in the National Bank 
of Fairhaven, and one of the boaril of 
investment in the Savings Bank of that 
town. 

He was married in East Weymouth, Feb- 
ruary 5, 1865, to Sarah E., daughter of 
William and Sarah (Wyman) Mansfield, 
of Braintree. Of this union were five 
children : Everett A., Wallace 1)., Fred- 
erick M., .\lice, and Mabel M. Hunt. 

HUNTINGTON, William Edwards, 

son of William Pitkin and Lucy (Edwards) 
Huntington, was born July 30, 1844, at 
Hillsborough, Montgomery county. 111. 

His early education was accomjjlished 
at public and private schools in Milwaukee, 
Wis., and he graduated at the State L'ni- 
versity of Wisconsin in 1870, and from the 
school of theology, Boston Universit}', in 

He was ordained elder in the ministry of 
the Methodist Episcopal church by Bishop 
Wiley, in Lynn, in 1872, and appointed to the 
Nahant Methodist Episcopal church. His 
subsequent pastorates were at Roslindale, 
i872-'74 ; Newton, i875-'76 ; Harvard 
Street, Cambridge, i877-'79 ; Tremont 
Street, Boston, i88o-'82. Since 18S2 Mr. 
Huntington has been dean of the College 
of Liberal Arts, Boston University. 

On the 3d of October, 1876, in Newton, 
Mr. Huntington was married to Emma 
Carolme, daughter of Alden and Caroline 
(Robin.son) Speare, who died the following 
year; and May 10, 1881, he married her 
sister, Ella Maria. Their only child is 
Raymond Edwards Huntington. 

During the last year of the civil war Mr. 
Huntington served as first lieutenant in 
the 49th Wisconsin infantry. In 1881 he 
received the degree of Ph. D. from the 
Boston LIniversity, where he is highly es- 
teemed as one of the leading members of 
the faculty. His present residence is New- 
ton Centre. 



HUTCHINSON. 



HUXFOKD. 



331 



HUTCHINSON, HBEN, son of Eben- 
ezer and Lois W. (Williams) Hutchinson, 
was born in Athens, Somerset county, 
Maine, August 2, 1841. 

After the usual attendance at the public 
schools, he received academic training- in 
Somerset Academy, Athens, and Bloom- 
field Academy, Skowhegan, Me. Having 
chosen the profession of law, and pursued 
the prescribed course of reading, he was 
admitted to the bar at Norridgewock, 
Maine, in 1862. 

He soon after entered military service in 
the 24th regiment, Maine volunteers, and 
ro.se rapidly from the grade of private to 
that of lieutenant-colonel. He was subse- 
quently commissioned major of the 2d 
Maine veteran volunteer cavalry, where 
he served till December, 1865. In the 
summer of 1866 he came to Boston, 
settled in Chelsea, and resumed the prac- 
tice of law. 

Mr. Hutchinson was city solicitor of 
Chelsea from 1875 to '80 ; member of the 
House of Representatives in 1878, serving 
as chairman of the committee on bills in 
the third reading, and clerk of the com- 
mittee on towns. In 1879 he was elected 
to the Senate, and again served as chair- 
man of the committee on bills in the 
third reading ; also chairman of the 
joint committee on towns, and a member 
of the joint committee on ta.xation. In 
1880 he was re-elected to the Senate, 
and was chairman of the conmiittee on 
towns and that of federal relations, and 
of the Senate committee on probate and 
chancery. 

He was appointed special justice of the 
Chelsea police court in 1S74, and held this 
position until 1878. In 1880 he was re-ap- 
pointed a special justice of the court, and 
later in the same year he qualified as jus- 
tice of the same court. 

Mr. Hutchinson was first married in 
Skowhegan, Me., November 11, 1863, to 
Rachel W., daughter of Edmund C. and 
Mary R. (Humphrey) Lane. Mrs. Hutch- 
inson died in F'ebruary, 1880. On August 
20, 1882, Mr. Hutchinson was married to 
Abbie A. Lane, sister of his first wife. His 
children are : Maud Hutchinson, now in 
Wellesley College, and Eben Hutchinson, 
Jr., captain of cadets in Episcopal Institute, 
Burlington, Vermont. 

Mr. Hutchinson has long been an active 
and influential member of the Republican 
party, is a public-spirited citizen in local 
affairs, and has fairly merited the success 
he has achieved in military, civic and pro- 
fessional life. 



HUXFORD, Daniel Holley, son of 

Henry Brown and Lavinia Allen (Holley) 
Hu.vford, was born in Edgartown, Dukes 
county (Martha's Vineyard), November 28, 
1850. 

He was educated in the common and 
high schools of Edgartown. He left 
school in February, 1867, to enter the 
" Vineyard Gazette " office as an appren- 
tice. He remained there until May, 1869; 
he was then employed in New Bedford in 
the " Standard " office for a short time, 
when he was forced to leave on account of 
ill health. In August, same year, he went 
to East Abington (now Rockland) to work 




DANIEL H. HUXFORD, 

on the "Abington Standard " (now " Rock- 
land Standard " ). Here he was foreman 
two and one-half years, leaving there De- 
cember 25, 1872. During the winter he 
purchased the "Norfolk County Register," 
Randolph, and entered upon the duties of 
publisher March 5, 1873. 

Since this time the paper has twice been 
enlarged, and the " Holbrook News " 
added. Mr. Hu.xford has been a printer 
twenty-two years, an editor nearly seven- 
teen years, and issued every paper (save 
three) during the time. His residence is 
Randolph. 

Mr. Hu.xford is a prominent member of 
the I. O. O. F., joining Rising Star Lodge 



332 



HYDE. 



HYDE. 



No. 76 in 1876 ; became past grand in 
1889 ; was made district deputy grand 
master over district 31, in 1880; was re- 
appointed, but declined the honor. He 
was a charter member of Webster Council, 
No. 451, Royal Arcanum, in 1880; was 
past regent in 1882 ; installing officer, that 
and the following year. In 1884 he was 
appointed district deputy grand regent, 
and was re-appointed in 1885. In 1888 he 
was appointed deputy over district 39, 
and in 1889, over district 4. 

Mr. Huxford has never been active in 
politics, but he has given much time to 
social, literary and charitable organizations 
in a line more consonant to his tastes. 

He was raised to the sublime degree of 
master Mason in Norfolk Union Lodge, 
F. & A. M., of Randolph, May 19, 5880. 
He has -recently been appointed D. I). G. 
M. over district 4 for 1889 and '90. 

HYDE, Henry Stanley, son of Oliver 

M. and Julia Ann (Sprague) Hyde, was 
born at Mount Hope, Orange county, 
N. Y., August 18, 1837. Very early in life 




HENRY S. HYDE. 

he was taken to Detroit, Mich., where he 
was educated in private schools, and began 
business life as a clerk in a Detroit bank- 
ing house. 

He afterward studied law and removed 
to Springfield, Mass., in 1862, where he 



became treasurer of the Wason Manufac- 
turing Company, car-builders. 

In 1870 he was chosen president of the 
Agawam National Bank, which position 
he still holds He is also president of the 
E. Stebbins Manufacturing Company, a 
prosperous corporation ; vice-president of 
the Hampden Savings Bank, and of the 
New England Telephone & Telegraph 
Company ; director in the Massachusetts 
Mutual Life Insurance Company, the Bos- 
ton P21ectric Light Company, Riverside 
Paper Company, and several other corpora- 
tions. He is also treasurer of the Spring- 
field Steam Power Company. 

In politics Mr. Hyde has held office in 
the city government of Springfield as coun- 
cilman and alderman. He has represented 
his district as state senator, and has been 
a member of the Republican state central 
committee and the national Republican 
committee. In 1884 antl '88 he was dele- 
gate to the national Republican conven- 
tions at Chicago. 

On the 4th of December, i860, Mr. 
Hyde was married in Springfield, to Jennie 
S. Wason. Their children are : Jerome 
W., Henry S., Thomas W., and Fayolin 
Hyde. 

HYDE, James Francis Clarke, was 

born in Newton, Middlesex county, July 
26, 1825. He descends in a direct line, 
through both his parents, from the early 
settlers of that ancient town. His first 
education was principally acquired in the 
schools of the town. In early manhood 
he was engaged in the nursery business 
and general farming, but for the last forty 
years has been engaged in the auction, 
real estate and insurance business in New- 
ton and Boston, in which he has been quite 
successful. 

His energy of character and administra- 
tive talent brought him, at an early age, 
to the notice of the public. For fifteen 
years he served his townsmen as one of 
their selectmen. He was selected as mod- 
erator of nearly all their town meetings 
for twenty-two years, and for several )'ears 
elected a member of the school committee. 
He represented his town in the Legisla- 
ture, as a member of the House, two years, 
and was a member of the state board of 
agriculture, and also president of the Mas- 
sachusetts Horticultural Society. He is a 
director in several insurance companies, 
and is, and has been for a long time, promi- 
nently connected with the Newton Savings 
Bank, and was for several years a director 
in the Newton National Bank. He has 
also been agricultural editor for many 



IDE. 



INGALLS. 



333 



years of a leading religious paper published 
in Boston. 

Mr. Hyde has the distinctive honor 
of having been the first mayor of his 
native city, which office he administered 
with wisdom and prudence, counseling 
economy and integrity in all its depart- 
ments, faithfully illustrating these virtues 
in his own official conduct. 

Mr. Hyde has always been notable for 
enterprise and public spirit, and has always 
been found foremost among those who 
seek to promote the highest welfare of 
his native town. He has always taken 
deep interest in moral and religious sub- 
jects. He was the principal mover in 



the establishment of the ("ongregational 
church at Newton Highlands, and was the 
first deacon of that church. 

He early realized the importance of a 
railroad to facilitate communication be- 
tween all the Newtons, and labored long 
and assiduously for the establishment of 
what is now known as the Newton Cir- 
cuit Railroad — a lasting monument to his 
enterprise and liberality. 

Mr. Hyde has been twice married : De- 
cember 13, 1854, to Sophia, daughter of 
Jonathan Stone of Newton ; and May 30, 
1861, to Emily, daughter of John Ward, of 
that town. He has three children living : 
Elliott J., Mary E., and Frank C. Hyde. 



IDE, Jacob, son of Jacob and Mary 
(Emmons) Ide, was born in West Medway, 
Norfolk county, August 7, 1823. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing at the academy in Leicester, and was 
graduated from Amherst College in the 
class of 1848. 

He was for a short time teacher of 
ancient and modern languages in the city 
of Boston, afterwards teaching two years 
in the academy at Leicester. Deciding to 
adopt the ministry as a profe.ssion, he for 
two years pursued his theological studies 
with his father, and afterwards was a resi- 
dent licentiate in the theological seminary 
at .\ndover. 

March 26, 1856, he was ordained and 
installed as pastor of the Congregational 
church in Mansfield, where he has since 
remained. His pastorate has been one of 
imusual length, and he has been, during 
all these years, a faithful and earnest 
preacher, a worthy and honored citizen — 
active in all enterprises and projects tend- 
ing to elevate the moral standing of the 
town in which he has lived and labored for 
so many years. In i860 he went abroad, 
traveling through the different countries 
of Europe. 

Mr. Ide is a trustee of the Mansfield 
public library and of the Wheaton Female 
Seminary in Norton. In 1864 he was a 
member of the lower branch of the state 
Legislature, and a member of the Senate 
in 1866. 

March 24, 1859, at West Medway, Mr. 
Ide was married to Ellen M., daughter of 
John and Eliza Ann (Williams) Rogers, of 
Mansfield. They have one child ; John 
Emmons Ide, born August 2, 1868. 



INGALLS, Daniel Bowman, son of 

James and Mary (Cass) Ingalls, was born 
in Sutton, Caledonia county, Vt., May 25, 
1829. His father moved to Connecticut, 
when he was eleven years of age. 




DANIEL B. INGALLS. 

His early education was obtained in the 
common schools. Starting out in life for 
himself at the age of seventeen, he 
learned the machinist's trade in Norwich, 
Conn. 



334 



IXGRAHAM. 



JACKSON. 



At the age of twenty-six he began the 
study of dentistry in Clinton, Mass., and 
was graduated at the Boston Dental College 
in the class of 1874. Previous to his choice 
of the latter profession, he spent two years 
in California (185 i and '52). He has prac- 
ticed dentistry in Clinton since 1856. 

JMr. Ingalls was married in Newbury, Vt., 
October 22,1850, to Rebecca Nelson, daugh- 
ter of Mason and Mary (Nelson) Randall. 
Of this union were six children, all deceased. 

Mr. Ingalls was a representative to the 
General Court in 1880, and was elected to 
the .Senate in 1881 and '82. He served on 
the committee on public health both years, 
was chairman the last named year of the 
committee on claims, and wrote the mi- 
nority report on the " Shanley Claim." 

His church connection is with the Bap- 
tist church, of which he is a member, and 
he takes an active part in church and 
association work. 

He was for several years a member of 
the investment committee for the Clinton 
Savings Bank, and left this position to be- 
come a director of the Lancaster National 
Bank. He withdrew from that position 
and sold his stock a year before the bank 
was robbed by its cashier, and made a 
written statement at the time to the stock- 
holders, pointing out the irregularities of 
that officer. He is now president of tile 
Clinton Co-operative Bank. 

INGRAHAM, ELIHU, son of Elihu and 
Olive (Mallery) Ingraham, was born in New 
Ashford, Berkshire countv, October 18, 
1822. 

His education was limited to the public 
schools of those days. At twenty years 
of age he began life for himself, and chose 
farming for a vocation. 

Mr. Ingraham was married December 27, 
1842, to Lorania, daughter of Atwater and 
Melinda Beach, at New Ashford. Of this 
union were two children : George F. and 
Julia Maria Ingraham. 

He was again married, in Hoosick, N.Y., 
February 27, 1855, to Celestia A., daughter 
of .Samuel and Betsey (Card) Pine. Of 
this union are two children ; Ida Jane and 
Nathan P. Ingraham. 



Mr. Ingraham has been chairman of the 
board of selectmen of New Ashford thirty 
years, town clerk eighteen years, and jus- 
tice of the peace sixteen years. He is also 
chairman of the town committee. 

Mr. Ingraham is connected with the 
M. E. church, of which he is a steward. 

Jonathan Ingraham, grandfather of Mr. 
Ingraham, was a revolutionary patriot, 
fought with Arnold at Stillwater and Schuy- 
lerville; wassoldby .\rnold; was with Wash- 
ington at White Plains, Valley Forge, and 
at the crossing of the Delaware ; and was in 
the battle of Monmouth, the Cowpens, etc. 

George F., eldest son of Mr. Ingraham, 
was three years in the 34th regiment, Mas- 
sachusetts volunteers. He fought under 
Sheridan, and at \\'inchester was very seri- 
ously wounded. 

INGRAHAM, WILLIAM H., son of Paul 
.\ugustus and Thankful (Sears) Ingraham, 
was born in Peacham, Caledonia countv, 
Vt., 1818. 

He gleaned his knowledge of books 
from the Caledonia county grammar school, 
Peacham. 

He began his business experience with 
his older brother in Framingham, dealer in 
general merchandise. He afterwards be- 
came a dry-goods dealer in Watertown, and 
later on in Boston as partner with March 
Brothers, Pierce & Co. 

He was selectman in Framingham, also 
in Watertown. He has been town clerk in 
Watertown twenty-five years, and still holds 
the office. He is chairman of the board 
of assessors ; was a representative to the 
General Court two years (1879 and '80); 
two years chairman of the Republican town 
committee ; clerk and treasurer of the first 
parish of Watertown ; is a member of the 
Watertown Historical Society and clerk of 
the Town Improvement Society. 

The time not given to public affairs is 
employed in general insurance business. 

Mr. Ingraham was married in Framing- 
ham, January 17, 1843, to Caroline C, 
daughter of Col. Ephraim and Mary (Hub- 
bard) Brigham. He has three children : 
Raljih \\'aldo, Isabel Frances, and Alice 
Choate Ingraham. 



JACKSON, James Frederic, son of 

Elisha T. and Caroline (Fobes) Jackson, 
was born in Taunton, Bristol county, No- 
vember 13, 1851. 

The private and public schools of Taun- 
ton gave him his early educational train- 



ing. He entered Harvard College in 
1869, and was graduated in 1873 ; studied 
law in Taunton in the office of Judge Ed- 
muntl H. Bennett ; entered Boston Univer- 
sity law school 1874, and was graduatetl in 
1875 ; opened a law office in Fall River, 



lACKSON. 



JAMES. 



335 



September, 1875, and formed a law co- 
partnershi|3 with John J. Archer, 1878. Mr. 
Archer dying in 18S2, Mr. Jackson formed 
a new partnership with David F. Slade, 
under the present firm name of Jackson & 
Slade. 

Mr. Jackson was married in Fall River, 
June 16, 1882, to Caroline S., daughter of 
Eli Thurston, D. D., and Julia A. (Ses- 
sions) Thurston. They have one child : 
Edith Jackson. 

Mr. Jackson has been connected with 
the Massachusetts volunteer militia since 
1879, wiien he was elected second lieuten- 
ant, companv M., ist regiment infantrv, 





J^MES F, JACKSON. 

then appointed paymaster on staff of Col. 
A. C. Wellington ; then elected major, 
and subsequenth' lieutenant-colonel, which 
latter commission he now holds. He was 
city solicitor of Fall River in 18S0, and 
elected every year thereafter until 1889, 
with the e.xception of 1886, when he was 
engaged as special counsel for the city. 
He was elected mayor on the Repub- 
lican ticket in 1888. The same year 
he was also chosen president of the 
Y. M. C. A. and of the Associated Charities. 
He is corporation clerk and counsel for 
the People's Ice Company, and corpora- 
tion counsel and director of the Cornell 
Mills. 



JACOBS, Joseph, Jr., son of Joseph 
and Flsther C. (Jacob) Jacobs, was born in 
South Hingham, Plymouth county, Decem- 
ber 8, 1828. Until about fifteen years of 
age he attended the common schools of 
Hingham. 

In 1850 he entered into partnership with 
his father for the manufacture of edge 
tools, under the firm name of Joseph 
Jacobs & Son. In 1878 he retired from 
the manufacturing business, and is now 
engaged in banking and investments. 

Mr. Jacobs was married in South Hing- 
ham, October 27, 1850, to Clarissa A., 
daughter of Loring and Martha (Hersey) 
Cushing. They have two children : Clara 
A. and Fannie A. Jacobs. 

He represented the towns of Hingham 
and Hull in the House of Representatives 
in 1881, '82 and '83 ; was for about twenty 
years a trustee of the Hingham Institution 
for Savings ; was chosen president of the 
Hingham National Bank in 1876, which 
place he still holds. 

He is a lineal descendant of Nicholas 
Jacob, who was of an English family who 
came from Hingham in F^ngland, and set- 
tled in Hingham in 1633. 

JAMES, Lyman D., son of Enoch and 
Armanella (Dwight) James, was born in 
Williamsburg, Hampshire county, January 
21, 1836. 

His early education was begun in the 
common schools of Williamsburg, continued 
in Williston Seminary, Easthampton, and 
at the John A. Nash school for boys, 
Amherst. 

He began his business life in a dry- 
goods store, Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 
subsequently employed by his brother, 
H. L. James, in his store, and finally was 
made a partner ; but for the past twenty- 
two years he has been in business for him- 
self. He is at present carrying on two 
stores, one in \\'illiamsburg and one in 
Haydenville. 

Mr. James was married in Conway, Sep- 
tember 10, 1857, to Helen E., daughter of 
John and Fidelia (Nash) Field. Of this 
union are four children : H. Dwight, J. 
Howard, Grace F'idelia, and P. Lyman 
James. 

Mr. James has been for seven years, 
and is now, trustee of the Northampton 
Lunatic Hospital ; director in the First 
National Bank, Northampton, and was 
acting postmaster fifteen years in Wil- 
liamsburg, up to President Cleveland's ad- 
mmistration. 

May 3, 1889, he was re-appointed post- 
master bv Postmaster-General Wanamaker. 



336 



JAMESON. 



JENKINS. 



JAMESON, EPHRAIM ORCUTT, son of 
Daniel and Mary (Twiss) Jameson, was 
born January 23, 1832, in Dunbarton, 
Merrimack county, N. H. 




EPHRAIM 0. JAViEbOtJ 

His preparatory education was received 
in the public schools of his native town, in 
a private school in Chester, and Gilmanton 
Academy, N. H. He was graduated in 1855 
from Dartmouth College, and in 1858 from 
the Andover Theological Seminary. 

He was ordained and installed as pastor 
of the East Congregational church, Con- 
cord, N. H., in 1859, where he remained 
until 1865, when he was called to the pas- 
torate of the evangelical Congregational 
church in Salisbury, where he remained 
until 1 87 1. He then removed to East 
Medway (now Millis), where he was in- 
stalled as pastor of the Church of Christ, 
and still remains in active service. 

Mr. Jameson was married in Gilmanton, 
N. H., September 20, 1858, to Mary Joanna, 
daughter of Rev. William Cogswell, D. D., 
and Joanna (Strong) Cogswell. Their 
children were : Arthur Orcutt, Katharine 
Strong, William Cogswell, Caroline Cogs- 
well, and Mary Jameson. William Cogs- 
well died in infancy. Arthur Orcutt grad- 
uated from Harvard College, the first 
scholar in the class of 1881, and died Sep- 
tember 30, 1881. 



Mr. Jameson was chairman of the school 
board in Concord, N. H., several years, su- 
perintendent of schools in Millis, and chap- 
lain of the Massachusetts State Grange. 

He was the author of ".An Historical Dis- 
course of the Church of Christ, Medway " 
(1876); "A Memorial of Rev. William 
Cogswell, D. D." (i88o) ; "Historical 
Sketch of Medway " (1884) ; "The Cogs- 
wells in America" (1884); "The History 
of Medway" (1S86) ; "Medway Biogra- 
phies" (1886); "The Military History of 
Medway" (1886), and is still engaged in 
literary work. 

JENKINS, Edward J., son of John 
and Sabina E. (Donnellon) Jenkins, was 
born December 20, 1854, in London, Eng- 
land. 

He was educated in the public and pri- 
vate schools of Boston ; studied law at 
Boston University, and was graduated 
therefrom in 1880. He was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar the same year, and is a 
member of the bar of the United States 
courts. 

Mr. Jenkins was a member of the Bos- 
ton school committee in 1875 ; served as 




EDWARD J JENKINS. 



secretary of the Democratic city commit- 
tee in 1875 ; and was a member of the 
House of Representatives during the years 
of 1877, '78 and '79, being elected from 



JENKS. 



JENNINGS. 



':,1>7 



ward 12 of the city of Boston. He re- 
signed iiis seat in 1879, declining to be a 
candidate for re-election ; was commis- 
sioner of insolvency during the years 1879, 
'80, '81, '82, '83, '84 and '85, declining to 
ser\-e longer ; was elected a member of the 
common council from ward 12 during the 
years 1885 and '86, and was elected presi- 
dent of that body each year ; was a mem- 
ber of the state Senate in 1887, and was 
again elected as a member of the common 
council in the year 1889. In i88i he was 
nominated by the Suffolk county Demo- 
cratic convention, by acclamation, as can- 
didate for clerk of the superior civil court. 

JENKS, Henry Ray, son of David and 
riarissa (Balluu) Jenks, was born in Smith- 
I'leld, R. I., December 25, 1831. His early 
education was obtained in the common 
schools of Wrentham, and of Pawtucket, 
R. I. 

His first connection in business was as a 
merchant in Wrentham. From this place 
he removed to Norwood, and thence to 
Franklin, where he now resides, engaged 
ill real estate and insurance business. 

Mr. Jenks was married in Searsport, 
Maine, October 13, 1858, to Clara A., 
daughter of Benjamin Merithew. Of this 
union were six children : Melvina F., Clif- 
ton H., Charles L., Isaac C, Katie M., and 
Frank L. Jenks. His second marriage 
occurred in Franklin, February 27, 1878, 
to Mrs. Ella Titcomb, daughter of John 
Barry. 

Mr. Jenks has been selectman of Frank- 
lin thirteen years, town treasurer 1887, '88 
and '89. He represented the 8th Norfolk 
representative district in the General Court 
1880 and '81. 

JENKS, Thomas Leighton, son of 

David and Deborah (Leighton) Jenks, was 
born in Conway, Carroll countv, X. H., in 
1830. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in the public schools. Choosing 
the profession of medicine, he prepared 
for the Harvard medical school, pursued 
the course, and was graduated in the class 
of 1854. 

Previous to his professional career, he 
served as an apothecary in Boston, and 
from 1846 to '49 he was hospital steward 
in the navy during the Mexican war, on 
board the U. S. frigate " United States." 

Dr. Jenks was a member of the Boston 
common council 1868, '69 and '72, and a 
member of the House of Representatives 
1870 and '76 ; president of College of 
Pharmacy, trustee of the city hospital five 



years, ferry director six years, during two 
of which he served as president of the 
board ; chairman of the board of police 
commissioners 1882 to '85 ; and is now 
chairman of the commissioners of public 
institutions. 

He is president of the North End Sav- 
ings Bank, Boston. 




THOMAS L. JENKS. 

Dr. Jenks was married in Taunton, 1850, 
to Lydia M., daughter of David and Sarah 
M. (Cummings) Baker. 

They have one child : Sarah E. Jenks. 

JENNINGS, ANDREW Jackson, son of 

Andrew M. and Olive B. (Chace) Jennings, 
was born in Fall River, Bristol county, 
August 2, 1849. 

He passed through the various public 
schools of the city until the autumn of 
1867, when he left the Fall River high 
school to enter Mowry &: Goff 's Classical 
school. Providence, R. I., where he gradu- 
ated in June, 1868. He then entered Brown 
University, from which he graduated with 
special honors in the class of 1872. When 
in the university he was prominent in all 
athletic sports, having been captain of the 
class and university nines. 

.■\fter leaving the university, he taught 
the high school, Warren, R. I., two years, 
1872 to '74. In July, 1874, he entered 
the office of the Hon. James M. Morton, 



338 



JENNINGS. 



[EWETT. 



Fall River, and began reading law ; en- 
tered Boston University law school Janu- 
ary, 1875, and was graduated with the 
degree of hL. B. in May, 1S76 ; was 
immediately admitted to the bar in Bristol 
county, and formed a partnership with Mr. 
Morton, Fall River, June i, 1876, under 
the firm name of Morton & Jennings, 
which connection is still retained, 

Mr. Jennings was married in \\'arren, 
R. I., December 25, 1879, to Marion G., 
only daughter of Captain Seth and Nancy 
I. (Bosworth) Saunders. Of this union are 
two children : Oliver Saunders and Marion 
Jennings. 




ANDREW J. JENNINGS, 

Mr. Jennings has served three years on 
the Fall River school board ; two years in 
the House of Representatives, 1878 and '79; 
one term in the Senate, 1882 ; was a mem- 
ber of the judiciary committee both years in 
the House, and also in the Senate, and was 
chairman of the joint special committee 
on the removal of Judge Day by address 
in 1882. 

He has been for several years clerk of the 
Second Baptist society of Fall River, and 
is one of the trustees of Brown University. 

Mr. Jennings was active in securing 
the passage of the civil damage law in the 
House, and introduced the school-house 
liquor law in the Senate. 



Mr. Jennings is a natural orator, of ])leas- 
ing address and forcible delivery. He is 
courteous in debate, and is always a wel- 
come speaker on public occasions during 
campaigns. He was selected to deliver the 
memorial oration for the city of Fall River 
on the day of General Grant's funeral, 

JEWETT, Albert G., son of Enoch 
and Lucy ( 1 )ewey) Jewett, was born in 
Northampton, Franklin county. May 24, 
1825, 

He obtained his educational training in 
the common schools. 

His first connection in business was 
with Francis Loud, as builder, in 1852. In 
1864 he opened a general country store. 
Four years later he went to Cleveland, O., 
and engaged in building. In 1885 he was 
a manufacturer in Iowa, His present 
occupation is building, town business, 
settling estates, negotiating loans, and in- 
surance. His residence is Westhampton. 

Mr. Jewett was married in Westhampton, 
January 29, 1850, to Vileria A., daughter 
of Francis and Paulina (Parsons) Loud. 
They have si.x children : Frances A,, 
Louisa E,, Charles F,. Emily B, (deceased 
in 1864), .Albert 1)., and Julia L, Jewett. 

Mr, Jewett is a deacon of the Congrega- 
tional church, clerk of the parish, justice 
of the peace ; has been selectman, assessor 
and overseer of the poor seventeen years 
(chairman of the board fifteen years), and 
was a representative in the Legislature in 
1881. 

JEWETT, Francis, son of Isaac and 
Xanc}' P, (Parker) Jewett, was born in 
Nelson, Cheshire county, N, H., September 
19, 1820. 

He passed through the common and 
high school at Nelson, and finished his 
educational training at the Baptist Semi- 
nary, Hancock, N. H. 

He began his business career on a farm 
in his native town, but in 1852 he be.gan 
the business of slaughtering cattle in Mid- 
dlese.x Village, now a part of Lowell, He 
continued this business until 1877, when he 
formed a co-partnership with E, C, Swift, 
in the commission business, handling 
Chicago dressed-beef, continuing the busi- 
ness up to the present time, 

Mr, Jewett was married in Stoddard, 
N. H., April 4, 1844, to Selina A., daughter 
of Rufus and Chloe (Dunn) Dodge. Of 
this union are two children : Abner A, 
and Frank E, Jewett, 

Mr, Jewett was three years captain of 
the Nelson Rifles, Nelson, N, H., and 
selectman in 1S48, 



JILLSON. 



JILLSON. 



339 



He has been a director in the Wamesil 
National Bank, Lowell, since 1861 ; vice- 
])resi(lent of the Merrimac River Savings 
Bank, antl a member of the committee of 
investment. 

He is a member of the I. O. O. F. ; also 
of the grand lodge of Massachusetts ; was 
elected grand master, and was representa- 
tive of the sovereign grand lodge of the 
United States two years ; has been member 
of the Mutual Benefit Association, Lowell, 
since its organization ; member of William 
North Lodge of Masons, Lowell, many 
years ; memlier of the Chapter R. A. ISL of 
Ahasuerus Council, and of Pilgrim Com- 
mandery, since 1870 ; was a member of tiie 
common council, Lowell, i864-'65, alder- 
man 1868 and '69, and mayor of Lowell, 
1873, '74 and '75. 

He was a member of the state Senate 
1877 and '79, and a member of the govern- 
or"scouncil 1887, '88 and '89. Hisresidence 
is Lowell. 

JILLSON, Clark, son of David and 
Waity (Williams) Jillson, was born at 
Whitingham, Windham county, ^'t., .\pril 
II, 1825. 

He was educated in the common schools 
and in the academy of his native town. 
His father was a farmer and blacksmith. 

During the year 1844 he was employed 
by John Russell & Co., at the Green River 
works, in Greenfield, Mass. In the fall of 
1845 he went to AVorcester, where he found 
work, first in a blacksmith sliop, afterwards 
in a machine shop, where he remained till 
the spring of 1854, when he removed to 
Southbridge. He remained there about 
two years, during which time he was one 
of the editors and proprietors of the "South- 
bridge Press." 

Li 1853 he was elected president of the 
Young Men's Rhetorical Society of Wor- 
cester, and delivered the annual address 
before that society, December 26, 1853. 

On the nth day of April, 1855, he was 
married in Worcester, b)' Rev. Horace 
James, to Ruth Elizabeth Lilley, who was 
born in O.xford, .\pril 29, 1S25. She was 
the only child of Lewis and Hannah (.-Vlbee) 
Lilley. Their children are : Lewis Lilley, 
Franklin Campbell, and Mary Jillson. 
Lewis died of scarlet fever, January 21, 
1870. 

Mr. Jillson remained in Southbridge till 
November, 1855, when he disposed of his 
interest in the paper, and with his family 
returned to ^\'orcester, where they now 
reside. 

After Mr. Jillson's return from South- 
bridge to Worcester, he again turnetl liis 



attention to mechanics. He has obtained 
letters-patent for about twenty inventions, 
some of which have been e.xtensively used. 

In i860 he was appointed by Governor 
Banks clerk of the police court of ^^"orces- 
ter, and on the 10th of April was commis- 
sioned a justice of the i^eace, an office he 
now holds. The ofiice of clerk having 
been made elective, he was elected to that 
office in i86r, and again in i866. [an- 
uary, 187 i, he resigned the office of clerk 
and accepted that of chief justice of the 
I St district court of southern Worcester, 
which position he now holds. In 1872 
he was appointed trial justice of juvenile 
offenders, and re-appointed in 1875. 

He was elected and served as mayor of 
A\'orcester, 1873, '75 and '76. 

He was the first president of the Sons 
and Daughters of Vermont, and delivered 
before that society the first annual address, 
on the loth da\- of February, 1874. On 




CLARK JILLSON. 

the 2 1st day of June, 1878, he read a poem 
before the alumni' and school of Nichols 
Academy, Dudley, he being president of 
the board of trustees. On the loth of Oc- 
tober he delivered the annual address be- 
fore the North River Agricultural Society 
in his native town. July 15, 1879, he de- 
livered an address before the New Hamp- 
shire .\ntiquarian Society, upon " New 



340 



JOHNSON. 



JOHNSON. 



Hampshire and Vermont ; their Unions, 
Secessions and Disunions." August i6, 
1880, he delivered the centennial oration 
in his native town. On the 4th of July, 
1888, he delivered the poem at the laying 
of the corner-stone of the town hall and 
high school building in Southbridge. 

Mr. Jillson still resides in Worcester, and 
is now collecting material for a history of 
his native town. 

JOHNSON, Edward Francis, son of 

John and Julia A. (Bulfinch) Johnson, was 
born in Woburn, Middlesex county, Octo- 
ber 22, 1856. 

He attended the public schools of his 
native town, and graduated at the high 
school as valedictorian of his class in 1874, 
He graduated from Harvard College in 
1878, and after a year's rest, partially 
spent abroad, entered the Harvard law 
school and graduated in 1882, with the 
degree of LL.B. He was admitted a mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar in 1881, and began 
practice after leaving the law school. He 
was appointed clerk of the 4th district 
court of eastern Middlesex at its estab- 
lishment in 1882, and held the position 
until he resigned in July, 188S. 

September 26, 1882, at Woburn, Mr. 
Johnson was married to Mary Elizabeth, 
daughter of Edward and ^lary (Tidd) 
.Simonds. Their children are : Harokl 
Pendexter and Kenneth Simonds Johnson. 

In April, 1887, Mr. Johnson was elected 
town treasurer of Woburn, and was re- 
elected the following year. In December, 
1 888, he was elected the first mayor of 
^Voburn. 

He is a direct descendant of Edward 
Johnson, who, having been the first town 
clerk and chairman of the first board of 
selectmen in Woburn, has been called " The 
Father of the Town." All of Mr. John- 
son's ancestors were natives of Woburn, 
and he was named after P^dward Johnson 
and Francis Kendall, who was another of 
the early settlers of Woburn, and one 
whose descendants have intermarried with 
the Johnsons. With the exception of Hon. 
Elisha Bartlett, who was elected mayor of 
Lowell at the age of thirty-one, Mr. John- 
son is the youngest first mayor of any of 
the twenty-seven cities which have been 
incorporated in Massachusetts. 

Mr. Johnson is a man fond of outdoor 
sports, and a champion tennis player. 
Being a Republican in politics, his election 
as mayor by a plurality of six hundred 
votes in a city strongly Democratic is a 
sufficient attestation of the popular esti- 
mation of his worth and abilitv. 



JOHNSON, George W., was born in 
Boston, December 28, 1827. He was edu- 
cated at the Latin and Chauncy Hall 
schools of his native city. He resides in 
Brookfield and is a practicing lawyer of 
Worcester county. He sat in the state 
Senate of 1870, and was a member of the 
House of Representatives in 1877 and 
'So. He was a delegate to the national 
Republican convention at Chicago in 1868, 
and is chairman of the board of trustees 
in the state primary and reform schools. 
He was elected to serve as a member of 
the executive council of Governor Ames 
in 1887, and has twice been re-elected to 
the same position. 

JOHNSON, HENRY AUGUSTIN, son of 
John and Harriet Bates Johnson, was born 
in Fairhaven, Bristol county, February 
17, 1825. His early education was at the 
Friends' Academy in New Bedford, and he 
prepared for college with Henry W. Torrey, 
then of New Bedford, but now of Cam- 
bridge. In August, 1840, he entered Har- 
vard College, and graduated in the class of 
1844. Subsequently he became a student 
at the Harvard law school, was admitted 
to the Suffolk county bar in 1S48, and, after 
an absence of two years in Europe, began 
the practice of law in Boston in the autumn 
of 1852. In 1855 he formed a co-partner- 
ship with Robert Codman of Boston, which 
has continued ever since. Their business 
at present is principally in probate matters 
and trusts. 

Mr. Johnson has never had any disposi- 
tion for political life, but attends closely to 
his professional duties in Boston, passing 
his leisure time on his farm in East Brain- 
tree. He served on the school committee 
for several years, and is one of the original 
trustees of the Thayer public library. 

In January, 1859, he was married to 
Elizabeth Swift, daughter of the late Henry 
H. Hitch, of Pernambuco, Brazil, who died 
in 1882, leaving him with six children : 
Laurence H. H., Elizabeth, Lesly Augus- 
tin, Harriet Everard, Reginald Hathaway, 
and Erik St. John Johnson. 

JOHNSON, Henry Harrison, son of 

Samuel and Mary (Emery) Johnson, was 
born in Haverhill, Essex county, March 
24, 1840. 

The common and high schools furnished 
the means of his early education. When 
fifteen years of age he entered a shoe- 
shop to learn the business ; remained until 
1862, when he enlisted in the 50th regiment, 
Massachusetts volunteers, and went to the 
front. He served in the Culf department 



JOHNSON. 



JOHNSON. 



341 



imder General Banks. On his return from 
the war he again became employed in the 
shoe factories, and in 1868 formed a part- 
nersiiip with George H. Carieton for the 
manufacture of shoes. This partnership 
continued for ten years, when the firm 
was dissolved, and Mr. Johnson continued 
in the same until 1886, when he retired 
from active business. 

-Mr. Johnson was married in Haverhill, 
March 14, 1866, to Mar)- F., daughter of 
W. P. and Harriet (Lambert) Hobson. Of 
this union are two children : William Henry 
and Carrie Lambert Johnson. 

Mr. Johnson is a prominent member of 
the Masonic order, and is also an active 
member in the G. A. R. ; was a member of 
the common council of Haverhill 1873 and 
'74 — president the latter year; for three 
years a member of the Republican state 
central committee, and a member of the 
House of Representatives in 1889, serving 
upon the committee on water supj^ly. 

JOHNSON, IVER, son of John Johnson, 
was born in Xordfjord, Norway, February 

14, 1841- 

He obtained his educational training in 
the parish schools of his native place. 




IVER JOHNSOM. 



He served an apprenticeship at gun- 
making in Bergen, and finished his term of 
service m 1S62 ; worked one vear at his 



trade in Christiana; then in 1863, at twenty- 
two years of age, emigrated to .America and 
located in ^\'orcester. In 187 1, in com- 
pany with Martin Bye, lie began in a small 
way the manufacture of jiistols, under the 
firm name of Johnson, Bye & Co. From 
this small beginning grew the great busi- 
ness which has since, in busy times, em- 
ployed three hundred and fifty hands. 

In 1883 Mr. Johnson bought the interest 
of Mr. Bye, and the business has since 
been conducted by him, under the firm 
name of Iver Johnson & Co., in the city of 
Worcester, where he resides. Mr. John- 
son now manufactures pistols, guns, and 
every style of fire-arms, police goods, chain 
twisters, ice and roller skates, and bicycles 
— all of original construction ; he also 
does drop-forging of all kinds, and nickel- 
plating. 

Mr. Johnson is an intelligent student of 
social and economic questions. He has 
been for many years a director in the 
Sovereigns' Co-operative Store, and on the 
board of directors of each of the three 
co-operative banks of Worcester since their 
organization, being the president of one of 
them. 

Mr. Johnson was married in ^^'orce.'■■.ter, 
.4]3ril 9, 1868, to Mary E., daughter of 
John and Jennett (Adams) Spiers. Of 
this union were five children : Nettie 
liright (tieceased), Frederick Iver, John 
Lovell, Walter Olof and Mary Louise 
Johnson. 

JOHNSON, Joseph Prosper, son of 

John William and Jerusha (Cary) Johnson, 
was born in Essex, Middlesex county, 
Conn., July 18, 1813, and was one of a 
family of thirteen children. 

His early education was gleanetl from 
two months' attendance each year in the 
district school of those days. His father, 
once a prosperous mariner and shipmaster, 
w\^s forced to retire from the sea on ac- 
count of ill health, and when death came, 
the widow and fatherless were obliged to 
economize to keep the family in comforta- 
ble circumstances. 

.\t the age of fourteen Joseph left home, 
June 17, 1827, with nothing outside his 
brain and hands, but the example and 
counsel of a fond mother to invest as capi- 
tal in the great mart of human activities. 
He embarked in a small trading vessel and 
went to Provincetown, where he bounti 
himself out for seven vears as an appren- 
tice to a sail-maker. At that time sail-mak- 
ing was a flourishing business in that little 
sea-port town. Long hours of work and 
short minutes for recreation gave young 



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Johnson small time for reading and study, 
but what time he found he improved, and 
by perseverance and close attention, he 
laid the foundation for a practical, hard- 
earned education, which in after years 
brought rich reward. 




JOSEPH p. JOHNSON. 

After learning his trade, he carried on 
the business until July, 1850, when he re- 
tired with a comfortable competency. He 
then entered into a co-partnership with 
others in mercantile pursuits ; but their 
ventures proving unfortunate, the accumu- 
lations of years were swept from him at a 
blow. 

He began again — this time to manufac- 
ture shoe bo.xes in a small way, in that 
portion of the town of Bridgewater now 
known as Brockton. He was at first suc- 
cessful, but reverses came, and he sold the 
business and again removed to Province- 
town. He now engaged in the wrecking 
business ; was very successful, and again 
retired with a small fortune. His creditors 
of former years of failure were now paid 
by him in full. 

Mr. Johnson was president of the Union 
Marine Insurance Company, and general 
agent for the Boston board of underwriters 
until, at seventy, he resigned ; has been a 
director of the First National Bank of 
Provincetown from its organization ; select- 



man for years ; member of the General 
Court eight terms, between 1850 and '80 ; 
member of the state Senate, 1882 and '83, 
and moderator of every town meeting for 
twenty-eight successive years. When he 
felt he could no longer serve, he received a 
series of resolutions adopted in town meet- 
ing assembled, thanking him for his just 
and impartial rulings. He has been forty 
years a Mason and Odd Fellow ; sir knight 
in Boston Commandery, K. T. ; has held 
several appointments of D. D. G. M. of 
the I. O. O. F. 

Mr. Johnson was first married the 28th 
of April, 1835, 'o Polly Cook, who died 
seven years later. His second marriage 
was with Susan Fitch, in 1843. She lived 
but a few years, and at her death left two 
children : Mary and Susie Johnson. In 
1848 he married Mary ^^"harf. She died 
in 1869, leaving three children : Josephine, 
George, and William John.son. 

Mr. Johnson is a warm-hearted, gener- 
ous, public-spirited man, lo\'ed by the young 
and universally respected by his townsmen. 
His good deeds, unostentatious charities, 
and his uniformly courteous hospitality, 
will be a lasting monument to his good 
name. 

JOHNSON, Nathaniel Lafayette, 

son of Nathaniel and Martha Johnson, was 
born in Dana, Worcester countv, May 30, 
1822. 

He received his early education in the 
common schools of his native town, and 
about one year at New Salem Academy, 
after which he continued classical studies 
under a private tutor. He then for a 
time studied with a view to entering the 
legal profession ; that being abandoned, 
after teaching school two terms, he became 
a clerk in a country store. 

In 1844 he entered into business with 
George G. Braman, in the manufacture of 
palm-leaf hats, under the firm name of 
Braman & Johnson. This partnership be- 
ing tlissolved in 1846, he entered into part- 
nership with Daniel Russell, late of Lynn. 
In 185 I this firm was succeeded by John- 
son & Giddings, and two years later Mr. 
Johnson relinquished the mercantile part 
of the business, and continued the manu- 
facture of palm-leaf goods alone until 
1887. 

In 1862, when the First National Bank 
of Barre was organized, Mr. Johnson be- 
came a director, and in 1883 was elected 
its president, which position he now holds. 
He is also one of the trustees of the Barre 
Savings Bank, an institution which he as- 
sisted in organizing. 



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He has been more or less interested in 
agriculture during his whole business life ; 
has held most of the town offices ; was a 
member of the House of Representatives 
in 1857, '60 and '71. In the Senate, in 
1873 and '74, he was chairman of the com- 
mittees on claims, and probate and chan- 
cery, and a member of the legislative valu- 
ation committee in i860. He was post- 
master of Dana from 1848 to '65, and trial 
justice from 1858 to '60. He is a member 
of the .\merican Bible Society, a trustee of 
New Salem Academy, and an active mem- 
ber of the Congregational church. 

He was married at Argyle, Washington 
county, N. Y., July i, 1858, to Margaretta 




NATHANIEL L. JOHNSON. 

H., daughter of David and Nancy Harshaw, 
by whom he has one son ; John H. John- 
son, now a student in the ISoston Univer- 
sity law school. 

His paternal grandfather. Stephen John- 
son, served in the revolutionary war. 

JOHNSON, Peter Rogers, son of 

Calvin and Nancy (Rogers) Johnson, was 
born in Holhston, Middlesex county, June 
22, 1824. 

His education was received in the com- 
mon schools. 

His first connection in business was with 
the late .\lden Leland, of HoUiston, in the 
manufacture of boots antl shoes. In 1858 



he began manufacturing boots on his own 
account, but in 1871 joined with the late 
J. H. Lester and L. R. .Moody, under the 
firm name of Lester, Johnson & Moody. 

LTpon the retirement of Mr. Lester, the 
present partnership was formed, under the 
firm name of Johnson, Moody & Co., man- 
ufacturers and dealers in boots and shoes, 
Boston. 

Mr. Johnson was first married in Sher- 
born, May 29, 1849, to Eleanor, daughter 
of Jacob and Mary Ann (Hooker) Pratt. 
The fruit of this union was two children : 
.\I. Anna and Helen L. Johnson. Mrs. John- 
son died in 1885. Mr. Johnson's second 
marriage was with Jessie M., daughter of 
Ja.son and Emily W. (Goddard) Hart. 

Mr. Johnson was representative to the 
Legislature in 1872 and '77. He has been 
repeatedly called to serve his town as 
selectman, assessor, etc. He is director in 
the Holhston National Bank and in the 
Holliston Mills. 

Mr. Johnson's father dying when the 
son was but two years old, circumstances 
compelled the latter to seek employment 
at a tender age. At ten he was appren- 
ticed to B. F. Batchelder, to learn the shoe- 
making trade. He remained until sixteen 
vears of age, when he assumed the re- 
sponsibilities of life for himself, and by his 
energy and perseverance has attained to 
his present measure of success. 

JONES, Bradford Elliot, son of 

Rosseter and Hannah (Marshall) Jones, 
was born in North Bridgewater, Plymouth 
county, September 22, 1840. 

He'was educated in the public schools 
of his native town and the North Bridge- 
water .\cademy. 

He entered the dry-goods store of 
Charles Curtis when seventeen years of 
age, and remained there nearly four years. 
In 1864, he started in the dry-goods busi- 
ness for himself, in Provincetown, remain- 
ing there till 1867; then returned to North 
Bridgewater and organized the house of 
Jones, Lovell & Sanford, buying out the 
long established business ot Brett Bros. 
This co-partnership continued about three 
years, when Mr. Sanford retired, and the 
business continued under the firm name of 
Jones & Lovell, until May, 1875. The 
senior member then retired, and purchased 
the dry-goods business of H. H. Pack- 
ard, now operating under the name ot 
B. E. Jones lV Co. 

Mr.Jones was married in Provincetown, 
September 21, 1862, to Kate Maria, daugh- 
ter of Dr. Stephen A. and Catherine M. W. 
(Brackett) Paine. Of this union were two 



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children : Kittv Paiiie and Stephen Ros- 
seter Jones. 

He is president of the Security Co-oper- 
ative Bank, vice-president of the Brockton 
Savings Bank, director of the Home Na- 
tional Bank ; has been treasurer of Paul 
Revere Lodge of Masons since 1875, and 
is president of the Landlords' Protective 
Association. In 1882 he was elected 
alderman to the first city government. He 




BRAUFORD E JONES 

is also treasurer of the Brockton Masonic 
Benefit Association. 

He has uniformly been a large holder in 
the real estate, and a firm believer in the 
future prosperity, of the city of Brockton, 
but is also operating quite extensively in 
orange growing in Florida. 

JONES, Edward Jenkins, son of 

Jacob and Mary (Covell) Jones, was born in 
Boston, October 15, 1822. His educational 
advantages were the primary and grammar 
schools of Boston. 

He began his business career by finding 
employment as clerk for ^\'illiam W. Mot- 
ley, in the Albion clothing store. 

In 1845 he was appointed deputy sheriff 
and was crier of the supreme court. He 
chose the profession of the law, and after 
due preparation was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar, of which he has been a mem- 
ber for twenty years. His present voca- 



tion is that of lawver and master in 
chancery. 

Mr. Jones was married in Boston, April 
26, 1849, to Emily I)., daughter of James 
and Fanny B. Campbell. Of this union 
are eight children : Emily D. C, Richard 
F., p:dward J,, Jr., Helen M., Daniel C, 
Mary C, Ezra P., and Harry Jones. 

In addition to the offices of deputy 
sheriff and crier of the supreme court, he has 
been captain of the watch, chief constable 
of the Commonwealth, justice of the 
peace, notary public, master in chancery, 
commissioner of insolvency, police com- 
missioner ; has held all the .grades of office 
in the state militia from corporal to lieuten- 
ant-colonel, captain of the nth Massachu- 
setts light battery during the rebellion, up 
to the surrender of General Lee and the 
close of the war. He was breveted major 
of U. S. V. for conspicuous gallantry at 
the battle of Fort Stedman, Va., March 
25, 1865. From March, 1866, he was six 
years assistant inspector on the staff of 
Major-General JJenjamin F. Butler, com- 
mantling the division of Massachusetts 
nnlitia. He is a member of the Military 
Order of the Loyal Legion, of the (i. A. R.; 
also of the Ancient and Honorable Artil- 
lery Company, and National Lancers. 
Since 1841 his church connections have 
been with the Baptists. He is a life mem- 
ber of Columbia Lodge and of St. Andrew's 
Chapter and Joseph Warren Commandery. 
He is a member of the I. O. O. F. 

Mr. Jones was a member of the House 
of Representatives 1873 and '74. 

JONES, ERASTUS, son of Asa and Lucy 
(Dunbar) Jones, was born in Spencer, Wor- 
cester county, September 11, 1825. His 
early educational advantages were limited 
to the common and high schools of Spen- 
cer, in those days, the high school being a 
private institution. 

After leaving school, at seventeen years 
of age, he entered the employ of his 
brother, then manufacturing boots. In 
1S46 he formed a partnership with his 
brother, who retired in 1861, H. P. Starr 
succeeding him. Since that time the firm 
name has been E. Jones & Co. 

In 1850 Mr. Jones was married in Rath, 
Maine, to Mary Isabella, daughter of John, 
V>. H. and Isabella (Prince) Starr, and sis- 
ter of his partner. Of this union were 
five children : Lucy I., Julia F., Charles E. 
(deceased), Everett S., and Mary P. Jones. 

Mr. Jones was town clerk in 1868 and '69, 
and served in the House of Representa- 
tives one year (1874). He is president of 
the First National Bank, Spencer, and has 



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345 



been since its organization. He has been 
president of the Spencer Savings Bank 
and treasurer of the First Congregational 
parish for a long term of years ; has been 
treasurer of the town of Spencer for sev- 
eral years, being elected to the latter posi- 
tion without any opposition. During the 
war he was firm in his support of the Union 
cause, and liberal in his contributions. A 
man of the strictest integrity in his success- 
ful business relations, he has a large heart, 
and his most intimate friends are not ac- 
quainted with the extent or direction of 
many of his charities. 

JONES, Jerome, was born in Athol, 
Worcester county, October 13, 1837. He 
is the youngest son of the late Theodore 
and Marcia (Estabrook) Jones, and grand- 
son of Rev. Joseph Estabrook, the second 
minister of Athol, and a noted preacher in 
his time. 

The subject of this sketch was educated 
in the common school at Athol, and at an 
early age entered as clerk the country 
store of Goddard iv: Ward, in the adjoining 
town of Orange. In 1853 he was appren- 
ticed to Otis Norcross & Co., of Boston, 
where he received his commercial training, 
this firm being then the leading importers 
of crockery in the United States. In 1861, 
at twenty-three years of age, he was ad- 
mitted a partner, and in 1865 he was sent 
to Europe as the foreign buyer of the firm, 
which position he filled with ability for 
many years. 

In 1867 Otis Norcross was elected mayor 
of Boston, and retired from the business, 
which was subsequentlv carried on under 
the firm name of Howland & Jones. On 
the death of Ichabod Howland, in 187 1, 
the firm was changed to the present firm 
of Jones, McDuffee & Stratton, the senior 
partner of which completed in June of 
the present year thirty-six years of con- 
tinuous service in this widely-known house. 

Few instances can be found of more 
rapid and marked mercantile success than 
in the case of Mr. Jones. He went from 
home a mere lad to make his own way in 
the world, and with this purpose in view 
worked earnestlv in a country store until 
he was sixteen years of age. During the 
next seven years, by thorough training 
and faithful service, he gained, step by 
step, position and prominence, and at the 
age of twenty-three, was admitted as partner 
in the leading crockery house in the coun- 
try. At the age of twenty-seven he be- 
came its foreign buyer, and at thirty-three 
its senior partner — a career notable in 
many respects, and especially in exempli- 



fying the dignity of labor and its appro- 
priate rewards. 

Mr. Jones has been twice married. His 
first wife was Fllizabeth R. Wait of Oreen- 
field, to whom he was married February 
II, 1864. Mrs. Jones died July 10, 1878, 
leaving four children : Theodore, Eliza- 
beth W., Marcia E., and Helen R. Jones. 
He was married the second time in Febru- 
ary, 1 88 1, to Mrs. Maria E. Dutton of Bos- 
ton. 

Mr. Jones is a representative business 
man of the best ty|3e. His record has made 
him a man of marked prominence. He is 
a Jeffersonian Democrat, and a member of 
the executive committee of the Mas.sachu- 
setts Tariff Reform Club. 

He has been for many years a trustee 
of Mt. Auburn Cemetery ; director in the 
Traders National Bank ; member of the 
Boston Commercial Club, of the Unitarian 
Club, and Brookline Thursday Club. He 
was also for several years president of 
the Boston Earthenware Association, and 
president of the Worcester Northwest Agri- 
cultural Society. 

His residence is Brookline. 

JONES, Silas, son of Silas and Love 
(Shiverick) Jones, was born in Falmouth, 
15arnstable county, February 25, 1814. 

He received what education he could 
glean from books in the common schools 
of Falmouth in those days. 

Early in life, turning toward the sea for 
a livelihood, he engaged in the whaling- 
business, making his first venture at six- 
teen years of age. At the age of twenty- 
six he was in command of a ship, and 
continued in the business as master of a 
ship ft)r fifteen years. 

He was a member of the lower branch 
of the Legislature in 1865 and '66. 

He retired from active business, and 
accepted the presidency of the Falmouth 
Bank, 1881. 

Captain Jones was married in Falmouth, 
May 19, 1845, to Harriet B., daughter of 
Joseph (a descendant of John Robinson, 
of Puritan fame) and Olive C. (Lawrence) 
Robinson. Of this union were six children : 
Oeorge F., Rowland R., Lucy S., Ellen M., 
Mary R., and Silas Jones, Jr. 

He is a man of strong individuality, firm, 
reticent and unostentatiou.s, though self- 
re.liant. He possesses in an eminent de- 
gree the respect of his townsmen. He 
comes of good New England stock. 

Always cool and self-possessed, he had 
these qualities once tested to their limit, 
when third mate of a ship, while running 
throua:h the Micronesian Islands. She 



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JORDAN. 



was captured b}- native pirates, and seven 
of the crew were murdered, when young 
Jones, from a position partially j^rotected, 
picked off the pirates one by one, until he 
literally redeemed the lost ground, suc- 
ceeded in driving them over the side, thus 
saving the ship. 

JORDAN, EBEN Dyer, son of Benja- 
min and Lydia (Wright) Jordan, was born 
October 13, 1822, in Danville, Cumber- 
land county, Maine. The Jordan family 
of this country trace their line to one pro- 
genitor, the Rev. Robert Jordan, a priest 
of the church of England, who came from 
England about the year 1640. For many 
years he held a prominent position in the 
region adjacent to Cape Elizabeth, and 
the early history of Maine shows him to 
have been a man able to conduct difficult 
enterprises, and to administer important 
trusts, at a time when the unsettled condi- 
tion of the new country, the imperfect exe- 
cution of the laws, and the terrors of w'ar- 
fare with savage Indians, were formidable 
obstacles to success. The line of descent 
is through Robert (1640), Dominicus 
(1664), Nathaniel (1696), Benjamin (1738), 
Ebenezer (1764), and Benjamin, who was 
born at Danville in 1786. 

Mr. Jordan was left fatherless and pen- 
niless at an early age, and his mother being 
unable to maintain the large family of 
small children left dependent upon her, the 
lad was placed with a farmer's family in 
the neighborhood. He proved a smart, 
active, industrious boy. His life upon the 
farm differed not much from that of the 
ordinary youth who attends brief summer 
and winter terms at a district school of 
seventy-five pupils, ranging from five to 
twenty-one years of age. This limited 
schooling Mr. Jordan has supplemented in 
after life by hard e.xperience, a wide range 
of reading, by extensive travel, and by 
personal contact with active and success- 
ful men in all the walks of business and 
professional life. 

Just before he was fourteen years of 
age, Mr. Jortlan made what proved to be 
an important decision in his life, by resolv- 
ing to leave the drudgery of the farm and 
seek employment in Boston — that great 
centre which has for many years been the 
magnet to attract the farmer-boys of New 
England. With his small savings he came 
by boat from Portland to Boston, and 
landed in the city of his future renown and 
success with very little cash, but sound 
health, good principles, self-reliant habits, 
industrious and economic methods, and a 
desire to achieve results by honest toil. 



He showed good sense in embracing the 
first opportunity for employment that was 
presented, and went to work on a farm at 
Mount Pleasant, Roxbury, at four dollars 
per month. When he was sixteen, he en- 
tered the store of William P. Tenny & 
Company, Boston, remaining there two 
years, afterwards working for a Mr. Pratt 
on a salary of two hundred and seventy- 
five dollars per year. At nineteen years 
of age his energy, intelligence, and grit, 
attracted the attention of Joshua Stetson, 
then a leading dry-goods merchant in Bos- 
ton. Through his kindness, Mr. Jordan 
started for himself in a small store'at the 






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EBEN D. JORDAN, 

corner of Mechanic and Hanover streets 
in that city. At that time the steamers 
from down East and the Provinces arrived 
early in the morning, and to capture the 
trade of the passengers, this enterprising 
young merchant was up and had his store 
open at four o'clock, doing quite a thriving 
business before breakfast. There was but 
one result from such devotion to business. 
His store became one of the most notable 
and popular on the street, and at the end 
of four years, the sales amounted to one 
hundred thousand dollars per annum. 

Desirous of obtaining practical infor- 
mation in the matter of buying goods, of 
gaining a better understanding of the gen- 



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347 



eral lines of trade throughout the world, 
Mr. Jordan at the age of twenty-five sold 
out his store and took a position in the 
well-known and successful house of James 
M. Beebe. Here, in two years' time, bv 
hard work anil diligent study, he acquired 
a thorough knowledge of the principles 
and management of the business, and the 
system which Mr. Beebe had been a quar- 
ter of a century in perfecting. He was 
now better equipped for going into busi- 
ness on his own account, and immediately 
entered upon a new career as a Boston 
merchant. 

The firm of Jordan, Marsh & Company 
was formed in the year 185 1, when thev 
opened a small jobbing store on Milk Street. 
They had a reputation for integrity, indus- 
try and al)ility, and it was not long before 
they had built up a permanent and profitable 
trade. Mr. Jordan introduced the cash 
system into the jobbing business, and made 
considerable headway in improving the 
methods of trade for the benefit of custom- 
ers. Large importers were few in those 
days, but the competitors of Jordan, Marsh 
& Company enjoyed this facility, and had 
large credit abroad. A personal visit of 
Mr. Jordan to Europe, however, in 1852, 
removed this obstacle, and ever since the 
firm has obtained all the credit needed, and 
their English correspondents have never 
had occasion to regret the connections then 
made. The firm steadily progressed, in- 
creasing its trade and resources, weathered 
successfully the financial storm of 1857, 
enlarged its salesrooms and manufacturing 
departments, and kept up a spirit of enter- 
prise which increased its profits and 
strengthened its name. In 1861 Jordan, 
Marsh & Company bought the retail store 
on Washington Street where now stands 
their magnificent establishment, a fit mon- 
ument to the broad and comprehensive 
spirit which has ever characterized the 
career of this successful merchant. 

During all these years, when Mr. Jordan 
has been active in building up the fortunes 
of his house, he has been one of Boston's 
most public-spirited citizens. Persistently 
refusing all suggestions of political honors, 
he has ever been ready to forward any 
public movement to promote the best in- 
terests of the city, and to contribute to any 
public testimonial in favor of those who 
have achieved success or merited public 
recognition. A staunch patriot at the time 
of the rebellion, a generous contributor to 
the Peace Jubilee, he has by liberal expend- 
iture of time and money, indisputablv 
linked his name with all that has tended to 



make the city of his adoption the metrop- 
olis indeed of New England. 

The career of Mr. Jordan shows what 
is possible for a boy with few early advan- 
tages, without means or friends, to accom- 
plish, by diligent application to busine.ss, 
a life of the strictest integrity, and by a 
generous and open-handed co-operation in 
enterprises that promote the public weal. 

Mr. Jordan was married in Boston, Jan- 
uary 13, 1847, to Julia M., daughter of 
James Clark. His children are : Walter 
(deceased), James Clark, Julia Maria, Eben 
Dyer, Jr., and Alice Jordan. 

JORDAN, JEDIAH Porter, .son of An- 
son and Matilda H. (Porter) Jordan, was 
born in Raymond, Cumberland county. 
Me., March 29, 1846. He received his 
early education at the common schools of 
Raymond and Casco, and the high school 
at Portland, Me. 

He afterwards studied a year prepara- 
tory for college ; but at the end of that 
period, owing to the death of his father, 
he left school at the age of sixteen, came 
to Roxbury, Mass., and entered the freight 
office of the Boston & Providence Rail- 
road as a clerk. 

While in this position, he enlisted as a 
private in company D, 42d Massachusetts 
infantry, July 20, 1864, rising by promo- 
tion to sergeant-major of that regiment. 
At the expiration of his regiment's term of 
service, he re-entered the employ of the 
railroad company as assistant to the gen- 
eral freight-agent, which position he occu- 
pied for two years. He was then for two 
years book-keeper for .4. L. Cutler & Co., 
and subsequently for Carter Brothers & 
Co., wholesale paper dealers. In 1875 he 
became a partner in the latter firm, retain- 
ing his connection with this house under 
its various changes of style to Carter, Pul- 
sifer and Jordan ; Pulsifer, Jordan & Wil- 
son ; Pulsifer, Jordan & Pfaff. 

Mr. Jordan left Roxbury in 1872, and 
resided for six years in Quincy, when he 
returned to Roxbury, where he has since 
resided. 

In addition to his army service, he was 
for three years commander of company 1 ), 
ist regiment of infantry, M. V. M. (Rox- 
bury city guard), which under him gained 
a high reputation and great proficiency in 
drill. He was also at one time commander 
of Post 88, G. A. R., of Quincy ; Post 26, 
Ci. A. R., of Ro-xbury ; commander of Rox- 
bury .•\rtillery .\ssociation, and was chief 
of Norfolk county division of theG. A. R., 
at the laying of the corner-stone of the 
Boston soldiers' monument. He was com- 



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TOSLIN. 



missioned a colonel by Gov. John D. I-ong, 
January 9, 1880, and served on his staff for 
three years. 

In presidential campaigns his services 
have always been in great demand in the 
organization of campaign battalions, and 
he commanded corps of this kind in 1868, 
'72, '76, '80 and '84. 

Mr. Jordan is a staunch Republican in 
politics, in which he has alwa)-s taken a 
lively interest. He has always held a high 
position in local affairs in Roxbury, declin- 
ing public office until 1S87, when he was 
elected senator for the 7th Suffolk district. 
His commercial relations have given him 
honorable prominence throughout the coun- 
try, and his executive ability has been often 
recognized in contact with the prominent 
business men of Boston. He is vice-presi- 
dent of the Boston Paper Trade Association. 

He was married May 19, 1870, to Martha 
Shackford Meserve, the daughter of Capt. 
Isaac H. and Mary W. Shackford. He 
has four children : Robert Anson, William 
Meserve. Porter Belles, and Mary Shack- 
ford Jordan. 

JOSLIN, Allen Lafayette, son of 

Elliott and Almira (Davis) Joslin, was 
born in East Thompson, Windham county. 
Conn., August 30, 1833. His education 
was limited to what he gleaned from the 
district school. 

At twenty-four years of age he started 
in the shoe business for himself, in Oxford, 
Mass. 

In i860 he formed a co-partnership with 
L. B. Corbin, under the firm name of I.. B. 
Corbin & Co., shoe manufacturers. This 
co-partnership was dissolved in 1870, and 
a new one formed in 1871, under the firm 
name of A. L. Joslin &: Co., who carry on 
the business at the present time. 

Mr. Joslin was married in Oxford, Sep- 
tember 15, 1857, to Lucretia M., daughter 
of Loriston and Clarissa (Eddy) Shumway. 
Of this union were two children : Ada L. 
and Homer S. Joslin. He was again mar- 
ried in Peabody, October 24, 1867, to 
Sarah A. E., daughter of Abel and Lydia 
P. (Emerson) Proctor. Of this union were 
two children : Elliott Proctor, and Abel 
Proctor Joslin (deceased). 

Mr. Joslin has served his adopted town 
in various official capacities — selectman, 
treasurer, member of school board, etc. 

He was a representative to the Legisla- 
ture in 1885 ; state senator in 1886. He 
is president of Oxford National Bank, and 
trustee of Leicester Academy. His sum- 
mer residence is Oxford, and his winter 
residence. Beacon Street, Boston. 



JOSLIN, Ja.mes Thomas, son of Eiias 

and Elizabeth (Stearns) Joslin, was born 
in Leominster, Worcester countv. Tune 23, 

1834. 

He is a lineal descendant of Thomas 
Joslin, who came to America from Eng- 
land in 163s, and who was a pioneer settler 
in Lancaster, where he died in 1660. 

Mr. Joslin was educated in the common 
and high schools of his native town, and 
subsequently pursued a two years' course 
of stud)' in Lawrence Academy, Groton. 
He then began the study of law in the of- 
fice of the late Hon. Charles H. Merriam, 
Leominster, where he remained two years, 
and then spent two years in the office of 
Wood & Bailey, Fitchburg, where he was 
admitted to the bar in i860. 

Like many another lad who has to de- 
pend upon his own resources, he com- 
mencetl to teach school when he was 




JAMEi T. JOSLIN. 

eighteen years of age, and taught five 
winters in Leominster, besides acting as 
assistant in the high school one year. He 
also taught the Hale high school at Stow 
during the autumn of 1857, and in the 
winter of 1859 completed a term fh a 
school where three teachers had provetl 
unequal to the task. 

While pursuing his legal studies in 
Leominster he served two vears on the 



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sciiool board, and one year was collector 
of taxes. Immediately after admission 
to the bar he opened an office in Felton- 
ville, Marlborough. The growth of the 
village was so rapid, that in 1864 Mr. 
Joslin wrote a series of articles which were 
published in the local paper, recommend- 
ing the incorporation of a new town. As 
a result of this and other efforts in the 
same direction, the town of Hudson was 
incorporated in 1866. Mr. Joslin was 
made a member of a committee of three 
to attend to all matters pertaining to the 
changes made, and served until the work 
was consummated. Since the town was 
incorporated, he has been elected thirty- 
nine times as moderator to preside at town 
meetings. 

In politics he has always been a staunch 
Republican, and for two years was a mem- 
iier of the Republican state central com- 
mittee. He was an active participant in 
the construction of the Massachusetts 
Central Railroad, and retained his ifiterest 
therein until it was leased to the Boston 
& Lowell Railroad Company. For some 
years he was a director in the corpora- 
tion. 

Mr. Joslin is a trial justice, to which 
office he was appointed in 1867. He was 
postmaster two years during President 
Lincoln's administration. With the fra- 
ternity of Odd Fellows he has been ac- 
tive ; -was- elected noble grand of Hudson 
lodge at its institution in 187 1 ; in the 
grand lodge has served several years on 
the committee on appeals ; in 1880 was 
elected grand master, and the two years 
following was representative to the sov- 
ereign grand loilge. He is also a trustee 
of the Odd Fellows' Home. He is a 
member of the Masonic fraternity and is 
a past eminent commander of Trinity com- 
mandery of K. T. of Hudson. 



In religion he has always affiliated with 
the liberal school, and is a life-member (jf 
the .\merican Unitarian Association. Not- 
withstanding his activity in society mat- 
ters, he has not neglected his profession, 
to which he is devoted, and in which he has 
attained an honorable rank. He married 
Annie Catherine Burrage, October 14, 1861. 
Their children are : Ralph Edgar, a lawyer, 
and Nellie Watson Joslin. 

JUDD, Frederick Eugene, son of 

William I), and Melvina A. (Carleton) 
Judd, was born in Lowell, Middlese.x 
county, March 30, 1852. 

His educational training was received in 
the Lowell schools, he graduating from the 
high school July 24, 1869. 

He entered business life as book-keeper 
for a wholesale woolen house, Boston, and 
subsequently removed to Northampton, 
engaging in the same business. 

In November, 1887, he was taken into 
company with A. tl. Judd, in a general 
store at Southampton, under the firm name 
of A. G. Judd & Co. Previous to this he 
was in the employ of Mr. Judd. 

Mr. Judd has been for the past twelve 
years chairman of the Republican town 
committee. Republican district committee, 
assistant postmaster, and town clerk. He 
has served three years as town treasurer, 
and has been census enumerator three 
terms for Easthampton and Southampton. 
At present he is town treasurer. 

He is a justice of the peace, and is much 
employed in settling estates, as executor 
and administrator. His church connec- 
tions are with the Congregational church, 
of which he is an officer, organist and 
musical director. 

Mr. Judd is a lineal descendant of the 
Rev. Jonathan Judd, first minister of South- 
ampton, who was settled in that parish 
from 1743 to 1803. 



KEENE, Walter Scott, son of Norris 

and Sarah Ann (Nye) Keene, was born in 
Palmyra, Somerset county, Maine, Novem- 
ber 9, 1858. 

He received his education in the common 
schools of Palmyra and adjoining towns 
in Somerset countv. He was for a time 
clerk for his father in Palmyra. At nine- 
teen years of age he entered, as porter and 
laborer, the store of Shaw Brothers, Bos- 
ton. Of this house he is now head sales- 
man and partner. 



Mr. Keene was married in South 
Boston, January 6, 1881, to Kate Millet, 
daughter of Josiah L. and Clarinda 
(Sherman) Thomas. They have two 
children : Walter Scott, Jr., antl Nellie 
Iva Keene. 

Mr. Keene is a member of the Stoneham 
board of trade, and a director in the Co-op- 
erative Bank of Stoneham , is a prominent 
member of the I. O. O. F., and of the Im- 
proved Order of Red Men ; he has also 
been a member of the Republican town 



JD>- 



KlilTH. 



KEITH. 



committee for some years, and in 1889 
was chosen one of the selectmen of Stone- 
ham, where he resides. 

KEITH, George E., son of Franklin 
Keith, was born in Brockton, Plvmouth 
county, February 8, 1850. 

He attended the common schools of his 
native town, working mornings and even- 
ings, during the time, in his father's shoe 
factory. 

Finishing his high school studies, he fol- 
lowed his trade until 1874, when he started 
in business for himself as a shoe manufact- 
urer, which he has since followed, without 
change. 

Mr. Keith was married in Whitman, 
October, 1877, to Anna ()., daughter of 
Hon. Wm. L. Reed. Of this union are 
two children : Eldon B. and Harold C. 
Keith. 

Mr. Keith has been called upon to serve 
his city as alderman, is president of the 
Loan Fund Bank, director in the Brock- 
ton National Bank, and holds the same 
position in the Brockton Savings Bank. 
He is president of the Y. M. C. A., and 
holds his church connections with the 
Congregational church. 

His success in business is shown by an 
increase in number of employees since 
1874, when he began with twenty. He 
now employs five hundred, and is the 
largest manufacturer of shoes in the city of 
Brockton. 

KEITH, Isaac Newton, son of Isaac 
and Delia B. Keith, was born in West 
Sandwich, Barnstable county, November 
14, 1838. 

He received his early education in the 
public schools of Sandwich. He learnetl 
the business of telegraphy, and worked 
two years as operator. He was superin- 
tendent of the American Telegraph Com- 
pany, Cape Cod and Cape Ann districts, 
seven years, with headquarters in Boston. 

In October, 1867, he began business as 
a manufacturer of railway cars, two years 
with Isaac Keith & Sons, eight years 
under the firm name of H. T. & I. N. 
Keith, and ten years as the Keith Manu- 
facturmg Company, Isaac N. Keith, sole 
proprietor. 

Mr. Keith was married in Provincetown, 
September 7, 1865, to Eliza Frances, 
daughter of Eben S. and Adeline Smith. 
Of this union are two chddren : Adeline 
Eloise and Eben Sturgis Smith Keith. 

Mr. Keith was called to serve the Com- 
monwealth as representative to the Gen- 
eral Court, 1875 and '76, and was elected 



to the state Senate, 18S7 and '88, from 
the Cape district. 

He was prominent in the division of the 
town of Sandwich. That portion set off 
was incorporated as the town of Bourne, 
April 2, 1884. 




ISAAC N, KEITH. 

In 1889 Mr. Keith served as an influen- 
tial member of the e.xecutive council of 
Governor Ames. 

KEITH, Lafayette, son of Solomon 
and Lucinda (Keith) Keith, was born 
October 21, 1824, in Bridgewater, Plym- 
outh county. 

He received a common school education, 
supjjlemented by a limited attendance at 
Bridgewater Academy. 
• In 1 84 1, being seventeen years of age, 
he decided to learn the trade of carpenter, 
and followed the business until 1854. 

In 1854 he was appointed postmaster at 
Bridgewater, holding the position until 
1862, when he was appointed assistant 
assessor of internal revenue. This office 
was changed to deputy collector of in- 
ternal revenue. May 20, 1873. He has 
retained the office through several changes 
of administration, and still holds the posi- 
tion. 

Mr. Keith was married at the St. Nicholas 
Hotel, New York, April 13, 1858, to iSIary 
K., daughter of Oliver and Diana Eaton, 



KKITIl. 



KEITH. 



551 



by wiioni he has one child : t'assie K. 
Keith. 

j\lr, Keith has always refused any elective 
office in the gift of the people. He was 
secretary of the Plymouth County Agricul- 
tural Society for twenty-four years (1S63 
to 1887). 

The path of his life-work has been an 
uphill one, especially during his early years. 
His father died when he was eight years old. 
At this tender age he was obliged to work in 
a cotton mill, receiving seventy-five cents 
per week — a contrast indeed to the amount 
received in later years of prosperity. 

KEITH, MONROE, son of Avery and 
Lydia (Hathaway) Keith, was born at 
Granby, Hampshire county, March 28, 1835. 

He received his early education in the 
■district schools and high school of Granby. 
Subsequently he attended the Wesleyan 
Academy, Wilbraham, two terms, and two 
at the Amherst Academy. 

He then turned his attention to farming, 
in which occupation he still continues, at 
(Iranby, being also engaged in the wood 
and lumber business. 

Mr. Keith has been an assessor of Granby 
ten years, and for the last eight, chairman 
of the board. He has served five years as 
selectman, being chairman of that board 
three years. 

In 1876 he represented the 5th Hamp- 
shire representative district in the Legis- 
lature, serving on the committee on educa- 
tion. 

Mr. Keith was married November 22, 
1859, to Carrie .\., daughter of Asliael and 
Samantha (Robinson) Nash, by whom he 
has one daughter : Bertha Keith. 

Mr. Keith has long been identified with 
the interests of the Democratic party, and 
yet has been so impartial in the execution 
of the trusts committed to his hands, that 
he alwa^'s commands a very generous 
support from his political opponents. 

KEITH, Preston Bond, son of Charles 
Perkins and Mary (Williams) Keith, was 
born in Campello, Plymouth county, 
October 18, 1847. 

He traces his ancestry in this countrv to 
the Rev. James Keith, who came from 
Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1662. He was the 
first ordained minister in Bridgewater. 

Mr. Keith was educated in the public 
schools, finishing with the Brockton high 
school, and at the age of eighteen went to 
Boston and entered the employ of Martin 
L. Keith, shoe manufacturer in Brockton, 
with .store and salesroom in Boston. Here 
he remained about five years, learning the 



shoe business. Returning to Brockton in 
187 1, he commenced business for himself 
in Campello. The growth of the business 
compelled his removal to a better location 
with increased facilities, where he con- 
tinued for some thirty years. Three years 
later he leased the property and erected 
his present large manufactory, which was 
opened in July, 1878. 

Mr. Keith was a member of the board 
of aldermen, Brockton, in 1S82 and '83. 
He is a director in the Home National 
Bank, which position he has held since its 
organization. He is vice-president of the 
Campello Co-operative Bank. He is a 
Republican in politics, and a member of 
the South Congregational church. 

Mr. Keith was married December 8, 
1869, to Kldora Louise, daughter of Josiah 
W. and Margaret (Dunlap) Kingman. Of 
this union is one child : Alice Keith, born 
April 2, 1877. 

KEITH, ZiBA C, son of Ziba and 
Polly (Noyes) Keith, was born in North 
Bridgewater — now Brockton — Plymouth 
countv, July 13, 1S42. Li the home where 




ZIBA C. KEITH. 



he was born, six generations of the Keith 
family have lived and died. 

His early educational training was se- 
cured in the public school and in Pierce 
Academy, Middleborough. Entering upon 



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KELLOGG. 



KENDALL. 



a business life, lie was for five years book- 
keeper and salesman in the office of his 
brother, Martin L. Keith, Boston. In 1864 
he returned to his native place, and in 
partnership with Embert Howard, opened 
a general store, under the firm name of 
Howard & Keith. After some changes in 
partners and ownership, Mr. Keith pur- 
chased the entire business and conducted 
it until 1882. 

In 1875 he was elected to the House of 
Representatives, and re-elected in 1876. 
In 1879 he served his town as selectman. 
He was the first mayor of Brockton, elected 
in 1881 ; was re-elected with an increased 
majority in 1883, and again in 1884. He 
was a member of the state Senate 18S7 and 
'88, serving on the committees on water 
supply (chairman) and labor. 

Mr. Keith is connected by membership 
with the South Congregational church, and 
prominently identified with commandery, 
chapter, and lodge of the local Masonic 
fraternity. He was largely instrumental 
in organizing the Campello Co-operative 
Bank, which has done much to build u|3 
that part of the city. He is vice-presi- 
dent of the Brockton Savings Bank, and 
director in the Brockton National Bank. 

Mr. Keith is one of the sterling business 
men of that rapidly growing city, and a 
man of acknowledged executive ability. 

Mr. Keith was married in North Bridge- 
water, December 31, 1865, to Abbie F., 
daughter of Oliver and Melvina (Packard) 
Jackson. Of this union is one child : 
William Clifton Keith. 

KELLOGG, JOHN Edward, youngest 
son of the late Eleazer Kellogg of Am- 
herst, was born at Amherst, Hampshire 
county, July 2, 1845, and received his 
early education at the Amherst public 
schools and academy. During his boy- 
hood he worked on his father's farm. He 
graduated at Williston Seminary, East- 
hampton, in the class of 1865, and at Am- 
herst College in the class of 1869. While 
in college he commenced his newspaper 
work by being Amherst reporter for the 
" Northampton Free Press " and the 
" Springfield Republican ; " he also did 
some work on the "Amherst Record." 

In June, 1869, he commenced work in 
the " S|)ringfield Republican " office, in the 
proof-reading department, and then did 
local and New England reporting. 

In May, 1870, Mr. Kellogg went to the 
New York Associated Press office, as day 
agent of the New England Associated 
Pres.s. In October, 187 1, he returned to 
the " Springfield Republican " office, and in 



May, 1872, changed to the "Taunton Ga- 
zette." His ne.xt move was to Fitchburg, 
where he bought an interest in the " Weekly 
Sentinel." In May, 1873, the Sentinel 
Printing Company started the " Fitchburg 
Daily Sentinel," of which he has been 
managing editor ever since. 




JOHN E KELLOGG. 

Mr. Kellogg was never married. He 
was clerk of the common council from 
April, 1880, to January, 1889 ; has been a 
member of the school committee since 
January i, 1887, and a director in the F'i- 
delity Co-operative Bank since its incor- 
poration. His life has been devoted to 
newspaper work. 

KENDALL, EDWARD, son of Caleb and 
Doily (Sawyer) Kendall, was born in Hol- 
den, Worcester county, December 3, 1822. 
The early years of his life were passed 
upon his father's farm, between work and 
study. His first venture in business was 
when he became of age and started in the 
lumber trade. This, however, was not 
successful, and he removed to Boston in 
1847, and became an apprentice at the 
West Boston Machine Shop at one dol- 
lar a day. Nine months later he was 
transferred to the boiler department and 
very soon became the superintendent. 
This position he occupied for eleven 
years, and during that time paid off the 



KENDALL. 



KENDKICKKX. 



J3 J 



debts which he had contracted in the 
lumber business. 

In i860 Mr. Kendall began business for 
himself, in L'ambridgeport, under the firm 
name of Kendall & Roberts, giving his at- 
tention chieiiy to the construction of boilers. 
At present his sons are connected with 
him, conducting the extensive Charles 
River Iron Works, under the firm name of 
i'.chvard Kendall & Sons. He has made 
manv improvements and inventions in 
hoiler manufacture. 

Almost from childhood Mr. Kendall has 
been connected with the temperance move- 
ment, and has become identified as a leader 




EDWARD KENDALL 

in the cause. In 1S86 and '88 he was the 
Prohibilorv candidate for representative to 
Congress from the 5th district. The Ken- 
ilall Cadet Corps bears his name. He is 
one of the directors of the Massachusetts 
.Mliance. He was one of the founders and 
the first deacon of the Pilgrim Congrega- 
tional church of Cambridgeport, and a 
trustee of the Cambridgeport Savings 
Bank. He was for two years president of 
the Cambridge Temperance Reform Asso- 
ciation. He has been four times elected 
on tlie board of aldermen, and twice a 
member of the state Legislature, in the 
years 1875 and '76. His career forms a 
striking illustration of the vast amount of 



good which can be accomplished by haril 
work, fair and honest dealing, and a prac- 
tical application of the golden rule in all 
the varied walks of life. 

In Paxton, on the i6th of December, 
1847, Mr. Kendall was married to Reliance, 
daughter of Solomon and Abigail (\Var- 
ren) Crocker. They have had four chil- 
dren : Edward and Emma, both deceased, 
and (ieorge Frederick and James Henry 
Kendall. 

KENDRICKEN, Paul Henry, son of 

Martin and Annie Kendricken, was born in 
(ialway, Ireland, December 26, 1834. 

His early education was obtaineil in the 
public schools of Boston, and his instruc- 
tion in the evening schools helped to culti- 
vate a natural taste for mechanics. 

Having passed a successful examination, 
he was commissioned third assistant engi- 
neer, June 20, 1862, and enteretl the naval 
service at that time, joining the " Cone- 
maugh," of Admiral Dupont's fleet ; after- 
wards served under Admirals Dahlgren 
and Farragut. On September 6, 1863, he 
was promoted to second engineer for gal- 
lantry and courage under fire. From the 
•• Conemaugh " he was transferred to the 
iron ship, " Circassian," and the monitor, 
■' Nauset," but was afterwards returned to 
the " Conemaugh," as he best understood 
her complicated machinery. 

His first engagement was the attack on 
l-'ort Wagner, Morris Island. He also par- 
ticipated in the attack and the passage of 
forts in Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, with 
Admiral Farragut. He served in many 
other important engagements during his 
four years and three months' term of ser- 
vice, and at the close, September 6, 1866, 
received a diploma from the naval depart- 
ment and one from the State of Massa- 
chusetts. 

On returning to Boston he was made 
superintendent of the steam-heating works 
of T. S. Clogston & Co., which position he 
held until the death of Mr. Clogston, when 
a new corporation was formed, of which he 
was made a partner, under the firm name 
of Ingalls iS: Kendricken. 

Mr. Kendricken was a member of the 
Boston common council from ward 20, in 
1878, '79 and '80. In 1883 he was elected 
to the board of aldermen, and was apj^ointed 
director of public institutions, and intro- 
duced several reforms in their manage- 
ment. He was elected to the Senate in 
iS85,and re-elected in 1886, being the first 
Democrat elected from his district. In 
the Senate he favored the following meas- 
ures : weekly payments, soldiers' exemp- 



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KENNEDY. 



KENNEDY. 



tion bill, tenure of office for school teach- 
ers, tax limitations, and was specially influ- 
ential in the passage of the two-and-a-half 
million dollar park loan bill. His famil- 
iarity with municipal affairs rendered him 
a valuable member of the committee on 
cities, where he suggested many excellent 
modifications in the charter, among others 
that feature requiring the mayor to submit 
nominations to the board of aldermen. 

Mr. Kendricken is a large real estate 
owner at Boston Highlands, where he re- 
sides ; is a director of the Roxbury Club ; 
a member of the Irish Charitable Society, 
and of Edward W. Kinsley Post, G. A. R., 
and is commodore of the Kearsarge Asso- 
ciation of Naval Veterans. 

Mr. Kendricken was married in Boston, 
in 1866, to Cecilia A., daughter of Alexan- 
der and .\nnie Garvey. Of this union are 
five children : three boys and two girls. 

Mr. Kendricken is a public-spirited man, 
possessing liberal and progressive ideas. 

KENNEDY, DONALD, son of John and 
Isabella (Sinclair) Kennedy, was born in 
Glenmoriston, Scotland, April 2, 181 2. 
Gaelic was his mother tongue, and he 
learned at the same time English antl 
Latin in the primary schools of his native 
countrv. 

He was apprenticed at the usual age to 
learn the trade of currier. Having servetl 
his time and fitted himself for business, he 
came to America when quite a young man. 
(Jn his arrival he at once commenced work 
at the trade in which he was now proficient, 
utilizing his spare time in the study of 
medicine, for which he seemed to possess 
a strong predilection. 

Mr. Kennedy began the manufacture 
and sale of his celebrated medicinal com- 
pound known as " Kennedy's Medical Dis- 
covery," in a very humble way, carrying it 
around for sale in a carpet-bag which is 
now in the possession of the family as a 
relic. The judicious manner in which the 
" Discovery " was placed before the public, 
together with the intrinsic merit of the ar- 
ticle itself, soon made his name well known 
throughout the civilized world. The rows 
of apartment houses and business blocks 
recently erected by him in his adopted 
home bear witness to his thrift, enterprise 
and public spirit. 

Mr. Kennedy was married in Boston by 
"Father Taylor," December 25, 1835, to 
Ann Colgate, Hastings, England, daughter 
of William and Celia (Golding) Colgate. 
Of this union were six children : of whom 
two, Celia and Flora Sinclair, died in in- 
fancy. The living children are: Ann Isa- 



bella, George Golding, M. D., Cordelia 
Martin, and Louisa Colgate Kennedy. 

In 1874 Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy went to 
Europe on account of the ill health of Mrs. 
Kennedy. She was violently ill on the 
outward voyage, and the permanent effects 
were so serious that she never felt suffi- 
ciently strong to undertake the return, 
residing in Europe until her death, which 
occurred in Italy in the fall of 1887. Mr. 
Kennedy spent his winters there, but was 
usually in or near Roxbury during the re- 
mainder of the year. 

Mr. Kennedy was always loath to assume 
any office, but consented occasionally to 
the use of his name. He was vice-presi- 
dent and treasurer of the Scots Chari- 
table Society a number of years. He was 
director of the Highland Street Railway 
Company, a member of the F. & A. M., 
I. O. O. F., and several charitable societies. 





DONALD KEMNEDY 

Mr. Kennedy was something besides a 
manufacturer and dispenser of medicines. 
His taste for the beautiful in nature and 
art was acute. He wrote s<mie very enter- 
taining letters from abroad to the " Rox- 
bury Home Journal." 

Though educated a Presbyterian, he was 
possessed of the broadest lilierality in his 
religious views, and in practice he ever 
maintained a generous attitude toward all 



KENRICK. 



KENRICK. 



ODD 



■dt-nominations. Like many Mii;hlanders, 
he believed he had at times the gift of 
the "Seer." This induced him to take an 
interest in the investigation of modern 
SpirituaHsm. His desire was to "prove 
all things, and hokl fast that which is 
good." 

In the death of Donald Kennedy, which 
occurred in Washington, U. C, March 15, 
1889, at the age of seventy-seven years, 
after a very brief illness, the city of Boston 
lost a citizen valued, respected and beloved, 
(ienerous to a fault, his charities partook 
•of no ostentatious coloring. No really 
destitute man ever applied to him for helj^ 
in vain. His heart was always warm to the 
unfortunate and deserving poor, and the 
widow and fatherless had in him at all times 
a sympathizing friend. 

KENRICK, John, only son of John and 
Rebecca (Sparrow) Kenrick, was born in 
Orleans, Barnstable county, August 9, 181 9. 

He is a lineal descendant of Edward 
Kenrick, who. came from Yorkshire, Eng., 
about 1644, and settled in the southerly 
portion of Orleans (then Harwich), and 
Richard Sparrow and his wife Pandora, 
who came from Kent county, Eng., about 
1633, settled first at Plymouth, about 1650, 
removed, and settled in that portion of 
Orleans then known as Eastham. 

His education was obtained in the public 
schools of his native town, attending only 
the winter terms after the age of twelve, 
and working on his father's Cape Cod farm 
the balance of the year, with two short 
terms in the Orleans Academy. 

At the age of nineteen he commenced 
teaching a district school in winter — farm- 
ing in summer. In 1840 he opened a 
country store at his home, which he sold 
in 1850 and re-purchased in 1S67. He 
has continued working his farm for amuse- 
ment, and trading to obtain funds to carry 
on the farm. 

His fellow-townsmen have for more than 
forty years called him to positions of trust 
in the municipal affairs of the town — as 
selectman and assessor for fourteen years, 
.school committeeman for twenty-five years, 
and superintendent of schools for eight 
years, up to 1888. He was an earnest 
advocate for the town's accepting the be- 
quest for the establishment of the Snow 
Free Library, and was chairman of the 
board of trustees to 1888. 

In 1850 Mr. Kenrick was appointed a 
trial justice by Oovernor Briggs. From 
his distaste for the duties, he has rejieat- 
edly declined being considered a candidate 
under the more recent law. 



hi 1852 he was elected representative 
to the Legislature, and, although a known 
and pronounced Whig, he had the rare 
compliment of receiving every vote polled. 
He was returned in 1853. In i855-'56 he 
was a member of the executive council of 
Governor Gardner. 

Mr. Kenrick was a member anil chair- 
man of the commission on the protection 
of Provincetown Harbor, under a resolve 




JOHN KENRICK. 

of the Legislature of 1857, and the sugges- 
tions in his report were substantially 
carried out by the general government. 

He has been an active member, and one 
of the executive committee of the Barn- 
stable County Agricultural Society from 
its creation, and its delegate to the state 
board of agriculture for a term of years. 

By pen and influence, Mr. Kenrick has 
taken an advanced position as to the imper- 
ative necessity for the protection of the 
forests of the country, and was instru- 
mental in bringing to the attention of the 
Legislature the necessity for more strin- 
gent enactments for the protection of for- 
ests against fire. Principally through his 
efforts the law of 1882 was enacted. He 
has been a trustee of the Cape Cod Five 
Cents Savings Bank since 1S76. 

Mr. Kenrick was united in marriage with 
Thankful, daughter of Joshua and Sail}' 



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KENT. 



KIMBALL. 



(Freeman) (Tosby, at Orleans, July ,-^o, 
1843. Their children are : Sophia, Emma, 
Clara, Rebecca, Eva, Alice T., and John 
Kenrick, Jr. Joshua Crosby, the father of 
Mrs. Kenrick, was on the " Constitution " 
in the action with the " Cuerriere," and 
with Perry in his victory on Lake Erie. 

The residence of Mr. Kenrick is in the 
southern portion of Orleans, on the pater- 
nal farm which came to him by direct 
descent, acquired by his ancestors prior to 
1670, of which he has in his possession the 
title deeds from the Indians. 

KENT, Daniel, son of D. Waldo and 
Harriet N. ((irosvenor) Kent, was born 
in Leicester, Worcester county, January 
2, 1853, where he now resides, the old 
homestead being a part of the tract 
bought by Ebenezer Kent, of Hingham, 

i'l 1743- 

Passing through the public schools, 
Mr. Kent entered Leicester Academy, 
where he fitted for Amherst College, enter- 
ing in 187 I, and graduating in 1875. 

He then studied law in the Boston Uni- 
versity law school and the office of Charles 
W. Turner. He was admitted to practice 
in 1880. His study of law had been for 
the acquisition of legal knowledge rather 
than for its practice as a profession, and 
after spending a year in Philadelphia, he 
returned to Leicester in 1882, and associ- 
ated himself with his brother in the woolen 
business, manufacturing satinets. 

Having only a small capital, they began 
in a very modest way, utilizing for their 
factory-building an old saw^-miU built by 
their father. Li 1883 they determined to 
build a suitable building, and the push 
and energy displayed are best evidenced 
by the fact that from the shutting down of 
the machinery in the old mill to the start- 
ing up of the same in the new building, 
built upon the site of the old, but si.xteen 
days had intervened. This building was 
a wooden structure, three stories high, 
forty feet by eighty. It was not until the 
fall of 1884 that they increased their 
machinery. In December, 1886, they pur- 
chased the large brick factor)' at James- 
ville, three miles from Worcester on the 
Boston & .\lbany R. R. 

The factory in Leicester is run under 
the name of the Lakeside Manufacturing 
Company, the one at Jamesville under the 
firm name of P. G. Kent & Company, .^t 
Lakeside they have built up a pretty 
factory village. From one of the smallest 
concerns manufacturing satinets in the 
United States, they have risen to be the 
largest. 



Mr. Kent has always been too closely 
confined to business to mingle much in 
politics. He has been a member of the 
school board three years, selectman, chair- 
man of the Republican town committee. 
In 1887 he established an annual prize of 
one hundred dollars at Amherst for the 
best .senior essay on English or American 
literature. 

KIMBALL, JOHN Francis, son of John 
and Hannah (King) Kimball, was born in 
Tewksbury, Middlesex county, September 
23, 1824. 

He received his early education in the 
common schools of Lowell, Lowell high 
school, and the academies of New Ipswich, 
N. H., and Centralville, Lowell. 

Soon after the death of his father, which 
occurred in .\ugust, 183S, he found employ- 
ment as book-keeper in a grocery store 
in Lowell, where he remained but a few 
months. His next place was with a dealer 
in mill supplies, who soon went out of busi- 
ness, having first secured for his young 
clerk a position with Baxter & Bennett, 
then the leading merchant tailors of Lowell. 
He remained with them about four years, 
when he was appointed clerk in the Lowell 
post-office. Here he remained nine years. 
He rose to chief clerk, and resigned upon 
his election as city treasurer. He was then 
twenty-seven years old, and held the office 
by annual re-elections for five years. No- 
vember I, 1855, he assumed the duties of 
cashier of the Appleton National Bank, 
which position he held until elected its 
president, in 1876. 

Mr. Kimball was married in A\'ilton, 
N. H., August 27, 1846, to Clara, daughter 
of Isaac and Betsey (Foster) Blanchard. 
They have no children. 

He was treasurer and collector of Lowell 
for five years (185 i to '55 inclusive), three 
years member of the common council — 
president of the council two years — treas- 
urer of the associated charities of Lowell 
since 1881, director and vice-president of 
the People's Club the past ten years, three 
years superintendent of the Unitarian 
Sunday-school, several years member and 
chairman of the standing committee of 
the Unitarian church, and two years presi- 
dent of the North Middlesex Conference 
of Unitarian and other liberal Christian 
churches ; also for two years member of 
the board of directors of the American 
Unitarian A,ssociation. He has served as 
a trustee of the Lowell Five Cents Savings 
Bank since its organization. He was also 
trustee of the City Institution for Savings 
until the law was passed precluding a per- 



KIMBAI.L 



KING. 



)57 



son from being trustee for two savings 
banivs at the same time. 

He was for ten years director of tlie 
Lowell it Lawrence R. R., also Salem iV 
Lowell R. R. five years, until both these 
roads were absorbed by the Boston & 
Lowell R. R. He is treasurer of the Mon- 
son R. R. (Maine); also treasurer of the 
Ministry at Large in Lowell. He has been 
a director of the Traders' & Mechanics' 
Insurance Company of Lowell for six 
years. 

Mr. Kimball's life has been a busy one, 
but since his connection with the bank, 
several prolonged vacations have resulted 
in e.xtensive travel in this country and 
Europe. 

KIMBALL, William Washington, son 

of William M. and Abigail (Jones) Kim- 
ball, was born September 30, 1835, '" 
Massena, St. Lawrence county, N. Y. 

He was educated in the i^ublic schools of 
that countv, and was graduated from the 
state normal school at Albany, N. V., in 




WILLIAM W, KIMBALL. 

He was engaged in teaching in the 
public schools at \\'hitesborough, (Oneida 
county, N. Y., from 1S56 to 1S58. He 
then was employed in the house of John 
P. Squire & Co., Boston, and became a 
member of that firm in September, i860. 



Li 1873 he retired from active business 
and passed three vears in recreation and 
travel. In 1876 he founded the house of 
\V. \V. Kimball & Co., provisions and 
steamer supplies, Boston, which still con- 
tinues to do a large and prosperous busi- 
ness. In January, 1879, he was elected 
president of the Fourth National Bank of 
Boston, which position he still holds. 

Mr. Kimball was married in West Cam- 
bridge (now Arlington), November 18, 
i860, to Nancie Boynton, daughter of (lad 
and Sarah (Kimball) Orvis. Of this union 
were three children, of whom but one is 
living : George W. Kimball. 

Mr. Kimball still retains his membership 
in the Park Street church of Boston, 
although his residence is in Arlington. 

KING, George, was bom in Roches- 
ter, Plymouth county, July 5, 1822, and 
was educated in the public schools of the 
Commonwealth, with the exception of a 
four years' academic course. During this 
time and the year subsequent, he taught 
school in his own and adjoining towns. 
During a three years' course of the study 
of medicine he attended lectures at the 
medical college in Pittsfield, also two full 
courses of lectures at the College of Phy- 
sicians and Surgeons, New York City, from 
which he graduated in 1847. 

Dr. King practiced medicine and surgery 
in the town of Middleborough from 1847 
to '57, then removed to his present place of 
residence, Franklin, where he has since 
practiced, with the exce]5tion of nearly 
three years in which he held a surgeon's 
commission in the armv. 

Dr. King was married October 13, 1852, 
in Middleborough, to Lucy A., daughter of 
William S. Eddy. Of this union are two 
children, now living : Jennie M. and 
Frances E. King. 

Dr. King is a member of the Republican 
town committee, and of the Franklin Im- 
provement Society, and has been twelve 
years member of the school committee, 
having at different times held the position 
of chairman. In the army he was assist- 
ant-surgeon, i6th regiment, Massachusetts 
\olunteers, and afterward surgeon of the 
-^gth regiment. He has been a director of 
the Benjamin Franklin Savings Bank in 
Franklin, and is a director of the Franklin 
Library Association. He is a member of 
the Massachusetts Medical Society, also 
the Norfolk county and Thurber Medical 
Society. 

Dr. King is interested in every progres- 
sive movement, and is a prominent temper- 
ance man, being a member of the Massa- 



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KING. 



KINGMAN. 



chusetts Total Abstinence Society, and 
was a member of the Temperance Alliance 
while it existed. 




GEORGE KING. 

While serving in the army of the Poto- 
mac he was captured, and while at Peters- 
burgh, Va., acted as hospital-surgeon, hav- 
ing care of the Union prisoners there. He 
was thence transferred to Libby Prison, 
from which he was exchanged, and re- 
ceived an honorable discharge from the 
army, May 15, 1865. 

KING, James Putnam, son of Samuel 

and Hannah (Cloodell) King, was born in 
that part of Danvers which is now Peabody, 
Essex county, November 8, 181 7. 

He attended the district school until 
seventeen years of age, then worked on 
his father's farm until the age of twenty- 
two, when he commenced his career as a 
farmer on his own account, by working on 
shares a most excellent farm in the neigh- 
borhood. By his great physical powers, 
temperate habits, industry and prudence, 
he became one of the most successful 
farmers in the county, and his life has 
answered emphatically in the affirmative 
that question so often asked by agricultural 
writers and speakers, " Does farming pay ?" 
For twenty-five years he contributed his 
own vegetable products to the Salem 
market. 



Mr. King early took an interest in the 
.Abolition cause, was a Whig in politics, 
and has been a strong Republican since 
the formation of that party. He was a 
member of the lower branch of the Legis- 
lature in 1854 ; has been overseer of the 
poor for thirty-four consecutive years, and 
a trustee or vice-president of the Essex 
.Agricultural Society for more than twentv 
years. 

Mr. King is a forcible and effective 
speaker, and his long practical experience 
enables him to add much interest to the 
discussions at farmers' institutes, and being 
a strictly temperate man in principle and 
practice, he renders efficient aid to the 
temperance cause. 

His judgment of farm property is valued 
so highly that his services are in frequent 
(.lemand as an appraiser. 

On .April 2, 1840, he married Wealthy 
M., daughter of James and Sally (Coombs) 
Ferrin, of Madison, N. H., by whom he 
had two sons : James A. and Samuel W. 
Mrs. King died August 7, 1878. He was 
again united in marriage, at Peabody, on 
December 2, 1880, to Mrs. Fjlizabeth A. 
P>ancroft, a sister of his first wife. 

KINGMAN, HOSEA, son of Philip D. 
and Betsey (Washburn ) Kingman, was born 
in Bridgewater, Plymouth county, .April 11, 

1843. 

After his early training in the public 
schools, he attended Bridgewater Academy, 
also Appleton Academy, Ipswich, N. H. 
He then entered Dartmouth College, but 
when the war of the rebellion broke out, 
he enlisted in company K, 3d regiment, 
Massachusetts volunteers, and was mus- 
tered into service, September 22, 1862. 
.After serving one year, he returned to col- 
lege, made up his junior work during his 
senior year, and was graduated with his 
class in 1864. 

He studied law with William Latham, 
with whom, after his admission to the bar, 
he went into partnership, under the firm 
name of I^atham & Kingman. When Mr. 
Latham retired (1871) Mr. Kingman re- 
tained the business, and is now in practice. 
January, 1887, he began his term as dis- 
trict attorney. 

Mr. Kingman was married in Carver, 
Tune 23, 1866, to Carrie, daughter of Heze- 
iciah and Deborah tFreeman) Cole. Of 
this union is one child : .Agnes C. King- 
man. 

Mr. Kingman is a trustee of Plymouth 
County Pilgrim Historical Society, also 
trustee of Bridgewater Academy. He re- 
ceived the appointment of special justice of 



KINGSBURY. 



KINGSLEV. 



359 



the I St district court of Plymouth county, 
November 12, 1878. He was elected com- 
missioner of insolvency in 1884, and every 
year since, until this was prohibited bv his 
holding his present position of district at- 
torney. 

Mr. Kingman is a prominent member of 
the order of Free Masonry. 

In September, 1862, he accompanied his 
regiiTient to Newbern, N. C. December, 
1862, he was detailed on signal service, 
and went to Port Royal, S. C, thence to 
Folly Island, Charleston Harbor, and on 
June 22, 1863, was mustered out of the 
service. 

KINGSBURY, Albert Dexter, son of 

John Wright and Elizabeth Ann (Upham) 
Kingsbury, was born in Brookline, Norfolk 
county, November 8, 1842. 

He attended the public schools of New- 
ton ; prepared for college at Fisk's Acad- 
emy, Newton. July, 1862, he enlisted in 
company K, 3201 Massachusetts volun- 
teers, for three years. After the battle of 
Gettysburg, July, 1863, he was detailed on 
staff duty at headquarters, 5th army corps, 
and served till the close of the war, 1865. 
He was elected the first commander of 
Clalen Orr Post No. 181, G. A. R., and re- 
elected to a second term. 

He studied medicine at the Georgetown 
Medical College, D. C, and was graduated 
M. D., March, 1869. In May, 1869, he 
was appointed house physician of Howard 
University Hospital, D. C., which office he 
filled in connection with his private prac- 
tice till the fall of 1870, when he was sum- 
moned home by the death of his father. 
January, 1871, he estabhshed himself in 
practice in Needham, where he has re- 
mained up to the present time. 

Dr. Kingsbury was married in Boston, 
June 2, 1875, to Julia F^mma, daughter of 
Edmond B. and Charlotte (Folsom) F'ow- 
ler. Of this union are two children : Char- 
lotte Hatch and Alberta Beatrice Kings- 
bury. 

Dr. Kingsbury was one of the trustees 
of the Appleton Temporary Home, and its 
visiting physician and surgeon ; has been 
the superintendent of the Sabbath-school ; 
chairman of the parish committee of the 
Congregational society ; one of the state 
medical examiners ; chairman of the town 
board of health for three years, declining 
a re-election on the board. He is a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 
having been elected a counselor of the 
society for three successive years. 

He was appointed by the state board of 
health, correspondent for the board for the 



towns of Needham and Dover. Dr. Kings- 
bury has never become engrossed in poli- 
tics, but has confined himself to his large 
and growing practice. 

He is a staunch temperance man. He 
belongs to the Masonic and Odd Fellow 
fraternities, and is interested in several co- 
operative orders. He is a public-spirited 
citizen, always supporting and frequently 
leading in movements tending to the im- 
provement of the town. He was chairman 
of the committee of citizens appointed by 
the town to erect a new railroad station in 
connection with the New York & New 




ALBERT D KINGSBURY. 

England Railroad Company. Fie has him- 
self built one of the largest blocks of Need- 
ham, and is active in the development of 
its material prosperity. 

KINGSLEY, Chester Ward, son of 

Moses and Mary Kingsley, was born in 
Brighton, Sufi'olk county, June 9, 1824. 

In the common schools of his native 
place were passed the first few years of his 
school life. Left fatherless at the early 
age of four years, Mr. Kingsley when only 
ten years old was thrown upon his own 
resources, and spent five years in the wilds 
of Michigan. He then returned to Brighton, 
and finished his school life in the common 
and high schools of that town, afterwards 
learning the carpenter's trade. This not 



360 



KINGSLEV. 



KINSLEY. 



being wholly to his taste, and seeking to 
better his condition, he accepted the posi- 
tion of messenger in the old Bank of 
Brighton, in which position he remained 
two years. He was subsecjuently teller in 
the same bank three years. 

In 185 1 he became cashier of the Cam- 
bridge Market Bank, remaining five years. 
In 1856 he went into the wholesale provis- 
ion business in Boston, and retired from 
that in 1865. Since that time he has been 
treasurer of an anthracite coal mining 
company, and during the time was for 
eight years president of the National Bank 
of Brighton, which was the successor to 
the old bank where he began business life. 




CHESTER W, KIIMGSLEY. 

Mr. Kingsley was married in Boston, by 
Dr. G. W. Blagden, May, 1846, to Mary 
Jane, the daughter of Daniel and Hannah 
Todd, of Brighton. Of this union were 
seven children, four of whom are living : 
Ella Jane (Mrs. M. Clinton Bacon), Addie 
May "(Mrs. D. Frank Ellis), Luceba Dorr 
(Mrs. Parker F. Soule), and C. Willard 
Kingsley. 

Mr. Kingsley has been alderman of 
Cambridge, member of the school board, 
has been a prominent member of the water 
board since 1865, and president of the 
same for man)' years past. He was a mem- 
ber of the House of Representatives 1882, 



'83, and '84, and senator from the 3d Mid- 
dlesex district 188S and '89. He is one of 
the trustees of Colby University, Newton 
Theological Institution, the Worcester 
Academy, and Massachusetts Baptist State 
Convention, and president of the American 
Baptist Home Missionary Society. He has 
been one of the executive committee of 
the American Baptist Missionary Union, 
and president of the Boston Baptist So- 
cial Union and is a member of the Cam- 
bridge and Massachusetts clubs. 

He is a life-long Prohibitionist and Re- 
publican. 

KINSLEY, Edward Wilkinson, son 

of Rhodolphus and I.ucinda (Howard) 
Kinsley, was born in Nashua, Hillsborough 
county, N. H., Ma)' 24, 1829. 

He attended the public schools in Spring- 
field, where his parents had moved w-hen 
he was some two years of age. While a 
boy he entered the clothing store of Palmer 
cV- Clark of that city, where, by his industry, 
tact, and adaptation to the business, he 
w-as transferred to a more important posi- 
tion in their branch store at Norwich, Conn. 
In 1848 he came to Boston and was em- 
ployed as salesman in the house of Blake, 
Patterson & Co., importers of woolens. 
After becoming an expert in this business 
he was made a partner in a firm in the 
same line. 

During the civil war he was entrusted by 
his friend. Governor Andrew, who appreci- 
ated his enthusiasm and had confidence in 
his ability, with many a delicate and im- 
portant mission to the government at 
\\'ashington, and with errands of encour- 
agement to the men at the front and the 
wounded in the hospitals. 

iMr. Kinsley never sought public office, 
and never accepted a position by election 
or appointment until he was appointed by 



Governor AVashburn, 



,87: 



state 



director of the New York & New Eng- 
land Railroad Company ; in 1878 he was 
appointed by Governor Rice a member of 
the board of railroad commissioners, in 
which capacity he has earnestly and suc- 
cessfully advocated improvements in rail- 
road construction and e(|uipnient, designed 
to secure the safety and accommodation 
of the traveling public. Mr. Kinsley is 
probably as well, if not better, known 
among the railroad managers, not only of 
Massachusetts, but of some of the most 
important roads of the country, than many 
who have large pecuniary interests therein. 
Mr. Kinsley was married April 16, 1856, 
to Calista .\delaide, daughter of Jarvis 
and Sarah (Spaulding) Billings, of Canton. 



KITTREDGE. 



KNOWLTON. 



361 



I hey have two daughters : Adelaide Pea- 
body (Mrs. Alfred \V. Carr) and Mary 
Louise Kinsley. 

KITTREDGE, CHARLES JAMES, son 
of Abel and Eunice (Chamberlain) Kitt- 
retlge, was born on the ist of April, iSiS, 
at Hinsdale, Berkshire county. 

In the schools of his native place he re- 
ceived his early education, and for si.\ 
months attended the Lenox Academy; 
then for eighteen months he was a student 
at the AN'estfield Academy, and for si.x 
months at Castleton Seminary, Xt. 

In 1842 he opened a country retail 
store, in Hinsdale, where he remained for 
ten years, when he sold out the store and 
began the manufacture of woolen goods, 
wliich has since been his principal occu- 
pation. 

On the 17th of June, 1845, at Riga, 
N. Y., Mr. Kittredge was married to 
Frances ^L, daughter of James and Lydia 
(Baldwin) Birchard. Their children are : 
James B., Charles F. (deceased), Ellen J., 
Clara B., Henry P., Lydia S. (deceased), 
and Mary J. Kittredge (deceased). 

Mr. Kittredge has been for thirty years 
deacon and treasurer of the Congrega- 
tional church, and was delegate to the Con- 
gregational council at Detroit in 1877. 

He has held the offices of town clerk, 
selectman, justice of the peace and trial 
justice, and has been upon the school 
committee. 

For three years he was county commis- 
sioner for Berkshire county. He was a 
representative to the General Court in 
1868, and a member of the Senate in 
i869-'7o. He was state director of the 
Boston & Albany R. R. in i87o-'7i, and 
president of the Plunkett Woolen Com- 
pany, of Hinsdale, from 1862 to '78. He 
still resides in his native town, where he 
has made for himself an honored name, 
and become well known as an enthusiastic 
participant in philanthropic, social, and 
j)olitical movements. 

KNIGHT, Horatio Gates, the .son of 

Sylvester and Rachel L. Knight, was born 
in Easthampton, Hampshire county, March 
24, 1 8 18. 

He received his early education at the 
common schools of his native town. When 
quite a boy he went into the employ of 
Samuel Williston at Easthampton, with the 
expectation of going at once into his store, 
but much to his surprise he was set to 
work in the garden. Though a little dis- 
ap|iointed and dissatisfied, he has since 
saiti he did the work the best he could. 



He soon rose in position. In 7832 he be- 
came a clerk in Mr. Williston's employ, 
and in 1842 he was a partner with him in 
his extensive button manufacturing busi- 
ness. He continued with Mr. Williston in 
various manufacturing enterprises and mer- 
cantile pursuits till the time of the hit- 
ter's death. He is now a manufacturer and 
merchant, being the senior member of the 
Williston cS: Knight Company, New York. 

Mr. Knight served two years in the 
House of Representatives, two years in the 
Senate, two years in the executive coun- 
cil, and four years as lieutenant-governor. 

He has been a trustee of \Villiams Col- 
lege, \\'illiston Seminary, Clarke Institu- 
tion for Deaf Mutes, president of a national 
bank, a savings bank, and of several man- 
ufacturing corporations, a director of the 
New Haven & Northampton railroad, a 
member of the state board of education, 
of the Easthampton school committee, and 
has held various other offices in his native 
town. 

Mr. Knight was appointed by "War 
Governor " Andrew to the office of draft- 
ing commissioner, by Governor Claflin 
a commissioner on the Lee and New Haven 
railroad matters, and by (Governor AVash- 
burn a state commissioner to the Vienna 
Exposition. 

He has traveled extensively in this and 
foreign countries, having visited Europe 
many times for business and pleasure. 

He was a delegate to the Chicago con- 
vention that first nominated Abraham Lin- 
coln, and to the Philadelphia convention 
that nominated (ieneral Grant. 

Mr. Knight was married in New York 
City, September 28, 1842, to Mary Ann, 
daughter of Charles and Minerva P. Hun- 
toon, by whom he has five surviving chil- 
dren : Alice, Horatio W., Lucy, Charles 
H., and Mary Knight — two boys, Frederick 
A. and Russell W., dying in infancy. 

KNOWLTON, Marcus P., son of 
Merrick and Fatima (Ferrin) Knowlton, 
was born in Wilbraham, Hampden county, 
February 3, 1839. 

He was five years old when his parents 
moved to Monson, where he lived upon a 
farm till he was seventeen, studying in the 
public schools and fitting for college in 
the Monson Academy, teaching in the dis- 
trict school the last two winters. He 
entered Yale in 1856, graduating in i860, 
when he accepted the position of principal 
of the Union school, at Norwalk, Conn. 
A year later he entered the law office of 
James (i. Allen, of Palmer, and afterward 
studied under John Wells and Augustus L. 



362 



LADD. 



LAFORME. 



Soule, of Springfield, who were then in 
partnership, and both of whom were after- 
wards justices of the supreme judicial 
court. There he was admitted to the 
bar in 1862, and opened a law office, and 
there he still resides. In 1870 he was ad- 
mitted to practice in the supreme court 
of the United States. 

Though a man thoroughly devoted to 
his profession, he has found time to serve 
the public in various official capacities. 
In 1872 and '73 he was president of the 
common council of Springfield. He is a 
director of the City National Bank, and at 
the time of his appointment to the supe- 
rior court in 1881 was a director of the 
Springfield & New London Railroad Com- 
pany, and trustee and treasurer of the 
Springfield City Hospital. 



In 1S78 he was sent as representative to 
the Legislature, where he served on the com- 
mittees on judiciary, liquor law, state detec- 
tive force and constitutional amendments, 
gaining for himself an enviable reputation 
as one of the leading members. He decHned 
a renomination, but was sent to the state 
Senate in 1880, vifhere his independence, 
integrity, and ability won for him the high- 
est esteem, and resulted in a re-election. 
In August, 1881, he was appointed a justice 
of the superior court, and in September, 
1887, was promoted to the supreme judicial 
court. 

On the i8th of July, 1867, at Spring- 
field, Mr. Knowlton married Sophia, daugh- 
ter of William and Saba .\. (Cushman) 
Ritchie, who died at Springfield, on the 
1 8th of February, 1886. 



LADD, Charles R., son of Ariel and 
Mary (Winchell) Ladd, was born in Tol- 
land, Tolland county. Conn., April 9, 1822. 

His early education was obtained in the 
public schools, and by two years' attendance 
at Westfield Academy. Mr. Ladd chose 
the profession of law, and pursued iiis legal 
studies in Tolland, Conn.; was admitted to 
the bar in 1847 ; removed to Chicopee in 
1848 ; in 1857 removed to Springfield, and 
became interested in the insurance business 
in the office of his brother, R. E. Ladd, in 
which business he is still engaged, the firm 
name being Ladd Brothers & Co. 

Mr. Ladd was married in Hyde Park, 
April 3, 1886, to Ella M. Weaver, daughter 
of William G. and Rebekah G. (Ayers) 
Morse. They have no children. 

Mr. Ladd has held many offices and posi- 
tions of honor and trust in city, county and 
state ; was selectman in Chicopee two 
years ; representative to the General Court 
from that town two years, 1853 and '54 ; 
register of probate, Hampden county, two 
years ; treasurer of the county nine years ; 
member of Springfield common council two 
years; member of the board of aldermen 
two years ; state senator, ist Hampden 
district, two years, 1869 and '70; represen- 
tative from Springfield to the General 
Court two years, 1873 and '79. In 1879 
he was appointed auditor of accounts 
of the Commonwealth to fill a vacancy ; 
was elected on the general ticket in 
November following, and has been re- 
elected to the same office every year since, 
and now holds the position, having retained 



the office longer than any incumbent since 
the department was created. 

He was in early life a quarter-master in 
the Connecticut militia. He is now a di- 
rector in three paper manufacturing com- 
panies, and also in the Third National 
Bank of Springfield. His temporary resi- 
dence is in Maiden — his home in Spring- 
field. 

In boyhood Mr. Ladd worked on a farm 
and in a saw-mill ; taught school five win- 
ters while securing an education, and by 
industry, pluck, and integrity, has carved 
his fortune with but little assistance other 
than his own hands and brain. 

LAFORME, Vincent, was born in 
Rheine, Westphalia, on the 25th of June, 
1823. His father was Anthony Laforme 
(who was descended from Peter Laforme, 
of St. Omer, France, an ofificer in the 
French army), who, in the year 1833, emi- 
grated to Boston, where he was engaged 
in the manufacture of silverware until his 
death in 1846. 

Vincent Laforme was educated in the 
public schools of Boston, where he gradu- 
ated with honor, and subsequently entered 
his father's business, in which he has since 
continued. 

He was married to Sarah Jane Field of 
Boston, in 1845, and is the father of nine 
children. Mrs. Laforme was a descend- 
ant of John Sealy, a citizen of Boston in 
1776, who left the town at the evacuation 
of Boston by General Howe ; he went to 
Halifax with the British and settled there. 
Mr. Sealv had two sons in the Federal 



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LAxMBERT. 



363 



army, wlio remaineil in active service dur- 
ing the war ; after the declaration of inde- 
|)endence they remained and settled in the 
states. 

Mr. Laforme joined the Massachusetts 
volunteer militia in 1841, and was an 
active member thereof, with the rank of 
sergeant, until 1848. In 1858 he became a 
member of the Ancient and Honorable 
Artillery Company of Massachusetts, al- 
wavs taking an active interest in its affairs. 




VINCENT LAFORME. 

holding during his membership various im- 
portant offices, and has served the com- 
|)any in the post of treasurer and paymas- 
ter since 1875. 

He was appointed May 6, 1889, by Mayor 
Hart, one of the three commissioners of 
jHiblic institutions, and confirmed by the 
board of aldermen May 13th. 

As a citizen of Boston, Mr. Laforme has 
always been deeply interested in public 
matters. Although a Democrat in politics, 
he has ever been independent in action 
outside of national affairs, fearlessly con- 
demning, and actively opposing, whatever 
he considered mischievous or evil in local 
politics. 

LAMBERT, THOMAS RlCKER, son of 
William and Abigail (Ricker) Lambert, 
was born in South Berwick, York county. 
Me., July 2, 1809. He is of the seventh 



generation of his family in Massachusetts, 
of which Francis Lambert, of Rowley, 
("freeman " in 1640), was the first. 

He was prepared at the South Berwick 
and the Exeter academies for entrance at 
Dartmouth College. His father was gradu- 
ated by the same alma mater in 1798. 

Receiving an appointment to a cadet- 
ship at West Point at this time, his collegi- 
ate course was exchanged for a military 
education. Before graduation, ill health 
compelled him to leave, and he entered 
upon the study of law in the office of 
Judge Levi Woodbury, at Portsmouth, 
"N. H. He was admitted to the bar in 
1832, Success at the bar did not deter 
him from regarding the advice of friends 
who urged him to the church. He became 
a candidate for orders, and was ordained 
by Bishop Griswold in 1836. Previous 
to this he had been in 1834 appointed 
by Secretary Woodbury a chaplain in 
the navy, in which he served on board 
the frigates " Brandywine," " Constitu- 
tion " and " Columbia," under Commo- 
dores Wadsworth and Rou,sseau, and Cap- 
tain Wilkinson. 

While on a vacation, he instituted the 
parish of St. Thomas at Dover, N. H. On 
another leave of absence, he was invited 
to the rectorship of Grace church. New 
Bedford, which he accepted and where he 
remained four years. Returning in 1845 
to the chaplaincy, he served at the Navy 
Nard, Charlestown, with Commodore John 
Downs. In 1855 he resigned the chap- 
laincy and became rector of St. John's 
church, Charlestown, where he remained 
twenty-eight years. In 1845 he received 
the degree of A. M., honoris causa, from 
Brown University, and in 1852 the same 
degree from Trinity College; in 1863 
Columbia College conferred upon him the 
degree of S. T. D. 

For thirty years Dr. Lambert has been 
a member of the standing committee of 
the diocese of Massachusetts. His promi- 
nence in the church and the navy, his 
extended acquaintance with public men 
for half a century, and his social qualities 
— for the indulgence of which Dr. Lambert 
was not only rarely qualified, but also 
possessed of ample means for their gratifi- 
cation — rendered hisdelightful home at the 
rectory the resort of visiting clergy from 
every part of the country, of travelers 
from abroad, and of the scholars and 
literary men of the vicinity. 

In 1884, when nearly seventy-five years 
of age. Dr. Lambert resigned his rector- 
ship and passed into retirement, save only 



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LAMBERT. 



LANE. 



his connection with the diocesan stand- 
ing committee, which he still retains. 

In Free Masonry he has wrought for 
nearly sixty years, having received the first 
degree in his twenty-first year, and attained 
the thirty-thirtl in his sixtieth. He has 
been repeatedly grand chaplain of the 
Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, and for 




THOMAS R. LAMBERT. 

more than fifty years the intimate and social 
friend of the grand officers. 

Dr. Lambert was married in January, 
1845, to Mrs. Jane Standish Colby, of 
New Bedford, daughter of Hon. John 
Avery Parker and widow of Judge H. (). 
O. Colby. They have one son : William 
Thomas. 

LAMBERT, WiLLlA.W HENRY, son of 
Isaac and Lucy (Dingley) Lambert, was 
born in Durham, .Vndroscoggin county, 
Maine, .\ugust 8, 1843. 

His early mental training was directed 
in public schools, the printing office of the 
'• Lewiston Journal," and Lewiston Falls 
Academy, Auburn, Me. 

He was graduated from Colby Univer- 
sity in the class of 1865. After graduating, 
he studied law in Waterville, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar at Augusta, 1867. He 
was then called to Castine, to take charge of 
the high school. He accepted, and re- 
mained there one year. 



He was principal of the Augusta high 
school 1868, '6g and '70; principal of the 
Lewiston high school from 1870 to '74 ; 
principal of the Fall River (Mass.) high 
school from 1874 to '79 ; superintendent of 
schools. Maiden, from 1879 to '84. In 1887 
he was again called to the Fall River high 
school, where he still remains as principal. 

Mr. Lambert was married in Waterville, 
Me., in September, 1866, to Emma F., 
daughter of W. G. and Achsah C. (Wood) 
Otis. Of this union are two children : 
Grace E. and Gertrude A. Lambert. 

Mr. Lambert has served as editor of the 
'■ Maine School Journal ; " secretary of the 
New England School Superintendents' As- 
sociation ; president of the INLddlesex 
Teachers' Association and president of the 
Massachusetts State Teachers' Association. 

He was admitted to practice in Massa- 
chusetts courts, 1883. He edited " Mem- 
ory Gems" and "Robinson Crusoe," for 
use of schools, and has been an occasional 
contributt)r to the " New England Journal 
of Education," and other school journals. • 

LANE, SaURIN Eliot, son of Benja- 
min Ingersol and Susan (Eliot) Lane, was 
born in Townshend, Windham county, Vt., 
.\ugust 31, 1 81 8. 

Among his ancestors are found the 
names of John Eliot, Sirs John Lawson 
ami Hildreth. His father was the son of 
a dau.ghter of John Lawson, and Benjamin 
Ingersol Lane. Of the early settlers who 
came to the colonies of the name of Lane, 
there were three brothers, two of whom 
settled in Virginia, and one in Massachu- 
setts, and hence the relations between the 
Lanes of the South and the North. But 
all the Lanes of the North do not trace, 
with Dr. Lane, it appears, to the same an- 
cestor, who was a Scotch Presbyterian, and 
an officer, nevertheless, in the army of 
King Charles. The* three brothers were 
educated men, from whom descended the 
Lanes who founded the Lane Theolo.gical 
Seminary, at Cincinnati, Ohio. Cieneral 
Douglas Lane, for about forty years a 
senator of Virginia, was of the same 
stock, and also Generals "Joe" Lane, and 
"Jim" Lane, the "Father of Kansas," 
also General Lane of North Carolina. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in select schools. He was prepared 
for college under private tutors at an early 
age, and graduated from Union College in 
the class of 1841, receiving subsequently 
the degree of 1). I), from a \\estern col- 
lege. 

After graduating, he entered the Union 
Theological .Seminarv, New York City. 



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LANG. 



365 



where he remained two years, then oceu- 
|)ied his time in study and travel until his 
ordination, in 1845, at Albany, N. Y. He 
was lirst invited to the Presbyterian 
church, Auburn, N. V., but his attention 
was turned to other fields in the West, and 
he was selected as one best fitted to take 
the position of pastor of the Presbyterian 
church at Lansing, the new capital of 
Michigan, which he declined, much against 
his personal inclinations. 

He became quite widely known through 
the publication of a pamphlet entitled 
'• Temperance a Christian Duty, Abstinence 
a Matter of Christian Liberty," which was 
endorsed by the leading clergymen and 
scholars of the country — notably Dr. Ed- 
ward Robinson. He published several 
other pamphlets that obtained for him 
some local notoriety. 

Dr. Lane was married in Fawn River, 
Mich., in 1844, to Elizabeth, daughter of 
Captain Philip Riley and Nancy (Degraff) 
'Pol, of Schenectady, N. V. Of this union 
were five children, of whom three are liv- 
ing. His second marriage was in Marl- 
borough, N. H., in 1863, with Louise 
Noble, daughter of Samuel and Rachel 
(Noble) Devens, of Boston. 

Dr. Lane, through the urgent wishes of 
friends, was finally settled in Galloway, 
N. Y., over a church then of note and 
promise, where he remained fifteen years, 
after which he was in Carmel, N. Y., five 
years. After the war of the rebellion he 
was solicited to go South in the interests 
of the church in West \'irginia, he having 
become acquainted with the needs of the 
church in the South, by a sojourn in South 
Carolina during the troublous days of 
" reconstruction." He was quite conser- 
vative in his views, and allied to some of 
the first families — the Lanes and Eliots — 
of the South ; and his hold upon the pub- 
lic has been utilized for their good rather 
than for the advantage of any party. 

Since returning North Dr. Lane has 
given his attention to literary work. He is 
the author of "The Battle of Point Pleas- 
ant," written for the Monument Associa- 
tion, Va. ; " Pa.ssion Week Dated ;" "The 
'I'ransit of the Three K's ; " " Home with- 
in the Gates ; " " Yacation Recreations, or 
the Castle on the Knob ; " " Astronomical 
Recreations," and numerous other [jam- 
phlets and addresses, some published, and 
some awaiting publication. 

Dr. Lane has wrought in other fields 
than that of the gown. When in "recon- 
struction " days he was called into South 
Carolina to look after some properties, he 



became interested by some developments 
in the social condition of the state during 
its transition, and joined hands with the 
better element of .society, always L^nion at 
heart. He declined a pressing invitation 
to a profe.ssorship in the University of 
South Carolina. He was finally solicited 
to act as assistant-adjutant-general in the 
department of South Carolina, with civil 
and military power. He was also special 
trial justice. While subjected to many 
tests of mental and physical courage, and 
for many months living in danger of mo- 
mentary a.ssassination, he was successful in 
his mission, and did much in quieting the 
country, in the protection of life and prop- 
erty, and the organization of schools. His 
story of this period would be indeed a 
thrilling one. 

LANG, Benja.min Johnson, son of 

Benjamin and Hannah (ISreed) Lang, was 
born in Salem, lisse.x countv, December 
28, 1837. 

He received nis early education in the 
common and high schools of his native 
town. 

His father being a music teacher, he 
inherited a tendency toward the profession 
which he has adorned so many years. Re- 
ceiving instruction from his father, he was 
qualified to play the organ in a church in 
the town of Danvers at the early age of 
eleven years, and subsequently played at 
the Parsons Cooke church, in Lynn, Rev. 
Rollin H. Neale's, the Old South, and Rev. 
E. E. Hale's church (the latter at the age 
of twenty-four) in Boston, and is now organ- 
ist at King's Chapel, where the standard 
of church music has for many years been 
notably the very highest. 

After his father, his teachers have been 
Francis Hill of Boston, Alfred Jaell, Gus- 
tave Satter and Franz Liszt, Mr. Lang 
being one of the torch-bearers at the lat- 
ter's funeral. From Mr. Lang's; friendship 
with Liszt sprang his close connection with 
\\'agner, in whose plans and purposes he 
had deep interest, even fn.)ni the time of 
Wagner's life in Paris. 

In 1S59, at the age of twenty-one years, 
he became pianist and organist of the 
Handel and Havdn Societv in Boston, still 
holding the position. 

Mr. Lang was married at Boston, Octo- 
ber 10, 1 86 1, to Fanny Alorse, daughter of 
Johnson C. and Emeline (Brigham) Bur- 
rage. Their children are : Harry (de- 
ceased), JMargaret, Rosamond, 'and Mal- 
colm Lang. 

l\Ir. Lang, since the age of si.\teen years, 
has been almost constantlv before the Bos- 



366 



LARRABEE. 



LASKER. 



ton public as a concert-soloist, and it has 
been at his hands that many of the piano- 
forte concertos of Bach, Mendelssohn, 
Chopin, Schumann and Beethoven, as well 
as the works of the newer school, the con- 
certos of Rubenstein, St. Saens, Bronsart, 
etc., were first brought out in Boston. 

Since the age of eighteen j'ears he has 
been to Europe nearly every year (giving 
successful concerts himself in Berlin, Dres- 
den and Vienna), during which time he 
made the acquaintance of many of the 
noted living masters of music, from whom 
he feels that he has somewhat developed 
himself. 

Since their organization he has been the 
conductor of the Apollo and Cecilia clubs 
of Boston. Under his conductorship Men- 
delssohn's "Walpurgis-Night," "Hymn of 
Praise," "Antigone," and "CEdipus," Bee- 
thoven's " Praise of Music," Haydn's "Sea- 
sons," Schumann's "Paradise and Peri," 
and "Faust," Berlioz's "Zn Damnation de 
Faust" and Brahm's "Requiem," and 
the " Rinaldo," and many other notable 
works, have been given a first perform- 
ance in the city of Boston. Perhaps the 
most important part of his life has been 
given to teaching, in which his success has 
been as gratifying to him as to his numer- 
ous pupils, many of whom have achieved 
great distinction as concert-soloists, organ- 
ists and composers. 

LARRABEE, JOHN, son of John and 
Sarah Jane (Kimball) Larrabee, was born 
in North Maiden, now Melrose, Middlesex 
county, April 21, 1850. 

He received his early education in the 
public schools. When quite young he en- 
tered the employ of Dr. Edward R. 
Knights, then the only apothecary in Mel- 
rose, and when seventeen years old, pur- 
chased the store, continuing in the same 
business ever since. 

He was elected town clerk in 1873, 
which office he still holds. He was repre- 
sentative of the nth Middlese.x district in 
the Legislature 1886 and '87, being chair- 
man of the committee on engrossed bills 
both years, and also clerk of the committee 
on woman suffrage for 1886, and clerk of the 
committee on public health for 1887. He 
is now serving as trustee and clerk of the 
Melrose Savings Bank, upon the commit- 
tee on cemeteries, having been secretary 
of the latter fourteen years, and as clerk of 
the board of selectmen. May 11, 1887, he 
was appomted by Governor Ames on the 
board of registration in pharmacy, vice 
Samuel A. D. Sheppard, resigned, to serve 
until 1S90. 



Mr. Larrabee is an active member of the 
Baptist church and Sabbath-school, also of 
Wyoming Lodge, F. & A. M., and Mel- 
rose Lodge, I. O. O. F. 

He was married September 18, 1876, at 
Milton Mills, N. H., to L. Ellen, daughter 




JOHN LARRABEE. 

of Stephen and Sarah (Clements) Ricker. 
They have a son and daughter : John 
Heber and Sarah Helen Larrabee. 

Mr. Larrabee is a descendant of the old 
family of Larrabee who first settled in this 
section in colonial days. 

LASKER, Raphael, was born in Zirke, 
Prussia, February ig, 1835. His talmudi- 
cal studies he began early with his father, 
a learned talmudist and rabbi, and then he 
continued under Rabbi Caro of Pinne, 
Rcdibi Hirsh Schneidemuhl, of Obornick, 
and later under the great talmudical celeb- 
rities, Rabbis Moses Veilchenfeld and Men- 
del of Rogasen. He received his classical 
and academical finish at the gymnasium 
of Gleiwitz and the university of Ciessen. 

In 1S58 we find the subject of our 
sketch in the state of Ohio at Portsmouth, 
where he organized the congregation Bnai 
Abraham, and such was the success of the 
then young rabbi, that one of the halls of 
the place was at once fitted up as a syna- 
,gogue, and regular divine services held. 
He was eminentlv successful in his work. 



LATHROP. 



LAVALLEE. 



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and established the first Sabliath-school in 
Portsmouth. 

The same year, in Portsmouth, he was 
married to Ernestine Kartjer. Eight chil- 
dren have blessed the rabbi : Jacob, Alex- 
ander, Meyer, Arthur, Julia, Isabella, Lillie 
and Florence Lasker. 

While laboring in this field, he fre- 
quently came in contact with the late Dr. 
Lilienthal, then stationed at Cincinnati, 
and this great divine, recognizing the 
abilities of Raphael Lasker, spared no 
pains to secure for him the position as 
rabbi with the congregation Shaar Hasho- 
niayini, of New York, where he officia- 
ted for nine years, enjo)'ing the uniform 
respect and good will of his congrega- 
tion. In conjunction with his ministerial 
duties. Rabbi Lasker had also under his 
charge a large educational institute, which 
grew to such proportions that he was 
obliged to give up his ministerial office, 
much to the regret of his congregation, to 
devote his whole time to the institution 
named. Many prominent men in New 
York and elsewhere — judges, lawyers, 
legislators, physicians and merchants, as 
well as leaders in Jewish orders — now 
look back with reverence and pride to their 
school-days under the training of their 
spiritual benefactor, Rabbi Lasker. 

In 1 87 1 he accepted a unanimous call 
from the Temple Israel congregation, 
iirooklyn, N. ¥., where he remained until 
November, 1876, when, at the urgent solici- 
tation of the most prominent members of 
the congregation Ohabei Shalom, Boston, 
he consented to become its minister, and 
the immediate successor of Dr. Valk Vid- 
aver, now of San Francisco, Cal. 

Here the work of Rabbi Lasker has been 
signally blest. F'rom chaos and dissension 
he created harmony and order. He is 
highly esteemed by his fellow-citizens, 
both Jew and Christian. Py his deep in- 
terest in public schools, he has won an en- 
viable position on the Boston school board, 
of which he has been a member for six years. 

LATHROP, JOHN, son of Rev. John P. 
and Maria Margaretta (Long) Lathrop, 
was born in Boston, February 8, 1835. 

He received his early education in the 
public schools of that city and in the state 
of New Jersey, graduating from Burlington 
College, New Jersey, in 1853. He re- 
ceived the honorary degree of A. M. from 
his alma mater in 1856, and subsequently 
that of LL. B. from Harvard law school in 

1855. 

He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
1856, opening an office in Boston ; and in 



1872 he was admitted to the bar of the 
United States supreme court. His prac- 
tice was largely in admiralty. He was a 
reporter of the decisions of the supreme 
judicial court of Massachusetts from 1874 
to '88. He is at present a justice of the 
superior court, having received the well- 
merited appointment at the hands of Gov- 
ernor Ames. 

His is eminently a legal mind, with a 
good share of practical business sense ; 
always self-contained and composed, his 
success as a judge seems assured. 

He was married in Boston, June 24, 
1875, to F^liza Davis, daughter of Richard 
(1. and Mary Ann (Davis) Parker. 

In 1862 he was made ist lieutenant, 35th 
Massachusetts volunteer infantry, and also 
captain of the same, resigning on account 
of disability in 1863. 

He held the position of lecturer in the 
Harvard law school in 187 1 and '73, and 
in the Boston law school in 1873, '80, '81, 
'82 and '83. 

Judge Lathrop still resides in Boston. 

LAVALLEE, CalIXA, son of Augustin 
and Caroline (\'alentine) Lavallee, was 
born at Vercheres, on the St. Lawrence 
River, in Lower Canada, December 28, 
1842. 

After acquiring a rudimentary education 
in the schools of his native province, he 
completed his education in France, gradu- 
ating at Paris. He studied pianoforte under 
Marmontel, and harmony, counterjioint 
instrumentation under Boieldieu and Bazin. 
Returning to America, he established him- 
self as a teacher of the art in Boston, 
where he ranks as a superior musician in 
interpretation. The style of his composi- 
tions is bright and melodic, his concerted 
pieces exhibiting a knowledge of instru- 
mentation remarkably original.' 

Mr. Lavallee has been prominent in the 
Music Teachers' National Association. In 
1884 he played a programme of entirely 
American compositions before that body 
at its meeting in Cleveland, Ohio. He was 
elected president of the association and 
served as such i886-'7. In January, 1888, 
he was sent as a delegate to London to 
represent the association before the Na- 
tional Society of Professional Musicians of 
England. 

At present he has a very large class of 
pupils, of whom many are at the head of 
leading schools throughout the country ; 
he is director of the music at the Cathe- 
dral of the Holy Cross in Boston, and 
chairman of the programme committee of 
the Music Teachers' National Association. 



368 



LAWRENCE. 



LAWRENCE. 



His works are : a " Cantata for the recep- 
tion of the Prince.ss Louise at Quebec," 
1878 ; operas of " La Veuve " and " T. & 
Q." a symphony ; offertory for solo, chorus, 
ortjan and orchestra ; twelve etudes for 
piano ; mass in D minor for soprano, con- 
tralto, tenor, bass, chorus and orchestra ; 
concerto for piano and orchestra ; miscel- 
laneous works for piano ; string quartettes ; 
an oratorio, songs, etc. 

Mr. Lavallee was married in Lowell, 
December 21, 1867, to Josephine, daughter 
of Franyois and Elizabeth (Randolph) de 
Gent illy. They have a son : Raoul. 

LAWRENCE, ASA S., the son of Asa 
and Betsey (Bennett) Lawrence, of (Iroton, 
and a descendant of Captain Asa Lawrence 
of revolutionary fame, was Ijorn in Groton, 
Middlese-x county, May 10, 1820. 

He received his education in the com- 
mon schools in Groton ; worked on his 
father's farm tluring his minority, and 
afterwards continued in the same vocation. 




ASA S, LAWRENCE. 

He was appointed a deputy sheriff for 
the county of Middlesex, in the year 1851, 
and still holds a commission as such ; was 
appointed an assistant assessor for the 7th 
congressional district during the war of the 
rebellion ; was appointed a justice of the 
peace for the county of Middlesex many 
years ago, and still holds a commission ; 



was coroner for the county of Middlesex 
many years, also a notary public. 

Mr. Lawrence was a member of the state 
Legislature in 1877, serving on the com- 
mittee on claims ; he was also a member 
of the Legislature in 1881, and served on 
the prison committee. He was a member 
of the Republican .state central committee 
for two years. He was chairman of the 
board of selectmen, assessors and over- 
seers of the poor of the town of Groton for 
ten consecutive years ; was collector of 
taxes for twenty-five years, and has held 
other town offices at various times. He 
was a member of the Groton Artillery for 
many years, and was commissioned as 
captain. He is a member of the (iroton 
Farmers' and Mechanics' Club, and has 
been its .secretary for fifteen consecutive 
years, also a charter member of the CJroton 
Grange and one of its officers. 

Mr. Lawrence was married in April, 
1854, to Agnes B., daughter of Jacob and 
Betsey (Davis) Pollard, who died in March, 
1861. His second marriage occurred in 
November, 1870, to Mrs. Jennie K. Pol- 
lard, daughter of Deacon Nathaniel and 
Lydia K. (Hills) Davis, of Groton. Mr. 
Lawrence has one child : AVilliam A. Law- 
rence. 

LAWRENCE, SAMUEL CROCKER, son 
of Daniel and Elizabeth (Crocker) Law- 
rence, was born in Medford, Middlesex 
county, November 22, 1832. 

His early education was obtained in the 
public schools of Medford, Lawrence Acad- 
emy, Groton, and by private study at night. 
He entered Harvard University in 1S51 and 
graduated with honors in the class of 1855. 

For two years after graduation he was a 
partner in the banking firm of Bigelow & 
Lawrence of Chicago, and then, at the de- 
sire of his father, returned to his native 
place, to engage in business with him as one 
of the firm of Daniel Lawrence & Sons, 
distillers, of which he has for many years 
been the sole [jartner. 

On the 28th of April, 1859, at Charles- 
town, he was married to Caroline Rebecca, 
daughter of Rev. \\'illiam and Rebecca 
(Taylor) Badger. They have two children : 
^Villiam Badger and Louise Lawrence. 

Mr. Lawrence is a descendant in the 
twenty-fourth generation from one Robert 
Lawrence of Lancashire, England, who was 
knighted by Richard Coeur de Lion, A. D. 
1191, in the war of the crusades, as "Sir 
Robert of Ashton Hall, for distinguishing 
himself in the siege of Acre." 

Having a fondness for the military, he 
was commissioned lieutenant in the Massa- 



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LAWRENCE. 



369 



cluisetts volunteer militia, 1S55, captain in 
1.S56, resigned in 1857 to go West ; re-com- 
missioned captain, 1858 ; major, 1859; July 
J3, i860, colonel of the 5th regiment of 
Massachusetts militia, which was one of 
the first regiments to volunteer for ser- 
vice when the war broke out in 1861. Dur- 
ing the preceding winter, with characteris- 
tic forethought, he began to prepare for 
what seemed to him an inevitable war, and 
at his own expense he hired the hall over 
the Fitchburg railroad station in Boston 
for frequent drills, and succeeded in bring- 
ing his command to a high degree of pro- 
ficiency in militarv tactics. Colonel Law- 
rence was afterwards offered a commission 
in the regular army, which he felt obliged 
to decline, as he did not then wish to part 
from his men. He tendered his regiment 
to (Governor Andrew on the 15th of April, 
1 861, and on the igth he was ordered to 
report for duty. His regiment fought with 
credit at the first battle of Bull Run, Sun- 
day, July 2ist, in which Colonel I.awrenct- 
was wounded. He was commissioned by 
Covernor Andrew, June 9, 1862, Ijrigadier- 
general in the militia of Mas.sacluisetts, 
which rank he resigned August 20, 1864 
He received in 1S69 one of the highest com 
pliments paid to military men in this Com- 
monwealth, in being elected commander ol 
the Ancient and Honorable .\rtillery Com 
l)any. 

For over twenty-five years General Law 
rence was actively interested in state aiui 
national politics, but though urgently soli< 
ited, persistently declined to accept office 
other than the purely honorary one of 
presidential elector. 

He has filled with honor the trust of 
director in institutions of finance and in 
those of a charitable nature ; for many 
years he has served as a director of various 
railroad corporations, notably the Eastern, 
Maine Central, and the Boston & Maine 
railroads, in each of which he is still a 
director. 

(_)n the financial shipwreck of the East- 
ern Railroad in 1876, he was chosen presi- 
dent of the company, and was eminently 
successful in keeping the property intact, 
and in harmonizing the creditors and share- 
holders into arrangements which saved 
their interests from the devastation of a 
struggle in bankruptcy, and the valuable 
leaseholds of the company from disrup- 
tion. He is at the present time president 
of the Eastern and of other railroads. 

.Amid the pressure of business and of 
official labor and responsibility, he has 
never ceased to plan judiciously antl to 



work zealously for the interests of the 
Masonic fraternity, in the highest offices 
of which he has been re|5eatedly honored. 
For over twenty-five years he has been 
one of the most active members in the 
supreme council of the Scottish Rite, and 
was for fourteen years the deputy for Mas- 
sachu.setts. A characteristic feature of 
his Masonic labor has been the establish- 
ment of permanent charitable funds in 
every body in which he has been asso- 
ciated in the working offices. He was 
three times elected grand master of Ma- 
sons in Massachusetts, and it was largely 
through his persistent efforts that the large 




SAMUEL C. LAWRENCE, 

debt on the Masonic Temple in Boston 
was finally paid in full. I lis Masonic 
library is acknowledged to be one of the 
most complete in the country for its lit- 
erary and historical treasures. 

General Lawrence has a strong hold 
upon the esteem and gratitude of his fel- 
low-townsmen of Mediord, for no man has 
done more to preserve its integrity, pro- 
mote its welfare, and by his own generous 
example, quicken its charities. The (irand 
Army post of the town is called by his 
name, and no worthy cau.se of public im- 
provement or private distress fails to find 
in him an active worker and a beneficent 
friend. 



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LEACH. 



LEACH. 



LEACH, George Carroll, son of 

Ezekiel W. Leach, M. D., and Charlotte 
E. (Forster) Leach, was born in Boston, 
October 19, 1837. 

He came from an honored line, dating 
back to an early period in the history of 
Salem, where, in 1628, Lawrence Leach 
came from Scotland, and was proposed for 
a " freeman," and obtained a grant of one 
hundred acres of land. His son Robert 
came to Manchester in 1640, and .settled 
upon a farm on the " Plains," which has 
ever since remained in the family. His 
son Samuel was one of the selectmen in 
16S0, and he, in turn, was succeeded in the 
same office by his own son, Richard. Ben- 
jamin, the latter's son, was a shipmaster, 
and died at sea, leaving among other 
children, Ezekiel, who was born in 1755, 
served in the revolutionary army, and who 
died in 1821. His son Thomas was like- 
wise extensively engaged in navigation, 
dying in one of his own vessels on a voyage 
from Havana to Hamburg in 1828. ' His 
son Ezekiel was born in Manchester, 1809. 
He graduated from Amherst at the age of 
nineteen, and delivered the 4th of "july 
oration at Manchester the same year, and 
entered the office of Dr. George C. Shat- 
tuck for the study of medicine, compiled a 
history of the town of Manchester, and 
died at the age of thirty-three. 

Mr. Leach's early education was re- 
ceived in the public schools of Boston and 
Manchester. He obtained a position as 
messenger in the Blackstone Bank, Bo.ston, 
in December, 1853, filling various positions 
of trust and responsibility, and in 1865 he 
was promoted to the office of assistant 
cashier. In July, 1868, he was elected 
cashier of the People's National Bank of 
Ro.xbury, and in .August of the same year 
he was made treasurer of the Elliot Five 
Cents Savings Bank. In January, 1880, 
he was elected a director of the People's 
National Bank, being the youngest mem- 
ber of the board, and on the death of the 
late Henry Guild, he was chosen president. 
Mr. Leach was married in i860 to 
Angelina E., daughter of Willis A. and 
Elizabeth (Pray) Colson. They had as 
children : Grace, born 1861 ; Angle E., born 
1864 (deceased) ; Benjamin Allen, hnrn 
1870 (deceased), and George Carroll Leach, 
born J 870. 

Mr. Leach died July 30, 1889, at his 
summer residence, Manchester-by-the-Sea. 
He was a man greatly respected by all who 
knew him, for his sterling integrity, finan- 
cial judgment and his uniformly courteous 
and genial manner, 



LEACH, Giles Luther, son of Giles 

and Lucy K. (French) Leach, was born in 
Raynham, Bristol county, July 10, 1823. 

His educational advantages were limited 
to the common schools of Berkley, Taun- 
ton, and Raynham. 

When he first started in life for himself, 
he was employed at Raynham in farming, 
and his present vocation is still that of 
farmer and cattle-broker. 

Mr. Leach was first married June 17, 
1857, to Hertilla Seaver, daughter of Da- 
vid and Hannah (Seaver) Standish. His 
second marriage occurred February 13, 
1 86 1, with Betsey Tobey Sprague, daugh- 
ter of Joseph D. and Betsey T. (Porter) 
Hathaway. Of this latter union are four 
children : Harry Sprague, Carrie Tobey, 
Giles Edward, and Jesse Porter Leach. 

Mr. Leach has been president of a tem- 
perance society ; vice-president of the 
Mutual Improvement Society ; lieutenant 
of light infantry, Massachusetts volunteer 
militia ; has held the various town offices ; 
moderator of the annual town meetings for 
eighteen years, and of parish meetings twen- 
ty-five years ; trustee of the ministerial fund 
fifteen years ; selectman and member of 
the school board four years each ; assessor 
twenty years ; justice of the peace twenty- 
four years ; was enrolling officer for district 
No. 3 during the war, and was a member of 
the House of Representatives 1852 and '66. 
His residence is Berkley. 

LEACH, James Gushing, son of Ai- 

pheus and Elizabeth C. (Mitchell) Leach, 
was born in Bridgewater, Plymouth county, 
June 1 1, 1831. 

His early education was gained in the 
district schools of those days. In the sev- 
enteenth year of his age he began serving 
his time as apprentice with Ambrose 
Keith, builder, Bridgewater. After sev- 
eral years with Mr. Keith, he engaged 
with J. E. Carver, cotton-gin manufacturer, 
where he remained until 1869. 

Possessing a strong physique, he was 
enabled to do an unusually large amount 
of work daily, and by his diligence and 
economy he soon put himself in possession 
of means to go into business for himself. 

In 1870 he began the manufacture of oil- 
proof paper, and with this specialty, and 
his agency for the sale of leather board, 
he has built up a prosperous business, in 
which he is still engaged. 

Mr. Leach was married in Bridgewater, 
April 29, i860, to Phebe, daughter of Mar- 
cus and Hannah K. (Leach) Conant, Of 
this union were three children, all dying 
in earlv childhood. 



LEE. 



LEIGHTON. 



371 



Mr. Leach possesses the unquahfied 
conlKlence of his fellow-citizens. For 
many years he has been chairman of the 
Republican town committee ; for thirty 
years a working member of Plymouth 
County Agricultural Society, one of the 
trustees and prominent in its management. 

He has long been a trustee of the sav- 
ings bank, and member of the investment 




JAMES C. LEACH. 

committee, also a director in the Brockton 
National Bank since its organization. He 
was commissioned justice of the peace by 
(lovernor Rice in 1877. 

He has always encouraged ample appro- 
priations for public improvement, and par- 
ticularly that of education. He is a trustee 
of Bridgewater Academy. 

His church connections are with the 
Central Square church of Bridgewater, to 
which he has been one of its most liberal 
contributors. 

Mr. Leach is a lineal descendant of 
Ciles Leach, who settled in Bridgewater 
before 1665, and of Rev. James Keith, 
the first minister in that section of the 
country. 

LEE, Andrew, son of Andrew and 
Fanny Lee, was born in Manchester, Es- 
sex county, December 15, 1829, and received 
his early education in the public schools 
of his native town. His first venture in 



business was in a line not at all congenial 
to his tastes, and in 1855 he began the 
study of medicine under the tuition of Dr. 
George A. Priest. 

Three years later he entered the retail 
drug business in Manchester. As success 
crowned his efforts, he erected a larger 
building than the one occupied, increased 
his business and associated his two sons 
with him. 

Mr. Lee was married in Charlestown, 
November 11, 1847, to Jane E., daughter 
of Charles and Jane T. Bailey. Of this 
union are four children : Ada, Charles O., 
I'rank E., and Jennie T. Lee. 

Mr. Lee is treasurer of the ITnion ^^'eb 
Hammock Company, whose large factories 
are located in Gloucester. He is an 
active member of the L O. O. F., anil is 
one of the charter members of Magnolia 
Lodge 149. 

The first representatives of this family 
of Lee were John and Thomas Lee, who 
landed at Ipswich, in 1640 and 1642 respect- 
ively. They were descendants of the first 
Lord Lee, Earl of Lichfield, Viscount 
Quarendon of Oxford, England. The cre- 
ation dates back to June 5, 1674, under 
the regime of the Second Charles. The old 
Lee family has held a ground title in Man- 
chester and vicinity continuously for over 
two hundred years. 

LEIGHTON, JOHN William, son of 

Jonathan and Sarah (Knight) Leighton, 
was born in Eliot, York county, Maine, 
February 26, 1825. 

His early education was confined to the 
public schools of his native village. He 
came to Boston in 1843, where he learned 
his trade, and in 1854 became connected 
in business as builder, which line he still 
follows. He is at present chairman of the 
state armory commissioners. 

Mr. Leighton was married in Eliot, Me., 
February 19, 1854, to Anaretta Tyler, 
daughter of James P. and Abigail F. 
(Varney) Frye. Of this union is one child: 
Fannie Leighton. 

Mr. Leighton served in the Boston com- 
mon council 1861, '62, '63, '68 and '69 ; 
four years on the building committee, and 
on the committee on raising Church Street 
district. He was a member of the popular 
branch of the Legislature iSSi and '82, 
and was on the commission for re-modeling 
the state-house in 1880. 

He is one of the directors in the Central 
National Bank; a trustee in the Home Sav- 
ings Bank, and a member of the invest- 
ment committee, also a director in the Gran- 
ite R. R. Company. 



372 



LEIGHTON. 



LEUIHTON. 



Mr. Leighton had full charge of moving 
Hotel Pelham in 1869, and did all the 
masonr}'. This was the first work of its 
magnitude ever done in this country, and 




JOHN W LEIGHTON. 

was accomplished without an accident of 
any kind. 

The most notable of his buildings are : 
Boston post-office, Rialto building. Herald 
building, Simmons block. Commonwealth 
Bank building, Williams building, and Bos- 
ton cS: Providence depot, .\mong the pri- 
vate residences are those of Hon. Frank 
Ames, Dr. Clarence H. IJlake, and Hon. 
Leopold Morse. 

Mr. Leighton is an energetic man, in- 
spiring the confidence of his associates, 
and holding their respect and esteem. 

LEIGHTON, Nicholas Winfield 

Scott, son of Nicholas and Deborah 
(Whitney) Leighton, is a native of Auburn, 
Androscoggin county, Maine, moved from 
there at two years of age, and was edu- 
cated at the common and high schools of 
Gray, Maine. He early gave evidence of 
talent, and attracted the attention of his 
parents and teachers by devoting to draw- 
ing much time that ought to have been 
occupied with his regular lessons. His 
especial taste was for sketching horses. 

From the age of fourteen till about 
seventeen, he was in the habit of purchas- 



ing young horses, which, after breaking m,. 
he would sell at a considerable profit, hi 
this way, by the time he was seventeen, he 
had made from sixteen to eighteen hun- 
dred dollars, with which he started for 
Portland, Me. 

He first commenced by painting the 
portraits of horses for private parties, but 
as he only received two dollars and a half 
for his first commission, he did not feel 
much encouraged, so went to Providence, 
R. L, where he engaged in the artistic 
furniture trade, which he quickly picked 
up without any previous knowledge. This 
work was paid for by the piece, and young 
Leighton worked so industriously that 
some days he earned something over 
seventeen dollars. Upon the failure of the 
firm, Mr. Leighton traveled through differ- 
ent states, painting portraits of horses. 
He finally settled in Boston, and from 
a portrait painter of horses, he became 
one of the most famous animal painters 
of the day. 

It is very evident that among the true 
causes of this artist's success is not only 
his conscientious devotion to art, but also 




SCOTT LEIGHTON. 



his inborn love of animals. He is a mem- 
ber of the Art Club, and has been not 
inaptly called the " Landseer of the' 
Lnited States." 



LELAND. 



LELANU. 



373 



Anions his best-known productions ma_\- 
jierhaps be named " In tiie Stable," " 'I'hree 



On tiie Road." 
Dogs," and " The 

ERVING, son of 



\'eterans," "Smuggler,' 
"The Pet," "Waiting," ' 
l'"earnaught StaUions." 

LELAND, LUTHER 
Samuel and Achsah (Mason) Leland, was 
born in Leverett, Franklin county, Juh' 22, 
1824. 

He received his early educational training 
in a Christian home, having for teachers, 
loving, intelligent parents — also in the 
public schools of Montague and Holliston. 
After attending the Holliston Academy 
for a short time, he entered Worcester 
Academy, where he fitted for college under 
the late Nelson Wheeler, afterwards pro- 
fessor of Greek in Brown University, Prov- 
idence, R. L 

His intentions were to finish his academic 
studies at Brown, but owing to the impaireil 
health of both father and mother, and the 
fact of his being the youngest of the family 
— the one to whom his parents had looked 
for care and support in the decline of life — 
he saw that his duty was to relincpiish his 
cherished hopes, and to tenderly and lov- 
ingly care for those parents the remainder 
of their allotted days. 

During this period he studied metlicine 
with Dr. J. C. Harris of Ashland, and at- 
tended lectures at the Berkshire Medical 
College, Pittsfield. He did not com[)lete 
his medical studies, but, as he had previ- 
ously done, engaged in teaching a part of 
each year, and in farming and manufactur- 
ing the remainder. Following his early in- 
clinations, from twenty years of age until 
he was thirtv-four, he had taught school in 
Milford, Holliston, Hopkinton and Lvnn- 
lield. At this time he accepted a call from 
the school board of Newton, and took 
charge of the grammar school (now Ham- 
ilton school) at Newton Lower Falls, in 
1858. He has been master of this .school 
from that date to the present time. During 
si.\ years of this time he was also master 
of the Williams school at Auburndale. 

Mr. Leland was married in Sherborn, 
May 10, 1849, to Lucy F'.liza Twitchell. 
Of this union there were three children: 
]ila Rozella (deceased), Samuel and Min- 
erva I"">liza Leland. His second marriage 
occurred in Westjiort, .\ugust 4. 1875, with 
I'^Uen Maria (iifford, by whom he has one 
child : Waldo C.ifford Leland. 

Mr. Leland was for several years a mem- 
ber of the school board and town clerk of 
.Vshland : has been a member of the city 
council, Newton, and has been frecpiently 
called upon to represent the F'ree Soil and 



Republican parties in city, county, district, 
and state conventions. He has held a 
commission as a justice of the peace for 
nearly forty years, and has had quite a 
large amount of business in writing deeds, 
wills, and administering estates. 

His church connections are with the 
Baptists, of which denomination he is a 
prominent and active member. He is a 
member of the Ma.sonic fraternity, is past 
master and a charter member of Dalhousie 
Lodge, a life member of the Ma.ssachu- 
setts Consistory, and has been president of 
the LTnion Masonic Mutual Relief Associa- 
tion of Massachusetts since its organization 




LUTHER E, LELAND. 

in 1873. He is a member of count}', state, 
and national educational associations, has 
been called upon to address educational 
meetings, and, to a limited e.xtent, has con- 
tributed to educational periodicals. He 
was one of the original members of the 
Mitldlesex County Teachers' Association, 
of which he has been president ; was one 
of the organizers and the first president of 
the Middlesex Schoolmasters' Club. 

He is the .senior grammar master of New- 
ton, a con.scientious and faithful teachei', 
fearless and independent in thought and 
action, never relinquishing his manhood 
for expediency or success in his life's 
duties. 



374 



LEONARD. 



LEWIS. 



LEONARD, Spencer, son of Spencer 
and Mary (Wood) Leonard, a lineal de- 
scendant in the seventh generation from 
Solomon Leonard, one of the first pro- 
prietors of this town, was born in Bridge- 
water, Plymouth county, on August 18, 
1814. 

His grandfather, Samuel Leonard, was a 
minute-man in the war of the revolution, 
and received a pension from the govern- 
ment. His father, Spencer Leonard, was 
drafted in the defense of Plymouth in the 
war of 18 1 2, for which the government 
gave a land warrant. He was a farmer 
and well known for his industrious habits 
and sterling, honest character. Spencer's 
youth and early manhood were occupied in 
the labor of the farm, and his educational 
advantages were limited to the district 
schools of that day. 

At the age of twenty he engaged in the 
dry-goods trade, which he followed for 
eighteen years, when he changed his vo- 
cation to that of farmer, and purchased the 
Zechariah Whitman farm, and has success- 
fully carried on the business of farming in 
connection with the manufacture of wood 
and lumber, until the present time. About 
eight years since he purchased an orange 
orchard in Florida, and has now twenty- 
eight acres of land and about five hundred 
orange trees. 

He married, August 12, 1840, Cementha 
T., daughter of Isaac and Polly (Chand- 
ler) Sturtevant. They had five children : 
Mary L. (married Marcellus G. Howard), 
Abbie F. (married first, James W. Lee, 
second, James W. Leach), Austin, Cora C, 
and Spencer Leonard, Jr. 

During his long and useful life Mr. 
Leonard has been elected to many offices 
in the gift of his fellow-citizens. He rep- 
resented Bridgewater in the lower branch 
of the Legislature in the years 1846 and 
'47. He was elected selectman in 1855, 
and has served in that capacity and as 
assessor, overseer of the poor, member of 
the board of health, etc., for thirty-two 
years continuously, requesting to be re- 
lieved in 1887. He has been one of the 
justices of the peace for the county of 
Plymouth since 1867. 

He took an active interest in sustaining 
the government in the late war, by procur- 
ing enlistments, filling quotas, and caring 
for the soldiers and their families. He 
also served as United States enrolling 
officer during the rebellion. He has been 
probation officer for Bridgewater from the 
first creation of that office to the present 
time ; has been a member of the board of 



trustees of the Bridgewater Savings Bank 
from its incorporation, and its vice-presi- 
dent for several years. In 1883 he was 
elected president of that institution to fill 
the vacancy occasioned by the death of 
Hon. Lloyd Parsons, which office he now 
holds. He has been connected with the 
Plymouth County Agricultural Society 
since 1846, having served as trustee and 
vice-president a large portion of the 
time. 

Mr. Leonard is an attendant of the New 
Jerusalem church ; has always been a firm 
supporter of the Republican party, and is 
one who to a marked degree enjoys the 
confidence and esteem of his fellow-towns- 
men. 

LEWIS, Charles Dudley, son of 

\\'illiam ("rustavus and Mary Ann (Dudley) 
Lewis, was born in Roxbury, Norfolk 
county, September 26, 1844. 

He was educated in the public schools 
of Ro.xbury and Framingham, and Dummer 
Academy, South Byfield. 

In 1 86 1 he entered mercantile life with 
the firm of A. S. & W. G. Lewis ; three 
years later was taken into the firm as part- 
ner, and held the position until 1SS5, when 
he retired. 

He was elected treasurer of the Demo- 
cratic state committee in 1884, and still 
holds the position, .\lthough a resident 
of Framingham, a considerable ]iortion of 
his time is employed in the management of 
a farm of eight hundred acres which he 
owns in Sherborn. 

He was one of the organizers of the 
South Framingham National Bank, and a 
charter member ; also of the Farmers and 
Mechanics Savings Bank of the same 
town, of which he is a trustee. In 18S8 
he was elected a member of the national 
Democratic committee. 

Mr. Lewis has traveled quite extensively, 
and has spent some years in Brazil and the 
West Indies. Lewis Wharf, Boston, was 
named for his grandfather, Thomas Lewis, 
who was a well-known Boston merchant 
sixty years ago. Mr. Lewis's maternal 
grandfather was David Dudley, an old and 
highly respected resident of Roxbury, who 
died in 1841. 

Mr. Lewis was married in Framingham, 
on the 3d of April, 1872, to Emily Johonnot, 
daughter of James Wilson and Catharine 
Monroe (March) Clark. Of this union 
there were seven children : James Wilson 
Clark, William Gustavus 2d, Katharine Le 
Baron, Frances Wilson, Margaret Dudley, 
Charles Dudley, Jr., and Edmund Sanford 
Lewis. 



LEWIS. 



LILLEV. 



375 



LEWIS, John JaI', was born July 6, 
1840, in Montpelier, Washington county, 
Vt. He is seventh in descent from George 
Lewis, who landed at Plymouth 1630. His 
father, a well-to-do farmer, was Orlando 
F. Lewis, of iNIontpelier, and his mother, 
Cecilia B. (Nash) I.ewis. came of an old 
English family that settled in Rehoboth 
in 1700. 

His early training was receivetl in the 
district school of his native town. He 
fitted for an academic course in the 
Orleans Liberal Institute, at Glover, Vt,, 
and in 1858 entered the Barre (Vt.) Acad- 
emy, from which he graduated in June, 
1859. The following August he entered 
Tufts College, from which he graduated 
as valedictorian, July 8, 1863, and the en- 
suing September became ]irincipal of the 
Green Mountain Liberal Listitute, at South 
Woodstock, \t., remaining there two years. 
The succeeding year found him financial 
agent for the Goddard Seminary, Barre, Vt. 

He preached his first sermon in Lyceum 
Hall before the old Fourth Universalist 
society of South Boston, in 1866. Imme- 
diately afterwards he received two calls to 
settle as pastor — one from the above so- 
ciety, and one from the Universalist society 
of Williston, Vt. The latter was accepted. 
.After serving one year he came to Boston, 
and preached again at South Boston, in 
JiUy, 1867. This resulted in a second call 
froin the old Fourth society, and he be- 
came its pastor in December of that year, 
Rev. A. A. Miner preaching the ordina- 
tion sermon. The society had been organ- 
ized in 1830 as the Fourth Universalist 
society. It subsequently changed its name 
to the Broadway Universalist society, and 
was one of the most influential of the city, 
when it dedicated its new church edifice 
two years after xVIr. Lewis took charge. 

He was married at North Montpelier, 
Vt., November 23, 1863, to Abbie tioocl- 
win, an only daughter of Colonel Nathan- 
iel and Irene (Rich) Davis, of North Mont- 
pelier, the ancestors of both being of Ox- 
ford, Mass. The fruits of this union were 
two children : Leo R., born February 11, 
1865, and Orlando F., born September 5, 

1873- 

The elder of these, a graduate of the 
Boston high and Latin schools, also of 
Tufts College, subsequently spent two 
years at Harvard, where he took both the 
degree of A. B. and A. M. — the latter 
with the highest honors — and has done 
some notable work in musical composition. 
He edited, and in large part wrote the 
music of a Sunday-school service book. 



" The Redeemer," of which Rev. Mr. 
Lewis is the author ; and also the musi- 
cal work of a half-score of cantatas and 
operettas for which his mother did the 
literary work. Young Lewis is at present 
continuing his musical studies in Munich, 
Germany. 

Mrs. Lewis is a popular writer for chil- 
dren and youth, her work appearing in 
" Youth's Companion," " Ladies' Home 
Journal," "Wide Awake," the youths' de- 
partment of the American Press Associa- 
tion, and other publications of that class. 

Mr. Lewis confines his labors to the 
community wherein he resides. He has 
been honorably conspicuous in eft'ecting 
many local reforms which have resulted in 
purifying and beautifying that portion of 
the city he has benefited by his faithful 
work. 

LILLEY, Charles Sumner, son of 

Charles and Cynthia (Huntley) Lilley, was 
born in Lowell, Middlesex county, Decem- 
ber 73, 1851. 




CHARLES S. LILLEY. 

He attended the public schools of his 
native city, and w'as prepared for college 
under private tutors, but owing to ill health 
was obliged to forego the pursuit of his 
collegiate course. 

Early in life he learned the business of 
carpet designing, and was with the Lowell 



376 



LILLY. 



LILLY. 



Manufacturing ComiDany for some years. 
Subsequently he studied law in the 'office 
of Hon. A. P. Bonney, and in 1877 was 
admitted to the bar. 

Mr. Lilley is connected with the Masonic 
order, being a member of Kilwinning 
Lodge. He was chairman of the board of 
aldermen, Lowell, in 1879 ; member of the 
state Senate in 1880, and re-elected in 1881, 
serving in the two years on the committees 
on the judiciary, probate and chancery, 
bills in the third reading (chairman), and 
on the joint special committee on the re- 
vision of the statutes. 

He was a member of the executive coun- 
cil of Governor Robinson in 1884; was 
again a member of the Senate in 1886, 
serving on the committees on the judiciary, 
rules (chairman), street railways, the joint 
special committee on re-districting the 
State, and the joint special committee on 
the revision of the judicial system of the 
Commonwealth. 

He was appointed special justice of tlie 
police court of Lowell, and resigned the 
position when elected to the Senate in 
1S86. 

Mr. Lilley was nominated for congres- 
sional honors in 1882 and '84, but being 
the Democratic nominee in a strongly 
Republican district, he, of course, suffered 
defeat. It is to be regretted that the ar- 
rangement of political districts and the 
inherited discipline of party lines should 
debar the State from the intelligent and 
valuable service of such men as INIr. Lilley. 
He has evinced, in positions of responsi- 
bility, an unswerving loyalty to pure and 
honorable political methods, has displayed 
a clear comprehension of the true functions 
of government ; and by his own brave and 
manly career, has illustrated anew the dig- 
nity and worth of conscientious and honor- 
able citizenship, 

Mr. Lilley is unmarried, and his resi- 
dence is Lowell. 

LILLY, Alfred Theodore, son of Al- 
fred and Jerusha (Swift) Lilly, was born at 
Mansfield, Tolland county. Conn., .Vpril 
IS, iSi3- 

He attended the district scliool of his 
native town both summer and winter ses- 
sions, until the age of twelve, and from 
twelve to seventeen, in the winter onlv. 

Upon leaving school he worked for his 
father until the age of twenty-one, in learn- 
ing the manufacture of screw-augers and 
auger-bits, .-\fter attaining his majority, 
he continued with his father for one year 
as journeyman. At that time, his father 
failing in business, he started in the same 



line on his own account at Mansfield, with- 
out any capital. But his health failing him, 
after seventeen years of close application, 
he became superintendent of the Ri.xford 
cV- Butler Silk Manufacturing Company at 
Mansfield Centre. With this compan\' he 
remained one year. His next business en- 
terprise was to settle in Providence, R. L, 
as a retail grocer, which business he con- 
tinued for two years. 

In the spring of 1853 he removed from 
Providence to Florence Village, North- 
ampton, taking .sole charge of the Nono- 
tuck Silk Company, manufacturers of sew- 
ing silk and machine twist — Hill & Hinck- 




ALFRED T LILLY 

ley, proprietors. In 1858 this firm was in- 
corporated as the Nonotuck Silk Comiiany, 
of which Mr. Lilly became a stockholder, 
and in 1865 acting treasurer. This office 
he held until January i, 1887, when he re- 
tired from business, owing to a second fail- 
ure of health. 

In the state of Connecticut all able- 
bodied men were formerly required to do 
military duty from the age of eighteen to 
forty-five. Alfred T. Lilly was early ap- 
pointed on the colonel's staff as quarter- 
master sergeant, and subsequently became 
drum-major. He is an honorarv life mem- 
ber of Wm. L. Baker Post 86, G. A. R., to 
whose treasury he has been a generous 



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contributor, presenting it on Decoration 
Day, in i8S6, with a tliousand dollars. 

For over fifteen years he has been a 
member of tlie Northampton pubhc Hbrary 
committee. He was one of the founders 
of the Florence Savings Bank, antl upon 
its organization was chosen ])resident, 
which office he still holds. When the 
Florence Furniture C'ompany was organ- 
ized, he was chosen a director and presi- 
dent, and still holds these positions. He 
is also a stockholder and director in the 
Northampton Emery Wheel Company 

In 1886 he presented Smith College with 
a building for scientific purposes, at a cost 
of thirty-three thousand dollars, which is 
known as the Lilly Hall of Science. He 
also, in November, 1888, presented the 
I.illv Library .Association of Florence with 
the sum of twelve thousand dollars to erect 
a building for a free library and reading 
room. 

hi religion he has been agnostic 
throughout his whole life — was one of 
the early founders of the Free Congrega- 
tional society of Florence, which is unsec- 
tarian. He is one of the executive com- 
mittee, and for many years has been 
treasurer, and aided in erecting a building 
known as Cosmian Hall, which cost forty 
thousand dollars. 

-Mr. Lilly was married at Hebron, Conn., 
in 1S38, to Luc}- M., daughter of Isaac and 
Constantia (Young) Crane, of that town, 
who died November 2, 1SS6. 

LINCOLN, Frederic Walker, son 

of Louis and Mary (Knight) Lincoln, was 
born in Boston, February 27, 1S17. He 
was a grandson of Amos Lincoln — a mem- 
ber of the " tea-party " and captain of an 
artillery company during the revolution- 
ary war — who married a daughter of the 
distinguished patriot, Paul Revere. 

He received an education in the public 
and private schools of his time. At an 
early age he began life's struggle by serv- 
ing an apprenticeship with Gedney King, 
maker of nautical instruments, and when 
twenty-two years of age, began- the manu- 
facture of these for himself, remaining in 
the business from 1839 to '82, when he re- 
tired to become general manager of the 
Boston Storage Warehouse, a position he 
.still holds 

He served in the state Legislature 1847- 
'48 and in 1872 and '74 ; was a member of 
the Constitutional Convention in 1853 ; in 
i854-'56 he was president of the Nlassa- 
chusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 
and in 1880 again became a member of its 
government as treasurer. In 1868 he was 



appointed on the state board of harbor 
commissioners, serving for several years as 
chairman. He was chairman of the IJoston 
board of overseers of the ]ioor for eleven 
years, and in April, 1878, became treasurer 
.Mr. Lincoln was one of the original 
board of directors of the C'ontinental 
Bank, a trustee of the Institute of Tech- 
nology, vice-president of the Boston Safe 
Deposit Company, treasurer of the Young 
Men's Benevolent Society for more than 
forty years, vice-president and president of 
the Franklin Savings Bank, president of 
the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society, 
and a member and officer of other similar 
organizations. He was a member of the 
Boston Light Infantry, and ranks now upon 
its roll of veterans ; became director of the 
Bunker Hill Monument Association in 
1854, and for the past ten years has been 
one of its vice-presidents, and is at the 
present time president. He has been for 
thirty-five years treasurer of the Second 
church in Boston. 




FREDERIC W. LINCOLN. 

.\fter having served for three years as 
mayor of the city of Boston, i858-"6o, 
Mr. Lincoln was once more recalled from 
private life to accept again the mayoralty, 
which he held four years, i863-'66 — not- 
able chapters in the history of Boston, 
covering, if possible, a more e.xciting pe- 



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LINCOLN. 



LISTEMANN. 



riod than that which ushered in the war 
of the rebeUion, embraced by his previous 
service. It was in the latter period that 
Mr. Lincoln more than ever displayed the 
qualities of a sturdy executive, and, by the 
prompt use of military force, crushed out 
an incipient rebellion, in the form of draft 
riots in Boston. For this and other official 
and private services connected with the 
civil war, he was complimented with mem- 
bership in the Massachusetts Commandery 
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion 
of the United .States. 

As chairman of the committee, he deliv- 
ered the presentation address at the unveil- 
ing of the first out-door statue set up in Bos- 
ton — that of Benjamin Franklin in front of 
city hall. Interested in all public measures, 
he has ever been prominent in any move- 
ment that helped engrave, not only in mon- 
umental marble, but on the hearts and 
minds of the rising generation, the patri- 
otic deeds and noble sacrifices of the 
founders of the Commonwealth of Massa- 
chusetts. 

The honorary degree of master of arts 
has been conferred on him by Harvard Uni- 
versity, and also by Dartmouth College. 

The Lincoln school, South Boston, dedi- 
cated September 17, 1859, during his may- 
oralty, was named for him. 

In May, 1S48, Mr. Lincoln married 
Emeline, a daughter of the Hon. Jacob 
Hall. She died the following year, leaving 
a daughter, Harriet A., now the wife of 
George A. Coolidge. On June 20, 1854, he 
married Emily C., a daughter of Noah 
Lincoln. Their children are : Frederick 
W., Jr., of the firm of Kidder, Peabodv & 
Co., of Boston, Mary K., and Louis Revere 
Lincoln. 

LINCOLN, LEONTINE, son of Jona- 
than Thayer and Abby (Luscomb) Lin- 
coln, was born in Fall River, Bristol county, 
December 26, 1S46. He is a descendant 
of Thomas Lincoln, who settled in Taun- 
ton in 1652. 

His early educational training was ob- 
tained in the public schools of his native 
city, and a private school. Providence, R. I. 

At the age of nineteen he began busi- 
ness life in the counting-room of Kilburn, 
Lincoln & Co., Fall River, manufacturers 
of cotton and silk machinery — a corpora- 
tion of which his father, J. T. Lincoln, was 
president, the position being held later on 
by his brother, H. C. Lincoln. In 1872 
Mr. Lincoln became treasurer of the com- 
pany, succeeding E. C. Kilburn, who re- 
tired from the concern. The company is 
one of the largest makers of cotton and 



silk looms. Mr. Lincoln still holds the 
treasurership of the company. 

Mr. Lincoln was married in Fall River, 
May 12, 1868, to Amelia S., daughter of 
John Duncan, D. D., and Mary A. (Ma- 
cowan) Duncan. Of this union are two 
children : Jonathan Thayer and Leontine 
Lincoln, Jr. 

Mr. Lincoln is president and director of 
the Second National Bank ; president of 
the Seaconnet Mills ; a director in the 
Tecumseh Mills, the King Philip Mills, the 
Barnard Manufacturing Company, the 
Crystal Spring Bleaching & Dyeing 
Company, and a member of the board of 
investment of the Fall River Five Cents 
Savings Bank. 

He has been a member of the board of 
trustees of the public library for twelve 
years, and secretary and treasurer of the 
board eleven years ; a member of the Fall 
River school board ten years, and its chair- 
man 1888 and '89. He is also a member 
and the secretary of the board of trustees 
of the B. M. C. Durfee high school. 

Mr. Lincoln has written frequent articles 
for the press on "Home Travel," "Read- 
ing," and on various industrial and politi- 
cal questions. He has always been inter- 
ested in educational matters, and in 1889 
received the honorary degree of A. M. 
from Brown Universit)'. He is a repre- 
sentative man, not only of the manufact- 
uring interests but of the better social 
element of Fall River. 

LISTEMANN, Bernhard Friedrich 

WILHELM, eighth child of Friedrich Wil- 
helm and Henrietta Listemann, was born 
in Schlotheim, Germany, August 28, 1841. 

He began the study of the violin when 
about six years old. In Sondershausen he 
completed his school studies, being at the 
same time a pupil of the concert-master 
L^hlrich. Later on he had as teachers suc- 
cessively — Ferdinand David in Leipzig, 
Joseph Joachim in Hanover, and Henry 
Vieu.xtemps in Frankfort. 

For a number of years he held the posi- 
tion as kammer-virtuos of the prince of 
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt — frequently ap- 
pearing as soloist during this time in lead- 
ing cities of Cierman}'. In 1867 he came 
to America, making extended concert trips 
in connection with Leopold de Meier, Os- 
car Pfeiffer, Gazzaniga, Alide Topp, and 
others. 

In 1870 he was married to Sophie, eldest 
daughter of Louis and Pauline Lungers- 
hausen, in Schlotheim. 

From 187 1 to '74 he was concert-meister 
and soloist of the Theodore Thomas Or- 



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379 



chestra in New York. Shortly after, he 
organized the Boston Philharmonic Club, 
and traveled over almost the whole conti- 
nent of America. In 1879 he settled in 
Boston, organized and conducted the Bos- 
ton Philharmonic Orchestra, and was for 
one season the musical director of the 
Philharmonic Society. From 1881 to '85 
he was concert-meisterof the Boston Sym- 
phonic Orchestra. At present he teaches 
e.xtensively. 

Five children have been born to him. 

LITCHFIELD, GEORGE ALLEN, son 
of Richard and Xoa (Clapp) Litchfield, 
was born in Scituate, Plymouth count}-, 
August 21, 1838. 

His early education was obtained at the 
common schools of his native town, and at 
the academy in Hanover. He entered 
Brown University, Providence, R. I., but 
did not fully complete his college course. 




GEORGE A. LITCHFIELD. 

He studied for the ministry, and in 1861 
was settled as pastor over the Baptist 
church, Winchendon, Mass., where he re- 
mained five years. Ill health caused him 
to relintjuish this field of labor, and he 
subsequently became interested in the 
insurance business, and for some years 
has been very successfully engaged in the 
conduct of a large life insurance agency 
for western Massachusetts. 



In 1874 he purchased a half interest in 
the long established lirm o( Brigham, Whit- 
man & Co., tack and nail manufacturers at 
South .\bington, the firm becoming Brig- 
ham, Litchfield & Vining. Here he re- 
mained until the fall of 1879, when he be- 
came interested in the establishment of 
the Massachusetts Benefit Association, the 
leading company in New England engaged 
in the mutual assessment insurance busi- 
ness. Organized in 1879, it has enjoyed a 
continuous era of prosperity, evincing skill- 
ful and prudent management. It has now 
a membership of some eighteen thousand, 
and has an outstanding insurance of about 
$60,000,000, written upon its books. Since 
commencing business, October 13, 1879, 
only fifty-five mortuary calls had been 
made to September i, 1889. From these 
death and disability losses have been paid 
amounting to over $3,000,000, and a cash 
surplus accumulated amounting to over 
$360,000. 

It has kept all its pledges, and met its 
obligations in a highly creditable and hon- 
orable manner. No small share of this 
phenomenal success is due to the untirmg 
energy and intelligent supervision of Mr. 
Litchfield, one of the few gentlemen of its 
present board of managers who participa- 
ted in its original organization. 

Mr. Litchfield was married in South 
Abington, November 21, 1861, to Sarah 
M., daughter of Davis and Eliza (Blanch- 
ard) Gurney. Their children are : Cannie 
Zetta, Everett Starr and Frederick Ells- 
worth. His residence is in Wollaston, a 
part of the city of Quincy. 

LITTLE, Samuel, son of Isaac and 
Sally (Lincoln) Little, was born in Hing- 
ham, Plymouth county, August 15, 1827. 
His father was born in Pembroke, in 1796, 
and died in Hingham, in 1864. His mother 
was born in Hingham, in 1792, and died 
there in 1861. Her father, Seth, a mem- 
ber of one of the oldest families (the Lin- 
colns) in the town of Hingham, was born 
in 1 75 1 and died in 1839, the line of de- 
scent running back to Seth, Samuel, Sam- 
uel, Samuel to Samuel, who came from 
Hingham, England, to Hingham, Mass., in 

1637- 

Mr. Little received his educational train- 
ing in the Derby .Academy, Hingham. On 
leaving the academy he obtained a position 
as cashier and book-keeper in the dry-goods 
house of Daniell <S: Company, in the city 
of Boston. On the organization of the 
Bank of Commerce, in 1850, he was made 
receiving teller, which position he held un- 
til 1853, when he was made cashier of the 



;So 



LITTLE. 



LOCKE. 



Rockland Bank, Roxbury, at that time or- 
ganized. On the death of Samuel Walker, 
its president, he was elected to fill the 
vacancy thus created, and has occupied 
this position ever since. 

Mr. Little was married in Hingham, June 
6, 1S55, to Elizabeth, daughter of Micajah 
and Eliza (Parker) Malbon. Of this union 
is one son : Arthur Malbon Little. 

Mr. Little's capacity for business, and 
personal traits of character, early attracted 
the attention of his fellow-citizens, and he 
was soon called to represent them in im- 
portant offices of trust and responsibility. 
He was a member of the common council 
of the city of Ro.xbury in 1856 and '57 ; 
served as a member of the board of alder- 
men eight years, from 1861 to '68, inclu- 
sive. .-Xfter the annexation of Roxbury to 




SAMUEL LITTLE 

Boston, he became a member of the board 
of aldermen of the latter city in 187 i, and 
was re-elected for 1872, and served as 
chairman of the board that year. He was 
also a member of the House of Represen- 
tatives from Roxbury in 1864 and '65 ; 
member of the board of directors of public 
institutions of Boston, from 1873 to '82, 
inclusive, and served as president of the 
board from 1877 to his retirement. 

Mr. Little was active in the organization 
of the Highland Street Railway Company, 



in 1872, and was its treasurer until its con- 
solidation with the Middlesex Street Rail- 
way Company. He was a director of the 
consolidated company until its union with 
the West End Street Railway Company. 
He was then made one of its directors, 
which position he still holds. 

Mr. Little was one of the state agents 
for the improvement of the South Boston 
flats belonging to the Commonwealth ; has 
been referee in many important cases, 
notably the City of Boston rs. the Boston 
Belting Company, and trustee and executor 
of many large estates. He is a trustee of 
the Roxbury Institution for Savings, and 
was one of the incorporators of the Rox- 
bury Homoeopathic Dispensary. 

During the civil war he was one of the 
most active and influential members of the 
city government, serving as chairman of 
the finance and military committees. 

Mr. Little has been master of the Wash- 
ington Lodge, F. &: A. M. ; is a member of 
Mount Vernon Royal .\rch Chapter, and 
has served as commander of the Joseph 
AVarren Commandery. 

He is president of the Boston Lead Man- 
ufacturing Company, the E. Howard Watch 
& Clock Company, Roxbury Gas Light 
Company, Bay State Gas Compan}-, and 
director of the Boston, Dorchester cS: South 
Boston Gas Light companies. 

Mr. Little's unbroken record of intelli- 
gent and faithful public service, his long 
career as a shrewd, honorable and success- 
ful business man, at once qualify him to 
stand as one of the trulj' representative 
men of the Commonwealth. 

LOCKE, Warren Edgar, son of .\mos 

and Rhotla (Blodgett) Locke, was born in 
Lexington, Middlesex countv, Mav 28, 
1841. 

The district schools of Lexington gave 
him his knowledge of books till he was 
ten years of age. At this time his parents 
removed toWoburn, and he attended War- 
ren Academy and Woburn high school. 

He began life for himself as driver on a 
Cambridge horse-car. He was afterwards 
brakeman on the Fitchburg Railroad, then 
baggage-master on a through train from 
Boston to Burlington, Vt., then conductor on 
a passenger train on the Cheshire Railroad 
running between Bellows Falls and Fitch- 
burg. He left this road in 1866 to take a 
position on the Boston, Hartford \' Erie 
Railroad, in the freight department. He 
was afterwards made local freight agent. 
He left this road in 1869 to take a position 
as New England agent of the Toledo, 
Wabash & Western Railroad, and held 



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381 



this until he accepted the ])osition of (jen- 
eral agent for the Fitciiburg Raih-oad in 
1878, which he now holds. 

Mr. Locke was married in June, 1862, 
to Eliza C, daughter of Captain Allen 
and Lydia (Bates) Dawes, by whom he 
has one child : Charles A. Locke. 

Mr. Locke was a member of the state 
Senate from the 2d Norfolk district, 18S2 
and '83, serving on the committees of en- 
grossed bills, labor, and street railways 
(chairman) 1882, street railways (chair- 
man), federal relations (chairman), and rail- 
roads, 1883. 

He was elected to the governor's coun- 
cil, 1885, '86 and '87. He is a resident 
of Norwood, and has presided at all the 
annual town meetings, except two, since 
the town was incorporated, in 1872. 

He is a member of the Odd Fellows, 
A. O. U. W., Good Fellows, Masonic, and 
other organizations ; and a representative 
of the successful self-made men of the 
Commonwealth. 

LODGE, Henry Cabot, son of John 

EUerton and Anna Cabot Lodge, was born 
in Boston, May 12, 1850. 

He availed himself of the educational 
advantages that surrounded him, and grail- 
uated at Harvard University in the class of 
187 1, from the law school in 1874, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk county bar in 1875. 

In 1875 Mr. Lodge was given the degree 
of Ph. D. for his thesis on the " Land Law of 
the Anglo-Saxons" (Boston, 1877). He was 
university lecturer on American History 
from 1876 to '79, edited the " North Ameri- 
can Review" in i873-'76, and the "Inter- 
national Review" in i879-'8i. 

He was elected to the House of Repre- 
sentatives in 1880, and was re-elected in 
1881. In i886 he was elected a member of 
Congress from his district, the 6th, a some- 
what famous one in the political history of 
the State. Mr. Lodge at once took a promi- 
nent part in the somewhat exciting scenes 
in the sessions of the last Congress, and by 
his familiarity with the subject, earnestness 
of purpose, and irrefutable logic, did much 
to dignify and worthily illustrate the title 
at first intended as a slur — "the scholar 
in politics." In one short session he be- 
came a power upon the floor of the House, 
and to-day he most honorably represents 
the Commonwealth, which takes great 
pride in his somewhat phenomenal suc- 
cess and manly record. 

He was vice-president of the commis- 
sion that superintended the centennial 
celebration of the forming of the L'nited 
States Constitution, in 1887. 



.Among the better known productions of 
this author arc : " Public Life and Letters 
(if Ceorge Cabot" (Boston, 1877); "Short 
History of the English Colonies in Amer- 
ica " (New York, 1881); "Lives of Alex- 
ander Hamilton and Daniel Webster " 
(Boston, 1883), in the American Statesmen 
Series; and "Studies in History" (Bos- 
ton, 1884). His lighter works are two 




HENRY CABOT LODGE. 

series of " Popular Tales " and one volume 
of selected " Ballads and Lyrics " (Boston, 
1881). He has also edited the works of 
Alexander Hamilton, including his private 
correspondence and some documents hith- 
erto unpublished, with introduction and 
notes (nine volumes. New York, 1S85). 

Mr. Lodge is a nephew of Ciiles Henry 
Lodge, a well-known classical scholar. He 
married Anna Cabot Mills, daughter of 
Rear -Admiral Charles H. Davis. The 
children of this union are : Constance 
Davis, born April 6, 1872 ; George Cabot, 
born October 10, 1873, and John Ellerton 
Lodge, born August i, 1876. 

LOMBARD, Nathan C, son of Joseph 
and Eliza Lombard, was born in Guilford. 
Piscataquis county. Me., October 29, 1827. 

The first eighteen years of his life were 
passed on a farm in his native town. His 
early education was obtained in the dis- 
trict school. 



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LOMBARD. 



LONG. 



At eighteen _vears of age he left the 
farm to learn the trade of carpenter and 
joiner. In the fall of 1847 he attended 
the Foxcroft Academy in his native county, 
and the two following winters taught dis- 
trict schools. 




NATHAN C, LOMBARD. 

In the spring of 1S50 he left his native 
state and went to Lowell, where he re- 
mained five years, engaged in making pat- 
terns and drawings of machinery. 

Mr. Lombard was married in Lowell, 
June I, 1851, to Lucy A. Piper of Han- 
cock, Vermont. Of this union are four 
children : Alfaretta M., Herbert E„ Carrie 
E., and Walter E. Lombard. 

A portion of 1855 Mr. Lombard spent 
in Ohio, and in 1856 he removed to Eos- 
ton, where he was engaged for the next 
three years as draughtsman in the offices 
of Merriam & Crosby and George A. 
Stone. 

In the fall of 1859 he engaged in busi-, 
ness on his own account as a mechanical 
engineer, which business he has sinQe fol- 
lowed, having, however, in 1868, added 
that of solicitor of Lhiited States and for- 
eign patents. 

In June, i860, he removed to Cambridge, 
where he now resides. 

During the school year of 1863 and '64 
he was employed as teacher of drawing in 



the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard 
College. 

His church connections are with the First 
Baptist church, of which he is a member 
and officer. He is ever active in church 
work and moral reforms, a temperance 
mover and a strong advocate of prohibition, 
but believes this work can be done better 
inside the Republican party than out of it. 

Mr. Lombard was a member of the com- 
mon council of Cambridge for 1882 and 
'83, and of the board of aldermen for 1884, 
'85 and '86. While in the city government 
he invariably voted against licensing the 
sale of intoxicating liquors. 

LONG, JOHN Davis, son of Zadoc and 
Julia (Davis) Long, was born in Buckfield, 
Oxford county, Maine, October 27, 1838. 
Securing a common school education in the 
public schools of those days, and after- 
wards fitting for a university course, he en- 




JOHN D LONG. 

tered Harvard University, and graduated 
with the class of 1857. He then engaged 
in teaching until 1859, when he began the 
study of law, and was associated with the 
Hon. S. C. Andrews in Buckfield. 

He was admitted to the bar and practiced 
for some time in his native town, removing 
to Boston, where he settled, in 1862. In 
1869 he removed to Hingham, but retained 
his office in Boston. 



LOKING. 



LORING. 



383 



Mr. Long was elected to the House of 
Representatives for 1875, and re-elected 
for 1876, '77 and '78. The last three years 
he was speaker of the House. 

In 1879 he was lieutenant-governor, and 
governor in 1880, '81 and '82. Having 
distinguished himself as a leader in the 
councils of the Commonwealth, he was 
elected to the 48th Congress, and re-elected 
to the 49th and to the 50th Congresses. 
Declining a re-election at the expiration of 
this third term of congressional service, he 
returned once more to his chosen vocation, 
and is at present practicing law in the cit}- 
of Boston. Few of Massachusetts' favor- 
ites have maintained so long an uninter- 
rupted hold upon the popular heart. Ouick 
to apprehend the public pulse, fertile in 
argument, eloquent in diction, courteous in 
debate, CUn-ernor Long can always be re- 
lied upon in an emergency. He has proved 
himself in his eventful career a safe and 
worthy custodian of the honor and fair 
name of the old Bay State, which has so 
often called him to positions of trust and 
responsibility. 

Mr. Long has always retained his taste 
for the classics, publishing a translation of 
Virgil's ^uC/zc/i/ in 1879 (Boston). 

His ancestry is of the Clark-Davis .stock 
(the former coming to Plymouth, from 
England in 1623, the latter to Cambridge 
in 1634), his fatlier and grandmother hav- 
ing been born in Massachusetts. 

Mr. Long married Mary A\'., daughter of 
(ieorge S. Glover, September 13, 1870. 
His second marriage was with Agnes, 
daughter of Rev. Josejjh D. Peirce, May 
22, 1886. His children are : Margaret, 
Helen, and Peirce Long. 

LORING, George Bailey, son of Rev. 

Bailey and Sally P. (Osgood) Loring, was 
born in North Andover, E.ssex county, 
November 8, 181 7. 

His early education was commenced in a 
village school. At the age of ten years he 
entered Franklin Academy, in which estab- 
lishment he was under the tuition of 
Simeon Putnam and Cyrus Pierce. 

He entered Harvard College in 1834, 
ami was graduated in 1838. He afterwards 
studied medicine with Dr. Joseph Kittredge 
of North Andover, and Oliver Wendell 
Holmes of Boston, and took the degree of 
M. D. at the Harvard medical school in 
1842. 

Dr. Loring then practiced in North 
Andover from 1842 to '43. He was sur- 
geon of the United States Maritime Hos- 
jiital, Chelsea, from 1843 to '50, and was 
appointed commissioner to revise the 



United States Maritime Hospital system 
in 1849. 

In 1851 he removed to Salem, where he 
now resides, taking great interest in agri- 
culture. 

He was a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives from 1 866 to '68 ; has been 
president of the New P.ngland Agricultural 
Society from its foundation in 1864 to the 
present time ; he was United States Cen- 
tennial commissioner 1872 to '76 ; presi- 
dent of state Senate 1873 to '77 ; member 
of ITnited States House of Representatives 




GEORGE B LORING. 

1877 to '81 ; United States commissioner 
of agriculture 1881 to '85 ; American 
Minister to Portugal 1889. 

In 1840 he published "An Essay on 
Phlebitis," this being followed in later 
years by " Review of the Scarlet Letter " 
(1851), "Modern Agriculture" (1861), 
" The Relation of Agriculture to the State 
in Time of War " (1862), "Scientific and 
Practical Agriculture" (1864), "The As- 
sassination of Lincoln " (1865)," The New 
Era of the Republic " (1866), " The Power 
of an Educated Commonwealth" (1867), 
"The Farm Yard Club of Gotham" (1876), 
"The Cattle Industry " (1884), "The In- 
fluence of the Puritan on American Civili- 
zation " (1887), besides a number of other 
articles. 



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LOTHROP. 



LOTHROl'. 



Mr. Loring was married at Salem, 
November 5, 185 1, to Mary '1'., dautrliter 
of Dr. Thomas and Sophia (Palmer) Pick- 
man, who died December 20, 1862. His 
.second marriage was in New York, June 10, 
1880, to Mrs. Anne S. Hildreth, daughter 
of Isaac T. and Elizabeth (Putnam) Smith. 

LOTHROP, Daniel, son of Daniel 
and Sophia (Home) Lothrop, was born in 
Rochester, Strafford county, N. H., August 
II, 1831. 

On the paternal side he is descended 
from Mark Lothrop, who settled in Salem 
January 11, 1644, his line subse(|uently 
joining that of Priscilla and John Alden, 
of the " !\hiyflower." On the maternal 
side he is a lineal descendant from William 
Home, of Home's Hill, Dover, N. H., who 
was killed in the Indian massacre of June 
28, i68g. 

Mr. Lothrop as a student was tpiick, and 
possessed of a singularly retentive mem- 
ory. He was in mathematics a young 
prodigy. At the age of fourteen he was 
prepared for college, but by advice of 
friends he was restrained from entering so 
early upon that connection. U'hile wait- 
ing, circumstances thrust him into the 
arena of business. 

On reaching his decision to remain out 
of college for a year, he assumed charge 
of the drug store of his brother, who, de- 
siring to attend medical lectures in Phila- 
delphia, invited him to carry on the 
business during his absence. The store 
became his college, where his love for 
books soon led him to introduce them as 
an adjunct to the business. When seven- 
teen years of age, he hired and stocked a 
store in New Market, N. H. Having this 
in successful operation, he called a third 
brother, who about this time was admitted 
to the firm, and left him in charge of the 
new establishment, while he established a 
similar store at Meredith Bridge, now 
called Laconia. These three brothers for 
more than forty years have remained in 
co-partnership, with absolute unity of in- 
terests, thoLigh in distinct lines of business 
and located in different cities. 

Mr. Lothrop has passed through various 
activities and widely divergent fields of 
operation. In 1850 he bought the stock 
of books held by Elijah Wadleigh, Dover, 
N. H., enlarged the business and made it 
a literary centre. He established branch 
stores in many places, books being the 
principal stock ; made an extended trip 
West, grasping the vast possibilities of 
that country; opened a store in St. Peter, 
Minn., and later on a banking house, i)f 



which his uncle, Dr. Jeremiah Home, was 
cashier ; in his book and drug store he 
placed one of his clerks from the East, 
B. F. Paul, now one of the wealthiest men 
in Minnesota Valley, and established two 
other stores in the same section of the 
country. In the years following, 1857 and 




DANIEL LOTHROP. 

'58, years of financial panic, the conduct- 
ing of his extensive business demanded 
all his elements of good generalship. 

Mr. Lothrop, when he had placed his 
western branch houses on a good footing, 
came East, and for the next four years 
directed his enterprises from the quiet book 
store in Dover. Soon after the close of 
the civil war he closed up his various en- 
terprises in order to concentrate his force 
for the accomplishment of his long-ma- 
tured plan of ]3ublishing for the people. 

He set himself to work to create a 
greater demand for home and town libra- 
ries. He determined to publish nothing 
sensational, nothing save good, strong, 
attractive literature. His headquarters 
were planted in Boston. He was success- 
ful, and to-day he is broadening his field 
in many directions, gathering the rich 
thought of many men of letters, science 
and theology among his publications. 

When the time was ripe, he issued the 
"Wide .\wake," a magazine of popular 



LOVELL. 



LOVELL, 



38S 



literature : then came " riabvlaiul," and 
"Our Little Men and Women," followed 
by "The Pansy." 

Mr. Lothrop has enlarged his business 
houses as his publications have increased 
in volume, until his salesrooms and ware- 
houses are among the most extensive in 
the trade. His enjoyment of art and his 
critical appreciation are illustrated in all 
his work. He lives in Boston, his summer 
residence being in Concord, at " Wayside," 
the only home owned by Nathaniel Haw- 
thorne. 

Mr. Lothrop was married in Dover, 
N. H., luly 25, i860, to Ellen J., daughter 
of Joseph and Nancy Morrill of that town. 
( )f this union was one son, Winifred, who 
died at the age of three months. He was 
again married in New Haven, Conn., Oc- 
tober 4, 1 881, to Harriett Mulford, daugh- 
ter of Sidney M. and Harriett M. Stone of 
that citv. Of this union was one daugh- 
ter: Margaret Mulford Lothrop, born July 
27, 1884. 

LOVELL, Benjamin S., son of John i>. 

and Lydia (Uyer) Loveli, was born in 
Weymouth, Norfolk county, July 10, 1844, 
and received his early education in the 
common schools of his native town. 

At an early stage of the war of the rebel- 
lion, while only eighteen years of age, he 
prevailed upon his father, a staunch Union 
patriot, to permit him to shoulder a musket, 
and he enlisted in company A, 42d regi- 
ment, Massachusetts volunteers. His com- 
panions in arms are pleased to bear witness 
to his many superior traits of character as 
a man and soldier. He was brave and 
generous, and as popular then as now. 

In 1870 he became a member of Rey- 
nolds Post 58, G. A. R., and was elected 
its senior vice-commander for the years 
1871, '72. '73, '74 and '75: was elected 
commander in 1876 and has been chosen 
each year since, the present making his 
fourteenth term, a record as satisfactory 
as it is honorable. He was junior vice 
dcfiartment commander in 1880, and senior 
vice department commander in 1881, but 
declined the nomination for department 
commander in 18S2. 

Mr. Loveli has received many positions 
of honor and trust from his fellow-citizens. 
He was aide-de-camp to General John C. 
Robinson, commander-in-chief of the na- 
tional encampment, G. .\. R., 1877 and 
'78 ; delegate to the national encampment 
1886 ; also member of the council of ad- 
ministration in 1887 ; member of the staff 
of (lovernor John D. Long in 1881 and 
'82 ; delegate to the national Republican 



conventions of 1880, '84 and '88. He was 
chosen chairman of the Republican town 
committee in 1881, which position he still 
holds ; was elected a representative to the 
General Court, 1877-78, serving on the 
committee on mercantile affairs ; a mem- 
ber of the -state Senate in 1883, being 
appointed to the committee on harbors 
and public land.s, military affairs, and 
Hoosac Tunnel and Troy & Greenfield 
Railroad. 

In 1885, when the soldiers' e.xemption 
bill was being agitated, he resolved to 
enter the field once more for the purpose 
of giving his voice and vote in favor of 
that measure, and was returned to the 
Legislature for 1886, serving on the rail- 
road and re-districtmg committees. 

Mr. Loveli is a prominent figure in busi- 
ness, politics, and G. A. R. affairs, and 
devoted to the welfare of all who wore the 




^!^m 




■ BENJAMIN S. LOVELL. 

blue. At present he is the treasurer of the 
extensive and well-known firm of John P. 
Loveli Arms Company, importers and 
dealers in fire-arms, hunting and fishing 
tackle, baseball goods, etc., Boston. 

Mr. Loveli was married at Weymouth, 
November 13, 1867, to M. Anna, daughter 
of Jonathan and Mercy Holmes. Of this 
miion are two children : Lydia Charlotte 
and Helen Isabel Loveli. 



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LOVELL. 



LOVE RING. 



LOVELL, CLARENCE P., son u( Cor- 
nelius and Sarah L. (Parker) Lovell, was 
born in Boston, June 21, 1848. 

He obtained his early educational train- 
ing in the primary, grammar and high 
schools of his native city. 

He entered business life with Alfred C. 
Hervey and Henry C. Brooks, Boston, 
1866, slii|3ping and grain merchant and 
wharfinger of Commercial Wharf. Subse- 
quently he was engaged with Cornelius 
Lovell, his father, ship broker and ship 
owner. This was in 1868 ; in 1870 he was 
taken into partnership, and holds the same 
relation at the present time. 




Mr. Lovell was married in Boston, Sep- 
tember 28, 1870, to Mary F., daughter of 
Samuel L. and Angeline (Colby) Fowle. 
Of this union were five children : KateF>., 
Clarence N., Mabel, Charles I,.; and How- 
ard Burtt Lovell. 

Mr. Lovell was six years director of the 
Merchants' Exchange ; member of Boston 
common council, t88o, '81 and '82 ; director 
of East Boston ferries, i88t, '82 and '83. 
He is now vice-president of the National 
Ship Owners' Association ; president of 
the Jeffries Winter Club, director of the 
Boston chamber of commerce. He was a 
member of the popular branch of the 
.Legislature. 1888 and '89, serving u|ion 



the committees on finance and expendi- 
tures. He has Deen past master work- 
man of Central Lodge, L'nited Order of 
Workmen, and a member of the Roval 
Arcanum. 

His residence is East Boston. 

LOVERING, HENRY BACON, son of 
John G. and j\lary A. (Martin) Lovering, 
was born in Portsmouth, Rockingham 
county, N. H., April 8, 1841. 

His early education was obtained in the 
public schools. He left school at the 
age of fourteen to learn the trade of shoe- 
maker, afterwards manufacturing ladies' 
boots and shoes. He remained in this 
business until the breaking f)ut of the civil 
war. 

He enlisted and was made color-corporal 
of company D, 8th Massachusetts volun- 
teers, serving in 1862 and '63. During 
1864 and '65 he was private and company 
clerk in company C, 3d regiment, Massa- 
chusetts cavalry. At the battle of Win- 
chester, Va., September 19, 1864, he re- 
ceived a gun-shot wound in the left leg, 
rendering amputation necessarv. 

He was a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives, 1 87 2 and '74 ; a member of 
the board of assessors of Lj'nn, 1879 and 
'80 ; mavor of Lynn, 1881 and '82 ; was 
elected to Congress from his representative 
district, 1882, and having served his term, 
was re-elected in 1884. He was chairman 
of the Democratic state convention in 

1 886, and was nominated for governor of 
.Nhissachusetts by the Democratic party in 

1887. He was president of the 3d Massa- 
chusetts Cavalry Association, 1888 and '89. 

He was appointed United States marshal 
for the district of Massachusetts by Presi- 
ileiit Cleveland, April 10, 1888. He is 
president of the Bond Furniture Improve- 
ment Company of Washington, D. C. ; has 
been member of the board of trustees of 
College of Phj'sicians and Surgeons, Bos- 
ton : a prominent Knight of Pvthias, and 
sir knight president of Mutual Lodge, 
K. O. S. C, No. 99, Lynn. 

Mr. Lovering was married in T-ynn, De- 
cember 25, 1865, to Abby J., daughter of 
Harrison and Eliza J. (Brown) Clifford. 
()f this union were five children : Emma 
J., John H., Mary V., Harry C, and Annie 
C. I.overing (the last two deceased). 

LOVERING, JOSEPH, .son of Robert 
and Elizabeth (Simonds) Lovering, was 
born in Charlestown, Middlesex county, 
December 25, 18:3. 

His early education was received in a 
private school, under the tuition of a female 



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LUWLLL. 



387 



teacher. In the Chaiiestown public schools 
he prepared for college ; entered Harvaril 
and was graduated in the class of 1S33. 

He then studied two years in the divinity 
school connected with the same universit\-. 
He was instructor and tutor in Harvard 
from 1835 to '38, and HoUis professor of 
mathematics and natural philosophy from 
1838 to '88. He was regent from 1853 to 
'69. He is now HoUis professor emeritus, 
residing still in Cambridge. 

Professor Lovering was married in lios- 
ton, February 5, 1844, to Sarah Gray, 
daughter of Prince and Sarah (Gray) 
Hawes. Of this union were four children: 
James Walker (Harvard), Cora, Eva (now 
Mrs. Matthew Carey Lea, Philadelphia), 
and Ernest Lovering (Harvard). 

Professor Lovering has been president 
of the Anierican Academy of Arts and 
Sciences since 1880 ; is a member of the 
American Association for the Advancement 
of Science, and was permanent secretary 
from 1854 to '72, and president in 1873 ; 
member of the National Academy of 
Science, California Academy of Science, 
American Philosophical Society of Phil- 
adelphia, and of the Buffalo Historical 
Society. 

LOWELL, James Russell, son of 

Rev. Charles Lowell, I). 1)., and Harriet, 
daughter of Robert 'P. Spence of Ports- 
mouth, N. H., was born in Elmwood, 
Plymouth county, February 22, 181 9. 

Perhaps no family in the Commonwealth 
has attained greater distinction in both the 
republic of letters and beneficent public 
service. The first American ancestor was 
Percjval Lowell, who came from Bristol, 
Eng,, settling in Newbury, Mass., in 1639. 

The great grandfather of the poet was 
Rev. John Lowell, minister of Newbury- 
port, numbered by historians among the 
special notabilities of the American pulpit. 
His grandfather, Hon. John Lowell (Chief 
Justice of the court of appeals, and United 
States district judge) was a poet of ability, 
but is chiefly remembered for philanthro|)ic 
action as a member of the convention which 
framed the constitution of Massachusetts, 
as he introduced the clause which effected 
the abolition of slavery in the State. John 
Lowell, LL. D., uncle of James Russell, 
was a noted writer on politics, theology, 
economics, agriculture, etc. 

To Francis Cabot Lowell, brother of 
John Lowell, is to be attributed the intro- 
duction of the cotton manufacture into the 
United States, at Waltham, and the fouml- 
ing of the city of Lowell, which was 
named for him. To his son, John Lowell, 



Jr., is due the gratitude of a Common- 
wealth for his founding of the Lowell In- 
stitute in Boston, where he was born. May 
II, 1799. Robert Traill Spence Lowell, 
brother of the poet, is remembered as hav- 
ing, with other members of the family, 
achieved literary celebrity ; but to none of 
them has come such versatile and vigorous 
jjower as to the poet himself — power 
loyally used for the good of his country, as 
well as universal man. 

James Russell Lowell was graduated 
from Harvard College in the class of 1838. 
He read law in the law department of 
Harvard University, was admitted to the 
bar in 1840, and opened an office in Bos- 
ton. But love of letters was stronger than 
ambition for legal rewards. He soon left 
the profession he had chosen, for the oppor- 
tunity and leisure of indulging his tastes 
in realms more congenial. 




JAMES RUbbtLL LLIWtLL 

His first collection of poems, " A Year's 
Life " (1841) was severely criticised, though 
the genius slumbering was noticed by 
Judge Story, who wrote kindly of it at the 
lime. In January, 1843, he with a co-part- 
ner issued " The Pioneer, A Literary and 
Critical Magazine," Boston This was not 
a financial success. 

The years following were spent in giving 
to the world his inimitable prose sketches. 



388 



LOWELL.. 



L V.MAN. 



his poems that one after another took the 
literarv world by storm, his contributions 
to the leading magazines of the world, his 
editions of the poems of Keats, Words- 
worth, Shelley and Marvell, in the " British 
Poets " series, and in his e.xtensive foreign 
travels. 

The works of the "poet laureate" are 
too well known to require scheduled cita- 
tion. His name is too familiar, and his 
public record too thoroughly engrafted 
into the national life to need other than a 
brief mention. 

In 1844 Mr. Lowell was married to 
Maria, daughter of .\bijah and Anna Maria 
(Howard) White. Her death, at Cambridge, 
elicited one of Longfellow's most e.xquisite 
compositions — "Two Angels." In 1857 
he was married to his second wife, Frances 
Dunlap, niece of E.x-Governor Dunlap of 
Portland, Maine. She died in England, 
February, 1885. Of the four children by 
the first marriage, only one survives; Mabel 
(wife of Edward Burnett). 

In 1 87 7 Mr. Lowell was appointed by 
President Hayes to represent the national 
government at the court of Spain, from 
which in 1880 he was transferred to the 
court of St. James. His administration of 
the delicate and responsible duties of his 
high mission in London was characterized 
by tact, marked ability, and was a most 
pronounced diplomatic and social success. 
During his residence in England he was 
chosen rector of the university of St. 
Andrew's. 

LOWELL, John, son of John Amory 
and Susan Cabot (Lowell) Lowell, was 
born in Boston, October 18, 1824. His 
mother was the daughter of Francis C. 
Lowell, who was prominent among those 
who introduced the cotton manufacture 
into the United States, and for whom the 
city of Lowell was named. His great 
grandfather. Judge John Lowell, was the 
first judge of the district court for the 
Massachusetts district, appointed by Presi- 
dent Cieorge Washington, September 26, 
1789. In 1 80 1 he was promoted by Presi- 
dent John Adams to be Chief Judge of 
the circuit court as then existing for the 
first circuit. He was a member of the 
convention which formed the constitution 
of Massachusetts in 1780, and procured 
the insertion and adoption of the first 
article of the bill of rights, for the pur- 
pose, as he declared, of preventing slavery 
from being thereafter possible in the 
State. His son, the grandfather of the 
subject of this sketch, was an eminent 
lawyer, who e.xercised a powerful influ- 



ence in moulding public opinion in .Massa- 
chusetts. 

Judge Lowell was fitted for college in 
the private school of D. G. Ingraham, in 
Boston, entered Harvard College in 1839, 
and was graduated in the class of 1843, 
delivering an English oration. He was 
admitted to the bar in 1846, and practiced 
until 1865, when, upon the resignation of 
Judge Sprague, he was ap]5ointed judge of 
the district court of the Massachusetts dis- 
trict by President Lincoln, this being the 
last judicial appointment made by him. 
He was appointed judge of the circuit court 
for the first circuit by President Hayes, 
December 16, 1878, to fill the vacancy 
caused by the death of Judge Shepley. 

Judge Lowell was married in 1853 to 
Lucy B., daughter of George B. Emerson, 
LL. D., and Olivia (Buckminster) Emerson. 

Judge Lowell is in the truest sense a 
jurist. Learned and versatile in all the 
departments of the law, in the department 
relating to bankruptcy he is the most dis- 
tinguished judge in the United States. 
His decisions are regarded as the leading 
authority in the country, and his rank in 
the field of commercial law in its general 
application is scarcely less high. 

LYMAN, Edward E., the son of Hor- 
ace and Elvira (Hubbard) Lyman, of Sun- 
derland, was born at Sunderland, Franklin 
county, December 13, 1834. His paternal 
ancestors came over from England in 1630. 

Mr. Lyman received his early educa- 
tion in the public schools of Sunderland, 
and afterwards in Shelburne Falls Academy 
and Williston Seminary, Easthampton. 
He acted as clerk in the office of the sec- 
retary of the Commonwealth for one year, 
after which he became principal of an 
academy in St. Clair, Michigan. 

He then studied law with Davis tV 
Allen in Greenfield, and was admitted to 
the bar in 1861. In 1866 he was elected 
clerk of courts for Franklin county, which 
position he still holds. He was a member 
of the school committee of Cireenfield from 
1874 to 1885. 

He was married in 187 1 to Martha L., 
daughter of William W. and Lucy (Bartram) 
Branch, of Madi.son, Ohio, by whom he 
has four children : EclNvard Branch, Ethel, 
Henry William, and Helen Lyman. 

LYMAN, ROBERT WORTHINGTON, son 
of .\hira and Theresa Lyman, was born 
at Park Hill, Northampton, Hampshire 
county, March 27, 1850. 

He received a common and high school 
education in the schools of Northampton 



MACCABE. 



MACCABE. 



389 



and Easthampton. November 20, 1867, 
lie entered the Massachusetts Agricultural 
College at Amherst, from which institution 
he was graduated B. S., July 19, 1871. 
During the latter part of his senior year, 
and a portion of the year following, he was 
engaged with a party of engineers in locat- 
ing the line of the Massachusetts Central 




ROBERT W LYMAN 



R. R., and also did some land surveying 
and city engineering until August, 1872. 
The four years following, until 1876, his 
occupation was varied, divided between sur- 



veying, civil-engineering, teaching, clerking 
and working on a farm. 

In 1876 Mr. Lyman began the study of 
law in the office of Bond Bros. & Bottum, 
of Northampton, and continued as a law 
student there until admitted to the Hamp- 
shire county bar, June 27, 1878. While 
pursuing his law studies he taught in the 
evening schools, and engaged in engineer- 
ing, surveying, and farm work — any hon- 
orable labor by which he could raise funds 
with which to pursue his studies. In 1878 
he entered the Boston University law 
school, and was graduated June 4, 1879, 
LL. B. He has since practiced law in 
lielchertown. May 31, 1882, he received 
from Governor Long a commission as 
special justice of the district court of 
Hampshire, which office he still holds. In 
1882 he was appointed lecturer on rural 
law in the Massachusetts Agricultural 
College. 

Mr. Lyman was married in ISelchertown, 
June 8, 1S82, to a daughter of Capt. Ros- 
well Allen, late of Belchertown, and has 
one child ; Paul B. Lyman. 

Mr. Lyman has served his town in vari- 
ous offices, as census enumerator in 1S80 
and '85 ; chairman of the Republican town 
committee for several years ; chairman of 
the board of trustees of the Calvin Bridg- 
man school and library fund, etc. 

He is a prominent Free Mason. His 
church connections are with the Congrega- 
tional church and society of Belchertown. 

Aside from the payment of his tuition 
while in college, Mr. Lyman has never re- 
ceived any pecuniary assistance in the way 
of pursuing the studies that have fitted 
him for his life work, but has depended 
upon his own earnings. He is a represen- 
tative self-made man. 



MACCABE, JOSEPH B., son of James 
I), and Hannah (Jackson) Maccabe, was 
born in Manchester, Hillsborough county, 
N. H., November 19, 1857. 

He received his educational training in 
the Boston schools. When eighteen years 
of age he edited the " National Baseball 
Gazette," and was also a constant contribu- 
tor to other papers. In 1880 he purchased 
the " F.ast Boston Argus." In June, 1886, 
he purchased the "East Boston Advo- 
cate," and on the 19th of that month is- 
sued the " Argus-Advocate." This is the 
largest weeklv newspaper in New luigland. 



Mr. Maccabe was married October 17, 
18S0, to Emma C, daughter of J. Albert 
and Mary Boynton (Lister) Plummer, 
whose grandparents were among the early 
settlers of Boston, but, being royalists, fled 
during the revolution to St. John. They 
have one child: Beatrice Plummer Maccabe. 

Mr. Maccabe was the first commander of 
the Massachusetts division of Sons of Vet- 
erans ; president of the Noddle Island 
Antiquarian Association ; first vice-presi- 
dent of the National Editorial .Association 
of the United States ; secretary of the 
Republican Club ; vice-president of the 



390 



.MACK. 



-MACKIXTOSH. 



Jeffries Winter Club ; vice-president of the 
Red Men's Social Club ; a member of the 
executive committee of the Young Men's 
Republican Club (1880); secretary of the 
Republican ward and city committee ; a 
member of the lioard of examiners for the 




JOSEPH B MACCABE. 

state agricultural college ; vice-president 
of the New England Press Association ; 
and is one of the three honorary members 
of the Independent Boston Fusileers (Vet- 
erans). In 1888 he represented ward i in 
the Boston city government ; was alternate 
to the national Republican convention, 
Chicago, that nominated lienjamin Harri- 
son for president. 

His father served in the Union armv dur- 
ing the war of the rebellion, while his mother 
served her country as a nurse at the front, 
during the same struggle for the Union. 

MACK, ALVIN E., son of Rbenezer and 
.Sophronia (Hardint;;) .Mack, was born at 
Lyme, New London county, Conn., .Vpnl 

His educational training was obtained 
in the public schools of his native town, 
and at the Essex Seminary, Essex, Conn. 

He was for a time engaged in school- 
teaching in Connecticut, afterwards enter- 
ing the insurance business, and removing 
to Lawrence, engaged in the insurance and 
real estate business and the care of estates. 



November 14, 187 1, at Lawrence, Mr. 
Mack was married to Emma F. Durrell, a 
teacher in the public schools of Lawrence. 

Mr. Mack is a member of the Tuscan 
Lodge, F. & A. M., and of the Royal .•\r- 
canum. In December, 1887, he was elected 
mayor of the city of Lawrence and re- 
elected in 1888. He has never sought 
political office, and it was only at the 
earnest solicitation of the leading business 
men of Lawrence that he consented to 
allow his name to be presented as a candi- 
date for mayor. His administration has 
been marked by the same careful, consci- 
entious work that has ever characterized 
his business career, and his almost unani- 
mous re-election is proof positive that the 
citizens of Lawrence are fully satisfied with 
him as their chief executive. Many reforms 
have been instituted during his administra- 
tion, all of which have resulted in great 
benefit to the city. As a business man, he 
enjoys the confidence of the community, 
and has won the respect and esteem of the 
best men of both political parties. 

MACKINTOSH, JameS, son of Ebene- 
zer W. and Hannah P. Mackintosh, was born 
in Needham, Norfolk county, .\pril 9, 1838. 



4^ 




JAMES MACKINTOSH. 



He was educated in the common schools 
of the town, attending the usual time al- 
lowed to farm bovs of those davs. 



MALLALIKU. 



MALLALIKU. 



391 



He began farming- and market-garden- 
ing in a small way, by purchasing eleven 
acres of cheap land, for which he paid six 
hundred dollars. He improved the land, 
adtled thereto from time to time, until his 
farm now embraces two hundred acres and 
several houses, and the annual value of the 
crops is six thousand dollars a year. He 
is a successful Massachusetts farmer. 

.Mr. Mackintosh has been four times 
called to serve as selectman of the town ; 
has represented the 9th Norfolk district in 
the House of Representatives for three 
years (1876, '77 and '81), and in 1877 was 
chairman of the committee on agriculture. 

.Mr. Mackintosh was married in Boston, 
.■\ugust 23, 1868, to Lizzie H., daughter of 
John B. and Rachel \V. Hall. Of this union 
are two children : Herbert B. and Wendell 
P. Mackintosh. Mrs. Mackintosh died 
October i, 1885. He married for his sec- 
ond wife, at Newton, October ii, 1888, 
Mary E., daughter of lidward and Phebe 
O. Wales. 

MALLALIEU, WiLLARD FRANCIS, son 
of John and I,ydia (Emerson) Mallalieu, 
was born in Sutton, Worcester county, De- 
cember II, 1828. When a year old his 
parents removed to the neighboring town 
of Millbury, where they died at an ad- 
vanced age. 

After a preparatory course of study at 
East Greenwich, R. I., and at Wesleyan 
Academy, ^\'ilbraham, he entered Wesleyan 
University at Middletown, Conn., from 
which he was graduated in the class of 

His first and only contribution to politi- 
cal life was in his junior year in college, 
when he stumped the state of Connecticut 
for " Fremont and Jessie," in the famous 
campaign of that year. 

In 1858 he joined the New England 
conference, Methodist F^piscopal church, 
and was subsequently stationed (i858-'y) 
at (Jrafton ; (i86o-'i) Bellingham Street, 
Chelsea; (i862-'3) Common Street, Lynn; 
(1864) Union Church, Charlestown; (1865- 
'7) Bromfield Street, Boston ; (i868-'7o) 
Walnut Street, Chelsea; (1871) Trinity 
Church, "Worcester; (i872-'4) Broadway, 
iSoston ; {1875) Walnut Street, Chelsea; 
(i876-'8) Bromfield Street, Boston; and 
(i879-'8i) Walnut Street, Chelsea. In 
April, 1882, he was appointed presiding 
elder of the Boston district, which position 
he held until elected to the episcopacy. 

In 1867 he was elected president of 
Central Tennessee College, Nashville, 
which he declined ; in 1868 he was a mem- 
ber of the New England Historic Genealog- 



ical Society ; in 1874 he received the 
degree of H. 1). from liast Tennessee 
Wesleyan University, now Grant Memorial 
University ; in 1875 he traveled in Europe; 
he was a delegate to the general confer- 
ence, Methodist Episcopal church, in 1872, 
'80 and '84. In the last election he re- 
ceived the highest number of votes ever 
cast for a delegate by the members of the 
conference. At the general conference of 
1884, May 15, he was elected to the bish- 
opric. His discharge of the duties of this 
e.xalted position has demonstrated the wis- 
dom of the church in his selection. He is 
not only one of the most popular, but one 
of the most influential, members of the 




WILLARD F. MALLALIEU. 

board of bishops. His Episcopal residence 
was fi.xed in 1884 and again in 1888, by 
his own choice, at New Orleans, La., and 
the work of his church in the South has 
found in him a faithful interpreter and a 
powerful leader. 

On October 13, 185S, at Santhvich, he 
married Eliza F" ranees, daughter of (ieorge 
and Paulina (Freeman) Atkins. Of this 
union were two children : Willard FLmer- 
son, born .\ugust 8, 1863, and Ellen Brom- 
field Mallalieu, born September 11, 1865, 
who died March 17, 1874. 

On his father's side Bishop Mallalieu 
came of exiled Huguenot stock, who first 



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MANSFIELI). 



fled from France to Holland and thence to 
England, and on his mother's side, throuuh 
the Emersons and Davenports, descended 
from Richard Davenport, who came to 
Salem in 1638. His wife is descended 
from Edmund Freeman, who came from 
England in 1630, first settled in Lynn, and 
then led the company that settled the 
town of Sandwich. 

Inheriting intellectual vigor and fine 
moral qualities from Puritan and Hugue- 
not ancestors, he sought the best gifts of 
culture, and uniting consecration and 
energy with eloquence and enthusiasm, he 
has become a recognized power for good 
in every community he has served. He is 
not only effective in the pulpit and on the 
platform, but is a frequent and welcome 
contributor to the periodicals of the church 
of his choice. 

MANN, Thomas Henry, son of Levi 

and Lydia L. (Ware) Mann, was born in 
Wrentham, Norfolk county, April 8, 1843. 

The district school and the high school 
of 'W'alpole fitted him for college, but as 
he was upon the point of entering, the 
civil war broke out, and he went from the 
farm to the front, with the old militia 
company of Wrentham, attached to the 
1 8th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, 
March 1, 1863. He was promoted to the 
rank of corporal, and served with the 
company and regiment in every march and 
engagement till Ma)' 5, 1864, when he was 
taken prisoner in the battle of the Wil- 
derness, after having participated in the 
battles of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Hano- 
ver Court House, the Seven Days' Battle 
in front of Richmond, the Second Bull 
Run, Antietam, Sharpsburg, Fredericks- 
burg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and the 
Wilderness. He was twice severely wound- 
ed, but not disabled. He was held a pris- 
oner from May, 1864, to March, 1865, and 
discharged from service May 7, 1865. 

In the fall of that year he entered the 
medical department of Union College, and 
graduated three years later, afterwards 
taking a post-graduate course of one year 
at the Bellevue Medical College, New 
York City. 

For two years he was resident physician 
in charge of the Albany City Dispensary, 
and he commenced private practice in 
Willimantic, Conn., in 1871. Two years 
later he moved to Block Island, where he 
remained the only physician on the island 
for four years. In the fall of 1876, com- 
pletely restored in health by his life on 
the island, he removed to Woonsocket, 
R. I., where he practiced successfully for 



ten years. He w-as a member of the 
Homeopathic Medical Societ}' of Rhode 
Island, a member of the New York and 
Connecticut Homoeopathic Medical socie- 
ties, and of the American Institute of 
Homoeopathy. His health failing again, 
however, he was obliged to relinquish 
practice, and became manager of the 
" Woonsocket Patriot " and the Patriot 
Printing Compan\'. I'wo years later he 
moved to Milford, and established the 
"Milford Daily News," with W. D. Leahy 
as partner. 

In March, 1869, Dr. Mann married Julia 
Backus of Ashford, Conn. Their children 
are : Mary Isadore, Josephine Caroline, 
Henry Levi, and Philip James Mann. 

Dr. Mann is an active veteran of the 
C. A. R., and historian of the 18th regi- 
ment, Massachusetts volunteers. 

MANSFIELD, JOSEPH Henry, son of 
Erlonzo L. and Melinda (Simons) Mans- 
field, was born in Whitehall, Washington 
county, N. Y., November 25, 1837. 

The common district schools of those 
days gave him his early educational train- 
ing, and having during the winter months 
learned somewhat of the higher English 
branches and some Latin, he left home 
and fitted for college at the Troy Confer- 
ence Academy, Vermont. 

With a small loan from a friend to sup- 
plement what he could earn by teaching in 
vacations and a portion of the winter 
seasons, he was enabled to enter Wesleyan 
University, Middletown, Conn., and was 
graduated in the class of 1S65. 

He joined the New England conference 
in 1866, after having preached one year at 
Chicopee Falls, and was returned to the 
same church for another year. In the 
spring of 1867 he was stationed at North- 
ampton, remaining two years. Subse- 
quently his appointments were Springfield 
(i869-'7i), Leominster (i872-'73), Lowell 
( I S74-'7 6), Boston, Monument Square (1877- 
'79), Boston, P5roadway (i88o-'82), i\lalden 
(i883-'85), and in 1886, at the close of his 
pastorate at Maiden, Bishop Henry W. 
Warren appointed him presiding elder of 
the Lynn district, in the New England 
conference, which position he still holds, 
having his residence at Maiden. 

Mr. Mansfield was elected delegate to 
the general conference in New York, May, 
1888. He has also served as clerk of the 
Methodist Ministers' Relief Association 
since its organization in 1878. He was 
given the de.gree of D. D. by the Baker 
University, Baldwin City, Kansas, June, 
1 886. The same degree was also conferred 



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393 



the same year by the New Orleans Uni- 
versity. The Wesleyan University gave 
him the degree of master of arts. In 
1888 he with a company of clergymen 
visited Europe and the Orient in an ex- 
tended tour. 

.Mr Manslield was married in Poultney, 
\'t., September 6, 1865, to Pamelia S., 
daughter of Eli B. and Sarah (Hyde) 
Murray. Of this union were five children: 
Mabel S. (deceased), Frederick Joseph 
Hallett, George Whitney, Eliza Chamber- 
lain, and Grace Murray Mansfield. 

MARBLE, Albert Prescott, .son of 

John and Emeline (Prescott) Marble, was 
horn in Vassalborough, Kennebec county. 
Me., May 21, 1836. 

His early education was that received in 
the common schools of the town, supple- 
mented by his father's instruction, and at- 
tendance at the academies at Vassalbor- 
ough, China, Waterville and Yarmouth. 
He was graduated from Waterville College 
(now Colby University) in the class of 
1 86 1, from which he received the degree 
of Ph. D. in 1881. 

After his graduation he sought the edu- 
cational field for his life work, and has 
held the following honorable positions as 
an educator : professor of mathematics, 
Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam, AVis. ; 
principal of Boynton High School, East- 
port, Me. ; of Berkshire F'amily School, 
Stockbridge, Mass., and of Worcester 
-Vcademy, Worcester. He has held the 
position of superintendent of schools, Wor- 
cester, from 1868 to the present time. 

Mr. Marble was married in Waterville, 
Me., to Louise Wells, daughter of Joseph 
and Cynthia (Wedge) Marston. Of this 
union are two children ; Margaret and 
Katharine Marble. 

He has been president of Worcester 
County Teachers' Association, of the 
Massachusetts Teachers' Association, of 
the National Educational .\ssociation, 1888 
and '89, and of the Department of Superin- 
tendence, 1 88 1 ; trustee of the \\'orcester 
Academy; and one of the board of visitors 
tu Wellesley College. 

Mr. Marble is a veteran in the educa- 
tional field, a man always found in the ad- 
vance guard of the progressive forces ; and 
he is not chary of tongue or pen when the 
live educational issues of the hour need 
intelligent e.xposition. 

MARBLE, Jerome, son of John P. 
and Ruth A. (Rider) Marble, was born in 
Charlton, Worcester county, September 10, 
1824. 



His early education was received in the 
public schools, Dudley and Leicester acad- 
emies. 

He began the grocery business in 1849, 
in Charlton, after clerking two years in a 
paint and oil store in Boston. He contin- 
ued in Charlton until 1853. He then went 
to Worcester and entered the wholesale 
and retail drug, oil, dye-stuff and chemical 
business with C. .\. Harrington, under the 
firm name of C. A. Harrington &: Co., un- 
til 1863. He then bought Mr. Harrington's 
interest, changing the firm name to 
Jerome Marble & Co., in which business 
he is still engaged. He is also interested in 
the Worcester Excursion Car Company, of 
which he is president. 

Mr. Marble was married in Charlton, on 
March 30, 1849, to Susan E., daughter of 
W. B. and Susan B. (Boomer) Blanchard. 
They have two children : Nella and L. 
Olive Marble. His second marriage, Au- 
gust 22, 1882, was with Mrs.Abbie PL Clough, 
daughter of John and Abigail Redding. 

Mr. Marble was a member of the board 
of aldermen, 1866. He was elected direct- 
or of the Quinsigamond Bank, 1886, which 
position he still holds. He was the origi- 
nator of the excursion-car business as a 
specialty, and designed the first car built. 

In connection with the Worcester store, 
he has a branch store in the city of Boston. 

MARBLE, John Oliver, son of John 

and Emeline (Prescott) Marble, was born 
in Vassalborough, Kennebec county. Me., 
April 26, 1839. 

His foundation educational training was 
secured in the district schools of his native 
town, Vassalborough Academy and Oak 
Grove Seminary. He fitted for college at 
Waterville Academy, and was graduated 
from Waterville College (now Colby L'ni- 
versity) in the class of 1863. He received 
his A. M. from the same institution, 1S66. 

During the years 1864 to '66 he was 
clerk in the war department, Washington, 
D. C, then in the treasurv department till 
1869. 

He studied medicine, and attended 
lectures at the medical department of 
Georgetown University in Wasliington,i864 
to '68, where he was graduated M. D. In 
i869-'7o, L)r. Marble took a post-graduate 
course at the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, New York. 

In March, 1870, he began the practice 
of medicine in Worcester, where he has 
since resided in the possession of an ever- 
growing and lucrative practice. 

Dr. Alarble was married in Worcester, 
.April 8, 1873, to Helen M., daughter of 



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MARCY. 



Ethan and Sarah E. (Murray) Allen. ()i 
this union are three children : Allen, Pres- 
cott, and Murray Marble. 

Dr. Marble has been physician to Wor- 
cester City Hospital from 1871 to the 
present time. He is one of the board of 
directors of the free public library of Wor- 
cester, elected in 1886 for six years. He 
has been surgeon to the Worcester Con- 
tinentals since 1886. 

He was the originator of the Massachu- 
setts Cremation Society, and has written 
extensively upon the subject of the dis- 
posal of the dead. His paper on this sub- 
ject was read before the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, at its annual meeting in 
Boston, in 1885, and awakened much in- 
terest in the subject. His pamphlet en- 
titled "Cremation in its Sanitary Aspects," 
published by the Worcester Cremation 
Society, has been extensively circulated, 
and has drawn the attention of the press 
of the country. 

Dr. Marble has made a study of health 
resorts, and has long advocated a change 
of climate as a valuable reniedv in manv 
chronic diseases. In 1880 he visited the 
various countries of Europe with this sub- 
ject in view. In 1887 he went to Bermuda 
on the same mission, and in 1888 he visited 
the Bahamas, and has written at length, 
describing their advantages to invalids. 

MARCH, Daniel, son of Samuel and 
Zoa (Park) March, was born in Mill- 
bury, Worcester county, July 21, 1816. 

His preparatory studies were pursued in 
Millbury Academy. He was graduated 
from Yale College in the class of 1840. 
Choosing to follow a call to the ministry, 
he passed the usual course in Yale theo- 
logical seminary, and v^^as ordained pastor 
of the First church, Nashua, N. H., 1849. 
He was subsequently called to the Clinton 
Street Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, 
where he remained until 1876, when he 
accepted the pastorate of the First church, 
Woburn, where he is now settled. 

Mr. March was married in Proctorsville, 
Vermont, October 8, 1841, to Jane P., 
daughter of Abel and Anna (Parker) Gil- 
son. Of this union are three children : 
Daniel March, Jr., M. D., Winchester ; 
Rev. Frederick W. March, missionary in 
the East, and Charles A. March, bureau of 
pensions, Washington, D. C. 

Mr. March has made three journeys 
through the Bible lands — Egypt, Palestine, 
Syria, Turkey and Greece ; has made three 
tours of the Continent, visiting every ca])ital 
of Europe except Lisbon ; traveled in 
Cevlon, India. Burmah, Siam, China and 



Japan, visiting the chief cities, spending 
three years abroad. 

He is a scholarly writer, and his works 
have been translated into the German, 
Swedish, Danish and Norwegian tongues, 
more than 450,000 copies having been sold. 
Among his works are : " Night Scenes in the 
Bible," "From Dark to Dawn," "Home 
Life in the Bible," "Our Father's House," 
" Days of the Son of Man," and " 'i'he 
First Khedive " 

MARCY, Henry Orlando, .son of 

Smith and Fanny (Gibbs) Marcy, was born 
in Otis, Berkshire county, June 23, 1837. 
His ancestry was of Puritan stock — paternal 
(Marcy-Lawton); maternal (Gibbs-Morton) 
— dating back to the early settlers of New 
England. His grandfather, Thomas Marcy, 
was one of the first settlers in northern 
Ohio. His maternal great grandfather 
Israel, and grandfather, Elijah Gibbs, 
served in the revolutionary war, and were 
with General (lates at the surrender of 
Burgoyne. His father, who served in 
the war of 181 2, was a teacher by pro- 
fession. 

Dr. Marcy received his preliminary and 
classical education at Wilbraham Academy 
and Amherst College, and was graduated 
from the medical department of Harvard 
University, 1863. He was commissioned 
assistant-surgeon of the 43d Massachusetts 
volunteers, in April, 1863, and in the fol- 
lowing November, surgeon of the first 
regiment of colored troops recruited in 
North Carolina. He was appointed med- 
ical director of Florida in 1864, and served 
on the staff of Clenerals Van Wyck, Pot- 
ter, and Hatch. 

In the autumn of 1863, Dr. Marcy 
was married to Sarah E. Wendell of Great 
Falls, N. H. 

At the close of the war he located in 
Cambridge, Mass. In the spring of 1869 
he went to Europe for the purpose of study, 
and entered the University of Berlin, where 
he remained a year as a special student of 
Professors Virchow and Martin. He then 
visited the various capitals of Europe, and 
studied the hospitals and their service, 
spending quite a period in London and 
Edinburgh. He became convinced of the 
truth of Prof. I-ister's teachings, and re- 
turned to America, to adopt, among the first, 
the now famous, but then (in this country') 
unknown methods of aseptic and antiseptic 
surgery. 

For the purpose of devoting himself 
more especially to the surgical diseases of 
women. Dr. Marcy removed to Boston in 
1880, and opened in Cambridge a private 



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MARIJEN. 



395 



liDspital for women, which is still in suc- 
cessful operation. He participated ac- 
tively in the seventh international Med- 
ical Congress held in London in 1881, was 
a contributor to the eighth, held in Copen- 
hagen in 1884, and president of the Gynae- 
cological section of the ninth congress 
held in Washington in 18S7. 

He has contributed largely to surgical 
literature, and is an active worker in the 
American Medical Association, to the vice- 




HENRY O. MARCY 

presidency of which he was elected in 
1S79. In 1882 he was president of the 
section of obstetrics and gynaecology, and 
for some years a member of the judicial 
council of the association. He is a mem- 
ber of various medical and scientific or- 
ganizations in both Europe and America, 
and was president of the American Acad- 
emy of Medicine in 1884. 

In 1886 Dr. Marcy publisheil, in two 
volumes, the translation of the works of 
I'rof. Ercolani of Bologna, Italy, upoii the 
" Reproduction Processes," besides which 
he has published his own special studies of 
the uterine mucosa during pregnancy. 
1 1 is best known publications are : " Plastic 
Splints in Surgery," "Aspiration of the 
Knee Joint," " Histological Studies of the 
Development of the Os.seous Callous in 
Man and .Animals," " Cure of Hernia by 



ihe .\ntiseptic I'se of the .\nimal .Suture," 
"The Best Methods of Operative Wound 
Treatment," " The Histology and Surgical 
Treatment of Uterine 'I'umors," " The 
Comparative Value of Germicides," " The 
Relations of Micro-Organisms to Sanitary 
Science," "Medical Legislation," " 'I'he 
Climate of the Southern Appalachians," 
" The Surgical Advantages of the Buried 
.\nimal Suture," " Exploratory Laparoto- 
my," "General Treatise on Hernia," and 
" The Perinaeum, its Anatomy, Physiol- 
ogy and Methods of Restoration after In- 
jury." 

The Wesleyan LTniversity conferred, in 
1887, the honorary degree of LL. D. upon 
Dr. Marcy, in recognition of his skill and 
literary merit. 

MARDEN, George Augustus, son of 

I'enjamin and Betsey (Pjuss) Marden, was 
born in Mt. Vernon, Hillsborough county, 
N. H., .\ugust 9, 1839. 

His father was a mechanic, and the son 
was taught his father's trade, that of shoe- 
maker, at an early age; and such time as 
was not spent in school, until he was 
sixteen, was occupied with work at the 
bench and in farming. He fitted for 
college meanwhile, attending Appleton 
Academy, which had been established in 
ills native town in 1851 (now known as 
McCollom Institute). During his college 
course (Dartmouth, 1S61) he paid his way 
mainly by his own exertions in working at 
his trade and teaching school. 

In November, 1861, he enlisted as a 
[jrivate in company G, 2d regiment, Ber- 
dan's United States sharpshooters; and on 
the organization of the company, Decem- 
ber 12, 1861, when he was mustered into 
the United States service, received a war- 
rant as second sergeant. In April, 1862, 
he was transferred to the ist regiment of 
LTnited States sharpshooters, and was witli 
that regiment during the Peninsular cam- 
paign under McClellan from Yorktown to 
Harrison's Landing. On the loth of July, 
the same year, he was commissioned by the 
governor of New Hampshire ist lieuten- 
ant and regimental quartermaster, in which 
capacity he served with the regiment until 
the ist of January, 1863, when he was 
ordered on staff duty as acting assistant 
adjutant-general of the 3d brigade, 3d 
division, 3d corps. He served in this 
capacity until August, 1863, taking part 
meantime in the battles of Chancellors- 
ville, Gettysburg and Wapping Heights. 
He was then ordered to Riker's Island, 
New York harbor, on detached service, 
but was soon returned to his regiment 



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MARSHALL. 



at his own request, and served until he was 
mustered out in September, 1S64. 

Returning to New Hampshire in the 
spring of 1865. he entered the hiw office 
of Minot & Mugridge at Concord, N. H., 
where he pursued his legal studies, and was 
also emplo\"ed as a writer on the Concord 
" Daily Monitor." In November of the 
same year he went to Charleston, Kanawha 
county, AV. Va., and purchased the '' Ka- 
nawha Republican," a weekly newspaper, 
which he edited until the spring of 1866 ; 
but iinding that success in the enterprise 
depended upon " swinging around the 
circle " with President Andrew Johnson, a 
task which was impossible to him, he dis- 
posed of the paper, and returned to New 
Hampshire. He was then employed by 
Adjutant -General Natt Head, of New 
Hampshire, to compile, arrange, and edit a 





history of each of the New Hampshire 
military organizations during the war, which 
histories form a large part of the adjutant- 
general's report for 1866. On January i, 
1867, he was offered a position as an assist- 
ant editor of the Boston "Advertiser," 
which he accepted and held until the first 
of the following .September, when he, 
with his classmate Rowell, purchased the 
Lowell "Daily Courier" and Lowell 
" AA'eekly Journal " at Lowell, where both 



still remain, editing and publishing those 
papers. 

Mr. Marden was elected a member of 
the House of Representatives for 1873. I" 
1874 he was elected clerk of the House, 
and was re-elected every year until 1883, 
when he was again a member of the 
House, and was elected its speaker, and 
was re-elected to the same position in 
1S84. In 1885 he served as a member of 
the Senate for the 7th Middlesex sena- 
torial district. He was one of the four 
Grant delegates from Massachusetts to the 
national Republican convention at Chi- 
cago, in 1880, being a colleague of Ex- 
Secretary Boutwell of the 7th congres- 
sional district. On the state ticket, in 
1888, he was elected treasurer and re- 
ceiver-general of the Commonwealth. 

He read the poem before the Phi Beta 
Kappa Society at Dartmouth College at 
commencement in 1878, and a poem be- 
fore the alumni of the same college at 
commencement m 1S86 ; and has read 
poems on various occasions before mili- 
tary, press, and other associations. 

Mr. Marden was the first commander of 
Post 42, G. A. R., Lowell, and is a mem- 
Lier of the Military Order of the Loyal 
Legion, Massachusetts Commanderv. At 
Dartmouth commencement, 1SS9, he was 
elected president of the Dartmouth .\lumni 
Association. 

On the loth of December, 1867, at 
Nashua, N. H., Mr. Marden was married 
to Mary P., daughter of David and Har- 
riet (Nourse) Fiske, of that city. They 
have two children : Philip Sanford, born 
January 12, 1874, and Robert Fiske, born 
June 14, 1876. They now live at Lowell. 

MARSHALL, JAMES FOWLE BALD- 
WIN, son of Thomas and Sophia (Kendal) 
.Marshall, and grandson of Captain Chris- 
topher Marshall of the revolutionary army, 
was born in Boston, August 8, 1818. 

He was educated at the public schools 
in Charlestown and Derby Academv, Hing- 
ham. He entered Harvard in 1834, but 
was soon compelled by w-eakness of the 
eyes to leave college. 

After three years' service as clerk in a 
dry-goods house, his eyes still troubling 
him, by advice of his physician he sailed 
in 1838 for the Hawaiian Islands, where 
he was a partner successively in the houses 
of Marshall & Johnson, C. Brewer & Co. 
and S. H. Williams &: Co. 

In 1843 an English naval officer, l^ord 
George Paulet, having made forcible seiz- 
ure of the Islands, and for the time sub- 
verted the sovereigntv of Kins' Kame- 



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397 



hanielia III., Mr. Marshall was, at the age 
of twenty-four, selected as the King's rep- 
resentative to present his case at the court 
of St. James. In 185 1 he retired from 
mercantile business to give his attention to 
sugar planting on the island of Kauai. 

He served four years as a member of 
the Hawaiian Parliament, taking an active 
]iart in giving form to the liberal constitu- 
tion granted to his people by Kamehameha 
111., and doing good service as chairman 
(if the committee on education, (ieneral 
Samuel C. Armstrong, then a youth, was a 
Sunday-school scholar of Mr. Marshall in 
1 lonolulu. 

In 1858 he returned to Massachusetts, 
settling in \\'estborough. On the breaking 
out of the rebellion, he labored earnestly 
to raise and equip troops, and went several 
times to the front to look after the West- 
borough contingent. In 1862 he repre- 
sented his town in the lower house of the 
" \\'ar Legislature." 

Governor Andrew appointed him in Jan- 
uary, 1864, one of the state paymasters. 
Ill May, 1864, obtaining leave of absence, 
he with his wife entered the service of the 
Sanitary Commission, following General 
Grant's army through the Wilderness to 
City Point. 

In the following autumn Mr. Marshall 
re-organized the paymaster's bureau, and 
as paymaster-general became a member 
of the governor's staff, with the rank of 
brigadier-general. He held the position 
until the close of 1866. 

As president of the Hawaiian Club, Mr. 
Marshall introduced to the public of Bos- 
ton General Samuel C. Armstrong, when 
he was seeking to establish the Hampton 
Normal and Agricultural Institute. In 
1S70 he became treasurer of that institu- 
tion and removed to Hampton. Increas- 
ing trouble w'ith his eyes led him to resign 
the post in 1884. He returned to Massa- 
chusetts, making his home at Kendal 
(ireen in Weston, and taking charge of 
the Southern and Indian educational work 
of the American Unitarian .Association. 

Mr. Marshall married, October 4, 184S, 
Martha A. T., daughter of John and Eliza 
( Rand) Johnson, of CharlestOwn, and with 
his bride sailed on the ship " L'eland " for 
Honolulu, a wedding trip of five months' 
length. 

MARTIN, Augustus Pearl, son of 

I'earl and Betsey Verrill (Rollins) Martin, 
was born in Abbot, Piscataquis county, 



Me., 



November 23, 1835. 



He received his educational training in 
the public schools of Boston, Wesleyan 



Academv, Wilbraham, and in [irivate 
schools in Melrose. 

Upon entering business life he was first 
a clerk in the office of Thompson is: War- 
ner, and subsequently clerk for Fay &: 
Stone, boots and shoes, Boston, until the 
breaking out of the war, in 1861. 

After the war he returned and was made 
a partner with Fay & Stone ; was admitted 
partner in 1868 in the house of Francis 
Dane & Co.; dissolved with Dane & Co. 
in 1871, and formed a co-partnership as 
A. P. Martin & Co., in May, 1871. In 
December of the same year, the firm 
changed to Martin & Skinner, and in 
1876 to Martin, Skinner tS; Fay, and this 
in 18S1 was changed again to A. P. Mar- 
tin & Co. — the present firm name. 

He manufactures boots and shoes, with 
factory at Hudson, and ofifice in Boston. 

General Martin was married, in Boston, 
February 3, 1859, by the Rev. A. A. Miner, 
to Abbie Farmer, daughter of Jonathan and 
Elizabeth Barry (Leavitt) Peirce. Of this 
union are four children : Flora E. (now 
Mrs. John Shepard, Jr.), Franklin Pearl, 
Charles Augustus and Everett Fay Martin. 

General Martin was lieutenant of the 
Boston light artillery 1858 to '60 ; ser- 
geant during the three months' campaign 
in 1861 ; was commissioned ist lieutenant, 
3d Massachusetts battery, Massachusetts 
volunteers, September 5, 1861, and captain 
in November of same year. He was chief 
of artillery, Morell's division, 1862, and 
assigned to duty by General Meade as 
commander of the artillery brigade, 5th 
corps, army of the Potomac, in May, 1863 ; 
commissioned brevet-colonel at the close 
of the war, for gallant and meritorious 
.services. He was commander of the An- 
cient and Honorable Artillery Company 
in 1878 ; commander of the Mas.sachu- 
setts Commandery, Military Order of the 
Loyal Legion, U. S., 1879 and '80 ; chief 
marshal at the dedication of the monu- 
ment on Boston Common, September 17, 
1S77 ; chief marshal at the celebration of 
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of 
the settlement of Boston, September 17, 
1880 ; senior aid on the staff of Governor 
John D. Long, with the rank of brigadier- 
general, 1882, and mayor of Boston, 1884. 

He is a director in Howard National 
Bank ; vice-president Home Savings Bank; 
he was president of the New England 
Shoe and Leather Association, five years ; 
has been president of the Beacon Society, 
Tapley Machine Company, New England 
Mutual Aid Society, Central Club ; he is 
president of the Showalter Mortgage Com- 



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MARVEL. 



MASON. 



pany, New England Phonograph Com- 
pany ; a member of the governing com- 
mittee of the Boston Athletic Association, 
and was a director of the Metropolitan 
Horse Railroad. He was one of the three 
who issued the notice requesting a com- 
pany of gentlemen to meet at the Hotel 
Vendome to organize what is now the 
Algonquin Club, and acted as chairman of 
all the ]3reliminary meetings until the or- 
ganization was completed. 

MARVEL, JOHN C, son of William 
Marvel, 2d, and Betsey (Pitts) Marvel, was 
born in Westport, Bristol county, July 31, 
I S 1 7 . 

His early education was limited to the 
common school. 

He entered commercial life in the gro- 
cery business with his father in 1840, the 
firm name being William Marvel, 2d, cS: Son. 
In 1862 John C. assumed the business, and 
in 1869 took in his son as partner — firm 
name being John C. Marvel & Son. He 
again became sole owner in 187 1, and has 
conducted the business alone to the present 
time. He now divides his time between 
the store and farm. 

Mr. Marvel was first married in Reho- 
both, February 20, 1842, to Ruth W., 
daughter of Sylvanus and Charlotte 
(Wright) Peck. After the death of his 
first wife, he married her sister, Frances A. 
Peck, December 2, 1849. They have five 
children : William H., Ruth A., John F., 
May W., and Bessie W. Marvel. 

Mr. Marvel has been postmaster at Re- 
hoboth from 1843 to the present time; 
treasurer of the Congregational society 
ten years ; town treasurer ten years ; mem- 
ber of the school board ; and a representa- 
tive to the General Court in 1859. 

MASON, Albert, son of Albert T. and 
Arlina(Orcutt) Mason, was born in Middle- 
borough, Plvmouth county, November 7, 
1836. 

He was educated in the common schools 
and in Pierce Academy, Middleborough. 
He then studied law with Edward L. Sher- 
man, Plymouth, and was admitted to the 
bar in February, i860. 

He commenced practice in Plymouth. In 
August, 1862, he entered the United States 
service in the 38th regiment, Massachusetts 
volunteers, as 2d lieutenant, and contin- 
ued in the service till 1865. Early in his 
military service he was detailed for staff 
duty, serving as regimental and brigade 
quartermaster, and was subsequently com- 
missioned captain and assistant quarter- 
master by the president. 



November, 1865, he resumed practice in 
Plymouth, and was chairman of the board 
of selectn^en from 1866 to '74; was a 
member of the House of Representatives, 
1873 and '74; and in January, 1874, he 
took an office in Boston with Charles H. 
Drew, still retaining his office in Plym- 
outh. In May, 1874, he formed a part- 
nership with Arthur Lord. Benjamin R. 
Curtis was afterward admitted to this 
firm, with offices in Plymouth and Boston. 

In July, 1874, Mr. Mason removed from 
Plymouth to Brookline, where he now re- 
sides ; December, 1874, was appointed on 
the board of harbor commissioners, and con- 
tinued on the boards succeeding this with 
various changes of title, till appointed jus- 
tice of the superior court in February, 1882, 
which office he has acceptably filled to the 
present time. 

Judge Mason was married in Plymouth, 
November 25, 185 7, to Lydia F., daugh- 
ter of Nathan and Experience (Finney) 
Whiting. Of this union are si.x children : 
John W., Mary A., Alice, Charles N., 
Martha, and Grace W. Mason. 

MASON, Samuel William, son of Rev. 

Samuel and Abigail Sawyer (Whitcomb) 
Mason, was born in Proctorsville, (Caven- 
dish) ^Vindsor county, Vt., October 11, 
1824. 

He attended the district schools in Ver- 
mont and New Hampshire ; was fitted for 
college in Kingston, N. H. ; entered Dart- 
mouth College in 1845, and was graduated 
therefrom in the class of 1849. From his 
ahiia mater he received the degree of A. M. 
in 1854, and that of Ph. D. in 1881. 

Immediately after leaving college, Mr. 
Mason went to Connecticut, and engaged 
in teaching in Rockville, but soon came to 
Boston with the intention of applying him- 
self to the study of law. While reading 
law in the office of Lyman Mason, he was 
appointed usher in Otis school, Boston, 
and subsequently transferred to the Endi- 
cott school. In 1850 he was appointed 
sub-master in the Eliot school, and master 
of the same school in 1885. This position 
he held until the establishment of the board 
of supervisors, and was then (March, 1876) 
elected a member of the board of super- 
visors of the Boston public schools, which 
office he still holds. 

He has done much to mould ■ public 
school methods in their evolution, and has 
ever been a tower of defence to the system. 

Dr. Mason has been secretary of the 
American Institute of Instruction, and 
president and secretary of the New Eng- 
land .Superintendents' Association. He 



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MAVNARl). 



399 



resides in Chelsea, and has been a member 
of the Chelsea common council two years, 
1S62 and '63, and two years, 1864 and '65, 
a member of the board of aldermen. 

His church relations are with the First 
Congregational church, Chelsea, of which 
he has lieen clerk, and also superintendent 
,of the Sabbath-school. 



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SAMUEL W, MASON. 

Dr. Mason was married in Brooklyn, 
\. v., July 28, 1853, to Ann \V., daughter of 
Col. Ashbel and Lucinda (Tenney) Smitli, 
of Hanover, N. H. Of this union were 
three c-hildren : Flora A., Esther P., and 
Mary C. Mason. 

MAYNARD, Elisha BurR, .son of 
A\'alter and Hannah (lUirr) Maynard, was 
born in Wilbraham, Hampden county, 
November 2 i. 1842. 

He attended the schools of his native 
town until 1856, when he went to Spring- 
field, where he graduated from the high 
school, studying classics under Hon. M. P. 
Knowlton. He entered Dartmouth College 
in 1863, spent the junior year at Amherst, 
and was graduated from Dartmouth in 
1S67. 

.\fter leaving college he studied law at 
Springfield in the office of Cleorge M. 
Stearns and Marcus P. Knowlton, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1868. A year later 
he opened a law office in Springfield, form- 



ing a partnership with Hon. William L. 
Smith, then mayor, in 1870, under the firm 
name of Smith & Maynard. This part- 
nership only lasted for three years, but Mr. 
Maynard has continued the practice of 
law in Springfield to the present time — 
for the past five years under the firm name 
of Maynard &• Spellman. 

On the 25th of August, 1870, Mr. May- 
nard was married to Kate C, daughter of 
Calvin and Sarah (Townshend) Doty of 
Springfield, Pa. Mrs. Maynard died April 
4, 1889, leaving as children : Robert D., 
Ruth, and William Doty Maynard. 

In 1872 and "73 Mr. Maynard was a 
member of the common council of Spring- 
field, in 1879 he was representative to the 
General Court, and for two years, 1887 
and '88, he was mayor of Springfield. He 
is a trustee of the Springfield Hospital 




ELISHA B, MAYNARD. 

and of the Springfield Industrial and 
Technological school. In politics he is a 
I )emocrat. 

MAYNARD, LORENZO, son of Amory 
and Mary (Priest) Maynard, was born at 
Marlborough, Middlesex county, on the 
22d of June, 1829. 

The common school and high school of 
Marlborough furnishetl him his means of 
obtaining an education. When seventeen 
years of age he moved with his parents to 



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MCCALL. 



Mcdonough. 



what is now known as Maynaril. tlie place 
having been named for his father, in 1871. 
At that time there were not half a dozen 
dwellings in sight, and his first duty was 
to clear the brush from the present site of 
the extensive mills. The present popula- 
tion of three thousand, and the mills em- 
ploying a thousand hamls, together with 
the general appearance of the place, speak 
for them.selves of the energy, skill and 
temper of the man through whose care 
they have become what they are. 

On the 2d of October, 1S50, at Sudbury, 
Mr. Maynard was married to Lucy .\.. 
daughter of Peter and Lucy (Patch) I>a- 
vid.son, of Sterling. Of their five children 
(one son and four daughters) only the son, 
William Henrv, survives. 

Notwithstanding the demands of his 
extensive business, Mr. Maynard has at 
different times held the office of selectman, 
assessor and town treasurer of Maynard, 
and for many years has been deacon of the 
Congregational church and superintendent 
of the Sunday-school. 

.\\cC.-\l.L, S.A.MLEL Walker, son of 

Henry and .XLiry Ann (KUiott) McCall, 
was born in East Providence, Pa,, Feb- 




ruary ;S, 1S51. His family on both sides 
have been identified with Pennsylvania 
from its earliest historv. 



Having fitted for college at New Hamp- 
ton (N. H.) .Academy, he entered 1 )artmouth 
College in 1870, and was graduated in the 
class of 1874. 

He then studied law with Staples \- 
tuHiIding of Worcester, and was admitted 
to the Worcester county bar. and began 
the practice of law in Boston, Januarv, 
1876, in which profession he has since re- 
mained. The only time he has not de- 
voted himself to law practice was between 
May I, iS88, and January i, 1SS9, when 
he officiated as editor of the " Hoston Ad- 
vertiser." 

Mr. McCall was married in Lyndonville, 
Vt., May 23, 1881, to Ella Esther, daughter 
of Sumner S. and Harriet (Wilev) Thomp- 
son. Of this union are four children : Sum- 
ner Thompson, Ruth, Henrv, and Catherine 
McCall. 

He was a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives 1 888 and '89, the latter year 
serving as chairman of the judiciary com- 
mittee. He was a delegate from the 6tii 
district to the national Reiiublican conven- 
tion at Chicago in 1888, where he seconded 
the nomination of General Gresham to the 
presidency. 

His residence is Winchester. 

MCDONOUGH, JOHN H,, son of 
Michael and Margaret (Hanlon) McDon- 
ough, was born in Portland, Cumberlanil 
county, Maine, March 29, 1857. 

His education was limited to the public 
schools of his native city. When thirteen 
years of age he began to learn the tailor- 
ing and clothing business, at which trade he 
worked until May, 1872, when he decided to 
learn the watch-making and jewelry busi- 
ness. He followed this trade fourteen years, 
eight in Portland, two at Auburndale watch- 
factory, and four years with the E. Howard 
\\'atch Company, Roxbury. .\fter several 
years spent in Boston, ^fr. McDonough 
left this industry, and choosing the pro- 
fession of law, began his preparatory stutlies 
.uid legal reading in the office of Hon. 
Charles J. Noyes. 

He was a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives in 1886, '87, '88 and "89, serving 
on the important committees on water sup- 
ply, election laws, and railroads. Four con- 
secutive years of service in the Massachu- 
setts Legislature by a young man while yet a 
law student, before his admission to the bar, 
is an unusual and highlv honorable record. 
Mr. ifcDonough himself may well be proud 
of a constituency that will exhibit such 
continued evidence of confidence in his 
efforts to serve them. His skill in debate, 
his oratorical powers, and his quick percep- 



MCKTTRICK. 



MCFAKLIN. 



401 



tion, backed b)' a manly courage, made 
liini one of the acknowledi^ed Democratic 
leaders of the po])ular branch of the Legis- 
lature. 

Mr. .McDonough is unmarried, and resides 
in Boston. 

McETTRlCK, Michael Joseph, .son 

of Matthew and Mary (McDonough) 
McEttrick, was born in Ro.vbury, Norfolk 
county, June 22, 1846. 

His father was a well-known and re- 
spected citizen of Roxbury, and his mother 
was the daughter of one of the earliest 
Irish settlers of that locality. 

.Mr. .McKttrick diligently made use of 
the fine educational advantages afforded by 
the \\'ashington grammar school, gradu- 




MICHAEL J. McETTRlCK. 

ating at eleven years of age at the head of 
the class, of which he was the youngest 
member. He was graduated from the 
l\o.\bury Latin school, with honor. He 
innnediately entered the office of Charles 
Whitney, the city engineer of Ro.xbury, 
and has ever since been connected more 
or less with that line of study and 
work. 

He early developed a taste for athletics, 
and by the time he had reached his 
majority he had won a national reputation 
for wonderful powers of strength and 
endurance, and a record for wrestling. 



jumping and long-distance pedestrian 
matches, which for many years remained 
unbr(;ken. He was, in fact, the pioneer 
in this State of the pedestrian feats that 
have since become national in their charac- 
ter. He W(jn the championshij) of America 
in i<S(J9, and held it against all comers for 
a number of years. 

During the last year of the war he joined 
the army, and served in the corps of 
engineers, U. S. A., until after the cessa- 
tion of hostilities, receiving his discharge 
in 1867. 

In 1884 he served as assistant assessor 
of the city of Boston, and in the fall of 
the same year was elected by the Demo- 
crats of his district to a seat in the 
lower branch of the Legislature. He has 
since been re-elected four times in suc- 
cession, each year receiving a largely 
increased and flattering majority at the 
hands of his constituents. He served on 
many of the most important committees, 
such as finance, roads and bridges, that 
on special child labor, education, liquor 
law, constitutional amendments, and ex- 
penditures. 

Mr. McEttrick's life-long abstemious 
habits, his splendid physique and quick 
apprehension, and able treatment of legis- 
lative matters, joined to his forceful and at 
times really eloquent delivery, have made 
him a man of power and commanding 
influence on the floor of the House. His 
able and successful management of the 
Franklin Park loan. Stony Brook, soldiers' 
exemption, employers' liability bills, and 
his work on the abolition of the poll-tax 
amendment and others of equal import- 
ance, very properly gave him a strong 
hold upon the constituents he so faithfully 
represented. 

His brilliant minority reports as a mem- 
ber of the education committees of 1888 
and '89 will probably long be standard 
and authoritative expositions of the cause 
espoused by Mr. McEttrick in 1888, at 
that time, and since, endorsed by the Legis- 
lature itself, upon the much-vexed question 
of the right of the State to interfere with 
the management of private schools. In 
his opinion, the existence of private schools 
is due to the wishes and consent of the 
parent, and the right of the parent to 
educate his child as he thinks best is a 
sacred one, vested in him by nature. He 
holds that as the constitution of the LTnited 
States guarantees freedom of conscience 
and freedom of worship to every American 
citizen, it guarantees, with equal right, 
freedom of education. 



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MClAKLIN. 



M GLEXEX. 



MCFARLIN, PELEG, son of Sampson 
and Polly (Shurtletf) McFarlin, was born 
in Carver, Plymoutii county, October i8, 

1843- 

He obtained a common school educa- 
tion. 

In 1863 he began business life by en- 
gaging as clerk in the iron business, Bos- 
ton. In 1S70 he became partner in the 
firm of Matthias Ellis & Co., iron founders. 
Carver and Boston. 

This concern was merged, in 1S74, into 
a corporation known as the Ellis Foundry 
Company of South Carver, of which cor- 




PELEG McFARLIN. 

poration he was elected treasurer. He is 
now treasurer and general manager of this 
concern, but is also engaged in agricultural 
pursuits. 

Mr. McFarlin was married in Carver, in 
1875, to Eldoretta, daughter of Levi and 
Elizabeth (Look) Thomas. Of this union 
are two children now living : Donald and 
"Helena McFarlin. Winthrop, an infant son, 
died January 10, 1S89. 

Mr. McFarlin is trustee of the Ellis 
school fund of South Carver, justice of the 
peace, and has been postmaster at South 
Carver for fifteen years ; was a member of 
the House of Representatives in 1881 ; 
member of the Senate 1882, '8^ and '84; 
served as chairman of the committee on 



manufactures 1S82 and 'S3, and chairman 
of the committee on railroads in 1S84; 
town clerk of Carver eight years, and has 
been a member of the school board His 
residence is South Carver. 

He has been an occasional contributor 
to current literature : w-as a contributor to 
" King's Tribute to Garfield ; " has made 
occasional public addresses. 

M'GLENEN, HENRY A., son of Patrick 
and Sarah (Carrigan) M'Glenen, was born 
in Baltimore, Md., November 28, 1826. 

His earl}- education was received in the 
schools of Baltimore, where he attended 
until twelve years of age, when he entered 
a printing-office in his native city, and 
served for a time as an apprentice. He 
subsequently attended St. AIar\-'s College, 
Baltimore, and there worked in a printing 
office established bv the facultv. 

In 1845 he started for Boston by way of 
Philadelphia and Norfolk, and arrived 
there with scanty baggage, and a cash 
capital of si.\ cents. He immediately 
sought work at his trade, and was success- 
ful. He worked as a compositor on the 
" Bee," " Times " and " Journal," and 
later on obtained a regular position on the 
•• Advertiser." 

In 1846, while working on the "Adver- 
tiser," he resigned his position to enlist as 
a private in the army which was starting 
for the conquest of Mexico. He joined 
the companv which was commanded bv 
Captain F>dward Webster, son of Daniel 
Webster, and served in the army until 
1 S4S, when he returned to Boston and 
again entered the newspaper business. 

Mr. M'Glenen was married in Boston, 
November 29, 1849, to Caroline M., daugh- 
ter of Cyrus and Matilda (Gushing) Bruce. 
Of this union are two children : Edward 
W. and Harry J. M'Glenen. 

In 1850 he reported for the " Boston 
Herald," and subsequently went to tlie 
" Daily Mail." A year or two later he was 
given charge of the " Times " job office, 
where he formed the acquaintance of a num- 
ber of railroad men and theatrical people. 
While foreman of the job office he took 
charge of Dan Rice's circus in Boston, and 
several other enterprises, in all of which he 
was very successful For two years he 
managed the business of the Marsh chil- 
dren at the Howard Athena2um, after 
which he was connected with several com- 
panies. When Wyzeman Marshall had 
leases of the Howard, and Boston Theatre, 
Mr. M'Glenen looked after his interests, 
and for the two years which Henry C. 
jarrett managed the Boston Theatre he 



M GLENEN. 



MCINTIRE. 



403 



ijave much of his time and services in be- 
half of that gentleman. In 11S66 he rehn- 
quished printing entirely, and took charge 
of the concert toiu' of I'arepa Rosa, the 
great cantatrice. The following year he 
took the Mendelssohn Quintette Club on 
an extended tour West, and in the spring 
of 1868 the Hanlons secured his services 
as manager for their season at Selvvyn's 
Theatre, and he was retained in the same 
capacity the three following yeais by 
Messrs. Selwyn and Arthur ("heney. 

In 1871 he became business agent of 
the Boston Theatre, in which position he 
still remains, and is not only held in the 
highest esteem by the proprietor and the 
local patrons of the theatre, but is one of 
the best known theatrical men in the 
country, possessing the confidence and re- 
spect of all with whom he is brought into 
business relations. Not only is he a repre- 
sentative of play-house interests, but he is 



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HENRY A M GLENEN. 

identified with many matters of public af- 
fair — ready and foremost to assist in any 
movement in which the public-spirited are 
called to lend a hand. 

He is president of the " Massachusetts 
Volunteers in Me.vico ;" vice-president of 
the National Association of Me.xican Vet- 
erans, and member of the Press and 
Athletic clubs. 



MclNTlRE, Charles John, son of 

Ebenezer and Amelia Augustine (Landais) 
Mclntire, was born in ('ambridge, Middle- 
sex county, March 26, 1842. 

His ancestors on both sides were peo- 
ple of patriotic instincts, and among them 
were men noted for legal knowledge and 
literary attainments. His father's ancestors 
moved from Salem to Oxford (now Charl- 



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CHARLES J, MclNTlRE, 

ton), \\'orcester county, in 1733, and were 
among the first town officers. His mother 
is a lineal descendant in the fifth genera- 
tion of the Hon. John Read, a distinguished 
lawyer and citizen of Boston in colonial 
days. Her father was a French exile and 
United States artillery officer, whose uncle, 
Colonel Tousard, served with Lafayette in 
the American revolution. She was born 
in Fort Moultrie, S. C, while her father 
was in command. 

His etlucation was obtained in the pub- 
lic schools of Cambridge, including the 
high school. This was supplementetl by in-- 
struction by private tutors, and attendance 
upon the Chapman Hall school of Boston, 
and the Harvard law school at Cambridge. 

He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
1865, after finishing his legal studies in the 
office of Ex-Mayor Dana of Charlestown. 
This course of study was not without in- 
terruption. He enlisted as a private in the 



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MCKENZIE. 



MCMILLIN. 



44th Massachusetts regiment, with which 
he served in the war of the rebelhon, until 
it was mustered out of service. In recogni- 
tion of the esteem in which he was held as 
a soldier, his comrades, in 1883, elected him 
president of the 44th Regiment Association. 

Mr. Mclntire began the practice of law 
in Boston, in 1865, and has since continued 
there in legal practice, having his residence 
in Cambridge. He is now city solicitor of 
Cambridge, to which position he was elected 
in 1SS6. 

He was married in Charlestown in 1865, 
to Marie Terese, daughter of George B. 
and Julia A. (Mead) Linegan. Of this 
union were five children : Mary Amelia 
^Cornell University), Henrietta Elizabeth 
(Harvard Annex), Charles Ebenezer, Fred- 
erick, and Blanche Eugenie Mclntire. 

Mr. Mclntire was a member of the Cam- 
bridge common council, 1866 and '67 ; 
House of Representatives, 1S69 and '70 ; 
Cambridge board of aldermen, 1877 ; was 
for three years member of the school board, 
and three years assistant district attorney 
for Middlesex county. In 1883 he was the 
" people's candidate " for mayor of Cam- 
bridge. 

Mckenzie, Alexander, son of Daniel 

and Phebe McKenzie, was born in New 
Bedford, Bristol county, December 14, 
1830. 

Passing through the public schools of 
New Bedford, he fitted for college at 
Phillips Academy, Andover, w-as gradu- 
ated at Harvard College, 1859 ; entered 
Andover Theological Seminary in 1859, 
graduating therefrom in 1861 ; was or- 
dained in Augusta, Me., August 28, 1861, 
and installed as pastor of the South church 
of that city, where he remained till Jan- 
uary, 1867. He was installed pastor of the 
First church, Cambridge, January 24, 1867, 
where he still labors. 

Previous to his entering Harvard, he 
was engaged a short time as clerk in a 
store in New Bedford, also four years with 
Lawrence, Stone & Co., manufacturers 
and commission merchants. Milk Street, 
Boston. 

Mr. McKenzie was married Januarv 25, 
1865, in Fitchburg, to Ellen H., daughter 
of John Henry and Martha Holman 
Eveleth. Of this union are two children : 
Kenneth and Margaret McKenzie. He 
received the degree of D. D. from Am- 
herst College, 1879. Of the various 
offices he has held, the following are the 
more prominent ; trustee of Bowdoin Col- 
lege, i866-'68 ; member of Cambridge 
school committee, iS68-'74 ; overseer of 



Harvard College, i872-'84; secretary of 
overseers of Harvard College, 1875 ; trus- 
tee of Phillips Academy, Andover, 1876 ; 
trustee of Cambridge Hospital, 1876 ; 
president Congregational Club, Boston, 
18S0 ; member of Massachusetts Historical 
Society, 1881 ; lecturer at Andover The- 
ological Seminary, iSSi-'82 ; lecturer at 
Harvard divinity school, 1882 ; trustee of 
Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., 1883 ; 
trustee of Wellesley College, 1883 ; preach- 
er to Harvard College, 1886 ; president 
of Boston Port & Seamen's Aid Society, 
1886. 

Mr. McKenzie is a preacher and a 
lecturer of national reputation. The list 
of his publications is long and varied. 
Among his books the most extensively 
read are, perhaps : " History of the First 
Church in Cambridge," " Cambridge Ser- 
mons," " Some Things Abroad." A few 
of his pamphlets are : " Addresses at the 
Dedication of the Soldiers' Monument in 
Cambridge" (1S70); "Oration at the 
Centennial of Phillips Academy" (1878) ; 
" Sermon before the Legislature of Mas- 
sachusetts " (T879); "Oration at the Com- 
mencement at Smith College" (18S1) ; 
" Sermon at the 250th Anniversary of the 
First Church in Charlestown " (1882); "Ser- 
mon at the 250th Anniversary of Cam- 
bridge " (1886); "Sermon at the 250th 
Anniversary of the Founding of Harvard 
College" (1886); "Sermon at the 20th An- 
niversary of his installation" (1887); 
and " Sermon in Memory of Prof. Asa 
Cray" (1888). 

McMILLlN, Edward Albon, son of 
John and Harriet M. (Johnson) McMillin, 
was born in Stockholm, St. Lawrence coun- 
ty, N. Y., June 4, 1859. 

His education in early life was limited 
to the common school. 

Thrown on his own resources at the age 
of thirteen, he entered the office of the 
"Courier and Freeman," Potsdam, N. Y., 
as apprentice to the printer's trade. Four 
years later he was given charge of the 
mechanical department of the " .Standard " 
at Cortland, N. Y., and subsequently be- 
came business manager of the " Daily 
Democrat," at Amsterdam. October i, 
1884, he purchased a controlling interest 
in the " Hoosac ^'alley News," North 
Adams, the firm name, Hardman & McMil- 
lin, continuing until 1888. He then became 
sole owner by purchase of Mrs. Hardman's 
interest. Later, E. C. Barber was admit- 
ted as a partner, and the firm name was 
changed to McMillin & Barber, the present 
title. 



MCPHERSON. 



MEAD. 



405 



Mr. McMillin was married in Cortland, 
N. Y., June 9, 1881, to Annie, daugiiter of 
Merton M. and Elizabeth (Baden) Waters. 
<)f this union were two children : Ralph 
Kdward and Elizabeth Ida McMillin. 

Mcpherson, ebenezer martin, son 

of John and Elizabeth (Martin) McPher- 
son, was born in Shelburne, N. S., October 
24, 1836. 

He was educated in the public schools 
of Boston. His first connection in business 
was with Henry Rice, stock and real estate 
broker. Subsequently he was with Peters 
iV Chase, tea dealers. Since 1867 he has 
been a dealer in bank safes and locks. 

Mr. McPherson was married in East 
ISoston, June 8, 1863, to Family C, daugh- 
ter of George and Sarah (Cannon) Sturte- 
vant. Of this union are two children : 
George Sturtevant and Henry Stephens 
McPherson. He was again married in 




EBENEZER M McPHERSON. 

Winthrop, October 9, 1889, to Elizabeth 
Russell, daughter of William and Emily 
( Day) Drowne. 

Mr. McPherson has been for many years 
vice-president anil treasurer of the Boston 
Young Men's Christian Association ; man- 
ager of the Little Wanderers' Home; super- 
intendent of the Presbyterian Sunday- 
school, East Boston ; director of the Asso- 
ciated Charities ; treasurer of the No- 



License League of Massachusetts ; many 
years on the Republican city committee ; 
two years on the Republican .state central 
committee ; a member of the House of 
Representatives 1876 and '78 ; a member 
of the governor's council 1887 and '88; 
was a director of the Eirst Ward National 
Bank, and is a trustee of the East Boston 
Savings Bank. He has recently been ap- 
pointed' by (lovernor Ames as one of the 
state commissioners of foreign mortgage 
corporations. 

MEAD, Edwin D., son of Bradley and 
Sarah (Stone) Mead, was born in Chester- 
field, Cheshire county, N. H., September 
29, 1849. 

The years i875-'79 he passed in Europe, 
studying chiefly at the universities of Cam- 
bridge and Leipzig ; but the greater part 
of his life has been spent in Boston, where, 
for nine years previous to his studies in 
Europe, he was engaged in the service 
of the publishing house of Ticknor & 
Fields. 

His early purpose was to prepare him- 
self for the ministry of the Episcopal 
church, and his earlier writings were upon 
religious subjects. While in Europe he 
contributed to American magazines various 
articles on the English broad church- 
men. In 1876 he withdrew from the 
Episcopal church on doctrinal grounds, 
and has remained independent in religion, 
with views essentially those of Emerson 
and Parker. He continued, however, to 
take an active interest in religious move- 
ments, editing, in 1881, a collection of the 
sermons of the Rev. Stopford Brooke, and 
frequently writing and speaking on relig- 
ious cjuestions. 

His own first published work upon " The 
Philosophy of Carlyle " was issued in 1881. 
In 1884 he published "Martin Luther; a 
Study of Reformation." His first lectures 
in Boston were upon " German Religious 
Thought." 

He has been an active member of the 
Free Religious Association, addressing the 
association, in 1883, on " Emerson, and the 
Doctrine of Evolution," and in 1888 on 
"The Present Revolution in Religion." 
Of late he has, however, addressed him- 
self more to philosophical, historical and 
political subjects. He was one of the lec- 
turers at the Concord School of Philosophy, 
and has had classes in philosophy in Bos- 
ton. Much of the time during recent win- 
ters he has given to platform speaking, 
chiefly upon historical and literary sub- 
jects ': " The American Poets," " The Pil- 
grim Fathers," etc. 



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MENTZER. 



The leading idea in his late work is that 
of lifting politics and patriotism into a kind 
of religion. He thinks that the State will 
somehow come to rival the Church, if not 
to take its place, as an object of social en- 
thusiasm. Convictions of this kind have 
led him to exhibit great activity in histor- 
ical work by voice and pen. He is warmly 




EDWIN D. MEAD. 

interested in practical politics, and is a fre- 
quent participant in political discussions. 
He was one of the founders of the Massa- 
chusetts Society for Promoting Good Citi- 
zenship. He has also had the principal 
direction, in late years, of the Old South 
historical work in Boston, for the education 
of young people in history and politics. 

M.EDBERY, ANDREW NELSON, the son 
of Viall and Hannah (Peck) Medbery, was 
born in Seekonk, Bristol county, December 

5. 1827. 

His opportunities of an early education 
were very limited. At the age of seven he 
attended the district school of his native 
town four months of the winter season, 
working on the farm the rest of the year. 

At the age of nineteen he commenced to 
teach school during the winter sessions, 
continuing his farm labors the remainder 
of the year. After teaching seven winters 
his health gave way, and in consequence, he 
gave up teaching, but remained on the farm 



until he purchased a store in Seekonk, on 
October 27, 1869, where he has continued 
to carry on business to the present time. 

He was appointed postmaster of Seekonk 
in 1870, which position he still holds. He 
has also held the offices of school commit- 
teeman, selectman, town clerk, and a mem- 
ber of the House of Representatives in 
1880. 

In 1880 he was appointed to take the 
United States census of Seekonk, and, in 
1885, the state census. 

Mr. Medbery was married in Bristol, 
R. I., May 30, 1854, to Sarah Elizabeth, 
the youngest daughter of Hon. John Greg- 
ory, formerly of Portsmouth, N. H. He 
has no children. 

Mr. Medbery united with the Baptist 
church, 1853, with whose Sabbath-school 
work and benevolent societies he is closely 
identified. He has been clerk of the church 
since 1854. He has always been a radical 
temperance man, and has never used any 
intoxicating liquors or tobacco. 

MENTZER, Walter C, son of Charles 
L. and Luc}' J. (Brewer) Mentzer, was 
l)orn October 26, 1862, at Brady's Bend, 
Armstrong county. Pa. His early educa- 
tion was received at the public schools of 
Boston and Northborough, and completed 
at the Northborough high school and the 
A\'oburn Academy. 

\Vhen twenty-three years old, Mr. Ment- 
zer formed a partnership with W. H. Ken- 
nedy, as wholesale beef dealers, and in 
1876, as W. C. & A. F. Mentzer, he opened 
a wholesale beef market on North Market 
Street, Boston. The same firm is still do- 
ing business, as commission dealers in 
Armour &: Co.'s Chicago dressed-beef. 

In Somerville, on the 31st dav of De- 
cember, 1876, Mr. Mentzer was married to 
Clara B., daughter of Almon R. and Diana 
W. (Jackson) Thurston. They have one 
child : Charles A. Mentzer. 

Mr. Mentzer has been identified with the 
Knights of Honor, Charity Lodge, F. & A. 
Masons, Royal Arcanum, I. O. O. F., and 
I. O. R. M., of Cambrid.ge and Somerville, 
and has held offices in all these orders. 
He was elected to the common council of 
Somerville in 1885, and was president of 
the board in 1886 He was elected to the 
board of aldermen in 1887, has been twice 
candidate for mayor, and in 1889 was 
elected member of the Mystic water board. 
He has always been an earnest Republican, 
in politics, and in social and philanthrojiic 
movements has ever taken an active part. 

He is a director in the Somerville Co-op- 
erative Bank. 



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MERRILL. 



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MHRRIA-M, ARTEMAS, son of Joel and 
Polly (Farnsworth) Merriam, was born in 
AVes'tniinster, Worcester county, July 21, 
1818. He received a common school edu- 
cation. 

His hrst connection in business was in 
1844, but previous to this he had worked 
four years at tub-makmg. Changing to 
the manufacture of settees and chairs in 
1S44, he started a small business, employ- 
ing only one or two hands. In 1848 he 
removed to South Westminster, where he 
now resides, and formed a co-partnership 
with George Holden, under the firm name 
of Merriam & Holden. Increase of busi- 
ness necessitated the enlargement of their 



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ARTEMAS MERRIAM. 

manufacturing capacity, and in 1859 they 
took in another partner, Joel Merriam — 
firm name Merriam, Holden & Co. Busi- 
ness still increased, and in 1867 a larger 
factory was built. In November, 1869, he 
was burned out. He rebuilt and enlarged 
his business. In 1873 Joel Merriam died, 
and the death of the other partner, Mr. 
Holden, occurred soon after. Since that 
time Mr. Merriam has conducted the busi- 
ness alone, giving emplovment to a large 
number of his fellow-townsmen. 

Mr. Merriam was married in Westmin- 
ster, lune 8, 1841, to Salome, daughter of 
Asa and Dolly (Whitney) Holden. Of 



this union were six children : Stilman F., 
Laura, Mary Ella, Ida Eliza, Willie, and 
Nellie Merriam. 

Mr. Merriam was a representative to the 
General Court, 1878, and has been select- 
man and overseer of the poor for several 
years. 

MERRIAM, Francis Peabody, son of 

Andrew and Ann Jane (Nixon) Merriam, 
was born at Middleton, Essex county, Jan- 
uary 20, 1818. 

He attended the common district school 
until sixteen years of age, and afterwards 
spent about a year in the English depart- 
ment of Phillips Academy, Andover. 

He learned the shoe trade, and in 1839 
opened a general country store. He after- 
wards became interested in the manufacture 
of shoes, and continued in trade till i860. 
He then sold the store and devoted himself 
to the shoe trade till 1871. He then sold 
out, but after two years he resumed the 
business and carried on the manufacture 
until 1887. He then retired from active 
business. 

Mr. Merriam was first married in Dan- 
vers, November 21, 1844, to Mary F. 
Crosby. She died June 23, 1848. He was 
again married in Leominster, November 
25, 1849, to Hannah B., daughter of John 
and Elizabeth (\Mlkins) Crosby. Of this 
last union were four children : Franklin C. 
and Jane Anita, deceased, and Mary Frances 
and Katherine Merriam, now living. 

Mr. Merriam was a member of the House 
of Representatives in 1877. He has never 
missed casting a vote in state and presiden- 
tial elections since his first vote for Harri- 
son in 1840. He was a Whig, and is now 
an ardent Republican. 

MERRILL, George S., son of Jona- 
than and Margaret (Clarke) Merrill, was born 
in Methuen, Essex county, March 10, 1836. 

His education was received in public 
and private schools of Methuen and Law- 
rence. 

Between 1853 and '56 he served an ap- 
prenticeship in the office of the " Lawrence 
Courier." In 1856 he became editor of 
the "Lawrence American," and since i860 
has been sole proprietor and editor. 

He was five years a member and two 
years president of the common council of 
Lawrence. He was appointed postmaster 
by President Lincoln in 1861, holding the 
position twenty-five years. In 1862 he 
assisted in raising a company for the Union 
service, of which he became lieutenant, and 
afterward captain. The company was at- 
tached to the 4th regiment, Massachusetts 



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MERRILL. 



volunteers, and was with (ieneral Banks in 
Louisiana, including the siege and capture 
of Port Hudson. 

To enter the service, he tendered his 
resignation as postmaster, but this was de- 
clined, and leave of absence granted by 
the post-office department. He was adju- 
tant of the 6th regiment, Massachusetts 
militia, from 1866 to '69, then three years 
captain of a light battery in Lawrence, and 
since 1873 has been major of the 1st bat- 
talion of light artillery. 

He was for seven years president of the 
Massachusetts Press Association, and for a 
like period secretary of the Republican state 
central committee. He was one of the char- 
ter members and first commander of Post 
39, G. .\. R., in Lawrence ; was commander 
of the department of Massachusetts in 
1875, and commander-in-chief of United 
States in 188 1 ; has been senior vice-com- 
mander of the Massachusetts Commanderv 




GEORGE S. MERRILL. 

of the Military ( )rder of the Loyal Legion. 
In 1883 he was commander of the Ancient 
and Honorable .Artillery Company. 

For years he has been chairman of the 
national pension committee of the G. A. R. 
He was appointed by Governor .\mes to 
the office of insurance commissioner of 
Massachusetts, June i, 1887, which position 
he now holds. 



Mr. Merrill was married in Concord, 
N. H., December 29, 1855, to Sarah J., 
daughter of Elbridge and Ruth A. (Felch) 
Weston. Of this union are two children : 
Winlield G. and Genevieve Merrill (now 
Mrs. Magee). 

His present residence is Lawrence. 

MERRILL, Moody, son of Winthrop 
and Martha N. Merrill, was born in Camp- 
ton. Grafton county, N. H., June 27, 1836, 
and educated in the district schools of 
that town and at the Thetford (Vt.) 
Academy. 

During the summer he was occupied with 
farming, and in the winter attended school. 
In the winter of 1856 he taught school at 
Ellsworth, N. H., and in 1857 at Thornton, 
N. H. Ill health prevented his entering 
college, and in 1S59 he went to Boston and 
entered the law office of the Hon. William 
Minot. 

He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
February, 1863. He served on the school 
board from 1865 to '74, and for seven years 
was chairman of the Ro.xbury high school 
committee. In 1868 he was elected to the 
House of Representatives, where he served 
three years, and was a member of the state 
Senate in 1873 and '74, where his energy 
and ability won for him the influential 
position which he held among the leaders 
in that body. In 1874 he was chairman of 
the committee in charge of the memorial 
services on the death of Charles Sumner, 
and compiled the memorial history of that 
occasion. 

From 1872 to '86 he devoted himself to 
the Highland Street Railway, of which 
corporation he was president during the 
entire term of its existence. This position 
was one well qualified to test the nerve and 
ability of anyone who had the courage to 
inaugurate a new scheme against the com- 
bined opposition of what have always been 
considered the most powerful monopolies 
in the metropolis. Subsequently, in 1886, 
he secured the passage by the Legisla- 
ture of the bill authorizing all street rail- 
ways of the city of Boston to consolidate, 
and it was due to him that the general 
consolidation was finally effected. Mr. 
Merrill put his whole heart into the work 
of establishing this new road upon a 
popular and paying basis, and his energy 
and perseverance were amply rewarded by 
the most brilliant success. It was also 
largely due to Mr. Merrill's influence that 
the system of public parks in the city of 
Boston was established, more especially 
that portion of the system which includes 
the now Franklin Park, containing nearly 



METCALF. 



.MILES. 



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SIX Inindrt'd acres of the city's most valu- 
able suburban lands, 

In 1880 he was a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Electoral College, but has taken 
no active part in politics for several years. 
He is president of the Ro.\bury Club, hav- 
ins; been unanimously elected to succeed 
Nathaniel J. Bradlee, upon his decease. 




Quiet and unostentatious in manner, 
popular with his associates in club and so- 
cial life, strong in his political and com- 
mercial connections, he is to-da)^ among 
the best known of Boston's public men. 

METCALF, Edwin Dickinson, son 

of William and Nancy E. (Crook) Met- 
calf, was born in Smithfield, Providence 
county, R. I., March 14, 1848. 

His early education was given him in 
the public schools, \\'estford Academy and 
Eastman's Business College. 

In 1868 be began business life as clerk 
in a house furnishing-goods store in Provi- 
dence, R. I. He removed to Springfield 
in 1875, and with Mr. Luther, formed a 
co-partnership under tile firm name of Met- 
calf & Luther, house furnishers. They 
have since continued in the same line, 
doing a constantly increasing busine.ss, with 
branch houses in Chicopee and Holyoke. 

Mr. Metcalf was married in Fall River, 
in September, 187^, to Carrie W., daughter 



of Samuel W, and Caroline (Walker) Flint. 
Of this union were two children: Edwin 
F. and Harold G. Metcalf. 

Mr. Metcalf is one of the leading busi- 
ness men of Springfield, and is also largely 
interested in banking and railroad proper- 
ties in the West. He is a director in the 
John Hancock National Bank, Massachu- 
setts Mutual Life Insurance Company, and 
the Cayuga Woolen Company, Auburn. 
N. Y. He was president of the Spring- 
field & New London Railroad at the time 
of its consolidation with the New York & 
New England Railroad. 

He was a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives in 1880 and '81 ; mayor of 
Springfield in 1886 ; state senator i88g, 
and was three years on Governor Robin- 
son's staff, 1884, '85 and '86. 

MILES, Daniel Curtis, son of Daniel 

and Mary (Curtis) .Miles, was born June 
I, 1827. in the eastern part of Westmin- 
ster, Worcester county. His early educa- 
tion was obtained ])arlly in the public and 
partly in jjrivate schools. Later he attended 
the academy at Westminster Centre. This 
period of school training was supplemented 
l)y the not less valuable discipline of teach- 
ing, in which he engaged for twelve terms, 
in the towns of Lancaster, Westminster and 
Gardner. 

Beginning his active business life upon a 
farm, Mr. Miles e.xtended his interests to 
the lumber trade, and also became |3roprie- 
tor of a saw-mill, a grist-mill, and factory 
for the production of chair stock. Later 
he took an active part in erecting the chair 
factory and connected buildings at South 
Westminster, and for three and a half years 
he was a partner with Merriam &: Holden in 
the manufacture of chairs and settees. He 
also owned and operated the Westminster 
and Winchendon bakeries for three years. 

Prospering in these enterprises, Mr. 
Miles went into partnership in the manu- 
facture of cane-seat chairs at North West- 
minster, under the firm name of Miles & 
Lombard, afterwards changed to Miles & 
Son. This soon became an important in- 
dustry in that section of the town, giving 
employment to seventy-five persons. In 
the spring of 1875 Mr. Miles helped estab- 
lish the Westminster National Bank, of 
which he has ever since been the president. 
For the past few years he has operated ex- 
tensively in land in southern California and 
elsewhere, besides holding an interest in a 
large cattle ranch near Miles City, Mon- 
tana. This city was founded by his son, 
George M. Miles, and was named in honor 
of his iirother, Gen. N. A. Miles, U. S. A. 



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MILLER. 



On the 22d of May, 1S51, Mr. Miles 
married Lucy .\nn, daughter of James and 
Lucy (Jones) Puffer, and of this union there 
have been five children : Mary Josephine, 
George AL, Herbert J., Arthur W., and 
Martha G. Miles. 



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DANIEL C. MILES. 

In addition to the numerous and success- 
ful business enterprises which have identi- 
fied him with the progress and prosperity 
of the town, Mr. Miles has held many 
offices of trust and responsibilit\-. He has 
been auditor of the town's accounts, asses- 
sor, member of the school board, selectman 
and overseer of the poor, president of the 
Worcester North .-Vgricultural .Society two 
3-ears, and trustee fifteen years, superintend- 
ent of the Baptist Sunday-school eighteen 
years, and clerk of the society twent)--si.\ 
years, president of the Wachusett Baptist 
Association, and justice of the peace for 
many years. 

Mr. Miles has amply gratified his taste 
for travel, in his own country, Europe, and 
the British Isles. 

MILLER, ALBERT E., son of Ezekiel 
and Polly (Hogaboom) Miller, was born 
in Covert, Seneca county, N. Y., and is the 
youngest of ten children, and a descend- 
ant of the New England family of Miller. 

His father when quite a young man 
emigrated to New York and settled on a 



farm, on which the early life of the son 
was spent. He entered school at six years 
of age, having previously read the New 
Testament, " Hale's History of the United 
States," " Robinson Crusoe," and a num- 
ber of books taken from the public library. 
After passing the district schools, he 
was sent to Cortland Academy, where, 
after one year's attendance, he, with one 
other bo}', was selected by the superin- 
tendent to receive the benefits of the 
state normal department at Homer Acad- 
emy. Here he remained three years. His 
desire was to study medicine, but was 
over-persuaded by friends to read law. 
After reading law one year, he returned 
to his first choice — medicine, and was 
graduated from the S}-racuse Medical Col- 
lege in 1855, and from the University of 
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1864. He 
was a private student of H. H. Smith, 
M. D., professor of surgery in the uni- 
versity, also of the celebrated D. Hayes 
Agnew, M. D. 




ALBERT E. MILLER. 

Failing health fo'rced him to abandon 
local practice. He began lecturing on 
public health in the principal cities and 
towns throughout the country, and for the 
last few years much of his time has been 
spent lecturing before schools. He has 
latterly returned to practice, has an office 



MILLER. 



MILLER. 



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in Needham, and one in Boston — his 
specialty being lung diseases. 

Dr. Miller is an active temperance man, 
working in tlie Republican party, but is 
not a politician. He was elected to repre- 
sent the 9th Norfolk district in the House 
of Representatives, 1888 ; was re-elected 
for 1889, and was House chairman of the 
committee on public health. 

He is a prominent Mason, a member of 
Zenobia Commandery, Cortland Chapter, 
No. 194, R. A. M., New York ; past 
master Norfolk Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and 
past grand of Eliot Lodge, L C). O. F,, 
Needham ; member of the Grand Lodge 
of Massachusetts ; has several times held 
the office of D. I). G. M.; is a member of 
Aurora Chapter, Eastern Star, Natick ; of 
Jewel Lodge, K. & L. of H., of Roxbury ; 
and is D. D. G. P. of district No. 16, State 
of ALissachusetts. 

He was one of the foremost in starting the 
Village Liiprovement Society of Needham, 
and was its first president. He has also 
beautified and rendered fertile a portion of 
the town reclaimed from waste land, built 
twenty fine houses and planted a total 
abstinence colony, as he refuses to allow 
entrance to any tenants who use alcoholic 
stimulants. 

Dr. Miller was largely instrumental in 
securing from the Legislature the act 
allowing the town of Needham to supply 
its inhabitants with pure water. He was 
elected chairman of the water committee. 
He is superintendent of the First Parish 
Sunday-school ; president of the Union 
Temperance Band, the Chautauqua Liter- 
ary and Scientific Circle, and is active in all 
literary work in the village. He is a lib- 
eral, public-spirited citizen. 

Dr. Miller was married in New York, No- 
vember 25, 1866, to Vesta Delphene, daugh- 
ter of Alonzo and Vesta (Ketchum) Free- 
man, of Newark, N. Y. She is also a phy- 
sician, and assists him in his practice. She 
is an active temperance worker, and has 
been president of the W. C. T. U. of Need- 
ham since its organization. 

MILLER, George F., son of Joseph 
and Susan (Shaw) Miller, was born in 
Schaghticoke, Rensselaer county, N. Y.. 
January 16, 1847. 

His early education was received in the 
public schools and Union Village Academy, 
Greenwich, Washington county, N. Y. He 
subsequently took a course of study in 
Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College, 
Albany, N. Y. 

He began business life in Isaac G. Flack's 
general store, Lansingburgh, N. ^'., then 



engaged in the retail grocery business for 
himself in Greenwich. In 1868 he removed 
to North Adams, and entered the internal 
revenue office, where he remained two years 
and a half ; was then special agent for the 
Widows' & Orphans' Benefit Life Insurance 
Company one year, after which he took up 
the general insurance business. 

Mr. Miller was married in North Adams, 
November 23, 1876, to Delia A., daughter 
of Jasper H. and Harriet (Sheldon) Adams. 
Of this union are two children : Harry A. 
and Elsie Miller. 




GEORGE F. MILLER. 

Mr. Miller was clerk and treasurer of the 
North Adams fire district ; is now assessor 
of the town ; secretary of the Hoosac 
Valley Agricultural Society ; justice of the 
peace ; notary public ; charter member of 
Greylock Lodge, F. & A. M. ; also of Com- 
posite Royal Arch Chapter and St. Paul 
Commandery, ,K. T. 

MILLER, JOHN LELAND, was born in 
Adams, Berkshire county, June 2, 1813. 
He was the son of Caleb and Nancy (Mitch- 
ell) Miller, and a great grandson of William 
Miller, who was a surgeon in the British 
army. 

John I,. Miller was of a feeble constitu- 
tion, and during his childhood his health 
was so delicate as to incapacitate him for 
severe labor. His earlv education was 



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MILLER. 



MILLETT. 



acquired in the common schools of his 
native town, which, however, his feeble 
health never permitted him to attend 
steadily. His studious habits at home 
compensated in a measure for the lack of 
instruction at school. He was instructed 
in the higher branches and in languages by 
private tutors. He also attended during 
short periods the academies in Adams and 
Williamstown. 

At the age of sixteen he became a clerk 
in a mercantile establishment in the city 
of New York, but two years later, on the 
breaking out of the cholera in that city, 
his friends prevailed on him to remove to 
West Troy, where he was a salesman dur- 
ing a year, subsequently purchasing the 
business of his employer Within a year 
his stock of goods was burned. 

After an illness of nine months, he com- 
menced the study of medicine. He pur- 
sued his studies during a year at \\'est 
Troy, then for two years as a resident stu- 
dent in the Berkshire Medical College, 
during which he attended a course of lec- 
tures at Woodstock, Vt. He graduated at 
the Berkshire institution in 1837. He 
then went to New Orleans, and was soon 
engaged as surgeon of a surveying party 
at the mouth of the Mississippi River, 
under Captain Talcott of the United States 
topographical engineers. Thence he went 
to Pensacola, Fla., and soon afterwards 
sailed for New York, where he arrived early 
in November, 1838, after having been ship- 
wrecked on the rocky island of Gun Key 
in the Caribbean Sea. He then engaged 
during five years in the practice of his pro- 
fession in Providence, R. I. During this 
time he was appointed surgeon of General 
Stedman's brigade of state troops that were 
called out to suppress the " Dorr rebel- 
lion." Returning to Pittsfield, he renewed 
his studies, and in 1844 he became pro- 
fessor of anatomy and physiology in the 
medical department of Illinois College. 

In 1847 he resigned his professorship to 
accept a position in the army. He was 
appointed assistant-surgeon of volunteers 
May 27, 1847, and major and surgeon of 
volunteers July 13, in the same year. He 
joined the army at Yera Cruz, Mexico, and 
was in active service till the close of the 
Mexican war. In 1855 he returned to 
Pittsfield, and removed to Sheffield in 
1866 and having retired from practice, 
purchased the Mount Barnard farm, on 
which he resided until the day of his death, 
April 17, 1889. 

He was many times called by his fellow- 
citizens of Sheffield to occupy positions of 



trust in the town. Dr. Miller has been 
president of the Berkshire Medical Soci- 
ety, president of the alumni association of 
the Berkshire Medical College ; a member 
of the Massachusetts Medical Society and 
the Berkshire Historical Society. He was 
a model farmer, and in 1876 was made 
president of the Housatonic Agricultural 
Society, and by his judicious management 
succeeded in restoring it to a condition of 
prosperity. He was a great friend of 
Williams College, and in 1888 gave it 
forty thousand dollars to establish a pro- 
fessorship of national history. 

On March 4, 1862, he was married to 
Julia, daughter of John and .\nne (Alden) 
Atkins, of Fairbury, 111. She is a direct 
descendant of John Alden, who came to 
America in the" Mayflower." 

MILLETT, Joshua Howard, son of 

Rev. Joshua and Sopiironia (Howard) Mil- 
lett, was born on the 17th of March, 1842, 
in Cherrvfield, Washington county, Maine. 
His father was a clergyman of the Baptist 
denomination and author of the " History 




JOSHUA H, MILLETr. 

of the Baptists of Maine." His early edu- 
cation he obtained in the public schools of 
Wayne, Maine, where he resided for some 
years after he was two years of age. He 
fitted for college at Hebron Academy, He- 
bron, Maine, and entered Colby University 



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at Waterville, Maine, with the class of '67. 
Unavoidable circinnstances prevented his 
graduating with the class, but he received 
the degrees of A. B. and A. M. as of that 
class. 

He then studied law in the offices of 
Hon. Isaac F. Redfield, late Chief Justice 
of the supreme court of Vermont, and 
with William A. Herrick, in Boston, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1870. 
He at once formed a law partnership with 
his two instructors, under the firm name of 
Redfield, Herrick Os: Millett, which contin- 
ued till the death of Judge Redfield, six 
j-ears later. The two remaining members 
carried on the business till 1885, when by 
the death of Mr. Herrick, the entire busi- 
ness of the ofifice came into the hands of 
Mr. Millett. 

In addition to his legal business, Mr. 
Millett has been president and counsel of 
the Crosby Steam Gage & Valve Company 
since its organization in 1875. In 1869 
Mr. Millett removed from Dorchester to 
Maiden, where he has since resided. Dur- 
ing this time he has served several years 
upon the school committee, upon the board 
of trustees of the public library of this city, 
and represented the district in the Legis- 
lature in 1884 and '85. He has been among 
the most earnest workers in the Maiden 
Improvement Society. 

June 19, 1867, Mr. Millett was married, 
in Dorchester, to Rosa Maria, daughter of 
Charles and Hannah Giles Tredick. Their 
two children are : Charles Howard and 
Mabel Rosa Millett. 

MILLIKEN, EBEN COLBRAITH, s<m of 
Edward and Lucia A. (Bacon) Milliken, 
both of Maine, was born in Windsor, Ken- 
nebec county, Me., August 6, 1843. 

District schools of Winthrop, Me., gave 
him his first insight into books, — grammar 
and high schools of New Bedford, and a 
private academy. Providence, R. L, finished 
his academic education. 

In 1863 he began his business career, 
with his father, in the grocery business. 

He was afterwards book-keeper and 
paymaster in the Bay Mill Company, East 
Greenwich, R. I., for two years. 

In 1869 he opened a bakery in New 
Bedford, and still conducts it as a success- 
ful business enterprise. 

Mr. Milliken was married, September 15, 
1869, to Ellen M. Darling. Of this union 
are two children : Albert Darling and 
William Beal Milliken. 

Mr. Milliken was alderman of New Bed- 
ford, 1879; member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives, 1880 and 'Si ; member of the 



state Senate 1885, '86 and '87, where he 
was chairman of committees on harbors 
and public lands, street railways, fisheries, 
and woman suffrage. He is connected 
with various benevolent and political associ- 
ations. He was regent of the Royal 
Arcanum two years, and is director of the 
New Bedford board of trade. 

MlLLlS, Henry L., son of Lansing and 
Harriet P. Millis, was born in Lansingburgh, 
Rensselaer county, N. Y., January 2, 1855. 

He obtained his education at the Chaun- 
cey Hall, Dwight and English high schools 
at Boston, and began his business train- 
ing as clerk in the National Car Company, 
St. Albans, Vt. 

He subsequently became car agent for 
the same company, and afterwards clerk 
for the general manager of the Central 
Vermont Railroad. 




HENRY L, MILLIS. 

He is now president of the Oak Grove 
Earm Company ; selectman of the town of 
Millis ; director in Broadway National 
Bank and Market National Bank, Boston ; 
director of Ogdensburgh & Lake Cham- 
plain Railway, and the Hammond Beef 
Company ; treasurer of the Steel Edge 
Stamping Company of Boston, also of the 
Chicago, Boston & Liverpool Company, 
and the New York Despatch Refrigerator 
Company. He was representative to the 



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MILNE. 



General Court of Massachusetts, 1885 and 
'86, and has been honored by various other 
calls to positions of honor and trust. 

Mr. Minis was married in Cambridge- 
port, December 15, 1880, to Annie R., 
daughter of Charles B. and Helen F. 
(Coolidge) Russ. Of this union are three 
ciiildren : Violet, Lansing, and Henry Lan- 
sing .Millis. 

MILNE, JOHN C, was born in Milfield, 
.Scotland, May 18,1824. His parents died 
while he was quite young, and to the ten- 
der care of his grandparents he was in- 
debted for educational opportunities and 
early educational training. In 1832 he 
emigrated with them to Nova Scotia, 
where, at the age of eight years, he en- 
tered the printing-office of an uncle, and 
soon became a rapid and accurate com- 
positor. 

In 1835 he came with his grandparents 
to Fall River, and for nearly three years 
worked in the calico factory of Andrew 
Robeson & Sons. During that time he 
attended, three hours each day, a factory 
day school, maintained b}' the Messrs. 
Robeson for the benefit of the boys in 
their employ, and also an evening school. 

In 1838 he obtained work in a printing 
office in Fall River, where, excepting six 
months spent at the Pierce Academy, Mid- 
dleborough, and a short time in a printing- 
office in New York City, he remained till 
1845. After leaving the academy he con- 
tinued his studies with a view to entering 
college. He devoted a portion of each 
day to study, reciting to the Rev. George 
M. Randall, afterwards bishop of Colorado, 
and the remaining hours of the day and 
evening to labor in the printing-office, and 
was thus fitted for college. Thomas .\lmy, 
the proprietor of the office, his life-long 
friend and subsequent partner in busi- 
ness, kindly arranged his hours of labor in 
such a way that he could select his time 
both for study and work. Being destitute 
of means, he was forced to abandon his 
cherished purpose, and in 1845 was encour- 
aged to commence the publication of the 
" Fall River Weekly News," in company 
with Mr. Almy. The first number was is- 
sued April 3, 1845. In 1859 a daily edi- 
tion of the " News " was begun, and both 
papers are still published. Mr. Almy died 
in 1882, after a co-partnership with Mr. 
Milne of thirty-seven years. The difficul- 
ties experienced in those days, when these 
two young men undertook the work, were 
laborious, and their lives self-denying ; 
but by incessant application and rigorous 
economy they achieved success. 



The paper was started as an exponent of 
Democratic principles, and so remained 
until the surrender of the party to the 
slave-holders of the South. It has been 
an earnest advocate of human freedom, 
the rights of free labor, the cause of tem- 
perance, and the best interests of the com- 
munity. For the last thirty years and 
more it has represented the Republican 
party, but ever in an independent manner. 

In 1849 Mr. Milne was married to .Abby 
A., daughter of George W. and Betsey 




JOHN C, MILNE. 

(Huwland) Gifford, of Fall River. Of this 
union were nine children, five of whom 
are living : Mrs. Mary J. Fenner, Joseph 
1), Milne, Mrs. .\bby G. Carr, Mrs. Jennie 
D. Remington and Hannah E. Milne. 

Mr. Milne was a member of the city 
council of Fall River for five years. He 
is a director in the .Slade and (>sborn 
mills, and has been a director in the Po- 
casset National Bank since its organization 
in 1854. He is also president of the 
Citizens' Savings Bank, and a member of 
its board of investment. He has repre- 
sented the city for five consecutive years 
in the state Legislature — from 1884 to 
1888 inclusive — serving on several com- 
mittees, the most prominent of which were 
the committees on public charitable insti- 
tutions, and banks and banking. Of both 



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of these he was, during the later years of 
his service, the chairman on the part of the 
House. He devoted much time and atten- 
tion to the interests of the charitable insti- 
tutions, of one of which he was appointed 
a trustee by Governor Ames, a position he 
still holds. 

Mr. Mihie is not onlv a gentleman held 
in the highest honor and esteem by his fel- 
low-citizens, but he carries his purity of 
character into his editorial work, and 
labors to disseminate only such journalistic 
matter as appeals to the higher moral 
elements of societ}'. 

MINER, ALONZO AMES, son of llcna- 
jah Ames and Amanda Miner, was born on 
the 17th of August, 1814, at Lempster, 
Sullivan countv, N. H. 

He was educated at the public schools 
and at various New England academies, 
and afterwards studied privatel)'. From 
the time he was sixteen years old he 
taught school during the winters, for four 
years, and in 1834 became associate prin- 
ci|5al with James Garvin, of an academy 
at Cavendish, Vt. A year later he took 
entire charge of an academj- known as 
the Unity Scientific and Literary Academy, 
founded especially for him at Unity, N. H., 
by the parents of those sons and daughters 
who had been under his previous tuition, 
where he remained for four years. During 
the last year and a half he often filled 
neighboring pulpits on Sunday. He re- 
ceived fellowship as a Universalist clergy- 
man in 1838, was ordained in 1839 and 
settled in Methuen. In 1842 he removed 
to Lowell, and thence to the Second 
Universalist church — now the Columbus 
Avenue church, of Boston, in 1848, suc- 
ceeding the Rev. Dr. Chapin, as associate 
with the venerable Hosea Ballou. 

In August, 1836, at Lempster, N. H., 
Dr. Miner was married to Maria S., daugh- 
ter of Edmund and -Sarah (Bailev) Perley. 

Dr. Miner has been a member of the 
school board in Methuen, Lowell and Bos- 
ton ; he was elected by the Legislature a 
member of the board of overseers of 
Harvard College ; a member of the state 
board of education for eight years, by ap- 
pointment of Governor Claflin, and again 
for a similar term by appointment of 
Governor Rice. He still holds the same 
office under the appointment of Governor 
Robinson. From 1862 to '75 Dr. Miner 
was president of Tufts College, and is still 
a member of the board of trustees. He 
is a trustee of the Bromfield school at old 
Harvard ; president of the trustees of the 
Universalist Publishing House ; a director 



of the American Peace Society ; for eigh- 
teen years president of the Massachusetts 
'I'emperance Alliance ; president of the 
committee of ore hundred for the preserva- 
tion of our public schools ; and appointed 
by Mayor Cobb, of Boston, chairman of 
the commission in the treatment of drunk- 
enness in the city institutions, whose re- 
|3ort embodied methods since widely intro- 
duced into Sherborn and Concord reform- 
atories and in the police court l)y the pro- 
bation officer. 

He has thus, in many ways, made him- 
self a most important factor, and exerted 
a controlling influence in the cause of re- 
form, easily taking the place of a leader 
in the temperance movement and in the 
school question recently agitating the State 
of Massachusetts. 




ALONZO A MINER. 

In 1 86 1 Dr. Miner received the honorary 
degree of A. M. from Tufts College, in 
1S63 the degree of S. T. D. from Harvard 
College, and in 1875 the degree of LL. D. 
from Tufts College. He delivered the 
oration, July 4, 1855, before the city 
authorities of Boston. 

.\mong many literary productions. Dr. 
Miner's most popular, perhaps, are: "Bible 
Exercises," (published in 1854, the last 
edition of which was published in i884-'85), 
and ' Oltl Forts Taken" (published in 



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MINER. 



MINER. 



i878-'85). He is a man of intense vital 
activity, striking individuality, and oc- 
cupies a high place in the esteem of the 
large constituency he has made, not only 
in the city where he lives, but in the State 
he equally well serves. 

MINER, David Worthington, son of 

Nathan and .\ffa Worthington Miner, was 
born in Peru, Berkshire county, October 5, 
1820. He received his early education in 
the public and private schools of his native 
town 

He chose the career of a physician for 
his life work, and prepared himself for his 
profession in the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, New York, and Berkshire Medi- 
cal College, Pittsfield. Besides these pro- 
fessional advantages, he had benefited by 




DAVID W MINER. 

the private practical instruction given by 
Dr. John M. Brewster and Dr. H. H. Childs. 

Dr. Miner began the practice of his pro- 
fession in Lee, soon after graduation, in 
1844 ; removed to Ware, in 1845, to accept 
a co-partnership with the late Dr. Horace 
Goodrich, which continued five years, when 
Dr. Goodrich retired. Dr. Miner has con- 
tinued the practice of surgery and medicine 
in the same office forty-four years. 

He was married in Northampton, Sep- 
tember 24, 1845, to Mary H., daughter of 
Jo.seph and Nancy Warner. Of this union 



are four children : \\'orthington \\'arner 
Miner, M. D., Eliza N. (now wife of Prof. 
Charles E. Garman of Amherst College), 
Jean E., and Affa S. Miner. 

Dr. Miner was appointed coroner by 
Governor Gardner, but did not accept the 
office. He was appointed medical exam- 
iner in 1877, and still retains the office; 
was member of the school board many 
years ; chairman of the board of selectmen 
si,\ years ; member of the board of road 
commissioners seven years, and has been 
chairman of the board of health many years. 
He is a member of the Massachusetts Med- 
ical Society and permanent member of the 
United States Medical Association, etc. 

Eighteen young men have studied medi- 
cine under his tuition, graduating from the 
different medical colleges of the country, 
all of whom have made successful practi- 
tioners, several having risen to high emi- 
nence in the profession. 

MINER, George Allen, the son of 

Harlow and- Sarah Katharine (Campbell) 
Miner, was born at Granby, P. Q., January 
15, 1828. On his father's side he is de- 
scended from Henry Bullman, of the Men- 
dippe Hills in Somersetshire, England, 
who furnished Edward HI., when on his 
way to embark for the wars in France, with 
an escort of one hundred men selected from 
his servants and from the men employed 
in his mines. For this timely service the 
king ennobled Bullman, gave him a coat-of- 
arms and changed his name to Miner. 
One of his descendants, Thomas Miner, 
emigrated from England to Massachusetts, 
landing in Boston in 1630. ( )n his mother's 
side he is descended from Sir John Camp- 
bell, Duke of Argyle. 

Mr. Miner, in early youth, was not a 
boy of robust health, and consequently did 
not readily enter into his father's plans for 
his own settlement and that of his younger 
brother in an interior town, preferring a 
mercantile career in Montreal, about hfty 
miles distant. As a sort of compromise, 
his father secured him a clerkship in 
the country store of C. F. Safford, at St. 
Albans, Vt. At this time he was seventeen 
years of age, and he continued in this posi- 
tion until he reached his majority. He 
then caught the " gold fever," and had 
agreed to accompany a friend from Bridge- 
port, Conn., on a voyage to California to 
seek his fortune, but owing to a severe 
storm, the stage-coach by which he was 
traveling from St. Albans to Troy, N. Y., 
was so much delayed that it did not reach 
New Haven, from whence he was to have 
embarked, until the dav after the sailing of 



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417 



the vessel. Making the best of his disap- 
pointment, he procured employment in the 
dry-goods store of E. & C. G. Birdsey, of 
Bridgeport, Conn., where he remained a 
)-ear, and in 1850, removing to Boston, he 
entered the dry-goods jobbing house of 
J. N. DenLson & Co., with whom he spent 
si.x years 




GEORGE A, MINER. 

His first connection in business for him- 
self was as a member of the firm of Talbot, 
Newell & Co., and, in 1862, this was re- 
organized as Merritt, Parkhurst & Co. , 
later, Parkhurst, Miner & Beal ; Miner, 
Beal & Hackett, and now Miner, Beal & 
Co., wholesale clothiers, of which Mr. 
Miner is the senior partner. 

Mr. Miner was married in September, 
1866, at Westborough, to Maria Louise, 
the daughter of Josiah W. and Clarina S. 
Blake. Mrs. Miner died in July, 1887, 
leaving no children. 

Mr. Miner has long held an enviable 
reputation for business sagacity and integ- 
rity, and while not actively engaged in 
politics, yet well represents that large class 
of the mercantile community whose views 
upon the current movements of the day, 
and whose sterling private character, go 
far to build up that unerring and potent 
factor in political life known as public 
opinion. 



MINK, William, son of Henry \V. and 
Eve Mink, was born April 7th, 1832, at 
Rhinebeck, Dutchess county, N. Y. 

After an early education at select schools, 
he graduated at the Rhinebeck Academy, 
and entered the law office of the late 
Charles W. Mink, at Albany, N. Y. But 
that profession becoming distasteful to 
him, he became apprenticed to the printing 
business, and is at present president and 
treasurer of the Sun Printing Company, 
located at Pittsfield, where he now resides. 

At Kingston, N. Y., he married F^lizabeth 
Hall, daughter of the late Samuel Rey- 
nolds. They have three sons and one 
daughter. 

During the war Mr. Mink served in the 
34th Massachusetts volunteers, and has 
been connected with the Massachusetts 
militia in various positions for about fifteen 
years. 




WILLIAM MINK. 

He is a firm adherent to the faith of 
Democracy as proclaimed and illustrated 
by Thomas Jefferson. 

MITCHELL, Edwin Vinald, son of 

William W. and Sarah (Phipps Leland) 
Mitchell, was born in Sangersville, Piscata- 
quis county. Me., October 2, 1850. 

His education was received in the com- 
mon and high schools of Framingham, 
Mass. 



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MITCHELL. 



MITCHELL. 



He began his business career without 
financial assistance, wholly dependent on 
his own energy, prudence and perseverance, 
meeting with many obstacles which he 
manfully overcame, and in 1867 became 
interested in the straw business with his 
brothers at Westborough, and entered the 
firm two years later. 

He afterwards became connected with 
H. O. Bernard & Co., of Westborough, and 
remained until 1876, then came to Med- 
field for D. D. Curtis & Co. His devotion 




EDWIN V MITCHELL 

to the interests of his emplovers, Iiis skill, 
usefulness and executive ability com- 
mended him so highly to the firm, that 
they promoted him to be superintendent 
of their extensive works, and holding this 
position until 1884, he received an interest 
in the business. 

On the death of Mr. Curtis (1885), the 
firm of Searle, Dai ley iv: Co. was estab- 
lished, Mr. Mitchell being the resident 
and managing partner at Medfield, H. A. 
Searle and G. F. Dailey being the New 
York partners. The firm is to-day one of 
the most extensive and important houses 
engaged in the manufacture and sale of 
straw goods in this country. 

Mr. Mitchell was married in Medfield, 
October, 1885, to Blanche E., daughter of 
Daniel D. and Ellen (Wright) Curtis. Of 



this union are two sons ; Cranville Curtis 
and Edwin Searle Mitchell. 

Mr. Mitchell was selectman of Medfield 
in 1877, but his private business led him to 
decline a re-election. He has been chair- 
man of the Republican town committee fin- 
ten years, a trustee of the public librarv 
and justice of the peace since his appoint- 
ment by (iovernor Robinson. 

Although yet a young man, his position 
as a leading manufacturer, aided by a 
generous and whole-souled nature, gives 
him an influence and popularity in public 
and private aft"airs that few men attain in 
a life-time. Prosperity sits w-ell upon him, 
and no worthy cause or person appeals to 
him in vain. 

He is a Mason of high degree, a promi- 
nent member of the Odd Fellows, also a 
member of the Ancient and Honorable Ar- 
tillery company, the Norfolk, Home Market 
and .■Mgoncjuin clubs. 

MITCHELL, George Edwin, son of 

Lorenzo Dow and Hannah (Hill) Mitchell, 
was born in Cambridge, Middlesex county, 
May 8, 1844 

His early education was obtained in the 
public schools of Cambridge and Somer- 
ville. His first connection in business, in 
1870, was with E. K. Goodall and Cieorge 
.-\. Dexter, under the firm name of tJoodall, 
Mitchell &: Dexter, wholesale dealers in 
butter, cheese and eggs, Faneuil Hall 
market, Boston. 

In 1872 he became senior partner of 
Mitchell, Dexter & Co., commission mer- 
chants, their business ranking with the 
heaviest dealers in this line. He has re- 
mained in the same connection up to the 
present time. 

Mr. Mitchell was married in Gloucester, 
October 22, 1865, to Annie Marie, daughter 
of John Cleaves and Hannah Palmer 
Knowlton. Of this union were four chil- 
dren : .\nnie Knowlton, Georgie Belcher, 
Fannie .\llen, and Charles Edwin Mitchell. 

Mr. Mitchell was a member of the com- 
mon council, Chelsea, 1878 and '79, mem- 
ber of the board of aldermen, 1880 and 
'81, serving as president of the board the 
latter year; mayor of Chelsea 1887 and 
'88, and was chairman of the Republican 
city committee for several j'ears previous 
to 1887. 

He has filled the office of chairman of the 
school committee, also chairman of trustees 
of the public library, and chairman of the 
board of water commissioners. He is chair- 
man of the standing committee of the First 
Universalist church, member of Star of 
Bethlehem Lodge, F. & A. M., Shekinah 



MOEN. 



MONK. 



4'9 



Chapter, R. A. ^[.,and Palestine Comnian- 
dery, Knights Templar. He is treasurer 
of the Mayors' Club of Massachusetts. 

Mr. Mitchell has a good war record. 
He enlisted in Somerville light infantry, 
company B, 5th Massachusetts vt)lunteer.s, 
1862, and served with the regiment in 
North Carolina, and was honorably dis- 
charged at the expiration of his term of ser- 
vice, and is now secretary of the old 5th Regi- 
ment Veteran .\ssociation, and president of 
Company B, 5th Massachusetts Veteran As- 
sociation. He is also a member of Theo- 
dore Winthrop Post, No. 35, (i. A. R., anil 
member of W. S. Hancock comniaiul No. 
I, Union Veteran Union. 




GEORGE E. MITCHELL 

Mr. Mitchell has made a pronounced 
success of all that he has attempted in 
mercantile, political, civil and military life, 
and his friends are reasonably proud of the 
lareer of one who has filled so acceptably 
the many offices of honor and trust con- 
ferred upon iiim. 

MOEN, Philip Louis, son of Augustus 

R. and Sojihie .\nn Moen, was born in 
\\ ilna, lefferson countv, X. \ .. November 
1,5, 1824. 

His initiation into business life was in a 
hardware store in New York City, in which 
wire, from the Washburn ^^'ire Mill in 
Worcester, was sold. In 1847 he settled in 



Worcester, and the firm I. Washburn \- 
Moen was formed, the business being wire- 
drawing and rod-rolling. 

This was when Mr. Moen was about 
twenty-three years of age. The business 
has continued essentially the satne, but in 
1868 it began to be carried on under the 
firm title of the Washburn & Moen Manu- 
facturing Company, the corporation being 
established by legislative act. The business 
has steadily increased, till at the present 
time it has reached gigantic proportions — 
the concern said to be the largest wire 
manufacturing company under individual 
ownership in the whole world. They now 
employ three thousand workmen, and turn 
out about three hundred and fifty tons 
dady. This phenomenal growth of the 
business is due largely to the financial 
ability of Mr. Moen. 

'I'hough not a college graduate, nor one 
who claims especial scholarship, he is yet 
a man of rare intelligence and elevated 
thought, a judicious and active friend to 
all educational movements and institutions, 
and one ever ready to further his convic- 
tions by liberal contributions. His services 
on the school board have been highly ap- 
preciated, and as trustee of the Worcester 
Polytechnic Institute since 1869, and treas- 
urer for seven years, he has so acquitted 
himself as to merit and receive the highest 
approval. 

In the more active scenes of political 
life he has not been often found, though on 
public questions his views and sentiments 
iiave had decided expression and due 
weight. In 1885 he was chosen a presi- 
dential elector on the Republican ticket, a 
fact which sufficiently indicates his party 
affiliations. In religious sentiment he is 
of the New England Orthodox Congrega- 
tional stamp, and well known for his broad 
Christian characteristics. 

Mr. Moen has been twice married, his 
first wife having been Eliza, the daughter 
of Ichabod Washburn, of Worcester, and his 
second, Maria S., daughter of Peter C. and 
Dorothy Grant, of Lyme, N. H. By the 
last marriage he has had three children : 
one son, Philip W., and two daughters, So- 
phie and Alice Grant Moen, all of whom 
are now living. 

MONK, HiRA.w Alexander, was born 

in Stoughton, Norfolk county, July 16, 
1829, and his education was acquired in 
the public schools of those days. 

Previous to his majority he had learned 
the boot-maker's trade. Having mastered 
this, he launched out into business for 
himself, taking apprentices and c;irrying 



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MONROE. 



on the business to an extent that ui those 
days was considered large. 

When the introduction of labor-saving 
machinery removed the manufacture of 
boots and shoes to the province of the fac- 
tory rather than the shop, Mr. Monk 
accepted the position of foreman, continu- 
ing in this business until about six years 
ago, when he entered upon the manufac- 
ture of shoe-heels as a specialty. 

Mr. Monk was united in marriage, April 
8, 1851, in Stoughton, to Lucinda Fuller 
Cole, of that town. The fruits of this 
marriage have been ten children : Mary 
Loise, Charles Hiram, Jacob Francis, John 
Harvey, Cora Estelle, Sarah Abigail, Na- 
than Adelbert, George A., Hattie Augusta, 
and Wesley Elias Monk. 

At the first election of Brockton under its 
city charter, Mr. Monk was elected from 
ward 3 a member of the council. He 
served three years on the board, then three 
years as alderman. 




HIRAM A- MONK. 

Mr. Monk is a highly respected member 
of the Masonic fraternity, in which he 
takes a great interest as member and offi- 
cer. He has been the worshipful master 
of St. George Lodge, F. & A. M., of Brock- 
ton, and has served as a director in the 
Campelio Co-operative Bank for the last 
twelve years. He is a member of the 



Legion of Honor, hax-'ing been made com- 
mander of Council No. 16, Brockton. 

In early life Mr. Monk joined a temper- 
ance organization, was a Son of Temper- 
ance, and is now a member of Temple 
Lodge, No. 112, L O. G. T., Campelio, and 
is one of its trustees. He is an unflinch- 
ing foe to rum, and a friend of prohibi- 
tion, believing that the cause is best sub- 
served by working through the Republican 
party. 

In 1864 Mr. Monk joined the ranks of 
the 58th regiment, Massachusetts volun- 
teers, and served during the remainder of 
the war, receiving an honorable discharge. 
He subsequently became a member of Post 
72, G. A. R., Stoughton, and has served as 
an officer. 

Mr. Monk is a member and trustee of 
the Campelio Methodist Episcopal church. 

MONROE, George H., son of Harris 
and Rebecca (Ellis) Monroe, was born in 
Dedham, Norfolk county, on the i8th of 
August, 1826. His paternal grandfather 
was Nathan Monroe, one of the minute 
men at the battle of Lexington, in 1775. 

When he was ten years old his family 
moved to Wrentham, where he was edu- 
cated in the common schools and at Day's 
Academy. When sixteen years of age he 
came to Boston to learn the printing trade, 
in the office of S. N. Dickinson, and became 
a ])roof-reader a year later, reading in 
Dickinson's office, in the New England 
Stereotype Foundry, and at the University 
Press, Cambridge, till 1859, when he pur- 
chased the " Norfolk County Journal," in 
koxbury, which he owned and conducted 
for nearly ten years. 

In i864-'65 he was elected a represen- 
tative to the General Court, and in 1869- 
'70-71 was honored by his constituents 
with a seat in the Senate. Mr. Monroe 
was a Whig in politics up to 1854, when he 
joined the Republican part3% and was a 
delegate from Dedham to its first state 
convention. He supported Horace Greeley 
in 1872. He was the Democratic and 
Liberal candidate for secretary of state in 
1872 and '75. To-day he is in the front 
rank of independent Republicans. 

He was for years connected with the 
school committee in Roxbury and Boston, 
and has for many years been correspond- 
ent of the " Hartford Courant " over the 
name of " Templeton." This connection 
was suggested by a friend, another famous 
litterateur, W. S. Robinson, known more 
familiarly as "Warrington." Mr. Monroe 
has made the nom de plume " Templeton " 
of ecpial prominence in the literary world. 



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For four years he was the Boston corre- 
spondent of the "New York Tribune." In 
187 1 he became connected with the " Satur- 
day Evening Gazette " of Boston, and was 
its chief editorial writer for thirteen years, 
when he joined the staff of the " Boston 
Herald," as correspondent and editorial 
writer. He was correspondent for the 
"Boston Herald" from the New Orleans 
Fair, in i884-'S5, and in 1886 from Cali- 
fornia, Oregon and Washington Territory. 
He still holds the position of correspondent 
of the " Hartford Courant," which probably 
gives him the longest consecutive service 
of any .American writer as a newspaper 
correspondent for one paper. 




GEORGE H MONROE. 



On the 25th 



of October, 1853, Mr. 
Monroe was married to Alice Maria, daugh- 
ter of Dr. William and Alice (Brazer) 
Ingalls, They have four sons and one 
daughter : William Ingalls, George F^llis, 
.'Mice Ingalls, John Ingalls, and Cliarles 
Edward Monroe. 

Mr. Monroe has resided in Ro.xbury 
since 1863, where he is well known and 
highly esteemed by a large circle of friends. 
He has served as president of the Ro.xbury 
Athenajum, and is one of the board of 
trustees of the " Fellowes Athenaeum." 

Mr. Monroe's writings are always able, 
scholarly and entertaining. His views are 



broad, his criticisms fair, his compliments 
just. He has the true instinct of a jour- 
nalist in the graceful presentation of that 
which should instruct as well as entertain. 

MONTAGUE, Sa.MUEL L., the son of 
Simeon and Sybil Montague, was born in 
Montague, Franklin county. May 4, 1829. 
He is the great grandson of Major Rich- 
ard Montague, who fought in the revolu- 
tionary war. 

Samuel L. Montague received his early 
education in the common .schools and at 
the academy in Hopkinton, finishing at the 
Baptist Academy at Worcester. He re- 
sided with his parents at Montague and at 
North Leverett until 1837, when he re- 
moved with them to Michigan, about 
twenty miles west of Jackson. In the 
fall of 1839 he returned with his father's 
family to Massachusetts. 

In 1846 he went to Boston and entered 
a West India goods store, at the corner of 
Pearl and Purchase streets, as clerk. 

In 1854 Mr. Montague went into business 
for himself, commencing, with his present 
partner, a concern that has grown into a 
commission business of no small propor- 
tions, having been carried on without inter- 
ruption, ancl steadily increased for the last 
thirty-four years. He made Boston his 
residence from 1846 to '55, then removed 
to Brighton, where he reiuained till 1859, 
in which year he changed his home to 
Cambridge, where he still resides. 

He is a member of Mizpah Lodge of Free 
Masons of Cambridge : was master of the 
lodge i876-'77 ; member of Cambridge 
Royal Arch Chapter, Boston Council of 
R. & S. Masters, and De Molay Encamp- 
ment of Knights Templar. He served 
si.x years in the city government of Cam- 
bridge — 1873-'74, in the common coun- 
cil ; i875-'76, in the board of aldermen ; 
was twice elected and served as mayor, 
i878-'79. In 1877 he was elected one of 
the commissioners of the sinking fund, 
which position he resigned on being elected 
mayor. In 1881 he was elected one of the 
trustees of the Cambridge public library, 
and since that date has been chairman of 
the board. He was one of the originators of 
the Charles River Street Railway Company, 
and one of its directors ; and also a director 
in several other business organizations. 

He was elected presidential elector on 
the Republican ticket, in 1884, from the 
5th congressional district, and in 1885 was 
appointed by the civil service commission- 
ers of Massachusetts, one of the board of 
examiners for the city of Cambridge ; was 
elected chairman of the board, which 



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MOODY. 



position he still holds. He is a member 
of the New England Historic Genealogi- 
cal Society ; is one of the trustees of the 
Cambridgeport Savings Bank, and also 
one of the directors of the Longfellow 
Memorial Association. 

Mr. Montague was selected by Frederick 
H. Rindge, as one of a committee of five 
citizens of Cambridge to assist in carrying 
into effect his munificent gifts to that citv. 




SAMUEL L MONTAGUE 

He is extensively interested in the man- 
ufacture of wootl-pulp, is one of the direct- 
ors, also treasurer and manager of the 
Penobscot Chemical Fibre Company of 
West Great Works, one of the largest 
manufactories of the kind in this countrv; 
also of the Piscataquis Falls Pulp & Paper 
Company, of Montague, Maine. 

Mr. Montague married, December 23, 
1852, Annie Maria Burchsted, of Boston. 
She died September 12, 1854. He marrieil 
again. May 4, 1856, Mary Elizabeth Burch- 
sted. He has three children : AnnieSybil, 
Charles Hibbard, and Mary Noyes Mon- 
tague. 

MOODY, DWIGHT Lyman, son of Ed- 
win and I5etsey (Holton) Moody, was 
born in Northfield, Franklin county, Feb- 
ruary 5, 18,37. He is of old Puritan stock, 
his ancestors being numbered among the 
earliest settlers of the State. 



He was brought up a Unitarian, and 
had never been under evangelical in- 
fluences until he was seventeen vears of 
age. His father was a farmer in rather 
straitened circumstances. He died sud- 
denly when the son was only four years 
old. The young lad was able to obtain 
only a limited education. As a boy he 
was healthy, boisterous and self-willed — a 
leader among his playmates, but by no 
means a promising scholar, his head being 
tilled with play and mischief. 

When seventeen years of age he went to 
Boston, to be trained for business in the 
establishment of his uncle; and going one 
day to the church of the late I3r. Kirk, for 
the first time to an evangelical sermon, it 
had the effect of making him uncomfort- 
able, and he resolved not to go again. 
Something induced him, however, and the 
previous impressions were deepened. 

When eighteen years of age he was a 
clerk in a shoe store in Boston, and a 
member of the Mount Vernon church 
Sunday-school, in a class taught by Ed- 
ward Kimliall. The influence of his 
teacher, and the interest enhanced by con- 
versation with him, determined him in mak- 
ing a public profession of faith, with which 
view he applied for admission to the 
church, May 16, 1855. In September, 
1856, he accepted a situation in a shoe 
store in Chicago, and on his first Sunday 
there he sought out a mission school, and 
offered his services as a teacher. He was 
informed that the .school had a full supply 
of teachers, but if he would gather a class 
he might occupv a seat in the school-room. 
The ne.xt Sabbath he appeared with eigh- 
teen boys, and a place was assigned him 
for his raw recruits. On that day he un- 
folded his theory of how to reach the 
masses — "Go for them." Soon after this 
he rented a saloon that held two hundred 
persons, in order to hold prayer-meetings 
and Sabbath-school services. It was in 
such a rough neighborhood, that during 
service it was necessary to have policemen 
guard the door and building. But he 
toiled on until the winter of i857-'58, 
when a powerful revival led to the forma- 
tion of the V. M. C. A. of Chicago, and the 
establishment of a daily union prayer- 
meeting, in which work Mr. iMoody was the 
principal motor. He soon after this felt 
called to give up his situation in Chicago, 
and go out into the southern part of the 
state to aid the work of Christian enter- 
prise. In 1863 his work had assumed 
such magnitude that a large and commo- 
dious tabernacle was erected in Chicago, 



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costing twenty thousand dollars, to whicli 
everyone was invited, and where a free 
gospel was dispensed. Other tabernacles 
were built for Mr. Moody in Boston, New 
York, Baltimore, Cleveland and many 
other cities, and for years the work of 
evanirelization was carried on in the large 
centres of population, crowds filling these 
immense auditoriums to listen to the words 
of Mr. Moody, and the singing of his co- 
worker, the well-known Ira D. Sankey. 

Mr. Moody has been a great benefactor 
to his native town. He has established a 
tluin-ishing school for girls, with all neces- 
sary buildings, including a fine library 
edifice. There are nearly four hundred 
pupils, representing all parts of the world, 
and the expenses are merely nominal. Op- 
posite this seminary, on the west bank of 
the Connecticut River, is the Mount Her- 
mon School for Boys, with about the same 
number of pupils, and conducted on very 
much the same plan. A thorough Chris- 
tian education for boys and girls, and a 
training that will fit them for the duties of 
life — this is the plan of his educational 
efforts. 

Mr. Moody was married, August 28, 
1862, to Emma Revelle. Of this union 
were three children. 

MOODY, William Henry, son of 

Henry L. and Melissa N. (Emerson) Moody, 
was born in Newbury, Essex county, De- 
cember 23, 1853. 

He was educated in the common schools 
of Danvers and Salem, Phillips Academy, 
Andover, and Harvard College, graduating 
from tiie latter in the class of 1876. He 
then took a law course in Harvard law 
school, studied law with Richard H, Dana, 
and was admitted to the bar in 1878. 

Mr. Moody, while beingclosely identified 
with the interests of the Republican party, 
has been too busily engaged in the practice 
of his profession to admit of his accepting 
many of the positions of trust for which 
he has been prominently mentioned. 

He was a member of the Haverhill school 
board, and is at present city solicitor, a 
position which he has held for the past two 
years. 

Though comparatively young in years, 
Mr. Moody has attained that prominence 
in his chosen profe.ssion which entitles him 
to just recognition among the leading at- 
torneys of Essex county. He enjoys a 
large and lucrative practice, and commands 
a prominent position professionally in the 
city of his adoption. 

He favors only those methods in political 
work that are honorable, and while disdain- 



ing political preference or undue promi- 
nence, he has always been an earnest worker 
in advancing the interests of the Rejiublican 
party. 

Mr. Moody is unmarried. 

MOORE, Henry M., .son of Joseph .\. 
and Abigail (Mead) Moore, was born in 
North Brookfield, Worcester county, Janu- 
ary 17, 1829. 

He secured a common and high school 
education, and worked on his father's farm 
until he began his business career in 1853, 
as clerk for James \V. Lee i^v Co., wholesale 
hatters, Boston. 

In 1858 he went into the same business 
for himself, under the firm name of Moore, 
Smith & Co., which has become one of 
the leading houses in that line in the 
country ; the organization never having 
been changed except by the admission 
from time to time of three junior salesmen 
who had earned their promotion. 

Mr. Moore was married in Thompson, 
C'onn., in 1849, to Mary A., daughter of 
Leander M. and Gratia (Knapp) Earle. 
Of this union are six children : Abbie M., 
Mary G., Emma M., Carrie Mead, Harrie, 
and Henry Sylvester Moore. 

Mr. ^Foore is a deacon and the chairman 
of the parish committee of the Franklin 
Street Congregational church, Somerville, 
where he resides ; was superintendent of 
its Sunday-school for .some years ; has 
been a member of the Somerville school 
board thirteen years ; chairman of the 
Massachusetts state Sunday-school com- 
mittee ; chairman of the state committee 
of the Massachusetts Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association ; and a member of the 
international committee, Y. M. C. A. 

He is president of the Boston Hatters' 
Association ; trustee of the school of 
Christian \Yorkers, Springfield ; trustee of 
the Mt. Hermon school, and also of the 
Northfield Seminary, both under the pat- 
ronage of D. L. Moody ; director in the 
Somerville Electric Eight Company, and in 
the Standard Cordage Company, Boston. 

Deeply interested in Christian work, he 
gives a great deal of time to the Sunday- 
school, and is a leader in the affairs of the 
Young Men's Christian Association. He is 
a great admirer of Mr. Moody and his 
methods of s|5iritual work, and has traveled 
extensively with him. Mr. Moore's enthu- 
siasm and reputation are not confined to 
the bounds of his parish, but his voice is 
heard, and influence prayerfully given in 
other communities which have learned to 
respect his fidelity, and recognize his ability 
in religious training. 



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MOORE, Ira LORISTON, the eldest 
son of Ira and Mary Gordon (Brown) 
Moore, was born in Candia, Rockingham 
county, N. H., November 24, 1824. He is 
descended on his father's side from General 
Moore, one of Washington's generals, and 
on his mother's side he traces his lineage 
back to the Browns, linen merchants of 
London, England, who came to this country 
in 1637, and settled at Hampton, New 
Hampshire. 

In 1840 he went to Lowell, and after 
attending the public schools, he fitted for 
college under the late Hon. Harvey Jewell 
and the Rev. Dr. Cyrus Mann. He entered 
Amherst College in 1S47. After leaving 
college he studied medicine with Dr. John 
AVheelock Graves of Lowell, and entering 
the Jefferson Medical College at Philadel- 
phia, was graduated at the head of his 
class of two hundred and twentv-seven. 




IRA L, MOORE. 

After graduating he went into co-part- 
nership with Dr. Graves, and after a year 
or more went into business for himself, and 
by close attention and remarkable skill in 
his profession, he soon attained a practice 
equal to that of any physician in Lowell. 
Dr. Moore was particularly successful in 
the treatment of typhoid fever, cholera, 
cholera infantum, cases of poisoning, and 
midwifery. 



In 1856 Dr. Moore w'as elected a repre- 
sentative to the Legislature from Lowell, 
being the first Republican who was elected 
in Middlesex county, who had not been a 
member of the American party. In 1858 
he received the nomination of state senator, 
but was defeated in the election by Gen- 
eral B. F. Butler, by a small vote. He was 
twice elected director of the Lowell public 
library. 

In i860 Dr. Moore removed to Boston, 
where for ten years he practiced his profes- 
sion. He has been twice a delegate to the 
national medical convention. In 1861 he 
was elected a member of the school com- 
mittee of Boston for three years. 

In 1865, '66, '70, and '71 Dr. Moore was 
elected from Boston as a representative to 
the Legislature. While in the Legislature 
in 1857 from Lowell, Dr. Moore was the 
chief advocate of the filling of the Back 
Bay district of the city of Boston. The 
magnificent collection of buildings, both 
public and private, now standing upon that 
territory, at an assessed valuation of over 
one hundred million dollars, attests the wis- 
dom and far-sighted public spirit of those 
to whom the city of Boston is indebted 
for one of the choicest portions of her 
domains. 

In 1868 Dr. Moore gave up the practice of 
his profession and embarked in speculation 
in real estate, and for twenty years he has 
been one of a few of the largest operators 
in vacant land in the city of Boston. 

January 1, 1873, Dr. Moore married 
Charlotte Maria, daughter of the late Daniel 
and Maria Marble (Martin) Chamberlin, 
and the issue of the marriage were two 
children : Charlotte Lillian and Daniel 
Loriston Moore, the latter dying at the age 
of two years. Mrs. Moore died September 
9, 1887. At the death of her father, which 
took place in 1879, Dr. Moore was appointed, 
under the will, chairman of the e.\ecutors 
and trustees of the Chamberlin estate, and 
with the other trustees soon decided to 
demolish the old .^dams House, and to 
erect the present magnificent hotel now 
standing on the old site. 

Dr. Moore has been an active member 
of the Odd Fellows for nearly thirty years, 
and during that time has filled all of the 
highest offices, both in the lodge and in 
the encampment. In 1888 he was elected 
a member of the Boston common council. 

He has retired from active business, e.x- 
cept to look after his own, and the trust 
estates of which he has charge. He has 
ever been a man positive in the expression 
of his opinion, and has displayed great 



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executive ability in tlie many positions 
of honor and trust to wliich he has been 
called. 

MORRISON, John H., son of John 
and Bridget (McCaffrey) Morrison, was 
born in Westford, Middlesex county, De- 
cember 23, 1S56. 

He passed through the public schools of 
^Vestford and Lowell, \\'estford .\cademy 
and Lowell high school, there fitting for 
Harvard College. He entered Harvard in 
1874, but owing to sickness was unable to 
com[)lete the course ; entered the Harvard 
law school, and was graduated in the class 




JOHN H. MORRISON. 

of 1878; read law with William H. An- 
derson, of Lowell ; was admitted to the 
Massachusetts bar, October, 1879, and 
immediately began practice on his own 
account. 

Mr. Morrison was married in Lowell, 
June 30, 1S84, to Margaret L., daughter of 
James and Esther (Quade) Owen. They 
have no children. 

Mr. Morrison has been president of 
nearly all the Catholic organizations in 
the city, including the Irish National 
League ; was a delegate to Philadelphia at 
the time of the national convention of the 
Irish National League ; was elected to the 
Lowell school board when twenty-one 
years of age ; elected to the House of 



Representatives at the age of t went v -two 
years, and to the Senate at twenty-four. 

He was the first Democrat appointed as 
chairman of the probate and chancery com- 
mittee on the part of the Senate. He has 
been for several years a member of the 
Democratic state central committee. He 
has been fortunate in never having been 
defeated for any office for which he has 
been nominated. He enjoys a large and 
lucrative practice, and is a favorite of the 
young Democracy. 

MORSE, Asa PORTER, son of Daniel 
and Sarah (Morse) Morse, was born in 
Haverhill, Grafton county, N. H., Septem- 
ber I, 1818. 

He is a lineal descendant in the seventh 
generation from Anthony Morse, who came 
from Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, 
and settled in Newbury, in 1635. His 
father, Daniel Morse, was the son of Dan- 
iel and Miriam (Hoyt) Morse, who was 
horn in Newbury, and afterwards removed 
to Amesbury, and finally settled at Bridge- 
water, N. H., and died there February 25, 
1826; the son of Benjamin and Marga- 
ret (Bartlett) Morse, of Newbury and 
Amesbury, about 1730; the .son of Wil- 
liam and' Sarah (Merrill) Morse of New- 
bury ; the son of Benjamin and Ruth 
(Sawyer) Morse of Newbury ; the son of 
Anthony Morse, the emigrant settler. His 
mother, the daughter of Benjamin and Ra- 
chel (Webster) Morse, was born October 
8, 1777, in Concord, N. H., and died Jan- 
uary 22, 1834. 

Mr. Morse came to Boston in 1840, then 
about twenty years of age, and began 
business life as book-keeper in the house 
of Hayward & Morse, who were engaged 
in the Provincial and West India trade. 
In a few years he had accumulated suffi- 
cient capital to begin business for himself, 
supplying parties in the West Indies with 
goods for their plantations, and later on 
manufacturing staves for shipment to 
Cadiz and other ports, also shooks for the 
West Indies, etc., in which he employed a 
large number of men, and in the conduct 
of which he was eminently successful. In 
1845 he removed to Cambridge, where he 
has ever since resided, becoming largely 
interested in real estate operations and in 
building. 

]'"or many years he has been connected 
with the banks of Cambridge as director 
and trustee; also director of the Cambridge 
Hospital, the Cambridge Fire Insurance 
Company, and other local institutions. He 
has been a member of the school board fif- 
teen years, and for the past six years presi- 



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MOUSE. 



dent of the Cambridgeport National Bank. 
He has accepted positions of pubhc trust 
only at the earnest sohcitation of his 
fellow-citizens. 

He was alderman in 1866, and a member 
of the House of Representatives in 1869 
and '73, holding places on important com- 
mittees, and declining a re-election. In 
1S79 he was a member of the state Senate, 




ASA P. MORSE. 

serving as chairman on the joint committee 
on prisons, and also on the committee on 
claims. The committee on prisons were 
called upon to Revise the entire system of 
prison supervision — a very important and 
difficult duty. Under the lead of Mr. 
Morse a new system was perfected, which 
has proved complete and satisfactory, and 
the law of 1879 is acknowledged to be a 
superior piece of legislation. His ability 
in this direction made him chairman of the 
special committee on convict law, which 
investigated that subject in the summer 
and fall of 1879. The report was e.x- 
haustive and valuable, and settled many 
questions which had before been in con- 
troversy. 

Mr. Morse was re-elected to the Senate 
in 1880 by an unusual majority ; again 
placed at the head of the committee on 
prisons, and also on the committee on edu- 
cation and on expenditures. The prison 



committee were successful, inaugurating 
many measures of prison reform, there 
having been no important legislation re- 
garding prisons for nearly fifty years. The 
establishment of a reformatory for men 
was the only important measure proposed 
which failed. Its success in passing the 
Senate was due largely to the efforts of 
Mr. Morse. 

Though not a leader in debate, Mr. 
Morse is an effective speaker, concise and 
convincing in the presentation of a sub- 
ject. In enterprises for the advancement 
of the interests of the city, and in all pub- 
lic services, he has proved himself to be 
the very best type of the Massachusetts- 
citizen. 

Mr. Morse was married July 13, 1845, 
t(i Dorcas Louisa, daughter of Thomas 
W. and Elizabeth (Wells, widow) Short. 
Mrs. Morse died in 1864. Of this union 
were three children : Mary Louisa (Mrs. 
Charles \V. Jones), Velma Maria, and Ar- 
thur Porter .Morse (deceased). 

MORSE, BUSHROD, son of \\'illard and 
Eliza ((Hover) Morse, was born in Sharon, 
Norfolk county, August 24, 1837. 

Mr. Morse's parents were the descend- 
ants of a long line of New England ances- 
try which counted on its roll many a name 
known to fame. Among them were Pro- 
fessor Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the 
magnetic telegraph ; James Kent, Chief 
Justice and renowned commentator ; Dr. 
l''ranklin, Fisher Ames, (leneral (ilover, 
I'klward Everett, and Charlotte Cushman. 

He attended the public schools of his 
native town ; fitted for college in Provi- 
dence Conference Seminary, and Pierce 
Academy, Middleborough, during the years 
1853, 'S4, 'S5 and '56 ; entered Amherst 
College, September, 1856, without condi- 
tion, and left during the first year, being 
obliged to abandon the remainder of his 
collegiate course on account of ill health. 

He chose the profession of law, and 
studied in North Easton and Boston ; was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 
1864, and has practiced law in Boston ever 
since, having, however, alwavs retained his 
residence in his native town on the old 
Morse homestead, near Lake Massapoag, 
a large and picturesque estate which has 
descended to him and his brothers from 
their great grandfather, Gilead Morse, an 
English soldier under General Wolfe, who 
purchased it on his return from the French 
war in i 764. • 

In politics Mr. Morse is a pronounced 
Democrat, and has performed conspicuous 
service for his party. A\'hen questions of 



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427 



thf public good, simjily, are at issue, party 
lines fail to hedge iiini in or cnntrnl his 
action. 

Mr. Morse has been chairman of the 
Sharon school board; was a member of the 
House of Representatives in 1870, '83 and 
'84, serving on important committees ; was 
chairman of the committee on probate and 
chancery 1884 ; has been a member of the 
] )emocratic state central committee: is now, 
and has been for ten years, ciiairman of 
the Nt)rfolk county Democratic committee ; 
was a presidential elector in 1884, and a can- 
didate for same in 1888 ; was a delegate to 
the national Democratic convention at Cin- 
cinnati in 1880, which nominated Cieneral 
Hancock for president ; was a candidate for 
Congress in the 2d district against John D. 
Long in 1886 ; carried Norfolk county by 
233 majority, and was defeated in the dis- 
trict by only 1,822 votes. He has been 
justice of the peace since 1864, when he was 
first appointed by Governor .Viidrew. 




BUSHROD MORSE. 

Mr. Morse taught school in his early 
manhood for several yeans, thus earning 
money wherewith to meet his expenses 
while pursuing his preparatory studies. He 
is now devoted to the legal profession, an 
incessant worker, a good lawyer, a man of 
strict integrity and unflinching determina- 
tion. \Vhile in the Legislature he always 



supported and ably advocated the passage 
of all measures calculated to advance the 
best interests of the working classes, and 
his addresses on the subject of tariff reform 
have attracted attention and been published 
in the leading newspapers of the country. 

Mr. Morse was married in Windsor, Nova 
Scotia, September 29, 187 1, to Gertie S., 
daughter of James and Sarah A. (Loonier) 
Gertridge, who died in Boston, February 5, 
i87(). 

MORSE, Charles D., son of Leonard 
and Remember (Meacham) Morse, was 
born in Woodstock, Winilham county. 
Conn., November i, 1S27. 

His education was limited to the meagre 
advantages offered in the public schools of 
his native town. 

In 1S50 he came to Millbury, and in 1852 
entered into partnership with '1'. S. FuUam, 
under the firm name of FuUam, Morse & 
Co., for the manufacture of sashes, blinds 
and doors, and ornamental house-furnish- 
ings. In 1854 the firm was changed to 
.\rmsby & Morse, and in 1871, Mr. Morse 
haying purchased the interest of his part- 
ner, to C. D. Morse & Co., which has re- 
mained to the present time. 

Mr. Morse was married in ^Vorcester, 
< )ctober 27, 1864, to Anna E., daughter of 
I'itzroy and Frances G. (Blake) Willard. 
( )f this union were four children : Frances 
\\'., Charles H., Anna L., and Mary L. 
Morse. 

Mr. Mor.se was elected a director in the 
.Millbury National Bank in 1863, and in 
1879 was made president, which office he 
now holds. He is president of the Mill- 
bury P'.lectric Company, also vice-president 
of the Millbury Savings Bank and of the 
Worcester Mechanics' E.xchange. He has 
held all the prominent town offices, includ- 
ing that of assessor and selectman. Mr. 
Morse was a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives in 1873. 

MORSE, Charles Francis, son of 

Lyman and Lydia (Brigham) Morse, w'as 
born in Framingham, Middlesex county, 
lanuary 16, 1832. He was educated in 
the common schools. 

His commencement in business was as 
book-seller, stationer, and dealer in fancy- 
goods and patent metlicines. This busi- 
ne.ss he continued from 1857 to '60, in 
Marlborough. 

At the outbreak of the civil war Mr. 
Morse enlisted in company F, 13th Massa- 
chusetts volunteers, and as 2d and ist 
lieutenant, served from July 16, 1861, to 
.\ugust 30, 1862. He was captain and 



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MORSE. 



commissary of subsistence, United States 
volunteers, from August 30, 1862, to iSIa}^ 
1865. 

Captain Morse was on duty at Hagers- 
town, Md., from October, 1861, to April, 
1862, as depot commissary of subsistence, 
and provost marshal. After the retreat of 
(General Banks from the Shenandoah Val- 
ley, he was detailed by the quartermaster 
department to collect all the stores scat- 
tered through the valley. He was depot 
quartermaster at Martinsburgh, W. Va., 
from June to August, 1862 ; depot commis- 
sary of subsistence at Chicago from June, 
1864, to March, 1865 ; appointed inspec- 
tor of subsistence department for all the 
armies operating against Richmond in 
April, 1865, but declined on account of 
disabilities, and tendered his resignation, 
which was accepted in May, 1865. 

He was commander of Post 43, G. A. R., 
from 1867 to '69. 

Mr. Morse was married in Woonsocket, 
R. I., October 16, 1855, to Angeline H., 
daughter of Lambert and Emily F. (Dick- 
inson) Bigelow. Of this union are two 
children : Edith F. and Faith E. Morse, 
the former married and living in Marl- 
borough, and the latter studying music in 
Italy. 

After the war Mr. Morse was engaged 
in the grocery and provision business, and 
from 1869 to '73 was in Troy, N. Y., and 
New York City. His present calling is 
editor of the " Marlborough Times," which 
position he has held since he became its 
owner and controlling spirit in 1877. This 
paper, while published in one of the interior 
towns of the State, has, under the peculiar- 
ly able and versatile management of the 
editor, achieved a recognized position of 
originality and power outside the confines 
of Marlborough. Mr. Morse wields an 
intelligent, caustic pen — a foe to pretense 
and hypocrisy, a friend to truth and genuine 
reform. 

Mr. Morse has been deputy sheriff for 
Middlesex county since 1873, and also an 
auctioneer and real estate agent in the 
town of Marlborough, where he resides. 

MORSE, Charles William, son of 

Charles C. and Sarah (Jackman) Morse, 
was born in Haverhill, Essex county, April 
21, 1851. 

He was educated in the commo'u schools. 
When sixteen years old he entered the 
employ of the Haverhill Aqueduct Com- 
pany, as boy, and gradually rose from this 
position to that of superintendent and 
manager, which he attained in 1872, and 
now holds. 



Mr. Morse has always been prominently 
identified with the politics of his city and 
state, and the high esteem in which he is 
held is proven by the fact that although 
an ardent Democrat, he has been repeat- 
edly elected to office from the strongest 
Republican districts of Haverhill. 

Mr. Morse has been chairman of the 
Democratic city committee since 1874 ; 
was a member of the common council 1877, 
'78 and '79, and its president the last two 
years. He was a member of the board of 
aldermen 1880 ; member of the school 
board from 1881 to '87 ; member of the 
board of assessors 1887, '88, and '89 ; is 
treasurer and general manager of the Hav- 
erhill Electric Company ; treasurer of the 
Haverhill Steamboat Company ; director 
in the Haverhill Iron Works, the Merri- 
mac Valley Steamboat Company, and the 
Haverhill board of trade. 

Mr. Morse was married in New Market, 
N. H., September, 1885, to Mary S., 
daughter of George A. and Abby (Shack- 
ford) Bennett. They have one child : 
Kate N. Morse. 

MORSE, Elijah Adams, son of Abner 
and Hannah Peck Morse, was born May 25, 
1 84 1, in South Bend, St. Joseph county, 
Ind. In early boyhood he removed to 
Massachusetts, the home of his ancestors, 
and has there passed the greater portion of 
his life. He belongs to an old New Eng- 
land family, whose founder, Samuel Morse, 
settled at Dedham in 1637. His father 
(Abner) was a clergyman, a gentleman 
of refinement and culture. Mr. Morse's 
middle name, " Adams," comes from the 
marriage of Joseph Morse, of Sherborn, 
with Prudence Adams, of Braintree, now 
Quincy, and he is a distant relative of 
Presidents John and John Quincy Adams. 

Beginning his education in the public 
schools of Sherborn and Holliston, he 
attended later the well-known Boylston 
school in Boston, and Onondaga Academy 
in New York State. 

He had just left school when the civil 
war broke out, and at nineteen he enlisted 
and went to the front as a private in com- 
pany A, 4th Massachusetts infantry. On 
leaving the army, Mr. Morse joined with 
his brother in establishing what have grown 
to be the extensive works for the manufac- 
ture of the "Rising Sun Stove Polish," in 
Canton, of which business house he is now 
the sole proprietor. 

Mr. Morse has served in the House of 
Representatives ; been twice elected to the 
state Senate ; was elected a member of 
Governor Ames's council in 1887 ; and in 



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MORSE. 



429 



'8S, while councilor, was elected to repre- 
sent his congressional district as the suc- 
cessor of Governor Long in the 51st Con- 
gress, by a plurality of 3,684 votes. 

He is a leader in the cause of temperance, 
on which subject he has made hundreds of 
addresses during the last decade. He is a 
philanthropist, and a warm supporter of 
every genuine effort for social reform. He 
is interested in all matters pertaining to the 
]iublic school question, and participated in 
the great meeting held in Tremont Temple, 
Boston, Jidy 29, 188S, earnestly pleading 
for our free public educational institutions, 
and against any movement looking toward 




^i>.i--^;' yLi"J.SViiE" 



ELIJAH A, MORSE. 

the establishment of sectarian schools. 
Mr. Morse gave his town the ground for 
the memorial hall, in memory of those who 
fell in the war for the Union, and has shown 
his public spirit in every movement for the 
advancement of his chosen residence. 

Mr. Morse was married January i, 1868, 
to Felicia, daughter of Samuel A. Vining, 
of Holbrook. Of this union are three chil- 
dren living : Abner, Samuel, and Benjamin. 

MORSE, Godfrey, was born at \\'ach- 
enheim, Bavaria, May 19, 1846, and came 
to this country while a lad of tender years, 
and immediately entered upon a thorough 
course of public school instruction. He 
was a brilliant scholar, and completed full 



courses at the Brimmer grammar, the Eng- 
lish high, and the public Latin schools. 
He e.xhibited quite an early proclivity for 
the law, and his tastes in this direction were 
carefully cultivated. After concluding his 
studies in the public schools, he was sent 
to Harvard College, where he graduated in 
1870, receiving the degree of A. B. He 
then entered the Harvard law school, 
graduating as LL. B. in 1872. Mr. Morse 
immediately began practice. As assistant 
counsel for the United States in the court 
of commissioners of the Alabama claims, 
in 1882, '83, and '84, he proved himself 
fully equipped for the most complicated of 
legal controversies ; and as attorney for 
Jordan, Marsh & Co., in the famous cloak- 
house cases in New York, he earned special 
honors. Mr. Morse has an extensive prac- 
tice in mercantile cases ; and among the 
special concerns whom he represents are 
the American Surety Company, the Brush 
Electric Lighting Company, and many of 
the large mercantile firms of Boston and 
New York. 

Mr. Morse was a member of the Boston 
school committee for three years, from 
1876 to '78 inclusive. Durmg 1882 and '83 
he was a member of the Boston common 
council, and was president of the council 
in 1883, and a trustee of the public library. 
At present he is one of the commissioners 
for building the new court-house for Suf- 
folk county. 

As trustee and clerk of the Boston Home 
for Incurables, vice-president of the Boston 
Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, and 
trustee of the Boston Dental College, he 
has been and is a respected and trusted 
servant. He is a brother of Hon. Leopold 
Morse, ex-member of Congress. 

Mr. Godfrey Morse is unmarried. 

MORSE, John Torrey, Jr., son of 

John Torrey and Lucy Cabot ( Jackson) 
Morse, was born in Boston, January 9, 
1S40. 

In early boyhood he attended the school 
then kept in the basement of the Park 
Street church by Thomas Russell Sullivan, 
a member of the historical Sullivan family 
of Massachusetts. He afterwards attended 
the school of Epes Sargent Dixwell. Here 
he fitted for Harvard College, from which 
he was graduated in the class of i860. 
He immediately entered the law office of 
Hon. John Lowell, Boston, since then 
judge of the United States district and 
circuit courts. After two years of study 
there, he was admitted to the bar, at 
twenty-two years of age. His tastes, how- 
ever, led him into lines of work more con- 



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MORTON. 



sonant to his genius ; the)' were literary, 
and while in the practice of law he was 
writing more or less for newspapers, maga- 
zines and reviews. He wrote two profes- 
sional works, "The Law of Banks and 
Banking," which has just reached its third 
edition, and " The Law of Arbitration and 
Award." He wrote for the " American Law 
Review " many articles on various criminal 
trials, such as the Tichborne, Prince 
Napoleon, Troppman, Mrs. ^Vharton, and 
many others. Many of them were after- 
wards collected and published in one 
volume, by Little, Brown & Co. Mr. 
Morse wrote the " Life of Ale.xander Ham- 
ilton," two volumes, published by the 
same house. He was for several years a 
constant contributor, chiefly of leading 
articles, to the "Boston Daily Advertiser," 
when edited by Prof. Dunbar, and after- 
wards by Mr. Goddard. He has been a 
valued contributor to the " Saturday Re- 
view " and to " Eraser's Magazine " (Eng- 
land), to the "North American Review^" 
the "Atlantic," and the "Nation." 

In the winter of iSyg-'So he finally re- 
tired from the practice of law. Since that 
time he has been chiefly emploved in 
literature. For four years, in conjunction 
with Henry Cabot Lodge, he edited the 
" International Review." Latterly Mr. 
Morse has been editing the series of 
" Lives of American Statesmen," for 
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. His own con- 
tributions to this thus far have been the 
biographies of John Adams, Thomas Jef- 
ferson, John Quincy Adams, and Benjamin 
Franklin. 

Mr. Morse was a member of the House 
of Representatives in 1875, elected by a 
coalition of dissatisfied Republicans with 
the Democrats of ward 6, Boston. He 
declined a re-election. He is now serving 
a second term as a member of the board 
of overseers of Harvard University. He 
is a trustee of the Boston Athensum, and 
a member of the Massachusetts Historical 
Society. 

In 1865 he married Fanny, daughter of 
(leorge O. Hovey, of Boston. Of this 
imion are two sons : Cabot Jackson and 
John Torrey Morse. 

MORSE, Nathan, son of Nathan and 
Sally ((lilman) Morse, was born in Moul- 
tonborough, Carroll county, N. H., July 
24, 1824. He was directly in the line of 
two of the oldest and best families of New 
Hampshire. 

The first thirteen years of his life were 
passed on his father's farm, attending pub- 
lic schools the usual time allotted to farm 



boys in country districts. At this time, a 
fire having destroyed all the farm build- 
ings, the family removed to the village, 
where his father was appointed postmaster, 
holding the position for twenty consecutive 
years. At the age of eighteen, Nathan, Jr., 
was appointed assistant-postmaster — a po- 
sition he held until he came to Boston in 
1843. 

He studied medicine some months after 
coming to Boston, under the direction of 
his elder brother, then in the Harvard med- 
ical school. Not finding medicine suited to 
his tastes, he decided to make the law his 
profession. In 1845 he entered the Har- 
vard law school, and devoted two years to 
its study, graduating in 1847. 

During these years he was entirely de- 
pendent upon-his own earnings for his sup- 
port, with the help of such sums as a friend 
was able to loan him toward the payment of 
his tuition fees ; but by persistent industry 
and economy, and that courage and self- 
reliance which has ever characterized him, 
he overcame all difficulties in his path, and 
soon after graduation was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar. 

Entering at once upon the practice of 
his profession in Boston in 1852, he formed 
a partnership with Hon. Ambrose A. Ran- 
ney, under the firm name of Ranney & 
Morse. This relation continued for many 
years, and the firm became one of the 
most prominent in the State. He has risen 
rapidly in the ranks of his profession, and 
has a large clientage and lucrative prac- 
tice. His business is largely in the courts, 
as senior counsel in the trial of causes. He 
commands the confidence of the bench 
and the bar. 

Mr. Morse has never accepted public 
office, with a single exception — that of 
common councilman in 1863 — his entire 
time and strength being given to his 
chosen work. Adhering to the faith of his 
father, he has for many years been a mem- 
ber of the Old South churcii. 

Mr. Morse was married in Boston, No- 
vember 18, 185 1, to Sarah, daughter of 
Daniel Deshon. Of this union were two 
children : Fannie Deshon and Edward 
Ciilman Morse. 

MORTON, Marcus, .son of Marcus 
and Charlotte (Hodges) Morton, was born 
in Taunton, Bristol county, April 8, 1819. 

His early education was accomplished 
in the public schools of his native town, 
and he fitted for college at the Bristol 
County Academy, entering Brown Univer- 
sity, Providence, R. I., 1834, from which 
he was graduated in the class of 1838. He 



.MOWRV. 



MOWkY. 



431 



Studied law in the Harvard law scliool, and 
later with the iirni of Sprague & Gray. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
1841, and at once began practice in 
]!oston. 

On the 19th of October, 1843, at Provi- 
dence, Mr. Morton married Abby 15., 
daughter of Henrv and .Vmv (Harris) 
Hoppin. Their children are : Amy, who 
married William Charnley ; Charlotte, who 
married Frank A. Mullany ; i\Iary, who 
married Clarence Whitman ; Abby, who 
married David B. Douglass; Lorania Car- 
rington, and Marcus Morton, Jr. 

He changed his place of residence to 
.\ndover in 1850, and represented the town 
in the Constitutional Convention of 1853. 
In 185S he was sent as representative to 
the General Court, where he served as 
chairman of the committee on elections, 
and the same year was appointed justice 
of the superior court of Suffolk county. 
In 1859 he was appointed justice of the 
superior court of the State, which position 
he held till his appointment, 1869, as asso- 
ciate justice of the supreme juilicial court 
of the State. This office he held until, in 
1882, he was appointed by Governor Long 
to fdl the position of Chief Justice, made 
vacant by the resignation of Horace Gray, 
who had been, by President Arthur, aji- 
pointed associate justice of the supreme 
court of the United States. 

Judge Morton is a man whose clear in- 
sight and practical knowledge of men have 
won for him enviable distinction in the 
legal records of the community. 

MOWRY, WlLLIA.M A., sun of Jonathan 
and Hannah (Bra\'tiin) Mowry, was born 
in U.xbridge, ^\'orcester county, August 13, 
1829. 

His father died when he was three years 
of age, and for the next ten years he lived 
with his grandfather. P'rom that time till 
he was eighteen he averaged four months 
of .schooling per year, and earned his living 
by his own efforts. 

At eighteen he began to teach school in 
ungraded countrv districts, and taught in 
Rhode Island and Massachusetts. He 
subsequently taught the graded grammar 
school in W'hitinsville for tvvo3"ears. Leav- 
ing this school in the autumn of 185 1, he 
entered Phillips Academy, Andover, and 
prepared for college, entering Brown Uni- 
versity in 1854, where he remained two 
years, ill health compelling him to give uji 
.study for a time. 

In 1857 he became editor and proprietor 
of the " Rhode Island Schoolmaster," a 
jiKUithlv magazine ilevoted to the interests 



of teachers. This he continued three 
years. 

In the spring of 1858 he married Caro- 
line E., daughter of Ezekiel and Eliza 
(Daniels) Aldrich, of W'oonsocket, R. I. 
( )f this union were three children : Walter 
Herbert, Arthur May, and Ruth F,meline 
Mowry. 

The same year he was appointed teacher 
in the Providence high school. In 1859 
he was made principal of the F>nglish de- 
partment of the high school, which position 
he held for five years. 

He enlisted as private in the iith regi- 
ment, Rhode Island infantry, September, 
1862. He was promoted to a captaincy, 
and assigned to the command of company 
K, served through the period of enlistment, 
and was mustered out at the expiration of 
his term of service. 

In 1864 he established a jirivate school 
for boys in Providence, having for a time 
associated with him John J. Ladd, and then 
for twenty years Charles B. Goff. This 
school was called the English and Classical 
school, and soon rose in numbers and im- 
portance until it took rank with the fore- 
most schools in the country. 

In 1884 Mr. Mowry removed from Provi- 
dence to Boston, and became the editor of 
the " New England Journal of Flducation." 
In 1886 he established himself as the editor 
and publisher of a well-known monthly 
magazine entitled " Education," and in 
January, 1887, began the publication of a 
magazine entitled " Common School Edu- 
cation." At present he is the president of 
a corporation for carrying on the publish- 
ing business, called " The Eastern Fxluca- 
tional Bureau." He received the degree of 
A. M. from Brown University in 1866, and 
in 1882 the degree of Ph. I), from Bates 
College, Lewiston, Me. 

Dr. Mowry has filled many offices, princi- 
pally of an educational character. He has 
l)een superintendent of schools, Cranston, 
R. I.; member of the school board. Provi- 
dence, six years, and is now a member of the 
lloston school board ; was president of 
Rhode Island Institute of Instruction ; of 
the American Institute of Instruction; and 
of the higher department of the National 
F^ducational Association ; was president for 
two years of the Congregational Club, 
Providence ; is president of the Martha's 
\'ineyard Summer Institute ; has been 
jiresident of the Massachusetts Council of 
the American Institute of Civics ; is a 
member of the American Association for 
the .-Vdvancement of Science; a member of 
the National Council of Education ; of the 



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MOXOM. 



MUDGE. 



New England Historic Genealogical Soci- 
ety ; corresponding member of the Rhode 
Island Historical Society, and of the Oregon 
Historical and Pioneer Society, and New 
Hampshire Antiquarian Society. He is the 
author of various books ; among others, 
"Studies in Civil (Government," "Talks 
with My Boys," " The First American 
Steamboat." 

He is a member of the G. A. R. His 
religious connections are with the Congre- 
gational church. 

MOXOM, Philip S., was born in Mark- 
ham, Canada, August lo, 1848. He was 
origmally registered as Philander S., but 
upon the completion of his military service, 
while yet a minor, with the full consent of 
his parents, the first name was changed 




PHILIP S. MOXOM. 

to Philip. He removed with his parents, 
when quite a child, to Ogle county, 111. 
He received his early education at De 
Kalb, 111. In January, 1862, he went out 
with the ySth Illinois regiment, as "boy" 
to Capt. Bewley, and was present at the 
battle of Fort Donelson. On October 3, 
1863, at the age of fifteen, he enlisted in 
the 17th Illinois cavalry, and served until 
honorably discharged, November 28, 1865. 
He entered Kalamazoo College, Michigan, 
January i, 1866, and while tliere accepted 
the gospel of Christ, and was baptized into 



the fellowship of the Battle Creek church 
by his father, the Rev. J. H. Moxom. In 
the autumn of 1868 he entered Shurtleff 
College, where he remained until 1870, 
when he returned to Michigan to teach. 

Early in 1871 he engaged in the study 
of law, but in a little while, under pressure 
of solicitations to preach, abandoned that 
for the ministry. His first settlement was 
at Bellevue, Mich., where he received ordi- 
nation September 19, 1871. 

He was married September 6, 187 1, to 
Isabel, daughter of Hon. Adam Elliott, of 
Barry county, Mich., and has four children 
living : Philip Wilfred Travis, Howard 
Osgood, Edith Knowles, and Ralph Pendle- 
ton Mo.xoni. In October, 1872, he became 
the pastor of the church at Albion, Mich., 
and in 1875 removed to Rochester, N. Y., 
to pursue theological studies. During the 
period of his studies in Rochester, he was 
pastor of the Baptist church at Mount 
Morris. He was called in November, 
1878, to the pastorate of the First Baptist 
church, Cleveland, O., which he assumed 
on April i, 1879. 

In June, 1879, he was graduated with 
the degree of A. B. from the university of 
Rochester, and three years later received 
the degree of A. M. 

In June, 1885, a cordial and unanimous 
call was given him from the First Baptist 
church at Boston. He accepted the call, 
and was installed pastor on the 7th of Oc- 
tober, 1885, which position he still holds. 

He is a clear thinker, an incisive writer, 
and a fearless and magnetic speaker. 

MUDGE, Augustus, son of Amos 
and Sarah (Wilson) Mudge, was born in 
Danvers, Esse.x county, August 21, 1820. 

His youth was spent upon the farm when 
not at school. He received his education 
at academies in Hancock and Hampton 
Falls, N. H. Having prepared himself 
for teaching, he commenced in 1842, in 
his native town, and taught six successive 
years. On January i, 1849, he formed a 
partnership with his brother Edwin, for 
the manufacture of shoes, and since then 
has given it his principal attention, being 
at present a member of the firm of ¥.. & 
A. Mudge & Company, boot and shoe 
manufacturers, Danvers. 

October 3, 1843, at Danvers, Mr. Mudge 
was married to Luc}' Ann, daughter of 
Benjamin and Clarissa J. Wentworth, of 
Danvers. Benjamin Wentworth was for- 
merly the governor of New Hampshire. 
Their surviving children are : Clara Helen 
(born September 22, 1847), Pamelia Joce- 
Ivn (born September 27, 1849), Lucius 



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MURl'lIV. 



433 



Augustus (born October 4, 1S52), and 
Mary Hranian (born March 20, i860). 

Mr. Mudge has served on the school 
board of Danvers for ten years, is presi- 
dent of the Danvers Savings Bank and 
trustee of Danvers Insane Asylum. In 
1S82 he was a member of the state Senate, 
serving on the committees on education, 
woman suffrage, and public charitable 
institutions. He is at present a member 
of the executive council of (Governor 
-Vmes. His church connections are with 
the First Congregational church in Dan- 
vers, having been superintendent of the 
Sabbath-school for forty years. 

The family of Mudge is of considerable 
antiquity in English history, the name 
being originally written " Mugge " (pro- 
nounced with soft "g "), and may be found 
on record as early as the close of the four- 
teenth century. Augustus Mudge is a 
direct descendant of Jarvis Mudge, one of 
the thirty-six grantees or planters to whom 
home lots were granted in New London, 
Conn., in the year 1649. Jarvis Mudge 
was born in England, came to this country 
about the year 1638, was in Boston that 
year, in Hartford in 1640, in Weathers- 
field in 1644, and removed to Pequot, now 
New London, in 1649, where he died in 
1653- 

MUDGE,. John Green, son of John 

and Sarah (Field) Mutlge, was born in 
Winchester, Cheshire county, N. H., Manli 
26, 1823. 

His educational training was obtained 
in the common schools of his native town 
and in Deertield Academy. In March, 
1847, he entered business life for himself 
in the firm of Wetherell & Mudge, in Pe- 
tersham, conducting a country store, and 
manufacturing palm-leaf hats. This part- 
nership was dissolved in 1875 by the death 
of the senior partner, and since then Mr. 
.Mudge has not been in active business. 

Mr. Mudge was married in Petersham, 
his present residence, December 7, 1848, to 
Eliza Ann, daughter of Sampson and Lucy 
(Kendall) Wetherell. Of this union were 
three children : Arthur C, Mary Eliza, and 
Ruth Wetherell Mudge. 

Mr. Mutlge was a member of the House 
of Representatives, 1856, '58, and '65; and 
was a member of the state Senate, 1867 
and '68. He has been treasurer of Peter- 
sham the past twenty years, director in 
the Miller's River National Bank, of Athol, 
since 1865 ; president and a trustee of 
.Athol Savings Bank. He was captain of 
company F, 53d regiment, Massachusetts 
volunteers. 



MURPHY, JOHN R., son of John and 
Jane (Smiley) Murphy, was born in C'harles- 
town, Middlesex county, August 25, 1856. 

He received his early education in the 
public schools of Boston, graduating from 
the Charlestown high school. 

His first connection in business was with 
Silsbee & Murphy, brokers, and subse- 
quently he was business manager of the 
" Boston Pilot " for seven years. 




JOHN R. MURPHY, 

Mr. Murphy was a representative in the 
lower branch of the Legislature in 1883, '84 
and '85, and a member of the Senate in 
1886. While in the House he performed 
conspicuous service for three years upon 
the committee on public charitable insti- 
tutions. In the Senate he served upon 
the committees on engro.ssed bills, printing 
(chairman), public health, and on the 
special committee for re-districting the 
state. 

In 1886, while a member of the Senate, 
he was appointed by Mayor O'Brien fire 
commissioner of the city of Boston, which 
position he now occupies, and in which 
city he continues to reside. In the dis- 
charge of all his official duties he has dis- 
played great energy, rare tact and an intel- 
ligent conception of work. 

Mr. Murphy resides in the Charlestown 
district, rmd is unmarried. 



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NASH. 



NEEDHAiM. 



NASH, Stephen G., son of John and 
Abigail Ladd ((.lordon) Nash, was born in 
New Hampton, Belknap county, N. H., 
April 4, 1822. 

He was fitted for college at the institu- 
tion in New Hampton ; entered Dartmouth 
College at the age of sixteen, and was 
graduated in the celebrated class of 1842. 

He was engaged in teaching the classics 
at New Hampton, and later was principal 
of the Noyes Academy, Franklin, N. H., 
where he studied law with Judge Geo. W. 
Nesmith ; was admitted to the bar of 
Suffolk county, Mass., in 1846 ; continued 
in practice in Boston till appointed judge 
of the superior court in 1855, at the age of 
thirty-three years. 

After leaving the bench he resumed 
the practice of law in Boston, where he still 
has an office, with his residence in Lvnii- 
field. 

Judge Nash was married in \\'akerield, 
in i860, to Mary, daughter of Edward and 
Betsey Upton. Their two sons, Arthur 
Upton and Gordon, died in childhood. 

Judge Nash was a member of the House 
of Representatives in 1855. His business 
practice was relieved in i859-'6o by a 
year's travel in Europe, and by a shorter 
tour again in 1883. 

NEAL, Peter Morrill, son of Elijah 

and Comfort (Morrill) Neal, was born in 
North Berwick, York county. Me., Sep- 
tember 21, 181 1. 

He attended public school until fourteen 
years of age, then went to the Friends' 
lioarding school. Providence, R. I., where 
he spent the ne.xt six years. He afterward 
attended the South Berwick Academy, iSIe., 
then went to Portland to pursue his stud- 
ies under the instruction of a private tutor, 
preparatory- to entering college. A flatter- 
ing offer having been made to enter the 
teacher's profession, he abandoned his 
college course, and taught school for 
twenty years. 

He removed to Lynn in 1850, and en- 
gaged in the luiriber business, which he 
still follows. 

Mr. Neal was married in Portland, Me., 
August 16, 1836, to Lydia, daughter of 
Edward and Phebe (Opoe) Cobb. Of this 
union are four children : Edward C, Mary 
Louise, Nelly, and \Villiam E. Neal. 

Mr. Neal was mayor of I-ynn from 1861 
to '65, a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives 1870 and '71, and of the state 
Senate 1875. 



NEEDHAM, DANIEL, son of James and 
Lydia (Breed) Needhani, was born in 
Salem, Essex county. May 24, 1822. 

He was educated in a private and at the 
high school, Salem, and at the Friends' 
boarding school. Providence, R. I. He 
studied law with David Roberts, and was 
admitted to the Middlesex county bar, 1847. 

He began the practice of law in Boston 
in company with Edmund Burke, of New 
Hampshire, and David Roberts, of Salem, 




DANIEL NEEDHAM, 

the firm name being Burke, Needham iS: 
Roberts. This partnership continued sev- 
eral years. 

He was LTnited States bank examiner 
from 187 1 to '86, when he retired from 
active business. 

Mr. Needham was married in Groton, 
July 17, 1842, to Caroline A., daughter of 
Benjamin and Caroline A. Hall. Of this 
union were four children : Eleanor M., 
William C. H., James Ernest, and Efhe 
Marion Needham. Mr. Needham's second 
marriage was with Ellen ]\L Brigham, of 
Groton, October 7, 1880. She was the 
daughter of George D. and Mary J. Brig- 
ham. Of this union were two children : 
Marion Brigham and Alice Emilv Needham. 



NELSON. 



NELSON. 



435 



Mr. Needham has been a member of the 
school board and town treasurer of (Iroton 
many years. 

He was on the staff of Governor Routwell, 
i85i-'52; chairman of the Democratic state 
committee of Massachusetts, 1853 -'54; 
and organized the coalition movement 
which resulted in the election of Governor 
Bout well. He removed to Vermont, and 
was a member of the Vermont House of 
Representatives from 1856 to '59, and a 
member of the \'ermont Senate from 1859 
to '63. Returning to Massachusetts, he 
was elected to the House of Representa- 
tives from (Jroton in 1867, and to the 
state Senate 1868 and "69. While in Ver- 
mont, he was appointed Vermont commis- 
sioner to the Hamburg International Ex- 
position, 1863. He has been president of 
the Middlesex North Unitarian Associa- 
tion, and president of the Institute of 
Heredity since its organization, president 
of Groton Farmers' Club, and master of 
the Grange, president of the Middlesex 
County Milk Producers' Union, president 
and founder of the Middlesex Club, trustee 
of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 
to .\nimals, etc. He is a director in the 
Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Company ; for 
ten years was the owner and manager of the 
Montello Woolen iSrCirain Mills, Montello, 
Wis., the woolen mill having been built 
originally by him ; and has been a trustee 
of the Massachusetts Agricultural College 
from its organization. He was secretary 
of the New England Agricultural Society 
twenty-five years ; secretary of the Ver- 
mont Agricultural Society six years, and 
superintendent of schools, Hartford, ^'t. 
He was for years managing director of 
the Peterborough & Shirley Railroad, and 
in 1847, in connection with the associate 
directors, made himself liable for the debts 
of the corporation. He made over all his 
property to the banks holding the endorsed 
paper. He ultimately paid every obliga- 
tion, and perfected arrangements whereby 
he became reimbursed by the corporation. 

Many of his public addresses have had 
a large circulation in newspaper and pam- 
phlet form — notably one on the "National 
Bank," and one on the " Evolution of 
Labor." 

NELSON, Tho.MAS Leverett, son of 
J(jhn and Lois Burnham (Leverett) Nelson, 
was born in Haverhill, Grafton countv, 
N. H., March 4, 1827. 

He fitted for college at Haverhill Acad- 
emy, and the Kimball LTnion Academy at 
Meriden, N. H. ; entered Dartmouth in 
1842 ; in 1844 was transferred to the LTni- 



versity of Vermont, Burlington, from which 
institution he was graduated in the class 
of 1846. He received the degree of LL. D. 
from his alma mater in 1879. 

From his graduation till 1853 he worked 
as a civil engineer. He then began the 
study of law at his native place, but later 
removed to Worcester, where he read law 
during the years 1854 and '55. He was 
admitted to the bar at Worcester in 1855, 
where he has since resided. 

He was elected city solicitor, and served 
1870 to '73, and has been called to serve 
on the school board and in various munici- 
pal and county offices. He was represen- 
tative from Worcester to the Legislature in 
1869, and served as chairman of the judici- 
ary committee. In 1879 he was appointed 
judge of the United States district court 
for the district of Massachusetts, and is the 
present incumbent. He is a member of the 
American Antiquarian Society. 

Judge Nelson was married in Mendon, 
October 29, 1857, to .'Vnna H., daughter 
of Caleb and Mary Moore (Hastings) 
Hayward. His second marriage occurred 
March 23, 1865, with Louisa A., daughter 
of Samuel E. and Hannah A. (Matterson) 
Slocum, of Millbury. He has five children : 
Harry L., John, Louisa Burnham, William, 
and Thomas L. Nelson. 

Judge Nelson, when he was appointed 
to the bench, had become one of the leaders 
of the bar of Worcester county. Probably 
no member of it was more frequently con- 
sulted by his associates in difficult cases. 
He had a special knowledge of equitv and 
bankruptcy. Always modest and diffident 
in judging his own capacity, in the earlier 
part of his practice he was thought by his 
friends to make less impression on the 
court than he deserved, by the diffident and 
quiet manner with which he presented his 
views. But the supreme court soon dis- 
covered that everything he had to say was 
of value, and listened with interest for his 
contribution to the decision of important 
and perplexing questions. 

Few Massachusetts lawyers, whether on 
the bench or off, have contributed so much 
as he to the building up of our admirable 
and simple system of equity practice. He 
was appointed by the supreme court a 
member of the committee to revise its rules 
in equit)'. The present system is very 
largely his work. He was frequently em- 
ployed as referee and master in complicated 
(juestions, especially those relating to water 
rights, for dealing with which he seemed to 
have a natural aptitude, which was improved 
by his early training as a civil engineer. 



436 



NEWHALL. 



XEWHALL. 



NEWHALL, Asa TARBELL, was horn 
in Lynnfield, Essex county, December 25, 
1850. When he was five years of age, liis 
parents removed to Lynn, where h.e has 
since resided. 

His early education was obtained in the 
public schools. At the age of fourteen he 
entered the Lynn Mercantile Academy, tak- 
ing a business course of two years ; after 
graduating from this institution, he at- 
tended the Friends' School in the city of 
Providence, R. L 

He is of sturdy New England stock, be- 
ing descended from a family of the primi- 
tive settlers whose occupation was farming. 
The attractions of farm life naturally pre- 
dominated in his choice of vocations, and 
at the age of eighteen he commenced busi- 
ness as a farmer, on lands occupied by the 




ASA T. NEWHALL. 

earlier settlers of Lynn, and is still engaged 
in the business of farming and gardening. 

He married Cinderella, daughter of J. 
Chandler Newhall, of Lynnfield, November 
21, 1872. Their children are : Thomas 
Bancroft, Asa T., Grace Carland, and 
Bessie Little Newhall, of whom only the 
two latter are now living. 

He was elected a member of the com- 
mon council of Lynn in 1S85 and '86, and 
represented the 5th Essex senatorial dis- 
trict in the Legislature of 1887, serving on 



the committees on agriculture, harbors and 
public lands, and manufactures, and was 
appointed a member of the special com- 
mittee of the General Court of 1887, to sic 
during the recess of the Legislature to con- 
sider the expediency of additional legisla- 
tion in respect to the emplovment and 
schooling of children. 

He was elected mayor of Lvnn, Decem- 
ber 1 1, 1888 

Mr. Newhall is a member of several 
benevolent and literary organizations, in- 
cluding West Lynn Lodge of Odd Fel- 
lows, Palestine Encampment, Canton Pal- 
estine ; Sagamore Tribe of Red Men ; the 
Order of Elks, and numerous social and 
political clubs. 

In national politics he is a Democrat, 
and for the past five years has served on 
the city committee. 

Having early manifested a special inter- 
est in agriculture, he connected himself 
with the Essex County Agricultural So- 
ciety, and has taken a prominent part in 
the affairs of this organization, having sev- 
eral times been elected a member of the 
board of trustees, which position he now 
holds. He delivered the annual address 
before this society at Salem in 1884. He 
has received several prizes from this so- 
ciety for reports and essays. 

NEWHALL, Edward, son of John and 
Delia (Breed) Newhall, was born in Lynn, 
L^ssex county, July 22, 1822. His family 
belonged to the Society of Friends, and 
his early education was secured at the 
Friends' School, in Providence, R. I. 

In 1845 he began the study of medicine 
untler 1 )r. C. H. Nichols, since distinguished 
as the superintendent of the Bloomingdale 
Lunatic .\sylum, in the city of New York. 
He afterwards entered the Harvard medi- 
cal school, from which he was graduated 
in the class of 1848. 

He then spent two years in Europe at- 
tending lectures and walking the hospitals 
in Paris, and as a student in the famous 
lying-in hospital of Dublin. In 1850 he 
returned and settled in Lynn, where his 
thorough medical education and devotion 
to his chosen profession soon secured him 
an extensive practice and reputation be- 
yond the limits of his own city. 

He has been president of both the Essex 
South Medical Society and the Lynn 
Medical Association. 

Dr. Newhall was married in Canton, Oc- 
tolier 23, 1S53, to Eliza F., daughter of 
James and Abigail Beaumont, of Canton, 
who died in June, 1870, leaving four chil- 
dren : Edward Beaumont, Herbert William. 



NEW HALL. 



NEWTON. 



437 



Annie Louise, and Robert Oxley Newhall. 
In 1873 he was married to Mrs. M. A. 
Field Anderson, of Quincy, by whom he 
liad three children : Charles Sanderson, 
Harvey Field, and Eliza Beaumont New- 
hall. His second wife was the daughter of 
Harvey and Elizabeth F'ield. 

NEWHALL, Ja.MES ROBINSON, son of 
Renjamin and Sarah (Hart) Newhall, was 
born in Lynn, Essex county, December 25, 
1809. All his genealogical lines run back 
to early Lynn settlers. Both his grand- 
mothers were grand-daughters of Hon. 
Ebenezer Burrill, so conspicuous in colonial 
times as a representative and crown coun- 
selor. His father was Benjamin Newhall, 
who was born in 1774 and who died in 

1857- 

At the age of eleven he left the paternal 
roof, with his worldly possessions in a 
handkerchief bundle, to make his way in 
the wide world, his mother having died a 
year or two before, and his father having a 
large family for which to provide. 

Up to 1824 he worked daily, and also 
attended various public schools, but in 
that year entered the " Salem Gazette " 
office to learn the printing trade. After 
serving in the " Gazette " office for a few 
years he felt desirous of gaining a better 
knowledge of book-printing than could be 
done in Salem at that time, and so procured 
a situation at Boston. Before attaining his 
majority he was installed foreman of one 
of the principal book offices there. He 
then drifted to New York and found em- 
ployment in the " Conference " office there, 
where he gained the reputation of being 
the fastest type-setter in the establishment. 
This was in 1829. At the age of twenty- 
two he returned to his native place and 
became engaged in the office of the " Mir- 
ror," the first printing establishment in 
Lvnn, afterwards purchasing the office and 
commencing the publication of another pa- 
per. Here he remained a few years, once 
or twice taking a lecture tour. He then 
went to New York and engaged in the edi- 
torial department of a daily journal and in 
writing for one or two weeklies. Walt 
Whitman, the poet, was engaged on the 
same paper. In 1854, meeting a friend, a 
member of the Essex bar, he was kindly 
invited to take a student's seat in the 
office. The invitation was accepted and 
the study of law commenced. By May, 
1857, he had completed a regular legal 
course, was admitted to the bar in Boston, 
and forthwith commenced to practice in 
Lynn. He was soon after commissioned a 
justice of the peace and notary public. 



which offices he still holds. On the 24th of 
August, 1866, he was commissioned judge 
of the Lynn police court, and likewise ap- 
pointed a trial justice of juvenile oft'enders. 
The judgeship he resigned August 24, 1879. 

He has served as chairman of the schcfol 
board and president of the common coun- 
cil. In the autumn of 1887, at the age of 
seventy-three years, he took a tour of 
several months abroad. In 1836 he pub- 
lished the "Essex Memorials." In 1862 
" Lin, or Jewels of the Third Plantation." 
In 1865 " The History of Lynn " was pub- 
lished ; in 1883 an additional volume of 
the same, and in 1856, by desire of the 
city council, he jirepared the " Centennial 
Memorial of Lvnn." 

He was married October, 1837, to Dor- 
cas B., the only daughter of Captain Wil- 
liam Brown, of Salem, by whom he had one 
son, who died at the age of ten, the mother 
having died soon after his birth. In 1853 
Mr. Newhall again married, the second 
wife being Mrs. Elizabeth Camjibell, daugh- 
ter of Hon. Josiah Newhall, of Lynn. 

NEWTON, Dexter, the youngest .son 
of Stephen and Sally (Fay) Newton of 




DEXTER NEWTON. 



Southborough, Worcester county, was born 
in that town January 13, 1823. 

He received his early education in the 
common and hio-h schools of his native 



438 



NEWTON. 



NEWTON. 



town, and at the academy in Westfield. 
He began teaching school at the age of 
twenty, and taught three winters in South- 
borough. 

In March, 1845, Mr. Newton commenced 
business in the meat trade, which he car- 
ried on extensively for about five vears. 
He served as station agent in Fayville and 
Cordaville for about eleven j-ears, having 
been employed by the Boston & Worces- 
ter Railroad Company. 

He was appointed United States assist- 
ant assessor of internal revenue, which 
position he held for some five years. He 
has been postmaster at Fayville since July 
29, 1869, and has long held the office of 
justice of the peace and notary public. 
■ He has been a member of the school com- 
mittee ten years, selectman ten years, 
assessor of taxes twenty-seven years, and 
has held the office of justice of the first 
district court of Eastern ^\'orcester since 
June 25, 1879. He has been moderator of 
town meetings for over thirty years, sur- 
veyor of land and insurance agent, has 
settled, and helped to settle, over two 
hundred estates, besides having been en- 
gaged in the purchase and sale of much 
real estate. 

He was married in Southborough, De- 
cember 9, 1846, to Arathusa A., daughter 
of Taylor and Ann L. Brigham, by whom 
he has had four children, three of whom 
are living : Francis D., .\da M., and Cora 
A. Newton. 

NEWTON, William Wilberforce, 

son of Rev. Richard Newton, D. D., and 
Lydia (Gretore.x) Newton, was born at St. 
Paul's rectory, Philadelphia, Pa., November 
4, 1843- 

His early education was obtained at the 
Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia, and he 
entered the University of Pennsylvania in 
1861, graduating in 1865 as class poet, and 
spent the following year in Europe with 
two college companions. Returning, he 
entered the Philadelphia Divinity School in 
1866, graduating in 1S68. He was ordained 
deacon upon graduating, and ordained 
priest in June, 1869. The occupation of 
his life has been that of clergyman in the 
Episcopal church — not neglecting, how- 
ever, that of authorship. 

He was connected with the Church of the 
Epiphany, Philadelphia, from 1868 to '70; 
rector of St. Paul's, Brookline, from 1870 
to '75 ; of Trinity church, Newark, N. J., 
from 187s to '77 ; of St. Paul's church, 
Boston, from 1877 to '81, and has been the 
rector of St. Stephen's, Pittsfield, from 1881 
to the present time. 



On the i6th of November, 1S70, in the 
Church of the Epiphany, in Philadelphia, 
Mr. Newton was married to Emily Steven- 
son, daughter of the Rev. James ^\'. and 
Emily (Stevenson) Cooke. Their chil- 
dren are : W. W. Newton, Jr., born May 18, 
1872, and Emilv S. Newton, born April 19, 
1874. 

Mr. Newton's present residence is at St. 
Stephen's rectory, Pittsfield, where he is a 
member of the town school committee, and 
of the Bartlett G. A. R. Post. He is a 
member of the \\'orld's Red Cross Society, 




WILLIAM W. NEWTON. 

and was a private in Landis' battery of ar- 
tillery in Philadelphia, in 1863. He is vice- 
president of the New England Society of 
the Alumni of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, is the secretary of the American 
Congress of Churches, and honorary vice- 
president of the English Society for the 
Elevation and Purification of the Stage. 

Mr. Newton visited Europe in 1878 and 
againin i888-'89. During his active life he 
has published the following books : " Bible 
Outlines " (1870), " Gate of the Temple " 
(1875), " Little and Wise " (1876), " Inter- 
preter's House " (1878), '•■ Palace Beauti- 
ful," " Great Heart," " A Father's Bless- 
ing," " Troublesome Children," " Summer 
Sermons," " Priest and Man," a novel, 
" The Voice of St. John, and Other Poems," 



NICHOLS. 



NICKERSON. 



439 



and the " Life of Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg," 
for Houghton & Mifflin's series of "Lead- 
ers of Religious Thought." 

During his last visit to Europe Mr. New- 
ton visited Count Tolstoi in his home at 
Moscow in Russia. He received the degree 
of D. D. from his own alma mater, the 
University of Pennsj'lvania, on his return. 

A new church is at present in course of 
building on the site of the old St. Stephen's 
edifice in Pittsfield. 

NICHOLS, Albert, son of Joshua and 
Rebecca (\\'ithereil) Nichols, was born in 
Chesterfield, Hampshire county, January 
5, 1812. 

His education was limited to the district 
schools of those days. In 1837 he spent 
a short time in an academy. Farming was 
his chosen vocation, and he is still engaged 
in agricultural pursuits. 

y\r. Nichols was married in Williams- 
burg, ,\pril 12, 1838, to Clarinda B. 
daughter of William and Sylvia (Shepard) 
Johnson. Three children are the issue of 
this marriage : Warner B., William J., and 
[iihn H. Nichols. 

Mr. Nichols was a member of the Ches- 
terfield school board and teacher in the 
schools from 1838 to '75. He served in 
the House of Representatives in 1861, '63, 
and '65. He has been justice of the peace 
twenty years, and has been called to serve 
his town in many of the municipal offices 
— selectman, etc., ten years, clerk and 
treasurer some twenty-three years. 

Three sons of Mr. Nichols rendered 
loyal service in the army and navy during 
the war of the rebellion, the two eldest 
finding a resting place beside thousands of 
their comrades in Arlington, Va. 

NICHOLS, George B., the son of 

Seth and Sally (Kidder) Nichols, was born 
at Weathersfield, Windsor county, ^'er- 
mont, April 15, 1820. 

He received his education at the district 
schools of his native town and subse- 
quently at Meriden Academy, where he 
graduated at the age of fifteen. 

He came to Boston in 1836 and entered 
the dry-goods jobbing store of Farrington 
& Converse, where he remained until 
twenty-one years of age, when he became 
a member of the firm of Amidown, Bow- 
man & Co., also in the dry-goods jobbing 
trade. Ten years later this firm became 
H. Amidown & Co., and subsequently 
Edwards, Nichols & Richards. In 1S65 
the firm disposed of their business, and in 
1867 Mr. Nichols commenced in the wool 
business, on Federal Street. He is now on 



Atlantic Avenue, meeting with abundant 
and honorable success. 

Mr. Nichols was for some years a mem- 
ber of the school board, and also a mem- 
ber of the Legislature, but owing to the 
fact of his business taking up so much of 
his time, he has repeatedly refused offers 
of nominations to most of the important 
city offices. 

He is a director of the Manufacturers' 
National Bank, and one of the trustees of 
the Boston City Hospital. 

Mr. Nichols was married in Boston, De- 
cember 8, 1844, to Louisa, the daughter of 
Daniel and Lois Rhodes. Their surviving 
children are : George R., Ella Prudie, and 
Seth Nichols. 

Mr. Nichols's ancestors on the paternal 
side came over from Wales two hundred 
and twenty years ago and settled in Co- 
hasset. His mother's ancestors came over 
from Scotland. 

NICHOLS, William Henry, son of 

Peter and Mary (Tarr) Nichols, was born 
in Gloucester, Esse.x county, October 6, 
1846. 

He began business life as shop-boy w'ith 
William A. Pew, fishermen's supplies, etc., 
and later on, in common with the majority 
of young men of the place, engaged in 
fishing for a time. He returned to mer- 
cantile life, and was book-keeper for some 
of the leading firms in Gloucester. He 
then engaged in the wholesale fish trade, 
and finally, in 1885, entered the paint and 
oil business, in which he is at present 
interested. 

He has devoted himself closely to his 
business, and has had but little time to 
give to considerations of public office. He 
is, however, a member of the Republican 
ward and city committee, and in 1889 
was a member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives, from the nth Essex district, 
serving on the committee on prisons. 

Mr. Nichols was married in Gloucester, 
July II, 1869, to M. Augusta, daughter of 
William H. and Mary T. (Brazier) Voung. 
Mrs. Nichols died in 1871, leaving two 
children : Maud A. and Willis A. Nichols. 

He has always been locally identified 
with Republican politics and has held the 
various ward offices. 

NICKERSON, Reuben, son of Reuben 
and Keziah (Young) Nickerson, was born 
in Eastham, Barnstable county, July 12, 
1814. 

He is a descendant of William Nicker- 
son, who was one of the first settlers of 
Chatham. 



440 



NILES. 



NILES. 



Until he was thirteen he attended the 
pubhc schools of his native town, and there- 
after a private academy in Orleans, till he 
was eighteen, when he began teaching. 
Soon realizing the necessity of further 
knowledge himself, he attended the Teach- 
ers' Seminary at Andover. He then taught 
school for nine winters, at the same time 
carrying on the salt business in connection 
with his father, and purchasing large 
quantities of Epsom salts and preparing 
them for the market. 

He has always been intimately identified 
with the educational interests of the town. 
He was chosen upon the school committee 
shortly after reaching his majorit)', and 
was retained in the office of superintendent 
as long as he was willing to serve. 

He has held the office of selectman and 
assessor, and has been a trustee of the 
public library since its formation. 

In 1853 he was elected to represent the 
town in the House of Representatives, and 
in 1866 was sent to the Senate. Requir- 
ing a change of life, at the end of the 
session he went South, and purchased a 
large cotton plantation, which he carried 
on for si.x years before returning to his 
home. He was one of the directors of 
the Cape Cod Central Railway till it was 
sold to the Old Colony Railroad. At 
present he devotes his attention chiefly to 
his farm. 

On the 5th of October, 1837, Mr. Nick- 
erson was married in Eastham, to Eliza- 
beth, daughter of Beriah and Elizabeth 
(Cole) Doane. Mrs. Nickerson is a direct 
descendant of John Doane, one of the first 
settlers of Eastham, who came from Eng- 
land in the " Mayflower." Their only living 
child is Isabella Nickerson. His wife died 
in 1849, and in 1851 he married her sister, 
Sarah Doane. Their only living child is 
Herbert Doane Nickerson. 

NILES, William Henry, was born De- 
cember 22, 1840, in Orford, Grafton 
county, N. H. His father, Samuel W. 
Niles, and mother, whose maiden name 
was Eunice C. Newell, were both natives 
of that State. 

When the son was four years old, the 
father died, and a year later the mother, 
with her family, removed to South Read- 
ing, now Wakefield, Mass., and from that 
time, with the exception of five years spent 
in the South, Mr. Niles has been a resident 
of Massachusetts. 

His early mental training was in the 
public schools, after which, for three years, 
he was a private pupil with the Rev. R. W. 
Smith, of East Bridgewater, and subse- 



quently, for three years, a student in the 
Providence Conference Seminary of East 
Greenwich, R. I. 

He studied law and fitted himself for the 
bar under the direction of Caleb Blodgett, 
now judge of the superior court, and was 
admitted to the Middlesex bar, in Lowell, 
at the March term, 1870. He at once be- 
gan practice in Lynn, where, without inter- 
ruption, he has since continued in his pro- 
fession. He is a member of the firm of 
Niles & Carr. 

Mr. Niles was married September 19, 
1865, in Bristol, N. H., to Harriet A. Day, 
of that town. Of this union are three 




WILLIAM H. NiLES. 



children : Florence, who was recently mar- 
ried to George W. Moulton, of Lynn ; 
Grace, and Mary Ethel Niles. 

Mr. Niles has refused all political pre- 
ferment, and with the exception of three 
years' service on the school board of Lynn, 
has never held public office. All his ener- 
gies have been devoted to the organization 
and establishment of his law practice, 
which in extent will compare not unfavor- 
ably with any in the State. 

In addition to his professional duties, 
he owns and manages a cotton planta- 
tion in southern Georgia, where, with his 
family, he spends a portion of every winter. 
He has, also, by utilizing his vacations. 



NOBLE. 



NOBLE. 



441 



found time to travel extensively, having 
visited in the last few years many of the 
European countries, the West Indies, the 
Bahama Islands and California. 

NOBLE, John, son of Mark and Mary 
C. (Copp) Xoble, was born in Dover, Straf- 
ford county, N. H., Ajiril 14, 1829. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing at home and in the private and public 
schools of his native place ; attended Roch- 
ester Academy, N. H., one year (1842) ; 
Phillips Academy, Exeter, two years (1844- 
'46) and, fitting for college, entered Har- 
vard, and was graduated in the class of 
1850. 

He was usher and sub-master in the 
Boston Latin school, 1850 to '56 ; entered 
Harvard law school the latter year, and was 
graduated LL. B., 1858 ; practiced law in 
Boston till 1875; was appointed clerk of the 
supreme judicial court, by the court, August 
31, 1875, for the remainder of the unex|Mred 
term; was re-elected November, 1876, and 
each term thereafter until the present time. 

Mr. Noble was married in Deerfield, June 
II, 1873, to Katharine Williams, daughter 
of William and Catherine (Williams) Shel- 
don. Of this union are two children : 
John and Isabel Helen Noble. 

His residence is Boston! 

NOBLE, Reuben, son of Charles and 
Sophia (Fowler) Noble, was born in West- 
I'leld, Hampden county, October 26, 1820. 

Mr. Noble is a lineal descendant in the 
sixth generation of Thomas Noble, born in 
1632, in England, and who died in \\'est- 
field, January 20, 1704. Thomas Noble was 
one of the early settlers of Springfield, from 
which place he removed to Westfield. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in the public schools, and Westfield 
Academy. Leaving school at nineteen 
years of age, he engaged in teaching a 
portion of the time for two years, and at 
twenty-one began his commercial career 
as traveling salesman for a whip manufac- 
turing company. He afterwards was en- 
gaged for two years in Ohio, as salesman 
in a dry-goods house. He then returned 
to Westfield and became a partner with 
his brother — firm name J. & R. Noble, 
manufacturers of whips and cigars. These 
relations continued until tlie organization 
of the American Whip Company in 1855. 
In 1856 he became treasurer of this com- 
pany and held the position until 1885, with 
the exception of one year. He was for 
years a director and a large owner in the 
company, and has been largely instru- 
mental in its growth and prosjjerity. 



Mr. Noble was married in Pittsfielil, 
March 29, 1854, to Eliza C, daughter of 
Asa and Betsey (Rice) Foote, a lady who 
still lives to adorn and bless his later years. 
They have no children. 

Mr. Noble has been a member of the 
Westfield school board ; was chairman of 
the board of water commissioners, West- 
field, from its organization in 1874 until 
1887. Under his skillful management 
were constructed what are claimed to be 
the best water-works in the Common- 
wealth, noted for the purity of the water, 
and for the high pressure, making each fire 
hydrant equal to or better than, any fire 
steamer. He has been a director of the 
Hampden National Bank of Westfield since 
its organization; elected president and held 
the position from January, 1882, to June, 
1886, when he resigned upon assuming the 
duties of postmaster. He is vice-president 




REUBEN NOBLE 

of the Woronoco Savings Bank, We.stfield: 
was a member of the state Senate in 1872, 
serving on the committee on harbors and 
public lands. 

During the year 1S71 he with his wife 
traveled through Europe and the East. 

He was appointed to the state board of 
health by (iovernor Benjamin F. Butler, 
but resigned two years previous to the 
expiration of his term of office. He was 



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NORCROSS. 



NORCROSS. 



postmaster of M'estfield from 1857 to '61, 
and was again appointed by President 
Cleveland in 1886, but resigned in 1888. 
He was a member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives 1874, '75, and '76 ; and was an 
efficient member of the railroad committee 
those years : was Democratic candidate 
for lieutenant-governor in 1868, and for 
congressional honors in 1870, Henry L. 
Dawes being the opposing candidate; and 
again in 1882, George D. Robinson being 
the opposing candidate. He was delegate 
to the national Democratic conventions of 
i860, '64, '68, '76 and '80. 

Mr. Noble has been throughout his life 
closely identified with the prosperity and 
development of his town and section of 
the State. He is a business man of integ- 
rity, and enjoys a well-earned success. He 
is a gentleman of generous impulses, and 
possessed of a strong individuality. In 
politics he is a staunch Democrat of the 
old school. 

NORCROSS, JOHN HENRY, son of 
John and Eleanor (Estabrook) Norcross, 
was born in Lincoln, Middlesex county, 
October 29, 1841. 

He attended a district school at East 
Lexington and the high school at Lexing- 
ton. At fifteen years of age he went to 
work in a dry-goods store in Lexington, 
and subsequently was in the same business 
in Medford, and in Portsmouth, N. H. 
In 1863 he entered the well-known and 
enterprising house of Lewis Coleman & 
Co. of Boston, and in five years had made 
himself so valuable to the firm that he was 
honored with a partnership. For fifteen 
years he was an important factor in the 
growth and prosperity of that house. In 
1883 he severed his connection with Lewis 
Coleman & Co., and in 1884, with Wil- 
liam H. Brine, purchased the business of 
the late John Harrington of Boston, and 
formed a partnership known as Brine & 
Norcross. The new firm has had a steady 
and sturdy growth. Not satisfied with 
their first purchase, they have added to 
their stock, and opened two other stores in 
different parts of the city, and have started 
branch houses in Springfield, Mass., and 
Manchester, N. H. 

Mr. Norcross was married, June 6, 1866, 
in Medford, to Cynthia Josephine, daughter 
of John T. and Mary (Chadbourne) White. 
Four children have blessed this union : 
Charles Merrill, Edith Gertrude, Eleanor 
Josephine, and Theodore White Norcross. 

Mr. Norcross, since his residence in 
Medford, has been identified with nearly 
every movement of a public nature looking 



to the improvement and welfare of the 
town. He has often been called ujion to 
serve in a public capacity, having served 
as selectman, overseer of the poor, sur- 
veyor of highway, water sinking fund com- 
missioner and auditor. He was for twelve 
years in succession a member of the Repub- 
lican town committee, and so popular a man 




J. HENRY NORCROSb. 

with his fellow-townsmen, irrespective of 
their political affiliations, that at the last 
election, in 1888, when he was chosen to 
represent the town of Medford in the 
General Court, he received the entire Dem- 
ocratic strength, and was honored with a 
majority larger than that ever given before 
to any town official. He was appointed 
to serve on the committee on finance, a 
position he is easily qualified by his past 
experience to fill with ability and credit. 

He worships with the Mystic Congrega- 
tional church, but his benefactions are by no 
means confined to that society. There is 
scarcely a benevolent, military, religious, or 
social organization in his town but that 
often has had occasion to thank him for 
unostentatious but practical assistance. 

He is a trustee of several Masonic bod- 
ies, having taken full degrees in York and 
Scottish rites, is a trustee of the Medford 
Savings Bank, and is vice-president and a 
trustee of the Medford Co-operative Bank. 



NORTON. 



NXJURSE. 



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NORTON, Charles Eliot, son of 

Andrews and Catherine (Eliot) Norton, 
was born in Cambridge, Middlesex county, 
November i6, 1827. 

His father was a theologian — born in 
Hingham, in 1786, died in Newport, R. I., 
in 1S52. He was graduated from Harvard 
in 1804 ; was a writer of reputation, and 
had few, if any, equals in the L'niteii States 
as a biblical critic and scholar. 

Mr. Norton was graduated from Harvard 
in the class of 1846, and began a commer- 
cial career in an East India house, PSoston. 
Three years later he went to the East Indies 
as supercargo of a ship in that trade. He 
traveled e.xtensively in that country, and 
making a tour of Europe, he returned 
home in 185 1. He again visited Europe 
in 1885, remaining until 1857, and once 
more in 1868, remaining until 1873. 

In company with Dr. Ezra Abbot, he 
edited his father's " Translation of the 
(lospels with Notes" (two volumes), and 
his " Internal F.vidences of the Genuine- 
ness of the (iospels." The papers of the 
Toyal Publication Society, issued during 
the civil war, were edited by him, and from 
1S64 to '68 he was joint editor with James 
Russell Lowell of the " North American 
Review." 

Among his own publications are " Con- 
siderations on some Recent Social Theo- 
ries," "The New Life of Dante," transla- 
tion with essays and notes, "Notes of Travel 
and Study in Italy," ".A Review of a Trans- 
lation into Italian of the ' Commentary ' 
by Benvenuto da Imola on the ^ Divina 
Cominedia'," "The Soldier of the Good 
Cause," "William Blake's Illustrations of 
the Book of Job, with Sketch of the 
Artist's Life and Works," " List of the 
Principal Books relating to the Life and 
\\'orks of Michael Angelo, with Notes," 
and " Historical Studies of Church Build- 
ing in the Middle Ages : Venice, Siena, 
Florence." He edited in 1883 the "Cor- 
respondence of Carlyle and Emerson," and 
in subsequent years the " Correspondence 
of (ioethe and Carlyle," and "Carlyle's 
Reminiscences and Letters." 

He was elected to the professorship of 
liistory of art in Harvard College in 1875. 
which chair he still occupies. Mr. Norton 
has acquired an enviable reputation as a 
writer, and is an acknowledged authority 
on matters pertaining to the highest cul- 
ture. 

Professor Norton was married in 1862 
to Susan, daughter of Theodore and Sara 
(.\shburner) Sedgwick. His wife died in 
1.S72. Of this union were six children. 



NOURSE, Henry Stedman, son of 

Stedman and Patty (Howard) Nourse, 
was born in Lancaster, Worcester county, 
April 9, 1 83 1. 

He studied in the common schools, in 
Lancaster Academy, and was for two 
terms in the Leicester Academy. Then 
he entered Harvard College and graduated 
in the class of 1853, receiving tlie degree 
of .\. M. in 1855. 

For a year after graduation he was pro- 
fessor of ancient languages at Phillips 
Academy, Exeter, N. H., and for three 
years thereafter he was principal of the 
academy at Taunton. 

In 1857 he abandoned teaching for the 
profession of civil engineering, and entered 
the office of Whitwell & Henck, of Boston, 
by whom he was engaged upon the Back 
Bay improvements at their inception. In 
1859 he was employed in building the ex- 
tension of the Delaware Railroad, and after 
the war in building the Eastern Shore 
Railroad of Maryland, and the Susque- 
hanna Bridge. 

As resident engineer, in 1866, '67 and '68, 
he built the Pennsylvania Steel Works, near 
Harrisburg, Pa., and was superintendent of 
themuntil 1874. They were the second steel 
works to successfully manufacture Be.sse- 
mer steel in the LTnited States, and they still 
rank as among the largest in the country. 

On the 12th of September, 1870, at Lan- 
caster, Mr. Nourse was married to Mary 
B. (Whitney) Thurston, daughter of John 
and Mary B. (Holt) Whitney. Theironly 
chiklren died in infancy. 

Mr. Nourse is a member of the Ameri- 
can Antiquarian Society. During the 
rebellion he served in the S5th Illinois 
infantry as adjutant. He was wounded at 
Shiloh, was promoted to captain in 1862, 
appointed commissary of musters 1864, 
and was mustered out in 1865, after par- 
ticipating in many battles. He was rep- 
resentative from the 5th Worcester district 
in 1883, and senator in 1S85 and '86. He 
was made trustee of the Worcester Lunatic 
Hospital in 1888, and has held many local 
town offices. 

His present residence is in Lancaster, 
where he spends his time in cultivating a 
small farm, and in writing. He is the 
author of " Early Records of Lancaster," 
"The Story of the S5th Regiment, Illinois 
Infantrv," "A History of Lancaster and 
Clinton," and " Military Annals of Lan- 
caster." 

Mr. Nourse is a lineal descendant of 
Rebecca Nourse, w'ho was hung as a witch, 
at Salem, in 1692. 



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NOVES. 



NOVES. 



NOYES, Charles Johnson, the son 

of Johnson and Sally (Brickett) No\-es, of 
('anaan, Grafton county, N. H., was born 
in Haverhill, August 7, 1841. His ances- 
tors emigrated from England and were 
included among the first settlers of New 
England, landing in 1634, near the site of 
Newburyport, on the spot where the rail- 
road bridge now crosses the Merrimack. 

His early education was received in the 
public schools of his native town. He was 
prepared for college in the Haverhill Acad- 
emy, now known as the Haverhill high 
school, from which he graduated in i860 as 
valedictorian. He was president of the 
Alumni Association for five years, after 
which he declined to hold the position 
longer. 

In the fall of i860 he entered Antioch 
College at Yellow Springs, Ohio, and re- 
mained there until the commencement of 
his junior year, when he removed to Sche- 
nectady, N. Y., entered Union College in 
that town, and graduated with the class of 
1864. While at Union College he was 
orator on several important occasions, and 
during his second year there he commenced 
his studies of law in the office of Judge 
Johnson of Schenectady, having made con- 
siderable progress in legal study at the 
time of leaving college. 

Soon after graduation he entered the 
law office of John E. Risley, Jr., of Provi- 
dence, R. I., and was admitted to the bar 
in 1864. He immediately opened one office 
in Haverhill and another in Boston. Busi- 
ness in the former place accumulated so 
rapidly that he was soon obliged to give 
up the Boston office and confine his atten- 
tion to the Haverhill practice. 

Political aspirations were gratified at tlie 
unusually early age of twenty-four, by 
election to the lower House of the state 
Legislature in 1865. In the session of 
1866 he served as a member of the com- 
mittee on the judiciary and committee on 
license law. Declining re-election to the 
House, he ne.xt became a successful candi- 
date for the Senate from the 3d Essex 
district. In that body, though the youngest 
member, he was appointed chairman of the 
committee on library, member of the joint 
committee on education and on amend- 
ment to the constitution. In 1867 he 
declined renomination to the Senate, in 
order to devote himself to the assiduous 
pursuit of his profession. 

In 1869 he again opened an office in Bos- 
ton, carried on his business there and at 
Haverhill for the space of three years, and 
then removed to South Boston in 1S72, 



establishing his legal headquarters in Pem- 
berton Square. 

Mr. Noyes was again elected to the 
House in 1876 from the 14th Suffolk dis- 
trict. During the session of 1877 he 
served as chairman of the committee on 
mercantile affairs, and also as member of 
the committee on the Hoosac Tunnel, Troy 
^: C.reenfield Railroad. In 1878 he was 
re-elected to the House, promoted to the 
chairmanship of the last mentioned com- 
mittee, and also served on the committee 
on harbors. In 1879 he was again elected 
to the House. He was appointed by 
Speaker Wade to the chairmanship of the 
committee on constitutional amendment. 
Returned for the fifth time to the House in 




\ 



CHARLES J. NOYES, 

1880, Mr. Noyes was elected speaker on 
the fourth ballot, by a vote of one hundred 
and twenty-five. In this position he gained 
high repute by the dignity and judgment 
of his rulings. 

In 1 88 1 the electors of the 14th Sufl'olk 
district once more returned their old rep- 
resentative, and he was again elected 
speaker, and this time unanimously. A 
seventh election to the Legislature of 
1882, followed in due course, and he was 
once more elected speaker. Mr. Noyes 
was also elected to the House from this 
district, in 1887, and again in 1S88, anil 



NUTT. 



NUTT. 



445 



each time elected speaker unanimously. 
He is one of the most popular platform 
orators in the State, and in 1865 delivered 
the eulogy on Abraham Lincoln at Haver- 
hill. 

He is an active member of the Masonic 
fraternity ; past master of Adelphi Lodge, 
and past commander of St. Omer Com- 
niandery of Knights Templar. He has 
taken all the Scottish rites up to the thirty- 
second degree, and is a member of the Lafay- 
ette Lodge of Perfection, of the Giles F. 
Yates Council of Princes of Jerusalem, the 
Mount Olivet Chapter of Rose Croix, and 
of the Massachusetts Consistory. He is 
also connected with the order of Odd 
Fellows, having passed all the chairs of 
the lodge and encampment ; is past grand 
and past chief patriarch, and has served one 
year on the grand board of the grand 
encampment of Massachusetts Independ- 
ent Order of Odd Fellows. 

On the 9th of March, 1864, at Provi- 
dence, R. L, Mr. Noyes was married to 
Emily, tlaughter of Colonel Jacob C. and 
Fannie C. Wells, of Cincinnati, O., and has 
three children : Fannie C, Harry R., and 
Grace L. Noyes. 

NUTT, William, son of Isaac B. and 
Sally (Monroe) Nutt, was born in Tops- 
ham, Orange countv, Vermont, August 5, 
18.36. 

He received a common school education 
in the district schools of his native town, 
where he worked as a farm laborer 1849, 
'50 and '51 ; was in a private school and 
engaged in shoe-making in Natick, Mass., 
1852 to '6r, except one year spent in the 
West, 1857. 

At the opening of the war, he was cor- 
poral of militia. He enlisted in May, 186 1. 
company I, 2d regiment, Massachusetts 
volunteers ; was corporal and sergeant ; in 
1862, March 5, was appointed 2d lieutenant 
in 54th regiment ; May, 1863, received a 
commission as ist lieutenant in 54th, anil 
afterwards captain iiT 55th regiment ; Nov- 
ember, 1864, major ; June, 1865, lieutenant- 
colonel, and was brevet-colonel at the close 
of the war. 

After the war he studied law in the office 
of W. N. Mason, and was admitted to the 
bar in Middlesex county, August, 1868. 
He has been in continuous practice since, 
except during a few years in which he 
served as deputy sheriff. 



Mr. Nutt was married in Framingham, 
April 25, 1863, to Abigail P., daughter of 
Josiah and Patience (Russell) Puffer. Of 
this union were nine children, seven of 
whom are living: William H., Charles, 
George, Henry, Nellie A., Julia M., and 
Matilda E. Niitt. 

Col. Nutt was representative to the Gen- 
eral Court 1871 and '72; tax collector 
1869, '70 and '71 ; chairman of the board 
of selectmen 1874, '76 and '81 ; chairman 
of overseers of the poor 1874 and '76. He 
has a local reputation as moderator of town 
meetings, a position he has many times 
filled. He was agent of the Freedmen's 
Bureau in Virginia in 1868, and Lfnited 
States commissioner, Virginia, at the same 
time; was appointed a justice of the peace 
in Massachusetts 1867, and has ever since 
held like commissions, and that of notary 
public since 1874. He was on the school 
board for a short time i87 2-'73. He is a 




WILLIAM NUTT. 



director in the Natick Five Cents Savings 
Bank, and has been on the board of invest- 
ment eighteen years ; was appointed trial 
justice in 1886 and re-appointed in 1889. 



446 



OAK MAN. 



O'BRIEN. 



OAKMAN, Richard Nickerson, son 

of Joseph L. and Mary (Nickerson) Oak- 
man, was born in Wendell, Franklin coun- 
ty, January 20, 181S. 

His early education was obtained at the 
common schools, followed by three years 
at Franklin Academy, Shelburne Falls. 
After leaving the academy, he was princi- 
pal of the Union Academy at Province- 
town for six years. In 1S46 he left the 
position and devoted his attention to farm- 
ing for thirty years. 

In 1853 Mr. Oaknian was representative 
to the General Court for Montague, and 
for six years commissioner for Franklin 
county. For twenty-eight years he has 
been selectman for Montague, and for 
many years assessor, overseer of the poor, 
and member of the school board. 

In social, religious, and philanthropic 
matters he has always taken a prominent 
position, and held many important trusts — a 
worthy illustration of what a New England 
boy can accomplish by patient industry, 
temperance, and frugality, without inherited 
means or influential friends to aid him. 

Mr. Oakman is now president of the 
Crocker National Bank, and holds various 
other offices of trust and responsibility. 

In 1841 he married, in Hawley, Julia P., 
daughter of Ichabod and Paulina (Porter) 
Hawkes. Of their four children, R. N. 
Oakman, Jr., Julia Kate, Nellie P., and 
Frank Hawkes, the two sons are filling 
important positions — the elder as treas- 
urer and manager of the John Russell 
Cutlery Company, the younger with the 
Lamson & Goodnow Cutlery Company. 

OBER, Frederick Albion, son of 

Andrew K. and Sarah Hadlock Ober, was 
born in Beverly, Essex county, February 
13, 1849. 

The public schools gave him his early 
training until fourteen years of age. He 
received no other assistance from schools, 
save that of one year in the agricultural 
college (1869). 

Mr. Ober is a lineal descendant of Rich- 
ard Ober, who settled in Beverly in the 
early part of the seventeenth century. He 
early imbibed a fondness for field sports 
and natural history, and while yet a boy 
had collected and preserved samples of 
nearly all the birds of New England, and 
had noted their habits. So strong was his 
passion in this direction, that he aban- 
doned a lucrative business and went to 
Florida, where he hunted in 1S72. He 



was so charmed by this trip that he made 
another in 1874, determined to explore 
Lake Okechobee and the Everglades. 
During his first trip he had been unable to 
reach this great lake and explore the mys- 
teries that hung around it. This time he 
was successful. 

In 1876 and '80 he hunted in the West 
Indies, discovering twenty-two new species 
of birds, and for the first time explored the 
Caribbees between St. Thomas and Trin- 
itlad. In 1881 he turned his attention 
toward Mexico. On his way thither he 
touched at Cuba, and afterwards visited the 
ruined cities of Yucatan. Arriving in the 
city of Mexico, he ferreted out its remains 
of early civilization, climbed to the summit 
of Popocatapetl, 17,800 feet, rode a thou- 
sand miles on horseback through southern 
Mexico, and then returned to the United 
States, after seven months' absence. In 
1883 and '85 he again visited Mexico, pen- 
etrating portions of the country hitherto 
unknown to any save the natives. 

The exploration of these fields has con- 
tinued more than ten years. The thrilling 
incidents connected therewith have been 
given to the world in his lectures, also in 
his published works, the principal ones 
being "Camps in the Caribbees" (1879), 
" Young Folks' History of Mexico " (1883), 
"The Silver City" (1883), "Travels in 
Mexico" (1885), "Montezuma's Gold 
Mines" (1886), and "Knock About Club 
Series " (1888, '89 and '90). 

Mr. Ober's travels in South America, and 
later in Spain and northern Africa, have 
added fresh matter to his store from which 
he draws for his publications and pop- 
ular lectures. 

Mr. Ober is unmarried. 

O'BRIEN, HUGH, w-as born in Ireland, 
July 13, 1827. When five years of age, 
his parents came to this country, and he 
received his early education in the public 
schools of Boston, graduating from the 
grammar school that stood on the famous 
old Fort Hill. 

He entered the olifice of the " Boston 
Courier " as an apprentice to learn the art 
of printing, when in his twelfth year. 
From the " Courier " office he went to the 
book and job office of Tuttle, Dennett & 
Chisholm, of which he became foreman 
at the age of fifteen. Several years later 
he founded the " Shipping and Commercial 
List," of which he was long the editor and 
publisher. 



ODIORNE. 



O'NEIL. 



447 



Mr. O'Brien was elected on the board of 
aldermen in 1875, '76 and '77, defeated in 
1878, again elected in 1879, '80, '81, not a 
candidate in 1882, elected in 1883, and was 
made chairman of the board, which posi- 
tion he held for the four last years. In 
December, 1884, he was elected mayor of 
the city, holding that position for four 
.successive years, 1885, '86, '87 and '88. 

He has held the office of treasurer ami 
general manager of the Brush Electric 
Light Company, president of the Union 
Institution for Savings, treasurer of Frank- 
lin Typographical Society for fifteen years, 
a trustee of the St. Vincent Orphan .\sylum, 
and for many years was a standard author- 
itj' on all matters relating to the trade and 
connnerce of the city. 

Mr. O'Brien has long been regarded a 
friend of the laboring interest, securing 
the passage of an ordinance regulating 
payment to workingmen by contractors 
with the city. He urged the abolition of 
the poll-tax as a pre-requisite for voting, 
advocated the purchase of large areas for 
public parks, has been prominently identi- 
fied with the improved system of sewerage 
and the enlarging the water supply 

Mr. O'Brien was a firm believer in the 
future growth of the city, and as alderman 
and mayor, covering a period of eleven 
years of active service, was a prominent 
factor in carrying out these and many other 
reforms that have placed Boston at the 
head of the municipal governments of the 
country. 

ODIORNE, Frederic Hussey, son 

of Thomas and Mary (Hussey) Odiorne, 
was born in Maiden, Middlesex county. 
May 26, 1830. 

He is a descendant from John Odiorne, 
one of the first settlers of Portsmouth, 
N. H., from whom the name of Odiorne's 
Point at New Castle, N. H., was taken. 
At this point landed the first settlers in 
New Hampshire. 

He received a common school education 
in his native town. 

He began his business life in the count- 
ing room of Thomas Tremlett, Boston, in 
1847, remaining there until 1856. 

His first business connection was with 
his brother in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1856 
(Odiorne iV: Brother), commission business. 
He remained but one year, then was a 
l^artner of the firm of Tremlett Brothers 
it Co., Boston, for one year, then in the 
firm of Tremlett & Odiorne till i860. 
From i860 to '72 he was alone in business. 
From 1 87 2 to the present time, the firm 
name has been F. H. Odiorne & Co., coal 



and commission business. He is the longest 
in the service of the entire guild of 13oston 
wholesale coal dealers. 

Mr. Odiorne was married May 24, 1854, 
to Adaline, daughter of Jonathan and 
Susan (Hovey) Robinson. They have no 
children. 

Mr. Odiorne was an alderman-at-large in 
the city of Maiden, 1887, and has been 
president of the Maiden Club since 1886. 

Mr. Odiorne is largely interested in the 
manufacture of gas, and has been for 
many years president of the gas li.ght com- 
panies at Gloucester and Plymouth, Exe- 
ter, N. H., and Rockland, Me. 

O'NEIL, Joseph Henry, son of Pat- 
rick Henry and Mary (Harrington) O'Neil, 
was born in Fall River, Bristol county, 
March 23, 1853. 

He was educated in the Boston public 
schools, graduating therefrom in 1866. He 
then worked at the printing business for a 
short time, and afterwards learned the car- 
penter's trade with the firm of Jonas Fitch 
& Company, who did then a very large 
business. 

In 1S70 he assisted in the formation of 
the St. James Young Men's Catholic Total 
Abstinence Society of Boston, of which he 
was president for many years. He also 
was one of the originators of the Catholic 
Total Abstinence Union of Massachusetts, 
and although he was one of its most active 
workers, refused to accept any office, pre- 
ferring to labor in the ranks. He still 
remains a member of the St. James so- 
ciety. 

In 1874, when of age, he was elected a 
member of the school board from ward 7, 
Boston, and a member of the Democratic 
city committee the same year. He has 
been a member of the committee since, 
except four years, when he refused to be a 
candidate. 

He was a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives from ward 16, Boston, in 
1878, '79, '80, '81 and in '82. He refused to 
be a candidate for 1883, but was again 
elected in 1883 for '84, and each time by 
an increased majority. He served on the 
committee on liquor law in 1878, committee 
on public buildings in 1879, and the com- 
mittee on street railways in 1880, '81 and 
'82 — in 1881 on the special committee ap- 
pointed to revise the public statutes ; and 
in 1882 was a member of the committee 
on rules and orders. In 1884 he was a 
member of the committee on rules and on 
railroads. He was also made president of 
the Democratic organization of the House 
in 1880. 



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ORCUTT. 



OKCUTT. 



Mr. O'Neil can justly claim the title of 
father of the Meigs Elevated Railroad sys- 
tem, as he favored it from the beginning, 
and did more than any other man to secure 
the charter of incorporation, which was 
finally granted in 1884. 

He was for five years a member of the 
board of directors of public institutions of 
the city of Boston, and although the young- 
est member of the board in years, was its 
president in 1885 and '86. 

In 1887 and '88 he was city clerk of 
the city of Boston, and during a part of 
i88g, pending the election of his successor. 
In 1888 he was unanimously nominated by 
the Democratic convention of the 4th 
congressional district for the House of 
Representatives of the United States, and 
received the largest majority ever cast for 
a Democratic candidate in the State. 

Mr. O'Neil is an ardent and yet a liberal 
Democrat, is a justly prominent man in his 
party, and his counsel is sought on account 
of his sagacity and prudence. As a legis- 
lator, he has been fearless and independ- 
ent, following his convictions with little 
regard to political bias. He is a good de- 
bater, hard student, and careful observer, 
and when he addresses a public asseniblv 
or a legislative body, it is with a force and 
earnestness that always command attention. 
His advice is sought in business matters as 
well as in political affairs, and he is known 
by his loyalty to his friends, who are legion, 
as well as by his devotion to principle. 

Mr. O'Neil is now president of the Meigs 
Elevated Street Railway Company. 

He was married in the Cathedral of the 
Holy Cross, Boston, July 1, 1884, to Mary 
Anastasia, daughter of John and Maria 
(Plunkett) Ingoldsby. They have one 
child : Joseph Henry O'Neil, Jr. 

ORCUTT, Frank E., son of William 
Henry and Jane (Hobbs) Orcutt, was born 
in Cambridgeport, Middlesex county, Oc- 
tober 10, 1842, and there received his early 
educational training in the public schools. 
This was supplemented by a business 
course at Eastman's College, Poughkeep- 
sie, N. Y. 

He was then employed in Boston as a 
book-binder until June, 1862, when as a 
mere youth he enlisted in company F, 38th 
Massachusetts volunteers. He served in 
Virginia and Maryland until the command 
was ordered to join the famous Banks ex- 
pedition to the department of the Gulf. 
In April, 1863, he was detailed for duty 
at General Banks's headquarters, serving 
in the ordnance and engineer departments 
until the close of the work of the expedi- 



tion. He had been commissioned as lieu- 
tenant of engineers, and was then ordered 
to go farther south on the Texas expedi- 
tion, doing important duty on the Rio 
Grande. Subsequently he went into Mex- 
ico during the unfortunate reign of Maxi- 
milian. Services closing in Mexico, Cap- 
tain Orcutt returned to Gulf headquar- 
ters, where he served until February, 1865, 
when he was mustered out of the service 
and returned home. 




FRANK E ORCUTT. 

In 1867 he removed to Melrose, where 
he now resides. He has been justice of the 
peace and notary public twenty-one years, 
and town auditor sixteen years. He has 
been a most active and efficient worker in 
U. S. tlrant Post, No. 4, G. A. R., Melrose, 
serving at one time as post adjutant. 

Mr. Orcutt commenced business for him- 
self February i, 1874, with \\'illiam A. 
Allen, under the firm name of Allen & 
Orcutt, custom clothing. This partnership 
was dissolved in 1885, he then forming a 
new one with D. VV. Starratt, under the 
firm name of Starratt & Orcutt, which in 
turn was dissolved March i, 1887,10 allow 
Mr. Orcutt to accept the position of finan- 
cial manager of the Middleton paper mill. 

Captain Orcutt has an excellent record 
as a soldier and citizen, and is held in high 
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knew him best during his mihtarj- service. 
He was one of the founders and owners 
of the " Grand Army Record," pubhshed 
in Boston. He is a Republican in poUtics, 
quite active in pubUc matters, and has 
been frequently sent as delegate to the 
state conventions. He is president of 
the Colorado Farm Loan Company, one of 
the directors of the Standard Coal Com- 
|xiny, and president of the Silver Light 
Gas Company. 

In 1889 he was appointed by President 
Harrison collector of internal revenue, to 
succeed John E. Fitzgerald. 

Captain Orcutt is a prominent Mason ; 
was thrice illustrious master of Melrose 
Council, F. & A. M., for two years, and 
has been- a member of the Grand Council, 
F. &: A. M., fifteen years ; member of the 
Military Order of the Loyal Legion ; char- 
ter member and first dictator of Guardian 
Lodge, Knights of Honor, and re-elected 
for many years ; worthy chief templar of 
Guiding Star Lodge of Good Templars 
for seven terms ; charter member of Wash- 
ington Council Legion of Honor, also of 
Bethlehem Council, Royal Arcanum, and 
Prophet of Wononga Tribe, I. O. R. M., 
of which he was first sachem. 

Captain Orcutt was married in New 
Britain, Conn., May 17, 1865, to Lucy A., 
daughter of Henry E. and Harriet (Blinn) 
Rhodes. Of this union were three chil- 
dren : Louise- H., Frank >L, and Mabel 
^L Orcutt (deceased). 

O'REILLY, John Boyle, was born at 
Dowth Castle, county Meath, Ireland, on 
June 28, 1844. After serving an early ap- 
prenticeship to journalism on the " Drog- 
heda Argus," he removed, at the age of 
seventeen, to England, where he con- 
tinued his journalistic work. When only 
eighteen years of age he enlisted as a 
trooper in the loth Hussars, otherwise 
known as the " Prince of Wales' Own." 
While there he became an apostle of rev- 
olutionary doctrines, was arrested for high 
treason, and in June, 1866, was sentenced 
to twenty years' penal servitude. He was 
confined in various English prisons until 
October, 1867, when he, with several other 
political convicts, was transported to finish 
his sentence in the penal colony of West 
Australia. .Vfter enduring prison life there 
for about a year, he made his escape in an 
open boat, was picked up at sea by the 
American whaling bark .'' Gazelle," and 
finally reached Philadelphia in November, 
i86q. Li July, 1870, he became editor of 
the " Boston Pilot," of which he is at 
present editor and co-proprietor. 



Mr. O'Reilly's literary career dates from 
his arrival in America. He first attracted 
attention by his original and powerful bal- 
lads of Australian life. The "Amber 
Whale," " Dukite Snake," "Dog Guard," 
" Monster Diamond," " Kingof the Vasse," 
and others, following in quick succession, 
showed to the world of readers that a new 
and virile singer had come to be heard. It 
is worth remembering that it was not then 
as it is now in the literary life of Boston. 
It is less than twenty years since, but long 
enough for a wholh' different school of 
poetry to have arisen. Then, it may be 
safely said, it required a voice of more than 
common strength and melody to reach the 
world. Longfellow, Holmes, Whittier, 
Lowell, Bryant, were all doing work worthy 
of their prime. Bret Harte, with all his 
fresh, strong lyrics, and Joaquin Miller, 
crowned with the; praise of London critics, 
seemed to have pre-empted whatever field 
there might, be for new singers. There 
was no room for another bard, except where 
room always is, at the top. The unknown 
youth, with no credentials but his talent, 
came into a community which did not then 
discriminate too kindh* in favor of a po- 
litical convict whose politics were of the 
Fenian persuasion. Yet he took almost at 
once the place that was his by right of 
genius, in a literary circle which is always 
jealous, but never narrow, in defining its 
boundaries. 

Mr. O'Reilly's work is known to all 
readers. He prefers to be known by it 
and through it. Otherw-ise one might be 
tempted to write indefinitely of his personal 
character, his unbounded sympathy with 
the oppressed and suffering of every class, 
creed and color, his healthy robustness, 
mental and physical. But all these are 
patent in his writings, which reflect the 
man as in a mirror. In the scant leisure of 
anactive journalist's busy life, supplemented 
by unceasing and earnest labors in the cause 
of Irish nationalit}', he has found time to 
write half a dozen or more book's, including 
his "Songs from the Southern Seas," pub- 
lished in 1873; "Songs, Legends and Bal- 
lad.s," in 1878; " Moondyne," a novel, in 
1879; "Statues in the Block, and Other 
Poems," in 18S1 ; "In Bohemia," in 1886 ; 
" The Ethics of Bo.xing and Manly Sport," 
" Stories and Sketches," in 1888, and one 
or two volumes as yet unpublished. 

Mr. O'Reilly dedicated his first book, 
" Songs from the Southern Seas," to his 
friend, the captain of the American whale- 
ship that rescued him ; his second he dedi- 
cated as follows : " To my dear wife, whose 



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rare and loving judgment has been a stand- 
ard I have tried to reach ; " his third to 
his mother ; and his fourth " To my four 
little daughters." His home is in the 
Bunker Hill district of Boston, on the 
square facing the soldiers' monument, and 
his summer home is in the little fishing vil- 
lage of Hull, where he has built a stone 
cottage overlooking the sea. 

OSBORNE, William McKinley, son 

of Abner and Abigail (Allison) t)sborne, 
was born in Girard, Trumbull county, O., 
April 26, 1842. 

He attended school at the academy in 
Poland, Ohio, and from there went to 
Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa. .\t the 
breaking out of the war he enlisted in the 
23d regiment, Ohio volunteers, which was 
the first three years' regiment formed in 
the State. He was discharLred on account 







WILLIAM M, OSBORNE- 

of injuries received in the service. In the 
fall of 1862 he entered the law office of 
Sutliff, Tuttle & Stull, Warren, Ohio, and 
in the fall of 1863 attended the law school 
at .^nn Arbor, Mich. He was admitted to 
the bar upon examination by the full court 
in the spring of 1864. 

He began practice in Youngstown, Ohio, 
and was mayor of that city, 1874 and '75. 
He removed to Boston in the fall of 1880, 
and after spending nearly two years in 



Europe, he located permanently in Bos- 
ton. 

In 1884 and '85 he represented ward 21 
in the common council of Boston, and very 
soon took a leading position. He was 
appointed by Governor Robinson as a 
member of the new metropolitan board of 
police, and was installed in office on the 
23d of July, 1885. In iSIay, 1888, he was 
re-appointed by Governor .-Vmes for a term 
of five years. 

Mr. Osborne was married in Boston, 
April 24, 1878, to Frances Clara, adopted 
daughter of Walter Hastings of that city. 
Of this union were four children: Elizabeth 
(born May 15, 1880, Cleveland, Ohio) ; 
Marguerite (born in Hanover Square, Lon- 
don, May II, 1882) ; Charles. Glidden 
(born in Ro.xbury, February, 1884), and 
Ruth (born also in Roxburv, December, 
1885). 

OSGOOD, George Laurie, son of 

John Hamilton and Adeline (Stevens) Os- 
good, was born in Chelsea, Suffolk county, 
April 3, 1844. He is a lineal descendant 
of John Osgood, the Puritan, who landed 
at Salem in 1630. 

He was educated at the grammar and 
high schools of his native city, and was 
graduated from Harvard in 1866. In col- 
lege he was conductor of the glee club and 
of the orchestra. His inclination and fac- 
ulties from the start indicated a musical 
career. 

In 1867 he went to Berlin and com- 
menced the study of composition under 
Haupt, and of vocal expression under 
Sieber. Here he formed an intimate friend- 
ship with Franz, the great master of Ger- 
man song. In 1869 he went to Italy, and 
for three years studied with Lamperti, in 
-Milan. As a test of the thoroughness of 
his musical attainment, he repaired to Ger- 
many, and gave, with great success, a 
series of concerts. 

Returning to America he engaged with 
Theodore Thomas, and made a tour of the 
country in connection with his orchestra. 
In 1872 he settled in Boston and at once 
became celebrated as a teacher, composer 
and conductor. In 1875 he assumed the 
directorship of the Boylston Club, a prom- 
ising musical organization, then in its third 
year. He refined its singing, aroused its 
enthusiasm, and gave to Boston one of the 
most noteworthy and notable clubs in its 
musical history. , Mr. Osgood, in 1876, in- 
vited female vocalists to assist in its con- 
certs. This advance in concerts gave Bos- 
ton a male chorus of an hundred voices, a 
still larger female chorus of exquisite qual- 



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ity of tone, and tlie utmost perfection in 
shading and expression, and a previously 
unattained mixed chorus. The attainment 
of these high aims gave Boston a reputa- 
tion for choral art not only national, but 
European. The London " .Nlusical Times," 
in its review of the year 1886, placed the 
Boylston Club's performances in the front 
rank of the whole musical world. 

As a composer, musical critics award 
high rank to Mr. Osgood. His songs out- 
sell those of any other .\merican classical 
composer, and he has won success in every 
field of vocal composition. His principal 
works are : "Ouide in the Art of Singing," 
a volume of 200 pages, already passed 
through eight edition?; and numerous 
choral works for concert and church. 

Mr. Osgood was married in 1868, in 
Chelsea, to Jeannette Calot, daughter of 
James Phillips and Chloe (Calot) Farley, 
of that city. He resides at Cambridge, 
and has three children : George Laurie, 
Farley, and Marie Jeannette Osgood. 

OSGOOD, JOSEPH, son of Joseph 
Otis and Elizabeth (Fogg) Osgood, was 
born in Kensington, Rockingham county, 
N. H., September 23, 1815. 

.After the advantages of a good home 
and common school education, he attended 
Phillips -Academy, Exeter, and having 
made due preparation, he entered Harvard 
divinity school, where he was graduated in 
the class of 1842. 

He was first called to the pastorate of 
the First Parish church in Cohasset, and 
ordained October 26, 1842, where he still 
remains. 

Mr. Osgood was married in Scituate, 
May 20, 1844, to Ellen Devereux, daugh- 
ter of Edmund Quincy and Caroline 
(Ward) Sewall. Of this union were ten 
children : Elizabeth, Joseph Otis, iLdmund 
Quincy Sewall, George, Ellen Devereux, 
Mary Fogg, William Sherburne, Frances 
Parsons, Louise Lovett, and Caroline Ward, 
the first child, who died in infancy. 

When Mr. Osgood commenced his min- 
istry in Cohasset, the parish covered a 
broad and sparsely settled territory that 
required his pastoral care. In an outlying 
portion of his charge he held Sunday- 
school and other religious services. He 
has always keenly regarded the intellectual 
and literary training of children as really 
included in the scope of a truly Christian 
culture, which requires the development 
and education of all the faculties of the 
soul. He has devoted much time to the 
common schools. The interests and best 
methods of instruction and management 



have been subjects of constant study with 
him. He was for many years the chair- 
man of the school board, and for twelve 
years superintendent of schools, which po- 
sition he held until three years ago. 

He is, and has been for nearly forty- 
seven years, a trustee of Derby Academy at 
Hingham, and for many years president of 
the board, and is a vice-president of the 
Plymouth and Bay Conference of Unita- 
rian churches. His knowledge of practical 
life, his love of horticulture, and his great 
and fatherly affection for children, are 
among his distinguishing characteristics. 
In town affairs he has always been active. 
Through his efforts the Cohasset free li- 
brary was established, and he has been the 
chairman of its board of trustees since its 
incorporation. He is now rounding out 
a half-century of ministerial life in his 
first and only parish, loved and revered 
by all. 

OSGOOD, JOSEPH Barlow Felt, 

son of William and t^lizabeth Curtis (Felt) 
Osgood, was born in Salem, Essex county, 
July I, 1823. 

He attended the private school of Ira 
Cheever two years ; entered the English 
high school, Salem, in 1833, from which he 
was graduated in 1837. 

Eight months of the next year he was 
clerk with his uncle, Joseph B. Felt, at 
the State-house, Boston. September, 1838, 
he entered the Salem Latin school, where 
he was prepared for college by Oliver 
Carleton. He entered Harvard in 1842, 
and was graduated in 1846. He studied 
law with Hon. Jonathan C. Perkins, Salem, 
two years, then with Hon. Charles G. Lor- 
ing, Boston, remaining with him until July 
25, 1849, when he was admitted to the 
Massachusetts bar. 

He immediately opened an office at 
Salem, where he has practiced until the 
present time. 

He was married, November 23, 1853, to 
Mary Jane Creamer, who died September 
16, 1865. She was the daughter of Ben- 
jamin and Ann M. (Brace) Creamer. Of 
this union were two children : Alice M. 
(deceased) and Elizabeth Curtis Osgood 
(now Mrs. Henry A. Cook, of Salem). 

Judge Osgood was a member of the 
Salem common council 1849, '50, '51, '52 
and '53 ; of the House of Representatives 
1S50, '51 and '52 ; of the state Senate 1859 
and '60. He was mayor of Salem 1865, 
and justice of the ist district court of 
Essex count}'' from July, 1874, to January 
30, 1889, when he resigned his office and 
resumed the practice of law, after more 



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OTIS. 



than fourteen j'ears' judicial service, with 
the well-merited respect and esteem of his 
fellow-citizens. He made the court of 
which he was justice an efficient agenc}- in 
the enforcement of law and the preservation 
of public morals, and retired with the con- 
sciousness of having served his city and 
state with honor to himself, and fidelity to 
his constituents and the public interests. 

OSGOOD, Stephen, son of Stephen 

and Charlotte (Morrill) Osgood, was born 
in Salisburv, Essex countv, November i6, 
1826. 

His early education was accomplished 
at the common schools, and when seventeen 
years old he removed to Georgetown, 
where, with a brief exception, he has since 
resided. 

He began as an apprentice in the mer- 
chant tailoring business, but contracting 
the gold fever in 1849, sailed round the 
Cape to California, where he remained for 
one year or more, and returned to George- 
town. He has held nearly all of the town 
offices and has been an earnest advocate 
and leader in all progressive movements. 
He has been selectman, assessor, and over- 
seer of the poor ; trustee of the Peabody 
library and the Georgetown Savings Bank, 
and director and vice-president of the 
Georgetown National Bank. 

He was a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives in 1 87 1, and of the Senate in 
1879, to which he was re-elected in 1880. 
He served as chairman upon the commit- 
tees on public charitable institutions and 
library. 

On the 9th of April, 1851, Mr. Osgood 
married Sarah, daughter of Moses and 
.\lmira (Flatts) Carter. Their children 
are: Louis Kossuth, Stephen Carter, Charles 
Clement, and Charlotte Alice Osgood. 

OSGOOD, William N., .son of George 
Newton and Minerva (Hayward) Osgood, 
was born in Lowell, Middlesex county, June 

II, 1855- 

The public schools of Lowell furnishetl 
the advantages for his early education. 
He was graduated from the Lowell high 
school ; entered Amherst College, and was 
graduated therefrom in the class of 1878 ; 
attended the Boston University law school, 
and was admitted to the bar in 1880. 

He practiced law in Lowell until March, 
1885, when he removed his law office to 
Boston, in which city he has since been 
engaged in the successful practice of his 
profession. 

Mr. Osgood was married in Tewksburv, 
January i, 1884, to Harriet Leslie, daugh- 



ter of Henry C. and .\ugusta (Jaques) 
Palmer. 

He has always manifested an interest in 
public affairs ; was a member of the Lowell 
common council, 1881 and '82, being presi- 
dent of that body the latter year ; was a 
member of the Lowell water board in 
1882; ex-offia'o, president of the commun 




WILLIAM N. OSGOOD. 

council, a member of the school board, 
and also a trustee of the Lowell public 
library. He was the candidate of the Dem- 
ocratic party in 1888 for secretary of the 
Commonwealth, and received the largest 
vote ever cast for a Democratic candidate 
for that position. 

During the presidential campaign of 
1888 Mr. Osgood made many speeches in 
different parts of the State. In political 
views he is progressive, believing in the 
ultimate triumph of true Democratic prin- 
ciples over the usurpations of all privileged 
classes. 

OTIS, JOHN LORD, son of Hayden E. 
and Mary (Lord) Otis, was born in Lyme, 
New London county. Conn., July 15, 1827. 
He was educated in the public schools of. 
his native state, and early evincing a taste 
for mechanical engineering, he devoted 
himself to that study, and in 1851 was 
employed as superintendent by the Pacific 
Manufacturing Company, of Manchester, 



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Conn. He remained witli that cori'xn'ation 
for five years, and tlien estahlisiied the 
Otis Manufacturing Company in South 
Manchester. While there he put in motion 
for Cheney Brothers the first machinery 
for the manufacture of silk and wool knit 
goods ever operated in this country. 

In August, 1861, Mr. Otis enlisted in the 
loth regiment, Connecticut volunteer in- 
fantrv, responding to the urgent call for 
soldiers immediately .succeeding the first 
battle of Bull Run. He rose rapidly 
through all the several gradations of rank, 
earned by actual service, to be colonel in 
February, 1S63. He was in all the engage- 
ments of Burnside's and Foster's commands 
in North Carolina, and was wounded once 
in the battle of Newbern, and twice at 
Kingston. In January, 1863, he went 
to .South Carolina with General Foster's 
army, and while there performed import- 
ant service. He was ordered to Virginia, 
April 17, 1864, and joined the army of the 
James. At the close of his three years' 
term of service he was mustered out at his 
own request, and returned home with a 
well-earned commission of brevet briga- 
dier-general. 

At the close of the war he took the 
position of superintendent of the Florence 
Sewing Machine Company, which he re- 
signed three years later to found the North- 
ampton Emery Wheel Company, of which 
he is still treasurer. 

Oeneral Otis is a well-known leader in 
the Republican party, and his recognized 
ability and eminent patriotic service have 
often been honored by the suffrages of his 
fellow-citizens, who have elected him to 
tlifferent local and state offices, which he 
has uniformly filled with credit to himself 
and with satisfaction to his constituents. 
In i875-'76 he was a selectman, assessor, 
and overseer of the poor of Northampton. 



In 187S he was a member of the House of 
Representatives, and served on the com- 
mittee on military affairs. In 1879 he was 
returned to the state Senate from the 
Hampshire district, and served as chair- 
man of the committee on manufactures, 
and as a inember of the committee on 
military affairs and on the library. He 
was re-elected to the Senate in 1880, and 
was appointed chairman of the committee 
on military affairs, serving also on the 
committee on public service. 

On the ist of March, 1847, in Manches- 
ter, Conn., General Otis marrietl Catharine, 
daughter of Cyrus Preston, of South Had- 
ley. They have two children : Harry P. 
and Philip .V. Otis. 

OXLEY, Frederick Norman, son of 

Edward Barker and Mary J. ( Smith) 
O.xley, was born in River Philip, Nova 
Scotia, F'ebruary 14, 1849. 

After the public schools of his native 
place, he enjoyed the advantages of a 
private school and tuition. 

Mr. Oxley came to the States in 1867, 
and has since resided in Massachusetts. 
In 1872 he formed a partnership with Ber- 
nard Billings, under the firm name of Bil- 
lings & Oxley, druggists. 

In 1875 he bought the interest of Mr. 
Billings, and has since continued the busi- 
ness of pharmacist in his own name and at 
the same location. 

Mr. Oxley was married in Ashland, May 
28, 1873, to Ella Maria, daughter of John 
N. and Mary J. (Hatch) West. Of this 
union were five children : Edward P., 
Eunice M. (deceased), Norman M., Arthur 
P., and George F. Oxley. 

Mr. Oxley was a member of the House 
of Representatives in 1866, has been a mem- 
ber of the Republican state central commit- 
tee, of the Republican town committee thir- 
teen years, and town assessor six years. 



PACKARD, De Witt Clinton, son 

of Washburn and Hannah (Packard) Pack- 
ard, was born in North Bridgewater, Plym- 
outh county, September 22, 1836. 

He received a common school and 
academic training, taught common schools 
a short time, and in i860 was chosen prin- 
cipal of the academy at Plympton. 

In 1862 he engaged in the shoe business. 
In 1865 he formed a co-partnership with 
Oliver F. Leach, under the firm naine of 
Leach & Packard, and engaged in the 



manufacture of shoes for southern and 
western trade. 

In 1871 the co-partnership was dissolved 
by mutual consent, and the business — 
mainly New England trade — was carried 
on by Mr. Packard until 1879, when other 
business, principally mortgage and broker- 
age, engrossed his time and attention, 
till the shoe business was gradually aban- 
doned. 

Mr. Packard was married in Brockton, 
January 5, 1865, to Clarissa J., daughter 



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of Oliver and Susannah (Howland) Leach. 
Of this union are two children : Clinton 
Francis and Clara Washburn Packard. 

Mr. Packard was one of the committee 
of citizens appointed by the town of Brock- 
ton to prepare and obtain a cit)- char- 
ter. In r88i he was elected town clerk, in 
1882, city clerk, which office he has held 
to the present time, without interruption, 
having been re-elected each year by unan- 
imous vote. He was one of the enu- 
merators of the United States census m 
1880 ; was one of the trustees of the pub- 
lic library from 1876 to 'S8, and a member 
of the school board from 1879 to '83. He 
has held a commission as justice of the 
peace since 1875, and was appointed by 
the governor a commissioner to qualify civil 
officers in 1884, which ofifice he now holds. 

Though not now in any way connected 
with the press, he was formerly a con- 
tributor and correspondent to the Boston 
"Journal," "Post," "Saturday Evening Ga- 
zette," " New England Farmer," " Massa- 
chusetts Ploughman," and "Moore's Rural 
New Yorker," and for a time, in the early 
days of that journal, a reporter for the 
" Brockton Gazette." 

Mr. Packard was a skilled workman, 
when a mere boy, in the trade of shoe- 
making, and inspired with love for books, 
industriously conned his Latin while peg- 
ging shoes. His father was one of the 
first, if not the first, to manufacture " con- 
gress " shoes in North Bridgewater. 

PADDOCK, Benjamin Henry, son of 

the Rev. Seth Birdsey and Emily (Flagg) 
Paddock, was born in Norwich, New Lon- 
don county. Conn., February 29, 1828. 

His early education was received at pri- 
vate schools in Norwich. Entering Trin- 
ity College, Hartford, Conn., he graduated 
in the year 1848, when he taught one year 
at the Connecticut Episcopal Academv. 
Cheshire. In 1849 he entered the Genera! 
Theological Seminary, New York City, 
graduating therefrom in 1852. His a/»ia 
«;(j!/<';- subsequently conferred upon him the 
honorary degree of S. T. D. 

He was assistant minister in Epiphany 
church, New York City, for one year ; 
rector of Trinity church, Norwich, Conn., 
until i860 ; rector of Christ church, De- 
troit, Mich., until 1869 ; rector of Grace 
church, Brooklyn Heights, N. Y., until 
1873 ; and on September 17, 1873, he was 
consecrated bishop of Massachusetts, hold- 
ing that ofifice at the present time, his resi- 
dence being in the city of Boston. 

On the 19th of May, 1853, Bishop Pad- 
dock was married to Caroline H. Cooke, 



of Wallingford, Conn., who died in i860. 
In 1863 he was again married, to Anna 
L., daughter of Henry K. and Caro- 
line (Prentiss) Sanger, of Detroit, Mich. 
Their children are : Lewis H., Emilv S., 
and Anna G. Paddock. 

Bishop Paddock has filled the high and 
responsible ofifice to which he has been 
called, to the great acceptance of the 
church of which he has so long been an 
honored representative member. 

PAIGE, Calvin Ammidoun, son of 

Timothy and Cynthia Ammidoun Paige, 
was born in Southbridge, ^^'orcester county, 
June 7, 1820. 

He received his early education in the 
common schools and academy. At the 
age of thirteen he was employed as clerk 
in a country store, and when twenty-three 
years of age, commenced in a cotton man- 
ufactory as clerk and superintendent, and 
afterwards as agent and treasurer of the 




CALVIN A. PAIGE. 

Dresser Manufacturing Company, and con- 
tinued twenty-five years, until 1870, at 
which time the mill was destroyed by fire. 
He was elected as a representative to the 
Legislature in 1863. He has held many 
of the town ofifices, covering a period of 
more than twenty-five years, among them, 
selectman, assessor, overseer of the poor 
(which ofifice he now holds), and much of 



PAIGE. 



PAINE. 



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the time chairman and cleri< of the boards 
named. 

He has held the office of notary piibhc ; 
lias been a director in Southbridge National 
Bank, and a trustee of Southbridg-e Savings 
Bank more than thirty years. He is also 
a commissioner to qualify civil officers. 
He has served several years on various 
committees of the town, one of the most 
important being that to oppose its division 
by the Legislature in 1854. 

Mr. Paige was married in Southbridge, 
May 9, 1843, to Mercy, daughter of Har- 
vey Dresser, of Charlton, who died Sep- 
tember 14, 1852. He married his second 
wife, Ellen Jane Scholefield, of Dudley, 
February 20, 1856. His children are: Mary 
Elisabeth, born April 7, 1846, died Sep- 
tember 2, 1848 ; Calvin D., born May 20, 
1848 ; Frank S., born May 18, 1857. The 
two sons are now doing business and living 
in Southbridge. 

Mr. Paige is not now in active business. 
He has much public spirit, and takes great 
interest in town affairs, and finds consider- 
able time to attend to politics, being an 
ardent Republican. 

PAIGE, Frank E., son of Francis B. 
and Klzada (Haskins) Paige, was born in 
Amherst, Hampshire county, March 22, 
1859. 

His early education was received in the 
schools of Amherst. He began life on the 
farm, and by industry has risen to his present 
position. He chose the profession of law, 
and having prepared himself by close ap- 
plication, was admitted to the Hampshire 
county bar at the age of twenty-one, being 
the youngest member up to that time ever 
admitted. Since that time he has had a 
large and successful practice in Amherst, 
where he now resides. 

He has been secretary and treasurer of 
the Hampshire Agricultural Society for 
several years ; in 1886 he was elected 
treasurer of the Massachusetts Agricultural 
College, and has charge of the finances of 
that institution. In 1887 he was elected to 
take charge of the law department of the 
college, and each year has given a course 
of lectures. 

In 1 888 he was elected to the House of 
Representatives, as a Republican, serving 
as clerk of the agricultural committee. 
He has held many town offices, is promi- 
nent in Masonry, and for a long time has 
held important positions in the local organi- 
zations. 

During his legislative service he was the 
promoter and advocate of the yearly appro- 
priation of five thousand dollars by the 



State to the college of which he is treasurer, 
for the purpose of paying poor and needy 
students for labor on the farm, that they 
might be able to attend the college and ob- 
tain the educational training offered by 
the institution. He was also, upon the 
floor of the House, foremost in advocating 
the cause of the farmers of the Common- 
wealth. 

Mr. Paige is- unmarried. He has trav- 
eled extensively, visiting nearly every part 
of the United States, and many foreign 
lands. 

PAINE, Robert Treat, son of Charles 

Cushingand Fanny Cabot (Jackson) Paine, 
was born in Boston, October 28, 1835. His 
great grandfather was one of the signers 
of the Declaration of Independence. He 
received his early educational training in 
the private and public schools of Boston, 
entering the Boston Latin school at ten, 
and graduating at fifteen. He has always 
regarded these five years as an invaluable 
training. 

Mr. Paine entered Harvard in 185 i, and 
was graduated with htmors in the class of 
1855, among such distinguished classmates 
as Francis C. Barlow, Rev. Phillips Brooks, 
Alexander Agassiz, Theodore Lyman and 
Frank B. Sanborn. 

Mr. Paine studied law at Harvard one 
year, and then passed two years in Italy, 
Switzerland, Germany, France and Spain ; 
returned to Boston in 1858 ; studied law in 
the offices of Richard H. Dana and Francis 
E. Parker one year, and was admitted to 
the bar in 1859. He practiced till 1870, 
when he retired from active business, in- 
tending to devote the remainder of his life 
to various benevolent enterprises, one of 
the first of which was the building of Trin- 
ity church, which took a large share of his 
time from 1872 to '76, he being one of the 
sub-committee of three who had charge of 
the work. 

He was chosen the first president of the 
Associated Charities at its origin in 1878, 
and has held that office ever since. He 
organized the Wells Memorial Institute 
in 1879, the largest workingmen's club 
in the United States, and having now 
over seventeen hundred members. He 
became its first president, which office 
he still retains, and raised the various 
subscriptions which have paid out over 
ninety thousand dollars for the memorial 
building. 

Mr. Paine was married in Boston, April 
24, 1862, to Lydia Williams, daughter of 
George Williams and Anne (Pratt) Lyman. 
Her father was the son of Theodore Ly- 



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PAINE. 



man, a distinguished Boston merchant at 
the beginning of this century. Of this 
union are five children : Edith (Mrs. John 
H. Storer), Robert Treat Paine, Jr., Ethel 
L)-man, George Lyman, and Lydia L_vman 
Paine. 

Mr. Paine's winter residence is 6 Joy 
Street, Boston, and his summer residence 
is at Waltham. 

Mr. Paine represented Waltham in the 
Hou.se of Representatives in 1884 ; has 
been a member of the vestry of Trinity 
church, Boston, for fifteen years ; a mem- 
ber of the e.xecutive committee of the 
Episcopal city mission, and also of the 




ROBERT TREAT PAINE. 

Society for the Suppression of Vice. He 
is one of the trustees of donations to the 
Protestant Episcopal church, and is presi- 
dent of the ^^'orkingmen's Co-operative 
Bank, Workingmen's Building Association, 
Loan Association, and Congress of A\'ork- 
ingmen's clubs. 

Mr. Paine was a candidate for congres- 
sional honors in the 5th Massachusetts 
district in 1884, as a Mugwump and Dem- 
ocrat. He had always been a Republican 
(and Free Soiler) till the nomination of 
Mr. Hlaine. He is vice-president of the 
Children's Aid Society, of which his 
mother was one of the founders, and a 
director as long as she lived. 



Starting in life with no money, his sav- 
ings at the law were so judiciouslv in- 
vested in real estate and railroad and min- 
ing enterprises, that at thirty-five vears of 
age he gave up business with an independ- 
ent fortune of his own making. 

In 1887 Mr. Paine gave ten thousand 
dollars to Harvard College to endow a 
fellowship for the study of "the ethical 
problems of society, the effects of legis- 
lation, governmental administration, and 
private philanthropy, to ameliorate the lot 
of the mass of mankind." 

This eminent philanthropist has done 
something more than theorize. Besides 
his twenty-five published pamjihlets and 
addresses, all for the public weal, he has 
thrown himself and his wealth into the 
work of raising the unfortunate, improv- 
ing the condition, and especially tiie homes, 
of the working-classes, strengthening pri- 
vate morals and public " law and order." 

PAINE, Tl.WOTHY Otis, son of Fred- 
eric and Abiel (Ware) Paine, was born in 
Winslow, Kennebec county, Maine, Octo- 
ber 13, 1824. 

Having availed himself of the common 
school training in his native town, he ]3re- 
jiared for college in the Waterville Liberal 
Listitute, i84o-'43. He entered Waterville 
College (now Colby University) in 1S43, 
and was graduated in the class of 1847. 
From 1848 to '52 he studied and worked 
as an artist, and then prepared for the 
ministry, which he entered in 1853, and in 
which he has continued up to the present 
time. 

In 1866 he became professor of Hebrew 
in the theological school at Waltham, 
afterwards at Boston, and in i88g at Cam- 
bridge ; and is now professor emeritus of 
the sacred languages. He has been pastor 
of the East Bridgewater society of the 
New Jerusalem church since 1856. 

Mr. Paine was married in Medford, 
October 13, 1856, to Agnes, daughter of 
Adonis and Catherine (Holnian) Howard. 
They have had eight children : Edith 
(Mrs. George Benedict), Howard, Miriam 
deceased), Joseph (deceased), Isabel 
Mrs. Henry Hastings Grant), Bertha, 
James (deceased), and Herbert \\'are 
Paine. 

Mr. Paine is a member and honorary 
member of several literary societies in 
England, Nova Scotia, and the United 
States. He received the degree of LL. D. 
from Colby in 1875. He is the author of 
"Solomon's Temple" (1S61), and "The 
Holv Houses" (1885, Houghton, Mifflin 
(S: Co.). 



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PALMER 



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PALFRAY, Charles Warwick, was 

born in Salem, Essex county, December 
20, 1813. He is the son of Warwick and 
Elizabeth (Roundy) I'alfray, anda descend- 
ant of Peter I'alfray, one of the "Old 
Planters'" who came to Salem in 1626 with 
Roger Conant and others. 

He attended the private school of Samuel 
H. Archer, was a member of the first class 
of the Salem EngHsh high school, and was 




l,HARLES W. PALFRAY. 

fitted for college by Henry K. Oliver. He 
entered Harvard College in 1831, and was 
graduated in 1835. 

After graduation he completed a legal 
course in the office of Hon. Leverett Sal- 
tonstall in Salem, and at the Dane law 
school in Cambridge. He received his 
degree of LL. B. in 1838, after which he 
was admitted to practice in all the courts 
of the Commonwealth. 

He opened a law office in Salem for a 
short time, but never practiced, his father 
dying a few days Ijefore his admission to 
the bar, and in August, 1838, the son 
succeeded him as one of the editors of the 
Essex, now Salem, " Register," with which 
he has been connected ever since. 

Mr. Palfray was a representative to the 
General Court, from Salem, in 1840, '41, 
'64 and '66. He was a member of the 
state valuation committee in 1865 ; collec- 



tor of customs for the district of Salem 
and Beverly from 1869 to '73 ; a mem- 
ber of the Essex Institute, a fellow of the 
.\merican Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, and an honorary member 
of A. B. C. F. M. 

He has never married. 

PALMER, Charles Dana, son of 

George Wall and Ellen H. (Jackson) Pal- 
mer, was born in Cambridge, Middlesex 
county, November 25, 1845. 

His early education was received in the 
Dwight school, Boston. He fitted for 
college in the Boston public Latin school, 
graduating therefrom in 1864. He entered 
Harvard University the same year, and was 
graduated in the class of 186S. 

In October, 1868, he went to Lawrence, 
entering the employment of the Washing- 
ton Mills. He was sent to Canada in 1869 
to purchase wool for the company. In 
1872 he entered into partnership with 
Thomas H. Gray, of Vvalpole, and John 
I'endergast, of Lawrence, with whom, in 
<harge of the mills at North Chelms- 
ford, he manufactured shoddy for ten 
years. He then sold out the business and 
retired. 

Mr. Palmer was mayor of Lowell in 1888, 
and is now serving his second term. 

Mr. Palmer married, in Lowell, May 20, 
1880, Rowena, youngest daughter of 
Fisher Ames and Lauretta (Coburn) Hil- 
tlreth, of Lowell. Of this union are two 
children : Elinor and Jackson Palmer. 

PALMER, DWIGHT Waldo, son of F. 
A. and Hannah (Smith) Palmer, was born 
in Amherst, Hampshire county, November 
22, 1825. 

He received his education in the com- 
mon schools and at Amherst Academy. 

His first connection in business was in 
Springfield, where he carried on the dry- 
goods trade ten years. He then removed 
to Amherst, where he carried on the same 
line of business thirty years. 

He is at present president of the trustees 
of the Smith charities, Northampton, hav- 
ing held this position four years. 

Air. Palmer has been twice married, and 
has four children. His residence is Am- 
herst. * 

PALMER, Moses POORE, the son of 
Moses H. and Mary H. Palmer, of East 
Bradford (now tlroveland), Mass., was born 
at Derry, Rockingham county, N. H., May 
I, 1830. 

His paternal ancestors came over ongm- 
ally from England — his grandfather on the 
same side being a native of East Bradford. 



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PARK. 



He received his early educatiim at 
Groveiand, to which place his parents re- 
moved when he was two years old. He 
afterward went to Merrimac Academy. 
Upon leaving school he worked upon his 
father's farm during the summer months, 
and, as was the custom in those days, at 
shoemaking in the winter. His first busi- 
ness engagement was in a shoe-cutting 
establishment at Marlborougli, where he 
learned the trade. 




MOSES P. PALMER. 

In 1S58 he commenced the manufacture 
of shoes in connection with his brother in 
Marlborough, which partnership continued 
until the war broke out in 1861. He then 
recruited a company at Marlborough, of 
which he was made captain. The com- 
pany was assigned to the 2d battalion of 
Massachusetts militia rifles, and in June 
was ordered to Fort Independence and or- 
ganized with other companies into the 
13th regiment of MassacjTusetts volun- 
teers. In July, 1S61, the regiment left for 
the seat of war. Captain Palmer was in 
command of the company through all 
the principal battles of the army of the 
Potomac, notably the second Bull Run, 
where he received three wounds, one 
of which was a very severe one — a bullet 
through the neck and lower jaw. He was 
also slightly wounded at Fredericksburg. 



He took part in Chancellorsville, Thor- 
oughfare Gap, Bolivar, Front Royal, and 
various other battles and skirmishes. In 
the first day's fight at Gettysburg, while 
with the ist corps (Reynolds) he had his 
right knee shot to pieces, and being criji- 
pled for life, was honorably discharged 
m March, 1864, for disability. He was 
afterward breveted major by the United 
States Congress for gallant and meritorious 
service in the field. 

After his discharge. Major Palmer re- 
turned to Groton and bought the farm 
upon which he now resides, and by his 
success has proved that farming in the old 
Commonwealth can be made to paw 

He has served as selectman, assessor, 
and overseer of the poor, for the past 
twelve years, and four years as chairman 
of the board. He has been commander of 
Post 1 15, G. A. R., for seven years, master of 
Grange No 7, P. of H., an officer of the 
(Iroton Farmers' Club, and an active mem- 
ber of the Middlesex North Agricultural So- 
ciety, having been for many years one of its 
vice-presidents and trustees. He is treas- 
urer of the New England Milk Producers' 
Union, and has been a justice of the peace 
for several years, his commission having 
been renewed. 

In 1884 he was sent to the Legislature 
as a representative, and in 18S8 and '89 as 
senator from the 5th Middlese.>c district. 
In 1885 and '86 he was a member of the 
Republican state central conmiittee. 

Major Palmer was married, in July, 1861, 
to Martha G., the daughter of Joshua and 
Matilda (Prescott) Eaton of Groton. His 
family consists of two daughters and one 
son : Mary Hale. M.ittie Eaton, and Frank 
Henrv Pahuer. 

PARK, Edwards AiMASA, son of Calvin 
and .\bigail (Ware) Park, was born in Provi- 
dence, R. I., December 29, 1808. His father 
was formerly a professor in Brown Univer- 
sity, afterward a Congregational pastor in 
Stoughton ; and he is descended on the 
paternal side from Richard Park, one of 
the original settlers of Newton. His 
mother was the daughter of Captain Na- 
thaniel Ware, of \\'rentham, a descendant 
from Robert Ware, one of the original 
settlers of Dedham. 

Dr. Park was graduated at Brown Uni- 
versity in 1826, and at Andover Theolog- 
ical Seminary in 1831. He was pastor at 
Braintree, i83i-'33 ; professor of mental 
and moral philosophy at Amherst College, 
i835-'36 ; professor of sacred rhetoric at 
Andover Theological Seminary, i836-'47 ; 
professor of Christian theology at Andover, 



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i847-'Si. Thus he has held a professor- 
ship in the seminary forty-live years, and 
has been connected with it in some capac- 
ity nearly fifty-six years. 

In iS42-'43, also in i862-'63, he visited 
Great Britain, PVance, Switzerland and 
Germany. During these two visits he 
spent much of his time at the German 
universities — four months at Marburg, 
four months at Berlin, and three months 
at Halle. In i869-'7o he made the tour 
of Italy, Greece, Egypt and Palestine. 

He has published numerous essays in 
theological quarterlies ; si.xteen or seven- 
teen pamphlets ; four volumes of memoirs ; 
the first a memoir of Rev. William Brad- 
ford Homer ; the second, of Professor 
B. B. Edwards ; the third, of Dr. Samuel 
Hopkins ; the fourth, of Dr. Nathanael 
Emmons. In 1844 he united with Pro- 
fessor B. B. Edwards in establishing the 
" Bibliotheca Sacra," and was its chief 
editor from 1851 till '84. He was en- 
gaged in the publication of forty volumes 
of this quarterly. In connection with 
Professor Austin Phelps and Dr. Lowell 
Mason, he edited the " Sabbath Hymn 
Book," which reached a circulation of 
about a hundred and twenty thousand 
copies between 1859 and '66. His first 
published essay appeared in 1826 ; his last 
pamphlet contained ninety-eight pages, 
and appeared in 1883 ; his last publication 
was a volume of " Discourses on some 
Theological Doctrines as related to Re- 
ligious Character," and appeared in 18S3. 

For more than thirty years he has been 
president of the board of trustees of 
Abbott Academy at Andover ; by the will 
of the founder, he was appointed one of 
the original trustees of Smith College at 
Northampton ; since 1865 he has been a 
member of the board of fellows of Brown 
University. He has been elected a mem- 
ber of the Victoria Institute in England, 
and of several historical societies in the 
United States. 

PARKER, Charles Wallingford, 

son of Charles and Mary Hildreth (Wal- 
lingford) Parker, was born in Framing- 
ham, Middlese.x county, June 27, 1831. 

He was educated in the district school 
and at Framingham Academy, until the age 
of fifteen. April 20, 1847, he was employed 
in a retail clothing store in Worcester. 

In 1849 he entered the employ of Addi- 
son Macullar — his former fellow-clerk — 
and in i860 he became a partner in the 
house. His business connection with Mr. 
Macullar has continued for over forty 
years. 



The well-known clothing firm of Macul- 
lar, Parker & Company — still under Mr. 
Parker's management — occupies, by gen- 
eral consent, the first position in its special 
line in New' England. 

Mr. Parker was married in Chelsea, No- 
vember 30, 1854, to Mary J., daughter of 
Charles E. and Ann (Huse) Schoff. Of 
this union were five children : Mary, 
Charles S., Herman, Allston, and Ross 
Parker, all of whom are living except- 
ing Allston. 

Mr. Parker has studiously avoided all 
methods that lead to political preferment, 
finding in letters, in art, and in foreign 




CHARLES W, PARKER. 

travel, as well as in a conscientious dis- 
charge of manifold duties as a private cit- 
izen, employer, and parent — work more 
satisfactory to his quiet tastes and unob- 
trusive character. 

For many years he was the chairman of 
the executive committee of the Church of 
the Disciples, and one of the circle of 
James Freeman Clarke's personal friends 
and warm supporters. 

In land.scape gardening at his summer 
place, " Redgate," in Marblehead, Mr. 
Parker has been instrumental in reclaim- 
ing an unpromising territory of considera- 
ble extent to a state of rare beauty and 
culture. 



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PAKKEK. 



PARKER. 



His interest in tiie manufacture of do- 
mestic woolens of the finer quality has 
secured for him a deserved recognition, 
and he has been called to the presidency 
of Georges River Woolen Mills, in War- 
ren, Me., a corporation extensively engaged 
in that business. 

Mr. Parker is a descendant of pure New 
England stock, his paternal ancestors hav- 
ing come to this country from England in 
1628. The farm on which he was born 
was in the possession of the family for 
over one hundred and fifty years. 

Mr. Parker is a conspicuous example of 
the successful, representative, self-made 
business men of New England. 

PARKER, George C, son of Asa and 
Ann 2\largaret (McCorristine) Parker, was 
born in Acton, Middlesex county, June 
19, 1826. He obtained a common school 
education, and then prepared for college 
in Ashby Academy, Lawrence Academy, 
Groton, and Appleton Academy, New Ips- 
wich, N. H. He was graduated from Union 




GEORGE G PARKER. 

College, New York, in the class of 1852 ; 
studied law in the Albany law school. New 
York, and practiced law at Piqua, Miami 
county, Ohio, and at Westfield, New York. 
He removed to Milford, Mass., in 1856, 
and has since been a member of the Wor- 
cester county bar. 



Mr. Parker was married in Milford, De- 
cember 26, 1854, to Augusta, daughter 
of Rev. James T. and Augusta (Porter) 
Woodbury. Of this union was one child : 
Margaret Augusta Parker (since lieceased). 
He has an adopted daughter, Lillian 
Blanche. 

i\Ir. Parker is senior warden of Trinity 
church, Milford ; has been ten years chair- 
man of the Milford school board ; secre- 
tary of the Milford Mutual Fire Lisurance 
Company twenty-five years, and was a 
member of the House of Representatives 
in 1876. 

PARKER, George Judson, son of 

Samuel W. and Charlotte B. (George) Par- 
ker, was born in Reading, Middlesex 
county, February 10, 1850. 

He attended the public schools of Read- 
ing imtil thirteen years of age ; on his 
removal to Boston, in 1863, he entered the 
Dwight school, from which he graduated 
in 1865, and the same year entered the 
English high school. 

\Vhen seventeen years of age he began 
work in one of the departments of 
|5iano-forte manufacture in the employ 
of George M. Guikl, at eighteen remov- 
ing to Leominster, and engaging with 
Allen & Jewett in the same industry. . At 
twenty-one he returned to Boston, entering 
the employ of Henry F. Miller, at the 
same time beginning the study of music 
with Idseph P. Cobb, and continuing later 
with J. W. Tufts and John Hodsdon. He 
went to Europe in 1882 ; studied in Lon- 
don with Shakspeare, Randegger, and 
Behnke ; in Milan with San Cliovanni ; at 
Nice with Lamperti (phc), and in Paris 
with Sbriglia. 

He has been a member of the Boylston 
and Cecilia clubs. He is at present a 
member of the Apollo Club, and is en- 
gaged as oratorio and concert soloist 
(tenor), having sung for the principal mu- 
sical societies of Boston, and at Washing- 
ton, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the leading 
musical centres of the United States and 
Canada. 

His present vocation is tenor soloist and 
vocal teacher. 

PARKER, HENRY G., was born in 
Plymouth, Plvniouth countv, March 19, 
1836. 

His father, Ebenezer Grosvenor Parker, 
was born in Falmouth, in 1796. The 
grandfather of Colonel Parker, Dr. Henry 
Parker, was also born in Falmouth, and 
was a surgeon in the United States navy. 
The mother of Colonel Parker was Rebecca 



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PARKER. 



461 



Morton, daughter of William Davis, of 
Plymouth. 

In his earlier years Colonel Parker at- 
tended the common school of his native 
town, but after the removal of his mother 
to Boston, he attended a famous private 
school in Brookfield, where William Bliss, 
president of the Boston & Albany Rail- 
road, Charles P. Clark, president of the 
New York & New Haven Railroad, Stan- 
ton and .Arthur W. Blake and their brother, 
the late Ceorge Baty Blake, were among 
his fellow-pupils. Later he attended the 
-Adams school and Chauncy Hall school 
in Boston. 




HENRY G. PARKER, 

On his retirement from school, when his 
entrance into college would have been an 
easy step, his mother yielded reluctantly 
to his strongly expressed wishes for an ac- 
tive life, and he entered as a boy the store 
of Blanchard, Converse & Co., of Boston. 
.After a year's service there, he became as- 
sistant book-keeper in the counting-room 
of Callender, Rogers & Co., also of Bos- 
ton, where he remained three years. Dur- 
ing the succeeding three years he was 
employed as book-keeper by Blodget, 
Clark & Brown, and subsequently took the 
position of confidential clerk in the private 
office of Jordan, Marsh &: Co.'s wholesale 
establishment, which he held until 1869. 



He married. June 7, 1865, Lucy Joseph- 
ine, daughter of the late William Brown, 
well known as a druggist, of Boston. They 
have no children, their only daughter hav- 
ing died in 1878. 

Colonel Parker was a prolific writer and 
a popular and constant contributor and 
critic for the "New A'ork Mirror," "Bos- 
ton Daily Courier," and " Boston Saturday 
Evening Gazette." In April, 1870, he pur- 
chased the " Saturday Evening Gazette," 
and became its proprietor and editor. 

In 1869, and again in 1872, he was 
selected genera! secretary of the executive 
committee of the National Peace Jubilee 
(of which committee the Hon. Ale.xander 
H. Rice was chairman). When Mr. Rice 
was inaugurated governor of Massachu- 
setts, in 1876, he appointed Colonel Par- 
ker a member of his .staff. He served in 
this capacity during the three years' term 
of Governor Rice, and received the de- 
served compliment of a re-appointment by 
Governor Talbot. 

He purchased an estate in Swampscott 
in 1882, where he resides a portion of each 
year, his winter home being on Common- 
wealth Avenue, Boston. Few men are bet- 
ter known in club and mercantile life in 
that city, and the prominence he has ac- 
(juired in the publication of his brilliantly 
conducted " Gazette " has given him a con- 
spicuous standing in social circles. 

PARKER, James Cutler Dunn, son 

of Samuel Hale and Sarah (Parker) Parker, 
was born in Boston, June 2, 1828. 

His early education was obtained at the 
.Adams school, and at the public Latin 
school, where he was fitted for college un- 
der E. S. Dixwell. He was graduated 
from the Latin school in 1843, spent a 
year at home occupied with various studies, 
and entered Harvard in 1844. In 1856 the 
college bestowed upon him the degree of 
A. M. 

Immediately after graduating from Har- 
vard, he entered the law office of Samuel 
Dunn Parker, county attorney of Suffolk, 
where he studied until 1851, when circum- 
stances induced him to change his profes- 
sion to that of music, and he immediately 
went abroad, and for three years studied 
in Leipsic. After six months' travel in 
Europe he returned to Boston in 1854, and 
has pursued the profession of music to the 
present time in that city. For the past 
twenty-five years he has been the organist 
of Trinity church. 

On the 6th day of September, 1859, Mr. 
Parker was married, in Boston, to ]\Iaria, 
daughter of John and Rebecca (Punchard) 



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PARKMAN. 



Derby. Their three children are : Hamil- 
ton Derby, James Cutler, and Philip Stan- 
ley Parker. 

Mr. Parker's present residence is in 
Brookline. 

He has refrained from identifying him- 
self with political, literary, military or re- 
ligious organizations of an}' kind, giving 
his entire time to the profession in which 
he is a well-known, ardent and successful 
devotee. 

PARKER, James O., son of Asa and 
Relief (Brown) Parker, was born on the 
22d of November, 1827, in Pembroke, 
Merrimack county, N.H., and was educated 
at the common schools and at the Concord 
Academy. 

In 1845 he was clerk in the Concord 
post-office, which position he held for two 
years, and then became mail agent between 
Boston and Burlington, Vt. In 1853 he 
took the position of railroad station agent, 
which he held till 1872. In 1873 he was 
elected a representative to the state Legis- 
lature, and sat in the Senate of 1883 and 
'84, representing the 6th Esse.x senatorial 
district, having then, as now, his residence 
in the town of Methuen. 

On the 1 2th of November, 1849, at 
Lebanon, N. H., Mr. Parker was married 
to Frances C, daughter of William and 
Lucinda (Eldridge) Billings. Their only 
child is Helen F. Spooner Parker. 

PARKHURST, Wellington E., son 

of Charles F. W. and Mary (Goodale) 
Parkhurst, was born in Framingham, Mid- 
dlesex county, January 19, 1835. 

The public schools and Framingham 
Academy gave him his early educational 
training. 

He began his business career in 1856 
as paymaster in the Lancaster Quilt Com- 
pany, Clinton, where he remained three 
years. 

Subsequently he was engaged in teach- 
ing, and was two years in the Clinton Sav- 
ings Bank. He was also on the editorial 
staff of the "Worcester Spy." He is now 
editor of the " Clinton Courant," which 
position he has held since 1865. 

Mr. Parkhurst was married September 
13, 1866, to Hattie F., daughter of Arte- 
mas Fairbank, of West Boylston, who died 
December 13, 1885. His second marriage 
occurred August 9, 1887, with Georgiana 
B., daughter of George and Pamela (Fames) 
Warren, of Framingham. 

Mr. Parkhurst has been honored by vari- 
ous positions of trust ; he has been town 
clerk, assessor, treasurer, director of the 



library and member of the Clinton school 
boa I'd. 

PARKMAN, Francis, the son of Fran- 
cis Parkman, D. D., and Caroline Hall 
Parkman, was born in Boston, September 
16, 1823, His early boyhood was passed 
with his maternal grandfather on the border 
of the Middlesex Fells, a wild wooded 
region near Boston, which still retains much 
of its native character. There he became 
familiar with those phases of uncultivated 
nature that were either consonant to his 
inherited tastes, or furnished the mould to 
his formative stage, that shaped the genius 
of the future historian of the Northern 
settlements and of the French and Indian 
wars. 

His studies at this time were somewhat 
desultory, his historian averring that " he 
learned a little Latin and Greek, but was 
more proficient in catching squirrels and 
woodchucks." He was afterwards trained 
for college in Boston, and was graduated 
from Harvard with the class of 1844. His 
vacations were spent chiefly in the vast 
forest between Maine and Canada, or in 
those of Canada itself, or else examining 
the scenes of battles, raids, and skirmishes 
in the French and Indian wars. 

He afterwards made many journeys over 
various parts of the continent, the most 
remarkable being that into the Indian 
country west of the Mississippi, of which 
he has written a graphic account in " The 
Oregon Trail." This experience was in- 
valuable. Such knowledge of the true 
inwardness of Indian life no other historian 
and no prominent writer of English ever 
obtained. He also made repeated visits to 
Europe in search of material for his histor- 
ical works. 

His most noted works are : " The Oregon 
Trail," "The Conspiracy of Pontiac," 
" Pioneers of France in the New World," 
" The Jesuits in North America," " La 
Salle and the Discovery of the Great West," 
" The Old Regime in Canada," " Count 
Frontenac and New France under the 
Reign of Louis XIV.," and " Montcalm and 
Woffe." 

He is vice-president of the Massachusetts 
Historical Society, and was for thirteen 
years one of the seven trustees of Harvard 
University, of which he has also served twice 
as overseer. He was three years president 
of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 
six years president of the St. Botolph Clulj, 
and is a member of numerous learned soci- 
eties in Europe and America. 

In May, 1850, Mr. Parkman was married 
in Boston to Catherine S., daughter of the 



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late Jacob Bigelow, M. D. Of this union 
were three children : (Irace (now Mrs. 
Charles P. Coffin), Francis (who died in 
infancy), and Catherine S. (now Mrs. 
J. T. Coolidge, 3d). Mrs. Parkman died 
in 1858. 

PARKMAN, Henry, son of Samuel and 
Mary Eliot (Dwight) Parkman, was born 
in Boston, May 23, 1850. 

His early educational training was in 
private schools, in which he fitted for col- 
lege. He was graduated from Harvard in 
the class of 1870, and from the Harvard 
law school in 1873. 

He immediately went into active law 
practice, became successful in his profes- 
sion, and is to-day a representative of the 
younger legal fraternity of Boston. 

He has been called to various posts of 
public and private trust, and been honored 
Ijy city and state official positions. He 
was a member of the Boston common 
council in 1879, 'So, '81, '82, '83 and '84 ; 
was representative of ward 9, city of Bos- 
ton, in the Legislature of 1886, '87 and '88, 
serving on the committees on labor, street 
railways, bills in the third reading, cities, 
and rules, and has been secretary and presi- 
dent of the Republican city committee of 
Boston. 

He is secretary of the Provident Insti- 
tution for Savings, and president of the 
Adams Nervine Asylum, and of the train- 
ing school for nurses. 

PARKS, Eugene D., son of Horace 
and Ellen M, (Lewis) Parks, was born in 
Russell, Hampden county, Januarv 17, 
1862. ' 

The common schools of Russell gave 
him his early school training, after which 
he attended the Westfield high school. 

His entry into business life was in April, 
1879. Li 1888 he took the position of 
telegraph operator and helper at Russell 
Station, B. & A. R. R. 

Mr. Parks was married in Springfield, 
Oct. 22, 1888, to Lizzie P.elle, daughter of 
Alexander H. O. and Lizzie S. (Russell) 
Lewis. They have no children. 

Mr. Parks was chairman of the board of 
selectmen, assessors and overseers of the 
poor, 1877 and '78 ; and is now chairman 
of the Democratic town committee. He 
has also served two years as town treas- 
urer, and one year as tax collector. 

His church connections are with the Bap- 
tists, being prominently identified with the 
Sunday-school work. In all the positions 
he has held, he has preserved the respect 
and esteem of his fellow-townsmen. 



PARKS, Roland, son of Warren and 
Lydia (Sackett) Parks, — both natives of 
Blandford, Hampden county — was born 
in that town, December 31, 1803. 

His grandfather, Roger Parks, settled in 
Blandford at an early day, and was one of 
the hard)' pioneers who first commenced 
felling the trees and establishing their 
homes among the hills of western Massa- 
chusetts. 

Mr. Parks passed his boyhood on the 
ancestral farm, remaining there until the 
death of his father, in 1835. He then 
started in the world for himself, removing 
to Russell, where for the next five years 
he gave his attention to farming, which 
business he relinquished in 1842, having 
been appointed station agent for the West- 
ern (now Boston & Albany) Railroad, at 
Russell. He was the first agent at that 
station, and retained the position till 1851, 
after which time he was for two years 
deputy sheriff and jailer for the county. 

During Franklin Pierce's administration 
he was connected with the Boston Custom 
House, where he remained four years as 
inspector. He has had a general store at 
Russell at different times from 1843 to '67. 

Mr. Parks has several times served in 
the state Legislature, occupying a seat in 
the House of Representatives in the years 
1841, '51 and '64, during which period he 
was a member of many important com- 
mittees. He has been justice of the peace 
for a number of years ; was from 1873 to 
'77 special county commissioner, and has 
also been postmaster. 

He has held every niunicipal office in 
the .gift of his town except that of school 
committee, which he declined. 

Mr. Parks has been energetic in local 
improvements, especially influential in pro- 
curing the building of the beautiful iron 
bridge over the river when the Boston & 
Albany Railroad Company changed their 
track at Russell station. 

He was married, June 25, 1836, to Marcia, 
daughter of William and Rhoda Culver, of 
Blandford. He had one child : Olive C, 
(wife of Jarvis W. Gibbs, of Russell) who 
was born 1S37, and who died 1887. 

Politically Mr. Parks was a war Demo- 
crat. He has voted the national Demo- 
cratic ticket every term, from .Vndrew Jack- 
son to Grover Cleveland, inclusive. 

PARTON, James, son of James and 
Ann (Leach) Parton, was born in Canter- 
bury, England, February 9, 1822. 

He was brought to the United States 
when he was five years old, and being 
educated in the schools of New York t'ity, 



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PARTRIDGE. 



and at White Plains, N. Y., the temper 
and tone of his intellect have been essen- 
tially American. 

After teaching in Philadelphia and New 
York City, he became a contributor to 
the " Home Journal," with which he was 
connected for three years. He resided 
in New York City till 1875, when he re- 
moved to Newburyport, where he now 
resides. 

Mr. Parton has published a number of 
books on biographical subjects, and con- 
tributed many articles to periodicals. His 
life of Horace Greeley, published first in 

1855, with a later edition in 1885, was a 
most successful publication. He is well 
and deservedly known as a lecturer on 
literary and political topics. 

The following are some of his published 
works : " Humorous Poetry of the Eng- 
lish Language from Chaucer to Sa.xe " 
(1856); " I^ife and Times of Aaron Burr " 
(1857); " Life of Andrew Jackson " (1859- 
'60); "General Butler in New Orleans" 
(i863-'82); " Life and Times of Benjamin 
Franklin" (1864); "How New York is 
Governed" (1866); "Famous Americans 
of Recent Times " (1867); "The People's 
Book of Biography" (1868); "Triumphs 
of Enterprise, Ligenuity and Public Spirit " 
(1871); "The Words of Washington" 
(1872); "Fanny Fern, a Memorial Vol- 
ume " (1873); " Life of Thomas Jefferson " 
(1874); " Z<? Parnasse Francaise" (1877); 
" Life of Voltaire " ( 1 88 1 ) ; "Noted Women 
of Europe and America" (1883), and " Cap- 
tains of Industry, or Men of Business 
who did .Something besides Making 
Money" (1884). 

Mr. Parton was first married in January, 

1856, to Sarah Payson Willis — so widely 
known as "Fanny Fern," the authoress — 
who died in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 10, 
1872. He was again married in New York, 
in 1S74, to Ellen W., daughter of Charles 
Eklredge. His children are: Hugo and 
Mabel Parton. 

Mr. Parton's success in his chosen field 
of work has been decided, and he has 
established for himself an enviable posi- 
tion in the guild of American writers. 
His books have a merit beyond that of 
literary art, due to the freshness of the 
author's sympathy with what is liberal 
and generous and good in life. His 
spirit is essentially humane. He desires 
to make men better, wiser, and thus more 
free and more capable of maintaining 
and improving those institutions of so- 
ciety and politics which are distinctively 
American. 



PARTRIDGE, David Allen, son of 

Allen and Pegga J. Partridge, was born in 
Milford, Worcester county, April 3, 1833. 

He attended the public schools of ^lil- 
ford and Medway, and Harwinton, Conn. 
He was graduated from the .Medwav high 
school in 1850. 

His first connection in business on his 
own account was in Medway, 1864 to '76, 
as manufacturer of boots. From 1875 to 
'86 he was agent and treasurer of the 
West Medway Mallet Company. He is 
now foreman of the cutting room in L. S. 
Daniels' boot factory. 

Mr. Partridge was married in AVest Med- 
way, April 3, 1856, to Chloe A., adopted 
daughter of Paris Mann of that town. 
They have no children. 

He enlisted August 28, 1862, and was 
commissioned, September 2, as ist lieuten- 
ant, company B, 42d regiment, Massachu- 
setts volunteers ; was transferred to the 
54th Massachusetts regiment, March 5, 
1863, as I St lieutenant and adjutant ; pro- 
moted to captain April 14, 1863, and dis- 
charged January 19, 1864, on account of 
physical disability. He served in the siege 
of Charleston, S. C, on James, Folly, and 
Morris islands. During this time he was 
detailed as assistant adjutant-general, and 
assistant provost-marshal. Since the war 
he has served four terms as adjutant, and 
si.x terms as post commander of Wilder 
Dwight Post 105, G. A. R. 

He is a member of Charles River Lodge, 
F. & A. M., and has served in office. He 
was a member of the House of Represen- 
tatives 1876 and '78, serving on the com- 
mittees on manufactures and retrenchment, 
and as clerk of the committee on claims 
in 1878 ; was a member of the Republican 
town committee several years, and is now 
its chairman ; has always been active in 
the interests of the fire department — 
serving three years as engineer ; was 
appointed justice of the peace in 1877, and 
re-appointed by Governor Robinson in 
1884 ; served as selectman in 1877 and '78, 
and again from 1881 to '88 ; elected again 
in 18S9, and has been chairman of the 
board eight years. 

Mr. Partridge has presided as modera- 
tor over fifty-seven town meetings. He is 
a respected citizen, and a thoroughly rep- 
resentative man of the town. 

PARTRIDGE, HORACE, son of Hervey 
and Rachel (Paine) Partridge, was born in 
Walpole, Norfolk county, May 27, 1822. 
On the maternal side he is a nephew of the 
late Lemuel Paine, and cousin of the Hon. 
Henry W. Paine, of Cambridge. 



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PATTERSON. 



465 



His early educational advantages were 
meagre, and limited to six weeks' schooling 
every winter until he was sixteen, working 
the remainder of the time at his father's 
trade, that of blacksmith, until twenty 
years of age. Selling goods another year 
for his brother brought him to his majority, 
when he started business on his own ac- 
count. 

His first venture was to hire a horse and 
wagon by the day, purchase a barrel of 
honey, and retail it by the pound ; in three 
days all was sold. He next purchased a 
horse and wagon, and bought and sold 
other useful articles, until at length he es- 
tablished a business route from Gardner to 




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^-«- 




HORACE PARTRIDGE. 

Greenfield, along the line of the ^'erm()nt 
& Massachusetts Railroad, which was then 
(1847) in the course of construction, mak- 
ing his head([uarters at Athol. 

Mr. Partridge was married in Gill, June 
17, 1847, to Martha Ann, daughter of Sam- 
uel and I.ivia (Rawson) Stratton. Of this 
union were three children : Jennie Lind 
(now Mrs. Benjamin F. Hunt, Jr.), Frank 
Pierce, and Nellie Rosalie Partridge (now 
Mrs. W. K. Nickerson). 

Mr. Partridge resided at Athol a short 
time after his marriage, and then removed 
to Boston and engaged, first in the dry- 
goods and miUinerv, then a few years in 



the auction business, and later in jobbing 
and retailing fancy-goods, notions, etc. 
I'he rapid and uniform growth of business 
compelled him, from time to time, to seek 
larger and more commodious quarters. 
His son-in-law, Benjamin F. Hunt, and 
his son, Frank P. Partridge, are now part- 
ners in the firm, under the name of Horace 
Partridge & Co., and a new and large es- 
tablishment on Lincoln Street, Boston, has 
been erected to meet the demands of the 
legitimate growth of their trade, now re- 
quiring the chartering of several steamers 
each year to supply the immense quantity 
of toys and fancy-goods which are im- 
ported. Their retail trade is supplied at 
the old premises, 55 Hanover Street, with 
branch stores at 499 Washington Street 
and 57 Temple Place, while the importing 
and wholesale business is located at the 
new store, 63 to 97 Lincoln Street, with 
sample rooms at 148 and 150 Wabash Ave- 
nue, Chicago, and 12 Park Place, New 
\()rk City. 

Mr. Partridge has been a large dealer in 
real estate, and has owned and built about 
three score dwelling-houses. 

He has thoroughly domestic tastes, and 
what little time he can spare from his busi- 
ness he devotes to the embellishment of 
his grounds and dispensing the hospitality 
of his home. He resides on North Avenue, 
Cambridge, where he has built pleasant 
residences adjoining his own for each of 
his married children. He is a great lover 
of fruit and flower culture, and has long 
been a member of the Massachusetts Hor- 
ticultural Society. He is an exceptionally 
busy man, working from sixteen to eigh- 
teen hours per day, personally closing his 
office at night ; has not been sick for over 
a quarter of a century; and has never, dur- 
ing his business life, taken a vacation. He 
has avoided the allurements of politics, and 
the only organization he has consented to 
join has been that of the Ancient and Hon- 
orable Artillery Company. 

PATTERSON, ADONIRAM JUDSON, 
son of James and Nancy (Holt) Patterson, 
was born in Spring township, Crawford 
county, Pennsylvania, April 3, 1827. On 
his father's side he is of Scotch-Irish an- 
cestry ; on his mother's side English — 
descended from Sir Thomas and Sir John 
Holt, who figured conspicuously just be- 
fore and during the reign of William HL 

His father, a man of learning and in early 
life a teacher, took personal charge of his 
education. The schools did something for 
him — his father did more. Cut off in 
early manhood from college privileges by 



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PATTERSON. 



business responsibilities which tlie death 
of his father involved, he was aided in his 
studies by a brother of his father, then a 
member of the famil}-, who was a fine 
classical scholar. 

At the age of seventeen he was led by 
the death of a sister to study carefully the 
question of destiny, which resulted in a 
radical break with Calvinism, and his with- 
drawal from the Baptist church. Subse- 
quent investigation led him into afifiliation 
with the Universalist church. 




ADONIRAM J. PATTERSON, 

Parts of each year for three or four 
years of his early manhood were devoted 
to teaching. Simultaneously with his 
work, he carried forward his special studies 
for the ministry, directed by professors 
of the Meadville Theological Seminary, 
and aided by Rev. B. F. Hitchcock and 
Rev. Ami Bond. 

In .August, 1851, he was married to Jane, 
daughter of Daniel and Catharine (Hurch) 
I^ippitt. 

His wife entering with cordial sympathy 
into his professional plan, was of great 
help to him by her fine literary taste and 
Christian co-operation. 

Declining a business partnership which 
promised almost certain wealth, he began 
to preach in the spring of 1853, and was 
called soon afterward to the pastorate of 



the Universalist church in Girard, Pa. 
Here he remained two years, preaching 
also Sunday afternoons and evenings in 
many adjacent towns. These were happy 
and fruitful years. 

In August, 1855, Mr. Patterson removed 
to Portsmouth, N. H. His ministry of 
eleven years in that city covered the period 
of the war. His church was prominent in 
the interests of the loyal cause. The capa- 
cious edifice was filled with eager listeners. 
The times were e.xciting, and the preacher 
had the message of the Lord. Patriotism 
was a part of his religion, and it found ex- 
pression in sermon, prayer, and platform 
address, wherever an inspiring voice was 
needed during those awful years. 

As chaplain-at-large, he was with the 
army in Virginia during the campaign of 
1864, aiding the sick and wounded in hos- 
pital, ambulance, and rifle-pit ; and dis- 
tributing in the trenches more than twenty- 
five tons of sanitary stores. 

As a member of the New Hampshire 
Legislature in 1866, he was not absent from 
a single session ; but he was also regularly 
in his pulpit. As a legislator, he attracted 
public notice, and there was a call for him 
to represent his district in Congress. He 
felt the full force of this temptation, but 
turned from the open door in loyalty to the 
higher duties of a minister of Christ. While 
in the Legislature he accepted a call to the 
Roxbury Universalist church, and began 
the work of his pastorate, September, 1866. 
Noble men had preceded him. He found 
a strong, united church. For twenty-two 
years he led it along those lines of endeavor 
which build character and make the church 
a family, active in all helpful ministries. 

Thirty-five years of unremitting toil 
broke down a not robust constitution. Rest 
became inevitable, and he resigned his pas- 
torate in the spring of 1888. The church 
elected him pastor emeritus, and, at his 
suggestion, called the Rev. E. L. Rexford, 
D. 1)., to the pastorate. 

Dr. Patterson passed the summer of 1S7S 
in European travel, reporting his obser- 
vations in a series of letters which were 
widely read. He has published in book 
form " Centennial of the Portsmouth Uni- 
versalist Church," and " Semi-Centennial of 
the Roxbury Universalist Church." He has 
also published many essays, lectures, ser- 
mons and articles, in books, pamphlets, 
magazines and newspapers. 

His pulpit themes, always thoroughly 
Christian, cover a wide variety. He is not 
given to hobbies, never runs in ruts, is 
intensely in earnest, persuasive, magnetic. 



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PEASE. 



467 



His aim is to make men ashamed of their 
sins, and awaicen a longing; for a better 
hfe. 

Rest having- brought partial restoration, 
Dr. Patterson is now doing valiant service 
for his church in the outlying places. The 
Church of the Good Shepherd, Omaha, 
Neb., was recently gathered and organized 
during one of these missionarv journeys. 
His residence is near Franklin Park, in one 
of the most charming suburbs of Boston. 

PEABODY, ENDICOTT, son of S. Endi- 
cott and Marianne Cabot (Lee) Peabody, 
was born in .Salem, Esse.K county. May 31, 
1857. 

His paternal ancestors were among the 
earliest settlers of the colony. John Endi- 
cott, the first governor of the Massachu- 
setts Bay Colony, settled in 1628 in Naum- 
keag, which afterwards was known as 
Salem. 

The father of the subject of this sketch, 
S. E. Peabody, removed to London in 187 1, 
where he became a member of the bank- 
ing-house of J. S. Morgan & Co. Mr. 
Peabody was mainly educated in Eng- 
land. He first atteniled Cheltenham Col- 
lege, and from this went to Cambridge in 
1876, where he was matriculated a mem- 
ber of Trinity Colle.ge, from which he re- 
ceived the degree of LL. B. in 1880, and 
the degree of LL. M. in 1884. 

Mr. Peabody returned to this country in 
1880, and entered the house of Lee, Hig- 
ginson & Co., founded by his maternal 
grandfather. Later, having become inter- 
ested in the work of the Protestant Epis- 
copal church, of which he became a com- 
municant, he determined to enter the 
ministry, and in accordance with his reso- 
lution, he began his studies at the Episco- 
pal theological school in Cambridge, from 
which he was graduated in 1884, receiving 
the degree of B. D. On the same day, 
June 18, he was ordained to the diaconate 
by the Rt. Rev. Benjamin H. Paddock, 
D. D., Bishop of Massachusetts. Previous 
to this, in 1882, he had gone to Arizona, 
where he engaged for a short time in 
missionary work. Under his care and 
direction, a parish was organized and a 
church built in Tombstone, Arizona, at 
that time one of the principal mining towns 
of that territory. 

Having completed the work which he 
had unilertaken, he now returned to the 
East and resumed his studies in Cambridge. 
Deeply interested in educational work, he 
estal)lished the school for boys at Groton, 
in 1884. In this work he has been emi- 
nentlv successful. 



Mr. Peabody was married, June 18, 
1885, to his cousin, Fannie, daughter of 
Francis Peabody, of Danvers. They have 
one son : Malcolm, born June 12, 1888. 

PEASE, ALVIN Fowler, son of Wil- 
liam and Emily (Fowler) Pease, was born 
in Oswego, Oswego county, N. Y., April 
10, 1852. 

He is a descendant in the ninth genera- 
tion from Robert Pease, who came to Bos- 
ton from England in 1634, and from Wil- 
liam Fowler, who came from England in 
1637. 

The district schools gave him his early 
education, fitting him for the Oswego high 
school, from which he was graduated Feb- 
ruary 4, 1869. He finished preparation 
for college under private tutors, and 
at tiie University grammar school, Provi- 
dence, R. L, entered Brown University in 
1871, was graduated in 1875, and in 1878 
received the degree of A. M. 

He had begun commercial life as book- 
keeper for Bond & McCoUom, lumber 
dealers, Oswego, N. Y., before entering col- 
lege life, but remained here only two years, 
his tastes leading him into other paths of 
usefulness. After graduating he took up 
the profession of teaching, for which he 
had been preparing during the last years of 
his college life. He was principal of the 
Warren (R. L) high school from May, 
1875, to September, 1879, and princi- 
pal of the Pawtucket (R. L) high school 
five years, beginning September, 1879. 
He was superintendent of schools in Paw- 
tucket, from 1S84 to '88, and principal of 
the St. .Albans (Vt.) Academy from Janu- 
ary to June of the latter year. He is at 
present superintendent of schools in North- 
ampton. 

Mr. Pease was married in Pawtucket, 
R. L, July 6, 1882, to Mary Belle Clark. 
The children of this union are ; Harold 
Alvin (deceased), Irving Clifton, and Edith 
Belle Pease. 

Mr. Pease was president of the Rhode 
Island Institute of Instruction two years, 
1885 -'86, and secretary of the Rhode 
Island Baptist Social Union from 1881 to 
'88. He is president of the Bajnist Young 
People's Association, Northampton. 

PEASE, Richard Luce, was born in 

Edgartown, Dukes county, August 31, 
1S14. He received his early education 
in the public and private schools of his 
native town. He began to teach school 
in his twenty-first year, and continued that 
occupation successfully for about twcTity 
years. 



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PEASE. 



PECK. 



Mr. Pease early disclosed a strong bent 
toward historical studies, and for many 
years his leisure time was devoted to his- 
torical and antiquarian research. Few men 
who have written so much, have published 
so little. By request of the New England 
Historic Genealogical Society, he prepared 
some ten years ago a biographical memoir 
of James Athearn Jones, scholar and nov- 
elist, a cotemporary and friend of William 
CuUen Brvant. 

He was a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives in 1842 ; presidential elector 
from the ist congressional district of 
Massachusetts in 1868; register of pro- 
bate for Dukes county from April, 1853, 
to March, 1855 ; clerk of the courts for 
Dukes county from May, 1856, to Jan- 
uary, 1872. He was postmaster of Edgar- 
town from December, 1S77, to September, 
1885 ; in 1854 he was appointed a justice 
of the peace ; and m May, 1865, notary 




RICHARD L PEASE. 

public. He was also a member of the 
Webster Historical Society of Boston, and 
on September 18, 185 1, was appointed a 
corresponding member of the Albany In- 
stitute. 

Mr. Pease w-as married at Edgartown, 
January 17, 1836, to Mary West Pease, by 
whom he had two children : Maria Thurs- 
ton and Harriet Marshall Pease. 



Mr. Pease died September 2, 18SS, at 
Edgartown. By his death his literary co- 
temporaries lost a most highly respected 
brother in the fraternity, societies for his- 
toric research a most industrious chroni- 
cler, his town a valued citizen, his church 
an earnest Christian, and his family circle 
a member loving and beloved. 

PEASE, Theodore Claudius, son 

of Claudius B. and Elvira .Ann (Smith) 
Pease, was born at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess 
county, N. Y., on the 14th dav of October, 

1853.' 

He received his early education in the 
public and private schools in Somers, 
Conn., where he lived after he was four 
years of age. He prepared himself for 
college at the high school of Springfield, 
Mass., entering Harvard College in 187 1, 
and was graduated in 1875. Eor a time 
he was a teacher in a private school in 
Springfield, and also in the United States 
Naval Academy, .Annapolis, Md. 

.\fter a three years' course at the An- 
dover Theological Seminary, he graduated 
in 1880, and was ordained pastor of the 
Congregational church of West Lebanon, 
N. H., in the same year, remaining as 
pastor four years. He was installed De- 
cember, 1884, over the First church (Trin- 
itarian Congregational), Maiden, Mass.. 
and continues in the same pastorate. 

Mr. Pease was an editor of the " Har- 
vard Advocate " while in college, and for 
a number of years a regular reviewer of 
books for the " Literary World." He is 
a member of the Dante Society and the 
American Philological .\s.sociation. 

In 1880 he was married to .Vbbie F., 
daughter of Elijah and Mary I). Cutter, 
of Somers, Conn.; and of a family of four 
children, only one is living : Arthur Stan- 
ley, born September 22, 1881. 

PECK, William Gaylord, son of 

-\bel G. and PJliza A. Peck, was born in 
Boston, March 12, 1841. Since 1852 his 
residence has been Arlington. 

His early education was acquired at 
Chauncy Hall school and in the public 
schools of Arlington. He fitted for col- 
lege at Phillips Academy, Andover, under 
Rev. Samuel H. Taylor, entered Yale Col- 
lege in i860, and was graduated therefrom 
in 1864. During his junior year he was 
chosen one of the editors of the " Yale 
Literary Magazine." 

.August, 1864, he became associated with 
his father, as clerk in the banking and 
brokerage business, in Boston. January i, 
1 866, he was admitted as partner, under 



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the firm name of A. G. Peck & Son. Tliis 
firm was dissolved November 12, 1870, by 
death of the senior partner. Since 1870 
he has been engaged in the care of trust 
estates and general real estate business. 

Mr. Peck was married at Arlington, 
October 22, 1878, to Anna Maria, eldest 
daughter of Charles H. and Maria D. 
Newell, and grand-daughter of the late 
Addison Gage. Two children bless the 
union : Chester G., born November 24, 
1879, and Lilian N. Peck, born August 24, 
1S82. Mrs. Peck died at Wilton, N. H., 
September 20, 1S84. 

March, 1874, Mr. Peck was elected a 
member of the board of selectmen for the 
town of Arlington, and re-elected to the 
same office for four successive years. He 
represented the 14th Middlesex represen- 
tative district (towns of Arlington and 
Winchester), in the House of Representa- 
tives in 1878, and served as clerk on the 
joint standing committee on education. 
He was re-elected in 1880 as representa- 
tive from the same district, and served as 
House chairman on the joint standing com- 
mittee on education. He was elected for 
the years 1886 and '87 a member of the Re- 
publican state central committee. In 1874 
lie was elected by the town of Arlington a 
member of the board of trustees of the 
Pratt fund for the term of four years, and 
has been re-elected at the e.xpiration of 
every term up to the present time. In 
1878 he was chosen chairman of the board 
of sinking fund commissioners for the 
liquidation of the town debt, which office 
he now holds. In 1880 he was elected a 
member of the board of water commis- 
sioners, and served three years, declining 
re-election. In 1866 he was elected a 
trustee of the Robbins Fund for a term of 
three years, and in 1888 was elected a 
trustee of the soldiers' monument. He 
was elected a trustee of the Arlington Five 
Cents Savings Bank in 1873, and in 1883 
was elected president, which ofiice he still 
holds. He is also president of the Chelsea 
Gas Light Company, and a director of the 
North American Insurance Company, of 
Boston. 

PEIRCE, Bradford Kinney, son of 

Thomas C. and Sarah Kinney Peirce, was 
bcirn in Royalton, Windsor county, Ver- 
mont, February 3, 1819. His father was 
a minister of the Methodist Episcopal 
church. Mr. Peirce fitted for college at 
the Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, and 
was graduated from the Wesleyan Univer- 
sity, Middletown, Conn., in the class of 
1 84 1. 



He entered the New England confer- 
ence of the Methodist Episcopal church in 
1843, and supplied pulpits in Waltham, 
Newburyport, Charlestowii, Boston, Water- 
town, and Newton Centre. 

He edited the " Sunday-school Messen- 
ger " and "Sunday-school Teacher," 1844 
and '45, and was agent of the American 
Sunday-school Union from 1854 to '56. 
He was elected senator from Norfolk 
county in the Legislature of 1855 and '56; 
was superintendent and chaplain of the 
state industrial school at Lancaster from 
1856 to '62 ; chaplain of the House of 
Refuge, New York City, from 1863 to '72, 
and assistant editor of the " Christian 
Advocate," New York City, 1868 to '72. 
He was editor of " Zion's Herald," Bos- 
ton, from 1872 to '88. 

He received the degree of A. M. and of 
D. D. from Wesleyan University, and was 
a trustee of this institution from 1870 to 
'81. He was trustee of Boston Univer- 
sity from 1874, and of Wellesley College 
from 1876 ; was a member of the Roxbury 
school board seven years, and was six 
years on the school board of Newton, and 
nine years superintendent of the Newton 
free library. 

Dr. Peirce was the author of the follow- 
ing publications: "The Temptation," 
" One Talent Improved," " The Eminent 
Dead," " Bible Scholars' Manual," " Notes 
on Acts," " The Token of Friendship," 
"Life of Audubon_" "Trials of an Inven- 
tor," " Stories from Life," " Sequel to Sto- 
ries from Life," " Half Century with Juve- 
nile Offenders," " The Word of God Open- 
ed," " Under the Cross," " Hymns of the 
Higher Life," " The Young Shetlander 
and his Home," "The Chaplain and his 
Children," and he also prepared, by order 
of the Massachusetts Legislature, a new 
annotated edition of the proceedings of 
the state convention of 1788, which rati- 
fied the national constitution. 

Dr. Peirce was married in Middletown, 
Conn., August 5, 1841, to Harriet M., 
daughter of Gideon and Maria (Pluymert) 
Thompson. Of this union were three 
children : Charles P., Henry T., and Har- 
riet M. Peirce. 

During his life Dr. Peirce was much 
interested in public charities and reforms, 
and through his efforts the state industrial 
school at Lancaster was established. His 
services as editor of the " Zion's Herald " 
were of a character deserving grateful 
recognition. He always labored to pro- 
mote the interests of the denomination 
with wliich he was identified, and his influ- 



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PEIRCE. 



ence helped the wider interests which cen- 
tre in good citizenship. 

Dr. Peirce died quite suddenly, April 
19, i88g, at his residence in Newton Cen- 
tre. He was personally a man of lovely 
character, full of tender regard for others, 
and ever ready to extend a helping hand 
to the needy and suffering. In New- 
ton, where he resided for many years, he 
was sincerely beloved and respected. He 
took an active interest in the affairs of the 
city, and was prominent in every effort 
calculated to advance the intelligence and 
morals of the community. 

PEIRCE, Henry Bailey, son of Mar- 
tin B. and Mary E. (Wellman) Peirce, was 
born in Duxbury, Plymouth county, August 
6, 1 84 1. 

His early education was obtained in the 
public schools of Abington, and in a mer- 
cantile academy in Boston. 

He enlisted October 14, 1861, as a 
private in the 23d Massachusetts volun- 
teers ; received a warrant as commissary- 
sergeant in 1862 ; was commissioned ist 
lieutenant in 1863 ; appointed regimental 
quartermaster, January 3, 1864; commis- 
sioned captain, September 20, 1864 ; served 
on the staff of (General Edward Harland, 
as A. C. S. during the last campaign of the 
war, and was mustered out of the service 
July 10, 1865. 

He soon after became engaged in the 
insurance business m Boston and vicinity, 
representing the Manhattan Life Insur- 
ance of New York, the Travelers Insur- 
ance Company of Hartford, Conn., also 
doing a brokerage business for several fire 
insurance companies. 

In 1870 he was appointed assistant 
adjutant-general of the department of 
Massachusetts, G. A. R., and was re-ap- 
pointed each year until 1876. In 1875 
he was elected secretary of the Common- 
wealth, and is now serving his fourteenth 
year in that office, having been renomi- 
nated each year by acclamation. 

Mr. Peirce is president of the Abing- 
ton Mutual Fire Insurance Company; a 
trustee of the savings bank and of the 
public library in the town of Abington ; 
he is one of the directors in the Massachu- 
setts Benefit Association in the city of 
Boston, and has held, to great acceptance, 
many other positions of trust and respon- 
sibility. 

In his official capacit)' as secretary of 
the Commonwealth he is a conspicuous 
figure upon state occasions, and has con- 
ducted the affairs of his department with 
efficiencv and success. 



PEIRCE, Silas, son of Elijah and Lucy 
P. (Nash) Peirce, was born in Scituate, 
Plymouth county, July 27, 1826. His edu- 
cational training was received in the public 
schools. 

In 1845 he went to Boston and engaged 
with Silas Peirce & Co., wholesale grocers, 
remaining with them until 1856, when he 
was received into the firm, and has re- 
mained until the present time. 

His time is now divided for the greater 
part between the Boston National Bank 
and the North American Insurance Com- 
pany, he being president of both corpora- 
tions. 




SILAS PEIRCE 

Mr. Peirce was married in lioston, De- 
cember 24, 1852, to Almira, daughter of 
Matthew and Almira (Vinal) Hall. Of 
this union were three children ; Lucy, Silas, 
and Susan Hall Peirce Mr. Peirce is also 
president of the Hingham Cordage Com- 
pany, Boston Cooperage Company ; direct- 
or in the Old Colony Steamboat Company, 
Kennebec Steamboat Comi^aiiy, Hingham, 
Hull & Downer Landing Steamboat Com- 
pany, Northern Railroad Company of New 
Hampshire, and East Boston Land Com- 
pany. He is a member of the board of 
trustees of the \Vesleyan Association : 
treasurer of the board of trustees and 
superintendent of the Sunday-school of 



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the Bromfield Street M. E. church ; director 
(if the Boston North End Mission, and 
member of the board of trustees of the 
New England Conservatory of Music — 
covering, it will be seen, a wide range of 
financial, religious, philanthropic and artis- 
tic organizations. 

The rise of this well-known citizen of 
Boston, from comparative obscurity, fur- 
nishes an incentive and guide to any am- 
bitious young man who is just entering 
business life for himself. He began at the 
lowest round of the ladder ; he was in- 
dustrious, economical, honest and persever- 
ing. These were the elements of his char- 
acter ; these the factors that combined to 
make his success. As a business man, he 
possesses qualities that at once individualize 
him. He is aggressive and yet conserva- 
tive, courageous but safe in counsel. 

For five months of the year Mr. Peirce 
lives on a farm in Scituate. This farm was 
ovvmed by his paternal ancestor in 1647, 
and has been owned and occupied by the 
direct descendants ever since, Mr. Peirce 
being the owner in the seventh generation. 

PEIRCE, Warren Appleton, was 

born in West Cambridge, Middlesex 
county, June 5, 1849. He is a descend- 
ant of Solomon Peirce, of Lexington, who 
was wounded in that battle, April 19, 1775 ; 
also of Benjamin Locke, captain of a 
company of minute men at the battle of 
Bunker Hill. 

Mr. Peirce attended the Cotting Acad- 
emy in West Cambridge (now Arlington) 
three years, then the public schools until 
fifteen years old, when he engaged in 
regular work on his father's farm. He 
entered the Arlington high school at its 
opening in 1863. 

He remained at home until twenty-two 
years of age, afterward worked for his 
brother in the coal and wood business, 
and as station agent for si.x years, at 
Arlington, on the Boston & Lowell R. R.; 
then purchased the Lexington interest in 
his brother's business — coal, wood, ha}% 
straw, and grain, lime, cement, fertilizers, 
etc. Five years later he purchased the 
business previously owned by his brother 
in Arlington, and now carries on the same 
at that town, where he resides, Arling- 
ton Heights and Le.xington. 

Mr. Peirce was married by Rev. W. F. 
Potter, December 5, 1882, at East Boston, 
to Jessie C, daughter of Jesse Bacon of 
Arlington. He has one son : Warren A., 
Jr., born October 23, 1887. 

He was president of the water board three 
years, 1884, '85, '86; selectman i.S86-'89; 



was a member of the lower branch of the 
Cieneral Court i886-'S7, serving as clerk of 
the committee on water supply, and as a 
member of the committee on state-house. 

He is a prominent Odd Fellow and Free 
Mason ; is treasurer of the Adelphi Club, 
having held the office since its organiza- 




WARREN A PEIRCE. 

tion in 1878 ; is a director in the Arling- 
ton Boat Club, and has been a member of 
the William Penn Hose Company since its 
organization in 1872. 

He has been chairman of the Republi- 
can town committee since 1876, and is 
now serving a second term as a member 
of the Republican state central committee. 

PERABO, JOHANN Ernst, son of 
Michael and Christiane (Hiibner) Perabo, 
was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, Novem- 
ber 14, 1845. 

He was educationally directed, first at 
home, later at Eimsbiittel, near Hamburg, 
in Johannes -Andresen's boarding-school 
(i858-'62), lastly at the conservatory of 
music, Leipzig, Germany, from 1862-6^, 
and again from 187S to '79. 

With his father and mother he came to 
this country in 1852. They settled for two 
vears in New York City, where he formed 
the acquaintance of William Scharfenberg, 
who later on did much to develop the tal- 
ents of his young pupil. 



472 



PERABO. 



PERKINS. 



In 1854 Mr. Perabo made his first 
appearance before the public in a con- 
cert given by Professor Heinrich, and 
gave uncommon promise. From New 
York the family went to Dover, N. H., 
remaining two years ; thence they removed 
to Boston for one year, during which 
time Mr. Perabo received instruction of 
Frank Hill, and also on the violin from 
William Schultze of the Mendelssohn 
Quintette Club, and played at a concert 
under Carl Zerrahn's direction, at Music 
Hall. 

Then the family removed to Chicago. 
The father was poor, but the purpose of edu- 
cating his son was big within him, and he 
determined in the simplicity of his heart to 
make an appeal to the government, and 
persuaded the mother and son to go to 
Washington. At the White House they 
saw President Buchanan, who, amused at 
the advent of his extraordinary callers and 
their errand, informed them kindly that 
neither the executive department nor Con- 
gress was particularly interested in the 
promotion of the fine arts. 

They then went to New York and again 
found Mr. Scharfenberg, with the purpose 
of interesting him in the boy's education 
abroad. He at first objected, declaring 
that pupils sent abroad wasted their time 
in frivolous amusements instead of attend 
ing to their studies. His objections were 
finally overcome, and through his exertions 
young Perabo was sent abroad and put 
into the schools noted above. 

At Eimsbiittel, under the tender care 
of Mrs. Andresen, August Schuler, Mey- 
erhof, and Heinrich Joachim — teach- 
ers remarkable for their good judgment — 
he spent the four happiest years of his 
life. His teachers at Leipzig were Profes- 
sors Moscheles and E. F. Wenzel, piano ; 
Papperitz, Hauptmann and Richter in har- 
mony ; antl at a later period Carl Reinecke 
in composition. At the public examination 
of the conservatory. May 4, 1865, he 
])layed the second and third movements of 
Norbert Burgmiiller's concerto in F sharp 
minor, then just published, and performed 
for the first time in public. 

Shortly after his graduation, he returned 
to this country, where he was met by Mr. 
Scharfenberg and other friends, who as- 
sured him that they expected no recompense 
for what they had done in his behalf. Mr. 
Perabo then proceeded to Sandusky, Ohio, 
where his parents at that time resided, 
giving several successful and gratifying 
concerts in that city, and also at Lafay- 
ette, Chicago and Cleveland. 



In 1866 he returned to New \'()rk. 
While there he was invited to play at the 
last concert of the season given by the 
Harvard Musical Association of Boston. 
He played Hummel's "Septette," which 
met with such a marked degree of critical 
favor that his reputation was at once 
established in that city. Here he re- 
mained, and during his residence in Bos- 
ton he has devoted his attention faithfully 
to piano instruction. His claims to excel- 
lence are universally acknowledged. He 
is well known as a musical composer and 
a thoroughly accomplished artist. 

Mr. Perabo was married in Boston, June 
3, 1889, to Louisa E. Smidt. 

PERKINS, Hamilton Lucerne, son 

of Isaiah and Priscilla Morse (Kimball) 
Perkins, was born in Georgetown, Essex 
county, March 26, 1845. 

His early education was limited to the 
common and high schools of Georgetown. 

He worked on the farm until sixteen 
years of age, when he joined the soth 
Massachusetts regiment, and went to the 
front, being one of the youngest recruits 
who enlisted from his section. He later 
became connected with the 17th unat- 
tached company and served until the 
close of the war. 

On his return home he engaged in the 
tailoring business in Georgetown. In 1885 
he went to Haverhill, where he is still en- 
gaged in the same business. 

Mr. Perkins was married in Georgetown, 
December i, 1869, to Ellen Augusta, daugh- 
ter of Daniel E. and Rebecca (Sawyer) 
Moulton. Of this union are two children : 
Florence and Luella Leighton Perkins. 

Mr. Perkins is prominent in the following 
societies, having held nearly all the offices 
in their gift : Protection Lodge, L O. O. F., 
Georgetown ; Eagle Encampment, I. ( ). 
O. F., Haverhill, and district deputy-grand 
master of Massachusetts ; Canton Eagle, 
Patriarchs Militant, A. O. U. W., and Passa- 
quoi Tribe, I. O. R. M. He has been gov- 
ernor of the Winnekenie Colony No. 122, 
v. O. P. F., and is at present a member of 
Colonel Dalton's staff, with rank of major. 
Mr. Perkins, while frequently called 
upon to serve his fellow-townsmen in 
political affairs, has hitherto steadfastly 
refused to accept office, until this year he 
consented to allow the use of his name 
for nomination as alderman-at-large. He 
was easily elected, and his fellow-members 
honored him with a choice as their presid- 
ing officer, and he is now serving them and 
the city of Haverhill most creditably as 
the president of the board of aldermen. 



PERRY. 



PERRY. 



473 



PERRY, Arthur Latham, youn,<,a*st 

son of Rev. Baxter and Lydia (Gray) Perry, 
was born in Lyme, Grafton county, N. H., 
February 27, 1830. His father was gradu- 
ated from Harvard L^niversity in 181 7, and 
from Andover Theological Seminary in 
1820. He was settled as pastor of the 
church at Lyme, in January, 1821, and con- 
tinued his work there faithfull}' and suc- 
cessfully for nine years, when, six weeks 
previous to this son's birth, he died, leaving 
all the care and training of four children 
to the mother. Matthew Gray, her great 
grandfather, and Matthew Gray, her grand- 
father, were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians of 
the great immigration of these people into 
Massachusetts in August, 1 7 1 8. The Grays 
antl many others of these immigrants went 
almost immediately from Boston, where 
they landed, to Worcester, then a new town. 
The Perr)-s migrated from \Vatertown to 
Worcester in 1751, and bought a farm there 
— still owned by their descendants of the 
same name. Worcester thus became the 
ancestral home of both parents of Mr. 
Perry. Previous to her marriage, his mother 
became a notable school teacher in \\'or- 
cester and vicinity, and for a time taught 
a select school in Cambridge under the 
shadow of Harvard College. During her 
widowhood she displayed a capacity for 
practical affairs which gained her the ad- 
miration of her neighbors, and the lasting 
gratitude of her children. 

This posthumous son was well trained at 
home, was taught implicit obedience, and 
was drilled in the common schools of his 
native village until eleven years of age, 
when, beginning to "work out," he was 
able to attend the public schools in winter, 
only. But he took every advantage of what 
schooling he could get, until, by diligent 
reading and hard study at home also, he 
fitted himself to teach in a country school, 
which he did at sixteen years of age. He 
was fitted for college at Thetford Academy, 
Vt., entered ^\'illiams College in the fall 
of 1848, and was graduated in course in 
1852, taking the metaphysical oration at 
commencement. He taught school in 
Washington, D C, for one year, and re- 
turned to Williams College in 1853 as pro- 
fessor of history and political economy, and 
has held this chair to the present time 
without interruption. 

His main life has been in his work of 
teaching, and he is always happiest 
when with his classes in his own lecture 
room. He has repeatedly refused flatter- 
ing calls from other colleges, and equally 
tempting offers to other positions. 



He has a taste for editorial writing, and 
for many years contributed articles to the 
" Springfield Republican " and the " New 
York Evening Post," declining, however, 
an offer to go upon the editorial staff of 
the latter paper, then under the manage- 
ment of William Cullen IJryant. 

His private study and public teaching 
of political economy made him a thorough 
free-trader, and he has been a willing lec- 
turer and speaker for free trade in his col- 
lege vacations for twenty years past, and 
in that time has delivered about two hun- 
dred public addresses in half of the states 
of the Union. He participated in a public 
debate with Horace Greeley in Boston in 
1868, and again in New York in 1869. He 
published his " Political Economy " in the 
autumn of 1865, which is now in its twen- 
tieth edition, and his "Introduction to 
Political Economy" in 1877, now in its 
fifth edition. He has seldom been absent 
from college, even for a day, during his 
long term of service. 

He is a member of the Massachusetts 
Historical Society, and president of the 
Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society. 
He received the degree of LL. D. from 
Union College in 1874, and the degree of 
D. D. from Doane College in 1882. 

Prof. Perry was married in Williamstown, 
August 7, 1856, to Mary Brown Smedley, 
whose two great grandfathers. Col. Benja- 
min SimondsandCapt. Nehemiah Smeilley, 
were among the earliest settlers of Wil- 
liamstown, and were patriot officers in the 
battle of Bennington. Of this union are 
six children : Bliss, professor of elocution 
and English in Williams College ; Grace, 
teacher in the Albany Female Academy ; 
Arthur, in business in New York ; Walter, 
in business in Ansonia, Conn.; Carroll, in 
the junior class in Williams College, and 
Lewis Perry, still a school-boy at home. 

PERRY, Edward Baxter, son of Bax- 
ter E. and Charlotte S. (Ht)ugh) Perry, was 
born in Haverhill, Essex county, February 
14, 1855. 

When about two years of age he received 
an injury to his eyes, from the effect of 
which he has ever since been totally blind. 
He attended the ordinary public schools 
with other children, memorizing the daily 
lessons by having them read aloud to him 
at home. 

He entered the Perkins Institution for the 
Blind in 1S64, remaining two years. Later 
he became an enthusiastic student of music, 
under Junius Hill, of Boston. In 1875 he 
went abroad, and for three years, studied 
music, languages and esthetics in Berlin, 



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PERKY. 



PETERS. 



Stuttgart and Frankfort ; was a private 
pupil in piano music of KuUak, Purckner 
and Liszt. Returning home, from 1878 to 
'81 he was a private teacher in Boston. 
From 1881 to '83 he was professor of music 
at Oberhn College. In 1883 he once again 
went abroad for study and travel, returning 
in 1 885. Since that time he has made his 
headquarters in Boston, as concert pianist 
and teacher of piano. Each fall, for the 
space of three months, he makes a concert 
tour through the South and West, teaching 
the balance of the year. 

June 21, 1882, at Peoria, III, he married 
Netta A., daughter of Judge H. B. and 
Emily (Hough) Hopkins. 

Mr. Perry is a remarkable instance of 
the independence of one totally blind. 
Entirely alone he goes about the town of 
Medford, where he resides, and the city of 
Boston, where he teaches, and makes all 
his concert tours without any traveling 
companion. He never plays by ear, but 
memorizes all music by having it read 
aloud from the notes. He has played in 
concert in the leading German cities, and 
in this country is well and most favorably 
known to the musical public in all places 
of note this side of the Rocky Mountains. 
He gives annually some one hundred lec- 
ture recitals at colleges and conservatories 
of music throughout the United States. 

PERRY, Edward Y., son of Elijah 
and Chloe (Stetson) Perry, was born in 
that part of the town of Pembroke now 
Hanson, Plymouth county, November 4, 
1812. He was left an orphan at the ten- 
der age of two years, and was taken in 
charge by his paternal grandparents, both 
of whom lived to an advanced age, Mr. 
Perry being ninety-five and Mrs. Perry 
over ninety-nine at the time of death. 

Mr. Perry remained with his grandpa- 
rents during his minority, working as a 
farmer's boy, tilling the ancestral acres. 
At twenty-one he made his first venture 
as a country merchant in Hanson, where 
he continued several years ; he was suc- 
cessful, but lost all by endorsing paper for 
others. 

Not despairing on account of his mis- 
fortunes, he in company with Charles 
Dyer engaged in the manufacture of tacks 
in Hanover, under the firm title of Charles 
Dyer & Co. At this time neither partner 
had a dollar in the world, and both had failed 
in business. They started on credit in a 
small way, advanced very slowly, and at 
the end of fifteen years Mr. Perry pur- 
chased the interest of his partner, contin- 
uing alone three years. He purchased 



another mill property, associated with 
himself Ezra Phillips and Martin W. Stet- 
son, under the firm name of E. Y. Perry 
il' Co. After a short time Mr. Stetson 
withdrew, and Messrs. Perry and Phillijis 
carried on the business. The association 
of these two partners was a happy one, 
and their success was uniform and rapid. 
They continued for a period of thirty 
years, and became one of the largest tack 
manufacturing concerns in the country. 
The partnership was dissolved by the with- 
drawal of Mr. Perry, whose outside inter- 
ests had become so large and demanded so 
much of his time as to make his former 
business relations burdensome. During 
their partnership they had invested in 
many outside enterprises — steam mill for 
grist, lumber and box business, at West 
Hanover ; coal and grain business in Rock- 
land and Hanover, and a leather and find- 
ings store in Boston. At the dissolution of 
the co-partnership these outside interests 
fell into the hands of Mr. Perry. 

He has since enlarged his field of man- 
ufacturing and mercantile operations. To 
Mr. Perry's persistent efforts is mainly due 
the building of the railroad from North 
Abington to Hanover. He has been jus- 
tice of the peace for twenty-five years ; 
has done much probate business ; was a 
member of the House of Representatives 
in 1867. He was early identified with tiie 
anti-slavery cause, being connected with the 
(iarrisonian movement from its inception 
to the emancipation of the slaves. He is 
an earnest advocate of temperance in its 
strictest signification, and in this, as in all 
other matters, his views are pronounced 
and outspoken. On the first of July, 1880, 
he stopped taking interest on any of his 
loans, and on many mortgages which he 
now holds he collects no interest. He 
does this not as a matter of philanthropy, 
but because he is opposed to the principle 
of exacting a rate per cent, for the use of 
money. He holds the principle to be un- 
just and opposed to the spirit of progress. 

Mr. Perry was married in Pembroke, 
July 8, 1834, to Mary B., daughter of Da- 
vid and Deborah B. Oldham. They had 
but one child, Mary PI, who died in 
earliest infancy. The fiftieth anniversary 
of their wedding was celebrated July 8, 
1884. 

PETERS, AlvAH H., son of William 
and Hannah (Johnson) Peters, was born at 
Charlestown, Middlesex county, December 
23, 1846. 

He was educated in the public schools 
of Boston, and at the age of seventeen, he 



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entered the office of tlie " Boston Journal " 
with the intention of nialcing journahsm 
his profession. I' ive years hiter, in iSCS, 
he was appointed assistant messenger for 
the Boston citv council, and in 1872 he 
was unanimously elected Boston's city 
messenger. 

Mr. Peters is the third city messenger in 
the line of succession since the incorpora- 
tion of the city of Boston, in 1822, and his 
holding the office for seventeen years, un- 
der so many changes of administration, is 
sufficient evidence that he is a man of re- 
markable tact and popularity, and well 
qualified for the position which he fills. 

Mr. Peters was married in Boston, June 
i7i ^^73-: to Etta J., daughter of Captain 
Thomas Damrell, of Boston. They have 
a daughter : Martha Nellie Peters. 

Mr. Peters has held the office of secre- 
tary and treasurer of the Barnicoat Fire 
Association since its organization ; has 



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ALVAH H. PETERS, 

been the chief e.xecutive of the Massachu- 
setts City Messengers' Club, of which he 
was one of the organizers, and has held 
positions of trust in the .American Legion 
of Honor, Royal Arcanum, National Lan- 
cers, Bunker Hill i\[onnment Association, 
Knights of Honor, Ancient Order of United 
Workmen, and other social and benevolent 
organizations. 



PHELPS, Austin, son of EUakim and 
Sarah (.\dams) Phelps, was born in West 
Brookheld, Worcester county, January 7, 
1820. The Phelps family in America trace 
their descent from an ancient Staffordshire 
house in England. They are believed to 
be a branch of the Welfs {ffelfs) or Guelphs, 
eminent in European history. The advent 
of the family to this country was in 1630. 

The usual training of a clergyman's son 
gave him his preparatory education in the 
schools of West Brookfield and Pittslield, 
Geneva, N. Y.,and Philadelphia, Pa. He en- 
tered Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., at the 
age of thirteen ; was graduated from the 
University of Pennsylvania in the class of 
1837. He received his theological educa- 
tion in New Haven, New York and An- 
dover. 

He was ordained pastor of the Pine Street 
(now Berkeley Street) church, Boston, in 
1842. He became professor of sacred 
rhetoric in Andover Theological Seminary 
in 1848, which position he held until 1879, 
when he resigned. He is professor emer- 
itus in Andover Theological Seminary, en- 
gaged chiefly in writing for the periodical 
press. 

Professor Phelps was first married in 
Andover, in 1842, to the daughter of Pro- 
fessor Moses Stuart. His second wife was 
a sister of his first, the marriage occurring 
in 1856. Bereaved the second time, he 
was again married in Boston, in 1858, to 
Mary A., daughter of Samuel and Char- 
lotte A. (Howe) Johnson. His children 
are : Elizabeth Stuart (now Mrs. Ward), 
Moses Stuart, Lawrence, Francis Johnson, 
and P^dward Phelps. 

Pr(jfessor Phelps has been president of 
Andover Theological Seminarv, trustee of 
Wellesley College, director of the American 
I'Alucation Society, chaplain of the state 
Senate, chaplain of the House of Repre- 
sentatives, and was preacher of the " Elec- 
tion Sermon" before the government of 
Massachusetts in 1861. He is an honorary 
member of various missionary, educational 
and charitable societies of the Congrega- 
tional church. His summer residence is 
P5ar Harbor, Me., and his winter residence 
is in Andover. 

Professor Phelps was scholarly from boy- 
hood, quick to learn, conscientious in detail, 
of retentive memory, and felt from child- 
hootl that he had been called to a predes- 
tined life-work. His labors have been 
crowned with success, both in the pulpit 
and lecture room. The work of a man 
imbued with his spirit and energized by his 
devotion cannot be over-estimated. His 



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lectures were wise, conscientious, scholarl}-, 
and exhaustive discourses. The whole at- 
mosphere of the class-room was clear and 
bracing. Many a minister looks back to his 
e.xperience there as to the most quickening 
period of his education — quickening not 
only to his intellect and executive powers, 
but to his spiritual culture as well. 

His literary work since he resigned his 
professorship is the matured fruitage of the 
industry of his whole previous life. It be- 
longs to the best thinking of his time. His 
published volumes are : " The Still Hour," 
"The New Birth," "Studies of the Old 
Testament," " Sabbath Hours," " The Sol- 
itude of Christ," "The Theory of Preach- 
ing," " Men and Books," " English Style 
in Public Discourse," " My Portfolio," " Mv 
Study ; " and he has now in preparation 
for the press " My Note Book, or Frag- 
mentary Studies in Theology." He is also 
the author, with Professor E. A. Park, 
D. D., and Rev. Dr. Furber, of "The 
Sabbath Hymn Book," and " Hymns ami 
Choirs." He also published various ser- 
mons and addresses from 1848 to '68. 

PHILLIPS, Henry M., .son of .-Xlonzo 
D. and Mary A. (Robinson) Phillips, was 
born at Athol, Worcester county, August 
II, 1845. 

He received his early education in the 
common schools of Athol and Fitchburg, 
at the academy at Deerfield, and finished 
at the Military University, Norwich, Vt., 
from wiiich place he enlisted at the age of 
sixteen in the volunteer army. In the 
spring of 1 865 he was honorably mustered 
out, and became private secretary to Hon. 
Henry .Alexander, Jr., at Springfield. 

In 187 1 Mr. Phillips was appointed 
deputy collector in the United States 
internal revenue service, and assistant 
assessor of the loth Massachusetts district. 

In 187 1 he organized the firm of Pliillips, 
Mowry & Co., for the manufacture of 
steam-heating apparatus, which was incor- 
porated in 1876 as the Phillips Manufac- 
turing Company, and of which he is now 
the president and treasurer. 

Mr. Phillips was a member of the Spring- 
field city council two years ; rei^resentative 
to the General Court two years, 18S0 and 
'81 ; mayor of Springfield, 1883, '84, and 
'85, and was a member of the state Senate 
1886 and '87. 

He was for two years post commander 
of Wilcox Post, G.'a. R., Springfield, and 
senior vice department commander one 
year. He is a companion of the Massa- 
chusetts Commandery of the Military Or- 
der of the Loyal Legion of the Lhiited 



States. He has held several Masonic 
offices in lodge and commandery of 
Knights 'I'emplar, and is a .Mason of the 
32d degree. 

He is a director in the Second National 
Bank and Springfield Five Cents Savings 
Bank, a director and member of the finance 
committee of the Massachusetts Mutual 
Life Insurance Company at Springfield. 




HENRY M, PHILLIPS. 

Mr. Phillips was married at Springfield, 
in December, 1S74, to Julia (Bowles) .\iex- 
ander, by whom he has one son : Henry 
Alexander Phillips. 

PHINNEY, Sylvanus Bourne, son 

of Timothy and Olive (Corham) Phinney, 
was born in Barnstable, Barnstable county, 
in October, 1808. The earlv instruction 
from which he drew the incentives to self- 
education was received in the common 
schools of Barnstable, and the printing- 
office of the " Boston Daily Advertiser." 
The latter was in charge of Nathan Hale, 
father of Edward Everett Hale, D. D. 
This office he entered as an apprentice in 
1823, being but fifteen years of age. He 
established the "Barnstable Patriot," June 
30, 1830, and continued as editor and pro- 
prietor for forty years. He disposed of 
his interest in the same, and was chosen a 
director of the First National Bank of 
Hj'annis in 1862, at its foundation, and has 



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PHIPP3. 



been its president and a director for the 
past seventeen years. He is also special 
ajjent for the United States treasury de- 
partment. 

Mr. Phinney has always enjoyed the re- 
laxation incident to agricultural pursuits, 
and, as a wide-awake Democrat, has never 
lost his interest in |)olitical movements. In 
1853 he represented the town of Chatham in 
the Constitutional Convention. He was col- 
lector of the port of Barnstable under the ad- 
ministrations of Polk, Pierce, Buchanan and 
Joiinson, and was three times elected to 
national 1 )emocratic conventions. He was 
elected a trustee of Humboklt College, 
Iowa ; has been twelve years a member of 



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SYLVANUS B, PHINNEY, 

the state board of agriculture ; was major 
of the 1st regiment, 3d brigade, 5th divis- 
ion, under Covernor Lincoln ; eighteen 
years president of the Unitarian Cape 
Cod Conference ; and twenty-five years 
chairman of the parish committee of the 
Unitarian Society of Barnstable. 

He was a candidate for representative 
to Congress from his district. During the 
war of the rebellion he was appointed by 
Cov. Andrew one of the " Committee of 
One Hundred," and presented the Sand- 
wich Cuards, company D, 3d regiment, 
Massachusetts militia, with a memorial 
flag. In visiting the Guards at Fortress 



Monroe, in March, 1862, he was present to 
witness the battle between the iron-clads 
"Monitor" and " Merrimac." He was 
unswerving in his fidelity to the Union, 
and his determination to support the ad- 
ministration. 

Before the close of the war with Great 
Britain in i8i2-'i4, he was taken prisoner 
of war by the British frigate " Nymph," in 
Massachusetts Bay. The sloop '' Enter- 
prise," on whicli he was a passenger, was 
fired into, and was afterwards boarded and 
burned. 

Major Phinney was present at the laying 
of the corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monu- 
ment, and met General Lafayette at the 
time. He was one of the earliest advo- 
cates of steam railroads in the days when 
even Nathan Hale, after one of his pow- 
erful arguments in their favor, was de- 
nounced by a Boston capitalist, who said : 
" It is a pity that a man of such ability 
as Nathan Hale should be engaged in such 
humbugs." 

Major Phinney has been twice married. 
His first wife, to whom he was married in 
Concord, May 8, 1832, was the daughter 
of Colonel Jonathan Hildreth of Concord, 
by whom he has three married sons and 
one daughter: Gorham Palfrey, Cordelia 
l*>liza, Theodore Warren, and Robert John 
Walker, all living, and Cordelia Hildreth 
and Laura Henshaw, deceased. His sec- 
ond wife, whom he married in Fairfield, 
Conn., October 11, 1866, is the youngest 
daughter of the late Hon. Isaiah L. Green, 
who represented the district of Barnstable 
in Congress as early as 1805. 

In 1862 Major Phinney represented 
Provincetown at Washington, upon the 
subject of the fishery treaty, when a hear- 
ing was held under President Grant. 

He has been largely interested in, and 
closely identified with, the business indus- 
tries of Plymouth county, is a prominent 
Mason, member of Boston Commandery, 
K. T., and a valued and respected citizen. 

PHIPPS, Marcus Chauncy, son of 

David and Elizabeth Phipps, was born in 
Milford, \\'orcester county, March 14, 

The common tlistrict school of those 
days furnished the facilities for his educa- 
tion, of which he availed himself until of 
age. He worked at the trade of bo-\-mak- 
ing by the day for ten years. 

In 1856 he went into business for him- 
self as bo.\ manufacturer, in Hopkinton. 
In 1863 he enlarged his establishment, re- 
moving to a better location in the town, 
and is still engaged in this line of work. 



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PIERCE. 



Mr. Phipps was married in Hopedale, in 
1849, by the Rev. Adin Ballon, to Amy, 
daughter of Andrius and Louisa Wheelock, 
of Mendon. Of this union were four chil- 
dren : Austin Wheelock, Walter Andrews, 
Cora, and Fred Oscar Phipps. 

Mr. Phipps was a member of the board 
of selectmen from 1865 to '69, from 1871 to 
'76, '79, '82 and '83, and road commissioner 
for many years, and was a member of the 
Legislature in 1869. 

He is a lineal descendant of Sir William 
Phipps, governor of Massachusetts in 1692. 

PICKERING, Edward Charles, son 

of Edward and Charlotte (Hammond) Pick- 
ering, was born in Boston, July 19, 1846. 

He was graduated in the civil-engineer- 
ing course of the Lawrence scientific 
school. Harvard University, 1865. During 
the year following he was called to be 
instructor of physics in the Institute of 
Technology, Boston. He held the full 
professorship from 1868 to '77. Professor 
Pickering devised plans for the physical 
laboratory in the Institute, and introduced 
the e.xperimental methods of teaching 
physics, at a time when this mode of 
instruction had not been adopted else- 
where. His scientific work during these 
years consisted largely of researches in 
physics, chiefly the polarization of light, 
and the laws of its reflection and disper- 
sion. He also described a new form of 
spectrum telescope, and in 1870 invented 
a telephone receiver, which he publicly 
exhibited. He observed the total eclipse 
of the sun August 7, 1869, at Mount 
Pleasant, Iowa, with a scientific party sent 
for that purpose, and was a member of the 
United States coast survey expedition to 
Xeres, Spain, to observe that of December 
20, 1870, having charge of the polariscope. 

In 1876 he was appointed professor of 
astronomy at Harvard, and under his man- 
agement its observatory has become one 
of the foremost in the world. His princi- 
pal work since he accepted this position 
has been the determination of the relative 
brightness of the stars. He has prepared 
a catalogue giving the brightness of more 
than four thousand stars. He has also 
made photometric measurements of Jupi- 
ter's satellites while they were undergoing 
eclipse, and also of the satellites of Mars. 

Professor Pickering has also devoted 
much time and labor to the surveying of 
mountains, and determining the height and 
velocity of clouds, the result of which has 
been the contribution of many papers to 
the .\ppalachian Club, of which he was 
president in 1877 and '82. 



He is an associate of the Royal Astro- 
nomical Society of London, from which he 
received in 18S6 the gold medal for photo- 
metric research. He also received mem- 
bership in other scientific societies in the 
LTnited States, Great Britain, and Europe. 
He is a member of the National Academy 
of Sciences, by which body he was honored 
in 1887 in the award of the Henry Draper 
Medal for his work on astronomical physics. 
He also received the Massachusetts Chari- 
table Mechanic .\.ssociation Medal in 1884. 
In 1S76 he was elected vice-president of 
the .American Association for the .Advance- 
ment of Science. His scientific writings 
are numerous and valuable. 

Professor Pickering was married in Cam- 
bridge, March 9, 1874, to E. W., daughter 
of Jared and Mary C. (Silsbee) Sparks. 

He has won and received four degrees : 
S. B., Harvard, 1865 ; A. M., Harvard, 
1880; LL. D., University of California, 
1886, and the University of Michigan, 1887. 

PIERCE, Andrew G., son of Otis N. 
and Susan (Irinnell (Cross) Pierce, was 
born in New Bedford, Bristol county, .Au- 
gust 9, 1829. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in the public schools. He gradu- 
ated from the New Bedford high school. 

He began his business career as clerk 
with Edward L. Baker of New Bedford, 
manufacturer of oil and candles. When Mr. 
Baker became treasurer of the Wamsutta 
Mills, at the organization of the corporation, 
Mr. Pierce remained with him as clerk. 

Mr. Pierce was married in New Bedford, 
July 17, 1S54, to Caroline Lincoln, daugh- 
ter of Znchariah and Sylvia Jenney Hill- 
man. Of this union were si.x children : 
Edward T., Mary H., Andrew G., Jr., 
Louisa C, Albert R., and Elsie H. Pierce. 

Mr. Pierce has been a member of the 
New Bedford common council ; member 
of the board of aldermen, and was mayor 
of the city for two years, 1868 and '69. 
He was elected treasurer of the Wam- 
sutta Mills in 1855, and its president in 
1885. He is one of the leading business 
men of New Bedford, and much of the 
manufacturing prosperity of the city is 
due to his energy and business sagacity. 

PIERCE, ChAUNCEY H., son of Chaun- 
cey and Florilla (Cooley) Pierce, was born in 
Amherst, Hampshire county. May 16, 1848. 

His education was what could be obtained 
in a country school between the ages of four 
and twelve years His mother being left 
a widow when he was one year old, it was 
necessary for him to contribute to the family 



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support as soon as possible. 'I'liiis being 
deprived of fLirtiier sciiooUng ai this early 
age, he entered Marsh's book-store in 
Northampton at twelve years of age ; 
changed to Merritt Clark's clothing store 
at si.xteen, and at twenty went into insur- 
ance on his own account. He was after- 
wards in company with A. Perry Peck, un- 
der the name of Peck iv Pierce, from 187 i 
to '80, and since then has continued in the 
same business alone. He is also largely 
interested in real estate and mortgages, and 
is manager and treasurer of the Northamp- 
ton Electric Lighting Co. 

Mr. Pierce was married in Northampton, 
October 16, 187 1, to Isabella I),, daughter 
of Lucius and Arabella .V. (Warner) Lewis. 
Of this union are : Malicl .\. and Alvin L. 
Pierce. 




CHAUNCEY H PIERCE. 

Mr. Pierce served on the last board of 
selectmen of the old town of Northamp- 
ton, and was president of the common 
council during the first three years after 
the adoption of the city charter. He is 
now a member of the trust fund commit- 
tee ; treasurer and director of the North- 
ampton Electric Lighting Co., and a direct- 
or of the Farmers' Loan and Trust Co. 
He started in poverty, with the care of a 
mother who depended upon him for sup- 
port, and has been signally prospered. 



PIERCE, Edward Lillie, son of Jesse 
and Eliza S. (Lillie) Pierce, was born in 
Stoughton, Norfolk county, May 29, 1829. 

He received his early education from his 
father, and was prepared for college in the 
academy at Bridgewater, and in a classical 
school at Easton. He was graduated 
from Brown University in the class of 
1850, standing in some departments at the 
head of his class, and carrying off an un- 
usual number of literary prizes. In 1848 
and '50 he published articles in the " Dem- 
ocratic Review "on " The Independence of 
the Judiciary," " The E.xecutive Veto," 
and " Sir Thomas More." His essay on 
" The Relation of Education to Wealth 
and Industrial Prosperity " was published 
in the " Tran.sactions of the Norfolk Agri- 
cultural Society" in 1852. From college 
he went to the law school at Cambridge, 
where he was graduated in 1852. Here 
he received the first prize offered to his 
cla.ss for an essay on " The Consideration 
of a Contract." 

Mr. Pierce was married in Providence, 
R. I., April ig, 1865, to Elizabeth H., 
daughter of John Kingsbury of that city. 
Of this union were si.x children : Edward 
Lillie, Mary Mackie, George Burgess, 
Charles Sumner, Arthur Johnson, and 
Reginald Kingsbury Pierce. 

In 1853 he wrote an able and learned 
article on " Secret Suffrage " for the " Bos- 
ton Post." This was re-printed and widely 
distributed in England by the " Ballot So- 
ciety," and referred to as an authority in 
Parliament. 

At the beginning of his professional life 
Mr. Pierce passed nearly a year at Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, in the law office of Salmon 
P. Chase, then a senator, and subsequently 
Chief Justice of the LInited States. He 
continued the practice of his profession 
until the breaking out of the rebellion. 
In i860, '76, and '84 he represented his 
district in the national Republican con- 
vention at Chicago, and in that of 1 860 
supported the nomination of Mr. Lincoln. 

In the very first week of the civil war 
Mr. Pierce enlisted in company L, of the 
3d regiment, Massachusetts militia, went to 
Old Point Comfort and took part, before 
the week was out, in the destruction of the 
Norfolk navy-yard. In July of the same 
year he was detailed to collect the negroes 
at Hampton and set them to work on the 
intrenchments of that town. This was the 
beginning of the employment of negroes 
on military works. His article on " The 
Contrabands at Fortress Monroe," pub- 
lished in the " .Atlantic Monthly " of No- 



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PIERCE. 



veniber, 1861, attracted much attention. 
In December of the .same year, Mr. Chase, 
secretary of the treasur\% despatched Mr. 
Pierce to Port Royal to examine into the 
condition of the negroes upon the Sea 
Islands. In February, 1862, he returned 
to Washington and made a very able and 
exhaustive report, which was published in 
the " New York Tribune." and extensively 
copied, hotli in England and America. 
Largely owing to his suggestions, freed- 
men's aid societies were formed. 

He was on duty at Morris Island in Au- 
gust, 1863, where, without any previous 
request or knowledge on his part, he re- 
ceived notice of his appointment as collector 
of internal revenue for the 3d Massachusetts 
district. He held this office three years. 
Governor Bullock immediately after ap- 
pointed him district-attorney to fill a va- 
cancy in that district occasioned by the 
resignation of Mr. Harris. He was elected 
by the people to the same office in 1866 
and re-elected in 1868. In October, i86g, 
he was appointed secretary of the board of 
state charities, and held that office till 1874, 
when he resigned. In 1875 and again in 
'76 he represented the town of Milton in 
the House of Representatives, with distinc- 
tion and marked ability. He is the author 
of the well-known act to limit municipal 
indebtedness. During the session of 1876 
he was chairman of the judiciary commit- 
tee. He was appointed assistant-treas- 
urer of the United .States by President 
Hayes in December, 1878, but declined the 
appointment. 

Mr. Pierce was for ten years a lecturer 
at the Boston University law school. He is 
the author of treatises on the law of rail- 
roads, and of various addresses and papers on 
politics and literature. His best known liter- 
ary work is the "Memoir of Charles Sumner," 
the first two volumes of which were pub- 
lished in 1877. He has resided in Milton 
for many years, and has ever taken an 
active part in public affairs, where his in- 
fluence is always felt on the side of all good 
measures. He was the originator of the 
public library, and has been a trustee since 
its organization. He received the degree 
of LL. D. from Brown University in 1882. 

PIERCE, Henry LILLIE, son of Jesse 
and Eliza S. (Lillie) Pierce, was born in 
Stoughton, Norfolk county, August 23, 
1825. He is a descendant of the " John 
Pers, weaver," who is recorded in an an- 
cient document in the English Exchequer, 
bearing date April 8, 1637, as "desirous 
to passe " with his wife and children " to 
Boston, in New England, to inhabitt," and 



who appears to have been admitted, under 
the name of John Pierce, to be a " free- 
man," in VVatertown, in March, 1638. 

The subject of this sketch received a 
good English education at the public 
schools in Stoughton, and at the state nor- 
mal school in Bridge water. In 1849 the 
family removed to a house in Dorchester, 
near \Iilton Lower Mills, where Mr. Pierce 
has ever since resided. 

In 1850 he entered the chocolate manu- 
factory of Walter Baker & Co., which was 
established on the Neponset River, near 
his home. On the death of the owner, in 
1854, he took charge of the business, and 
from that time to this has been the sole 
manager. 

At an earlv age he began to take an 
interest in public affairs, and while still a 
school-boy contributed articles to some of 
the country papers. He took an active 
part in the organization of the Free Soil 
party of 1848, and subsequently of the 
party which grew out of it, and which 
elected Lincoln in i860. At the state 
election of 1859 he was chosen a member 
of the lower branch of the state Legisla- 
ture, in which he served four years — i860, 
'61, '62 and '66. He took the initiative in 
securing the repeal of the state and na- 
tional legislation which prevented the 
enlistment of colored men into the local 
militia and the United States army. In 
1862 he was chairman of the committee on 
finance, and in that capacity reported and 
carried through the House two measures 
of great importance — the act providing 
for the payment of the state bonds in gold, 
and the act taxing savings banks and 
insurance companies. 

On the annexation of Dorchester to the 
city of Boston, in 1869, he was elected to 
represent that district in the board of 
aldermen. After serving two years, he 
declined a renomination. 

In 1872 he was nominated as a non-par- 
tisan candidate for the office of mayor of 
Boston, and, after a sharp contest, was 
elected. To improve the efficiency of the 
government, radical changes were needed 
in some of the departments, and such 
changes he not only recommended, but 
proceeded resolutely to carry out. Against 
very strong opposition, here-organized the 
health and fire departments, and freed 
them from the personal and jsartisan influ- 
ences to which they had long been subject. 
Before his first term as mayor had expired, 
he received the Republican nomination for 
representative in Congress from the 3d 
Massachusetts district, and was elected by 



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an almost unanimous vote. He served 
during two terms, fi^om December, 1S72, to 
March 4, 1877, and took a prominent part 
in the important legislation of that period. 
In 1877 he verv reluctantly became the 
citizens' candidate for mayor of Boston, 
and was elected b\' a handsome majority. 
He secured a complete re-organization of 
the police ciepartment, and an impartial 
and energetic enforcement of the laws 
regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors. 
At the e.Kpiration of his term he declined 
a re-election, and has not since held any 
political office. During the last ten years 
his time has been absorbed largely by his 
manufacturing business. He has traveled 
quite extensively in this country and Eu- 
rope, and he has taken a prominent part 
in many of the reform movements of the 
day. 

PIKE, James Davis, son of Jacob and 
Abigail Moody (Davis) Pike, was born 
February 26, 1829, in Salisbury, Essex 
county. 

After attending the public schools, he 
entered the employ of Samuel Bragdon, of 
Newburypoft, at the age of eighteen years, 
as a clerk in the grocery business. Subse- 
quently he learned the business of wool 
sorting, which he pursued for several years 
in Amesbury and Salisbury. In 1S60 he 
purchased the grocery and dry-goods busi- 
ness of John S. Poyen, in West Amesbury, 
adding to the stock, that of paints, oil and 
carriage-painters' supplies. At one time 
he was one of the editors and proprietors 
of the " Merrimac Budget," and from 1885 
to '89 was connected with the Bay State 
Felt Boot & Shoe Company, of Merrimac, 
as its treasurer. 

Mr. Pike was married in Newburyport, 
October 26, i860, to Malvina, daughter of 
Ebenezer and Esther Rogers, who died in 
1875. In 1880, he was again married, to 
Mrs. Lois A. Betts, daughter of Moses and 
Ann (Bailev) Sargent. They have one 
child : Ethel J. Pike. 

In 1864 Mr. Pike represented the town 
of .\mesbury in the House of Representa- 
tives, serving upon a special committee for 
the reimbursement of military bounties, 
and amendments to the valuation act. In 
1878 he was elected the first representative 
from the new town of Merrimac, and served 
on the committee on harbors and public 
lands. 

Mr. Pike has held various offices of re- 
sponsibility and trust, being one of the 
trustees of the Merrimac Savings Bank 
since its incorporation, and its secretary 
until i885, when he resigned the position. 



He was clerk of the West Amesbury Branch 
Railroad for many years ; a justice of the 
peace for twenty-one years, and has been 
a notary public since 1872. He is also a 
deacon of the Congregational church in 
Merrimac, and president of the Young 
Men's Christian Association. 

In politics Mr. Pike has always been a 
Repuljlican, having served as a member of 
the Republican state central committee 
and of the Republican town committees of 
.Amesbury and Merrimac. He represented 
his district, the 4th Essex, in 1888 and '89 
in the state Senate, serving on the com- 
mittees on the treasury, expenditures, in- 
surance, and drainage. 

PIKE, John, son of Richard and Mary 
(Boardman) Pike, was born in Newbury- 
port, Essex county, July 3, 1813. 

His school instruction was largely com- 
mitted to Alfred W. Pike, an excellent 
classical scholar and a thorough teacher. 
By him he was fitted for college, and also 
led to accept those views of a religious life 
that had a controlling influence on his sub- 
sequent career. He entered Bowdoin Col- 
lege in 1829 and was graduated in 1833, 
being elected a member of the Phi Beta 
Kappa Society, and was afterwards made 
president of his class. 

Bowdoin College has long regarded him 
as among her distinguished sons. From 
1863 to '87, when he resigned, he was a 
member of the board of overseers, and 
served on the committee that secured for 
the college two valuable presidents. He 
was also one of the committee for the re- 
ception of President Grant when he hon- 
ored the college by his presence at its 
commencement, and was himself honored 
by it with one of its highest degrees. 

Dr. Pike has always kept up his interest 
in his alma mater, which bestowed on him 
the title of D. D. in 1S66. He has been a 
trustee of Dummer Academy since 1842, 
and for thirty-five years president of the 
board. He was also a trustee of the theo- 
logical seminary at Hartford, Conn., for 
some years. 

Leaving college, he soon commenced his 
theological studies, entering the Andover 
Theological Seminary in 1834, but unfor- 
tunately, during his last year at Bowdoin 
his eyesight had weakened, and that weak- 
ness so increased that he was obliged to 
employ an assistant to read and write for 
him — nor was it ever fully overcome, but 
finally ended in total blindness ; yet he 
still resolutely persevered, and graduated 
with honor in 1837, anil at once entered 
upon his calling. 



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PILLSBURY. 



PILLSBURV. 



His first engagement was for a few weeks 
at North Falmouth, where he was, how- 
ever, induced to remain for three years. 
In 1840 he accepted the call of the Con- 
gregational church at Rowley to become 
its pastor, where his life-work has been so 
beautiful in its results and so pleasant in 
all its relations. 

In 1841 he married Deborah, only child 
of Hon. Daniel and Polly (Adams) Adams, 
of Newbury. 

In 1868 blindness made it necessary to 
terminate a pastorate of twenty-eight years, 
tluring which the church had a constant 
religious growth. Since his resignation he 
has preached nearly every Sunday at the 
house of correction in Ipswich, where his 
labors have been much appreciated and 
highly blest. 

PILLSBURY, Albert E., son of Josiah 
W. and Elizabeth (Dinsmoor) Pillsbury, 
was born in Milford, Hillsborough county, 
N. H., August 19, 1849. His father grad- 
uated at Dartmouth in 1840 and intended 
to follow a profession, but the state of his 
health obliged him to take to farming, and 
the subject of this sketch was born and 
reared a farmer's son. 

Having passed through the common and 
high schools of Milford, he prepared for 
college at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, 
N. H., and Lawrence Academy, Groton, 
Mass. He entered Harvard College in the 
class of 187 1, but did not remain to grad- 
uate. After leaving college he taught 
school one year in Sterling, 111., and stud- 
ied law there, with his uncle, Hon. James 
Dinsmoor ; was admitted to the bar in 
Illinois, and later in Massachusetts, and has 
since 187 i been in active practice in Boston. 

He was married in Newbury, Vt., July 
9, 1889, to Louise F. (Johnson) Wheeler, 
daughter of Edward C. and Delia M. 
(Smith) Johnson. 

Mr. Pillsbury was several years vice- 
president, and one year president, of the 
Mercantile Library Association of Boston, 
and is still one of its trustees ; is a member 
of the corporation of the Franklin Savings 
Bank, and a director in the United States 
Trust and Safe Deposit Company. 

He entered public life as a member of 
the House of Representatives from ward 
17, Boston, 1876, '77, and '78 ; was elected 
to the Senate from the 6th Suffolk district 
for 1884, '85, and '86, and was president of 
that body in iS85-'S6, receiving each year 
a unanimous vote of his fellow-members. 
In the House in 1876 he was chairman of 
the committee on elections, and a member 
of the committee on constitutional amend- 



ments. He also served on the judiciary 
and other committees in 1877 and '78. In 
the Senate in 1884 he was chairman of the 
joint committee on the Hoosac Tunnel 
Railroad, a member of the committee on 
judiciary, and chairman of the S|)ecial com- 
mittee on the bribery investigation. In 
1S87 he was tendered by (iovernor Ames, 
and declined, the appointment of judge- 
advocate-general. In the fall of that year 
he was a candidate for attorney-general in 
the Republican state convention and re- 
ceived the largest vote cast, the nomination 
being finally made by a less number of 
votes on a formal ballot. In 1888 he was 
tendered by Governor Ames, and declined, 
an appointment to the bench of the super- 
ior court, and in 1889 he was tendered by 
Mayor Hart, and declined, the appointment 
of corporation counsel of the city of Bos- 
ton, being unwilling to accept a public 
position which involved the entire abandon- 
ment of his private practice. 

In 1888 he was chosen president of the 
national association of the Pillsbury family 
at its first gathering at Newburyport, where 
the family in this country originated, and 
where the house built b)' " Daniel Pilsbery," 
in 1 699-1 700, and ever since occupied by 
some member of the family, still stands, 
and which is now believed to be the oldest 
in Newburyport. 

Mr. Pillsbury has already won an envia- 
ble reputation among the intelligent antl 
progressive element of the political party 
with which he has always been identified, 
and the people of the State, irrespective of 
party afiiliations, recognize in his integrity, 
his conscientious devotion to duty, and his 
acknowledged ability in his chosen profes- 
sion, elements destined to place him in 
still higher and more responsible positions 
in civil life. 

PILLSBURY, JOHN Elliott, son of 

John Gilman and Elizabeth Wimble 
(Smith) Pillsbury, was born in Lowell, 
Middlesex county, December 15, 1846. 

He attended the public schools in Low- 
ell until his removal in 1856, then at 
Chelsea until 1859, and then at intervals 
studied in private and public schools until 
he entered the naval academy at Annapolis, 
Md., in 1862. 

Previous to his choice of life-work, he 
was employed in the store of J. D. Wilco.x 
cS: Co., for a few months, and was a page 
in the House of Representatives, Washing- 
ton, I). C, from December, 1859, to 
August, 1862. He was appointed midship- 
man " at large," at the naval academy by 
President Lincoln in September, 1862. 



PILLSBURY. 



PILSBURV. 



483 



His naval duty since graduatinjj from 
the naval academy has been in the Pacific 
squadron and the Asiatic stiuadron, where 
he was participant in the engagement with 
the Coreans in 1871 ; was attached to the 
" Swatara " on the transit of Venus expe- 
dition in 1874 and '75 ; was on the coast 
survey steamer " iJiake " as executive 
officer ; was in the West Indian squadron, 
on board the " Kearsarge," 1879 to '82 ; 
and since that tune has been attached to 
the coast survey service, and in command 
of the " Blake " nearly five years. His 
jM'esent rank is that of lieutenant. United 
States navy. 

Lieutenant Pillsbury has reached an en- 
viable position among scientific students, 
his labors in line of research being original 
in method, and applied to old fields that 
have been more or less superficially 
worked. He is inventive, and when old 
appliances fail to answer his demands for 
results, he builds new ones that will re- 
spond satisfactorily. His work in the Gulf 
Stream and ocean currents generally, has 
been done from an entirely different base 
of operations from that employed hereto- 
fore by scientific men. His plan to get 
the drift and rate of a current was to an- 
chor and send down a machine that would 
automaticall}^ record what was taking- 
place there. But to anchor in such depths 
as one thousand fathoms was unheard of, 
and he was obliged to invent means both 
for safely anchoring and recording the 
current movements. He successfully ac- 
complished what he undertook, and in 
March, 1885, made his first experiment. 
He has remained three days at anchor in 
1. 000 fathoms, and twelve hours at anchor 
in 2,176 fathoms — 13,056 feet. The 
average of the last twelve anchorages is 
about 1,800 fathoms. By his experiments 
in ocean currents he has established many 
of the laws of the Gulf Stream, and thrown 
light upon many of the old navigators' 
collections of unexplained phenomena. 
The work is yet in its infancy, but with 
deep sea anchorage and automatic re- 
corder. Lieutenant Pillsbury will eliminate 
many an uncertain factor which has here- 
tofore entered into calculations for posi- 
tions at sea, and will change materially 
the theories among savants regarding 
ocean currents. 

Lieutenant Pillsbury is of Puritan ances- 
try on both sides, dating back to 1630 in 
this country. His paternal grandmother 
was Abigail Eliot, a direct descendant of 
John Eliot, the Indian missionary, after 
whom he is named. 



Lieutenant Pillsbury married in Portland, 
Maine, August 26, 1875, Florence Green- 
wood, daughter of William and Helen M. 
(.Stevens) Aitchison. Of this union is one 
child : Elsie Greenwood Pillsbury. 

PILSBURY, Edwin Lake, .son of Ho- 
ratio Kelson and Lydia Symonds (Lake) 
Pilsbury, was born in Bucksport, Hancock 
county, Maine, April 21, 1850. 

PLs early educational training was re- 
ceived in the grammar and high schools of 
Charlestown. His first entrance into busi- 
ness life was made by an engagement with 
Champney Brothers & Co., wholesale small 
wares, Boston. 




EDWIN L, PILSBURY 

March 5, 1873, he opened business on 
his own account in the retail trade of ladies' 
and gents' furnishings, dry-goods, etc., in 
Charlestown. Here he has continued, 
enlarging his capacity for business in the 
matter of ware-rooms, etc., from time to 
time, as a flourishing trade has demanded, 
until the present. 

Mr. Pilsbury was married in Bath, Maine, 
October 22, 1884, to Louise Thompson, 
daughter of Jacob William and Louise 
Middlecutt (Plane) Plumer. Of this union 
are two children : Mabel Lydia and Edna 
Louise Pilsbury. 

Mr. Pilsbury is past grand master, L O. 
O. F. of Massachusetts ; past dictator, 



484 



PIXKERTON. 



PITMAN. 



Knights of Honor , ex-superintendent of 
the Universalist Sabbath-school ; and lias 
been prominent in various literary, social, 
and political organizations. 

Mr. Pilsbury was a member of the 
House of Representatives in 1882 and '83, 
and of the Senate in 1887 and '89. He 
served on the committee on prisons in 
1882, '83, and '87, being clerk of the com- 
mittee in 1883 ; served on the committee on 
water supply in 1887 ; was chairman of the 
committee on Hoosac Tunnel, and Troy & 
Greenfield Railroad in 1887, and chairman 
of the committee on railroads in 1889. He 
is a member of Henry Price Lodge, F. iS: 
A. M. ; Howard Lodge, No. 22, L 6. O. F., 
and Bunker Hill Encampment, No. s, 
L O. O. F. 

The latest tribute to his integrity and 
ability is his recent appointment by Mayor 
Hart, of Boston, as one of the commission- 
ers of the Boston board of health, his 
term expiring in 1892. 

PINKERTON, ALFRED S., son of Wil- 
liam C. and Maria W. (Fiske) Pinkerton, 
was born in Lancaster, Lancaster county, 
Pa., March 19, 1856. 

He attended the public schools of his 
native place until by the death of his father 
he was forced to leave school, and with his 
mother, who sought to return to her kin- 
dred and native state, came to Worcester, 
where he soon found employment as book- 
keeper with one of the leading manufactur- 
ing firms, and by dint of faithful application, 
secured the unqualified confidence of his 
employers. But he had an aspiration U> 
enter the legal profession, and by using 
his leisure hours while engaged in mercan- 
tile pursuits, he fitted himself, with the 
assistance and direction of the late Hon. 
Peter C. Bacon, with whom he studied, 
and was finally admitted to the bar in 1881. 
He immediately began legal practice, and 
has risen to a recognized position in the 
profession. 

Mr. Pinkerton is a prominent Odd Fel- 
low, a member of Worcester Lodge, No. 
56, and Wachusett Encampment. In 1882 
he entered the grand lodge and grand 
encampment, where he at once took rank; 
was a member of the committee which in 
1887 reported in favor of the establish- 
ment of a " home for aged and infirm 
members of the fraternity." He is now 
grand master of the Grand Lodge of Mas- 
sachusetts — the youngest man ever 
occupying the chair. He is also a mem- 
ber of the JVL'isonic fraternity. 

In 1887 Mr. Pinkerton was elected a 
member of the House of Representatives 



from ^Vorcester, serving as House chair- 
man of the committee on towns. He was 
re-elected in 1S88 and '89. In 1S88 he 
served on the judiciary committee and the 
committee on constitutional amendments, 
and the joint special committee to repre- 
sent the Commonwealth at the centennial 
celebration of the settlement of Ohio. In 
1889 he served on the judiciary committee, 
and was House chairman of the committee 
on water-supply. 




ALFRED S. PINKERTON. 

Mr. Pinkerton, during these years, was 
freciuently heard in debate, seldom failing 
to command the attention of the House. 

He participated in all the important dis- 
cussions, and was the member who pre- 
sented Senator Hoar's name to the Repub- 
lican caucus. He has been secretary, and 
is now chairman, of the Worcester county 
Republican committee, and has contributed 
materially to the service of the party in 
his county. 

PITMAN, Robert Carter, son of 

Benjamin and Mary Ann (Carter) Pitman, 
was born in Newport, Newport countv, 
R. I., March 16, 1825. 

He received his public school training in 
the schools of New Bedford, and there 
fitted for college at the Friends' Academy. 
He was graduated from the \\'csleyan 
University, Middletown, Conn., in the class 



POLLARD. 



POMEROV. 



485 



of 1S45 — receiving;- the degree of A. iM. 
in course, and that of LL. I), in 1S69. 

He was admitted to tiie bar in New Bed- 
ford in December, 1848. In 1850 he 
formed a law co-partnership witii Hon. 
T. D. Eliot, whicii continued till 1855 ; 
then for nine years practiced alone, at the 
end of which time he formed a co-partner- 
sliip with Hon. .\. Borden, which relation 
continued five years, till 1869. 

He is at present the senior associate jus- 
tice of the superior court of Massachu- 
setts, having been appointed in 1869. 

Judge Pitman was a member of the 
House of Representatives in 1858, and of 
the Senate in 1864, '65, '68 and '69, and 
the last year was president of the same. 

He was married in New Bedford, August 
15, 1855, to trances R., daughter of the 
late Rev. M. G. Thomas. Of this union 
are two children living : Francis C. and 
Arthur S. Pitman. 

Judge Pitman is a Prohibitionist, and an 
active factor in all movements leading up to 
that one result. He is the author of " Alco- 
hol and the State," published in 1877. His 
residence is Newton, to which city he re- 
moved October i, 1876. 

POLLARD, ARTHUR GaYTON, son of 
Colonel Joseph S. and Luella J. (Tucker) 
Pollard, was born in Plaistow, Rockingham 
county, N. H., Januar)- 5, 1843. 

He was educated in the public schools of 
Plaistow and Lowell. LTpon leaving school 
he was engaged as clerk in the dry-goods 
store of Hon. Hocum Hosford, Lowell, in 
1861, and in 1864 was admitted as partner 
in the business. He became sole proprietor 
in 1885, Mr. Hosford having died several 
years previous. In 1886 he admitted his 
book-keeper, Harry Dunlap, as partner, the 
firm now being A. G. Pollard & Co. 

Mr. Pollard was married in Keeseville, 
N. Y., October 14, 1869, to Martha AL, 
daughter of (ieorge G. and Martha M. 
(Dean) Fuller. Of this union there were 
four children, two of whom died in infancy, 
and two are now living : Harry Gilmore 
and Edith Frances Pollard 

Mr. Pollard is a director in the Mer- 
chants' National Bank, Lowell, Lowell 
Mutual Fire Lisurance Company, Lowell 
Hosiery Company, and Appleton Manufac- 
turing Compan\'. He is a trustee and one 
of the investment committee of the Cen- 
tral Savings Bank, Lowell ; treasurer of 
the proprietors of the South Congrega- 
tional Meeting-house, and a director in 
the Lowell board of trade. 

He has always been cjuite prominent in 
Masonic circles ; is past master of Ancient 



New York Lodge ; past high jiriest, Mt. 
Horeb R. A. Chapter ; past thrice illustri- 
ous master, Ahasuerus Council, and past 
eminent commander of Pilgrim Command- 
ery, K. T. In 1S80 he was deputy grand 
high priest of the Grand R. A. Chapter of 
Massachusetts. In 1883 he was deputy 
grand master of the Grand Council of 
Massachusetts. In 1887 he was elected 
most e.xcellent grand high priest of the 
Grand R. A. Chapter of Massachusetts, 
which position he still holds. 

POMEROV, Alanson Brown, son of 

Alanson and Anna Brown Pomeroy, was 
born in Washington, Berkshire county, 
February 8, 1842. 

He was educated in the common .schools 
of his native town. 

He began life as a farmer and wood 
dealer. In 1884 he worked a year in 
S])ringfield, in the grocery trade. He sub- 
seijuently went back to farming and deal- 
ing in wood, real estate exchange, etc. 

During the war of the rebellion he 
served one year in the 61st regiment, Mas- 
sachusetts volunteers. He has held every 
office in the gift of the town, having been 
chairman of the board of selectmen twelve 
years, and for a portion of that time, 
treasurer also, which fact attests to the 
confidence reposed in him by his towns- 
men. He has served on the school boarti 
almost consecutively since he was twenty- 
one years old. He served in the lower 
branch of the Legislature during the ses- 
sion of 1875. He is now located in one of 
the pleasantest spots of the town, and dis- 
penses his hospitality with a generous hand. 

Mr. Pomeroy was married in Albany, 
N. Y., September 22, 1866, to Mary Eliza- 
beth, daughter of Clark T. and Lydia R. 
(Mack) Lyman. Of this union were si.x 
children : Frank A., Jessie L. (deceased), 
Mabel E., Irving W., Rupert H. (deceased), 
and Carleton M. Pomeroy. 

POMEROY, Charles, son of Medad 
and Jerusha (Alexander) Pomeroy, was 
born in Warwick, Franklin county, Julv 
14, 1818. 

His early education was obtained in the 
common schools of Warwick, after which 
he attended the high school at Northfield. 
Subsequently he engaged in teaching, but 
finally chose farming as a vocation. He 
is also employed as a justice of the peace, 
trial justice and notary public, and does 
quite an extensive business as an insurance 
agent. 

Mr. Pomeroy was married in Bernardston, 
August 28, 1844, to Laura C, daughter of 



486 



POPE. 



PORTER. 



Jonathan and Asenath (Wright) Connable. 
Of this union are four children: Mary 
Anna, Sarah Hunt, Charles Russell, and 
Laura Lathrop Pomeroy. 

Mr. Pomeroy was on the staff of Gover- 
nor Gardner, with the rank of colonel. 
He has held the office of sheriff for the 
county, as well as various minor offices of 
the county and town. He is a trustee of 
the Pomeroy parish fund for the Unitarian 
society. 

POPE, Charles Greenwood, son of 

Rufus Spurr and Sarah (Brown) Pope, was 
born in Hardwick, Worcester county, 
November i8, 1840. His father was a 
clergyman in the Universalist denomina- 
tion. 

When three years of age his parents 
moved to Hyannis, one of the thriving 
villages of Cape Cod, where he passed his 
boyhood, and attended the public schools 
and academy. At the age of fifteen he 
entered Pierce Academy, Middleborough, 
to prepare for college, and having fitted, 
entered Tufts College in August, 1857, and 
was graduated therefrom in the class of 
1861. He then taught in the academy and 
in a private school in Hyannis until 1864, 
when he was elected by the school board 
of Somerville to the charge of the Forster 
school. In October, 1870, he left this 
school to accept the place of master in the 
Bunker Hill school, Charlestown, where he 
remained until January, 1874, when he 
resigned. 

Mr. Pope had been studying law for 
several years, and was connected with the 
law ofifice of Sweetser & Gardner. Upon 
resigning his school duties he entered the 
office of John W. Hammond, of Cambridge, 
and the following December was admitted 
to the bar. The law firm of Hammond & 
Pope continued until the appointment of 
the senior member as judge of the superior 
court in 1886. In April, 1878, Mr. Pope 
was appointed a special justice of the 
Somerville police court, which office he 
now holds. 

When Somerville became a city he was 
elected to the common council from ward i, 
and in 1873 he was president of that 
body, and by virtue of the office, a mem- 
ber of the school board. In 1876 and '77 
he was a member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives. He has been for many years 
a trustee of the public library, and a trus- 
tee of Tufts College for eighteen years, 
being one of the oldest in point of service 
in that institution of learning. 

In December, 1888, Mr. Pope was 
elected mavor of Somerville. 



He was married in Somerville, Decem- 
ber 27, 1866, to Josephine H., daughter of 
Erastus E. and Harriet N. Cole, of that 
city. They have one child, Tracy Cole 
Pope, — born at Somerville in December, 
1869. 

, PORTER, Charles Hunt, son of 

AVhitcomb and Susan Bowditch (Hunt) 
Porter, was born April 3, 1S43, in Wey- 
mouth, Norfolk county. 

His early education was obtained in the 
public schools of Quincy, having graduated 
from the high school of that place. 

In 1858, at fourteen years of age, he 
engaged in the insurance business in Bos- 
ton. He remained in this until he entered 
the service of his country in 1862. At 
the close of the war he returned to the same 
business, in which he is still engaged. 

In 1862 he was commissioned as 2d 
lieutenant in the 39th Massachusetts volun- 
teers. He served three years ; was at the 
surrender of General Lee at Appomattox 
court-house, and was mustered out with 
rank of captain. Subsequently he was com- 
missioned as lieutenant-colonel of the 7th 
Massachusetts regiment. 

Mr. Porter has served as selectman of 
Quincy, and was a representative to the 
Legislature in i88i-'82. He has been a 
member of the standing committee of the 
First church ; president of the Adams Lit- 
erary Association, and is now the mayor of 
Quincy, being the first to serve under the 
charter incorporating the same as a city. 

June 23, 1870, Mr. Porter was married 
at Quincy, to Hannah A., daughter of 
Charles S. and Mary (Norcross) French. 
Their children are : Charles H., Henry W., 
and Robert B. Porter. 

PORTER, VANiAH Miller, son of 

A\'illiam and Bathsheba (Miller) Porter, 
was born in Whitingham, Windham county, 
Vt., April 13, 1830. His ancestry was of 
English and Scotch stock. His father was 
the son of Rev. Elisha Porter, a [jrofound 
scholar. 

Removing from Whitingham, Vt., to 
Rowe, Mass., when he was si.x years old, 
Mr. Porter found his educational advan- 
tages somewhat improved. A district 
library was opened about this time, and of 
this and the district school he took advan- 
tage until sixteen years of age, when he 
prevailed upon his father to send him loan 
academy in Charlemont. His schooling 
was continued at the Shelburne Falls 
Academy for several years. 

He taught his first school in his twentieth 
year, and for several years alternately 



PORTER. 



POTTER. 



487 



worked on the farm in summer, attended 
school in the spring and fall, and taught 
school during the winter. Later on he left 
the farm and school for a counting-room 
in Boston. 

.\t the end of one year's engagement in 
Boston, on account of the failing health of 
his wife, he returned to Rowe, where he 
finally settled as a farmer. He at once 
was called upon to serve the town in vari- 
ous municipal offices — member of the 
school board, selectman, etc. He served 
as chairman of three boards for ten con- 
secutive years. He has been a justice of 
the peace since 1874. 




VANIAH M. PORTER. 

In 1881 he represented the 6th Franklin 
representative district in the General 
Court, and served on the committees on 
liquor law and election laws. He reported 
the bill that became the local option law. 
He was re-elected the next year, and 
served as House chairman on the joint stand- 
ing committee on agriculture. 'I'his com- 
mittee did much to forward agricultural 
interests ami improve the condition of the 
Agricultural College. 

Upon the death of his father (1869), he 
settled the estate, and now resides on the 
old homestead in Rowe. 

Mr. Porter was married in 1853 to Mary 
Driscole of Stanstead, Canada, bv whom he 



had three children : Louise I\L, Carrie S , 
and Jennie R. Porter. He was married 
the second time in New York, October 10, 
■87s, to Jane H. Alorley of Colrain. Of 
this union were two children : Vaniah N. 
and Anna May Porter. 

Mr. Porter has been agent for the town 
of Rowe several times ; president of a 
council of sovereigns ; a councilor of that 
district ; and an active member of the 
American Institute of Civics. 

POTTER, Ira G., son of Bartholomew 
and Keziah ((ilazier) Potter, was born in 
Willington, Tolland county, Conn., April 
21, 1815. 

He obtained his early education in the 
public schools of Willington, and then 
turned his attention to farming. Success- 
ful in this vocation, he became prominent 
in town affairs, and has served his town, 
county and state in various otificial capaci- 
ties. 

He has held the commission of justice of 
the peace forty years, and special trial jus- 
tice for eastern Hampden three years. He 
was one of the incorporators of the Palmer 
Savings Bank, and held the office of trustee 
fifteen years, declining further services 
thereafter. He was special county com- 
missioner for Hampden county nine years; 
was a member of the House of Represen- 
tatives in 1871; was selectman and asses- 
sor several years, and is now somewhat 
largely interested in settling estates, hav- 
ing already adjusted .some eighty-si.x in 
number. These responsibilities, with his 
farming interests and various official du- 
ties, have rendered his life a very busy one. 

Mr. Potter was married in Monson, in 
.\pril, 1842, to Almeda, daughter of John 
Isham and Mary Bingham Potter. Of 
this union are two children : Turin John 
and Arvilla J. Potter. His residence is 
U'ilbraham. 

POTTER, Warren Bailey, second 

son of Jonathan and Cynthia H. (How- 
ard) Potter, was born in Westport, Bristol 
county, November 4, 1821. 

The family took up their residence in 
New Bedford in 1822, where Mr. Potter, 
until his fifteenth year, obtained his edu- 
cation in the public schools. At fifteen 
years of age he was apprenticed to Joseph 
Halcli, then a leading druggist in Provi- 
dence, R. I., and served two years, re- 
turning to New Bedford and becoming 
engaged to Drs. Stone & Mackie, where 
he followed the drug business for three 
years more, perfecting himself thoroughly 
in all its branches. 



488 



TOTTER. 



POWERS. 



At this period the whaling business was 
at its height, and it proved an attraction 
few active young men could resist. Mr. 
Potter shipped on the bark " Peri " for a 
cruise in the Indian Ocean, and made a 
second voyage on the northwest coast in 
the ship " South America." On his return 
to New Bedford Mr. Potter re-entered the 
drug business as proprietor, in which he 
secured a speedy and pronounced success. 

In 1S51, in conjunction w-ith Andrew 
G. Weeks, he established in Boston, at 154 
Washington Street, the house of Weeks & 
Potter, wholesale druggists, which firm is 
still in existence, having enjoyed thirty- 
eight years of great prosperity and marked 
influence in the trade. This firm was com- 
pletely burned out in 1864, again in 1872, 
and for the third time in 1879. 

Mr. Potter founded the Potter Drug Ov 
Chemical Corporation, January i, 1883, 
which is well known throughout the Unitetl 
States, and in fact, the civilized world. 




WARREN B. POTTER. 

Mr. Potter has always been regarded in 
commercial circles as a man of sound busi- 
ness principles and strict financial integrity. 

He is a director of the Home Savings 
Bank, also of the Central National Bank, 
and of the International Trust Companv, 
faithfully and ably discharging the onerous 
duties thus devolving upon him. 



POWERS, Charles Edward, son of 

Charles and Sarah (Brooks) Powers, was 
born in Townsend, Middlesex county. May 
9, 1834. 

His early education was obtained at the 
public schools, and after graduating at an 
institution at New Hampton, N. H., he 
became a private pupil of Professor Knight, 




CHARLES E, POWERS, 

of New London, N. H. He entered Harvard 
University in 1853, and graduated with 
the degree of S. B. in 1S56, receiving the 
honor of a " magna cum laitde." He then 
entered the Harvard medical school, but, 
upon the sudden death of his father, he was 
obliged to abandon the study of medicine 
and devote himself to his father's business. 
After successfully settling the estate he de- 
cided to study law, and entered the Harvard 
law school in 1857, where he graduated in 
1858 with the degree of LL. B. The follow- 
ing year he formed a law co-partnership 
with the Hon. Linus Child and Linus Mason 
Child, under the firm name of Child & Pow- 
ers, counselors, opening law offices in Bos- 
ton where they have since remained. 

He was one of the few who believetl in 
the success of the street railways which 
were then being opened. He embarked 
early in the enterprise, became a large 
owner, and was made a director and presi- 
dent in several of the roads. 



I'RATT. 



PRATT. 



489 



Soon after settling in Boston Mr. Powers 
also became an active Free Mason ; was 
elected master of a lodge, and was for sev- 
eral years the eminent commander of the 
Boston Commandery of Knights Templar, 
and for three years was grand master of 
the grand coimcil of Massachusetts. 

He has never been an aspirant for political 
office, but for three years, after the great 
fire, he was unanimously elected by both 
parties to the city council of Boston. After- 
wards he was elected to the Boston water 
board, where he served until the water- 
works were put into the hands of commis- 
sioners. Mr. Powers is regarded as an ener- 
getic, sagacious man, quick to apprehend, 
fertile in resource, and one who does thor- 
oughly that to which he turns his attention. 

Mr. Powers has two daughters : Marion 
(Mrs. Lamar S. Low'ry) and Florence 
Agnes (Mrs. Henry McLellan Harding), 
both residing in New York City. 

PRATT, Harvey Hunter, son of 

Henry Jones and Maria J. (Hunter) Pratt, 




HARVEY H. PRATT. 

was born in Pliiladelphia, Pa., February 
24, i86o. 

He was educated in the common schools 
of Abington, Mass. 

He chose the profession of law, and 
studied in the Harvard University law 
school, graduating therefrom in 18S3. 



In 1887 he was the editor of the " Brock- 
ton .Advance." In 1879 he was editor and 
publisher of the "Abington News." In 
the preparation for his jirofession, he read 
law in the office of Keith &: Simmons, 
Abington, 1880. In September, 1883, he 
formed a partnership with John F. Simmons 
of Hanover. He is now attorney-at-law 
in Abington, under the firm name of Sim- 
mons & Pratt. 

Mr. Pratt has been assistant district 
attorney, southeastern Massachusetts dis- 
trict ; assistant secretary of the Demo- 
cratic state central committee ; chairman 
of the Abington board of health ; secre- 
tary of the Abington Business Club ; chair- 
man of the Abington Democratic town 
committee, and the ist Plymouth senato- 
rial district Democratic committee. 

He was the Democratic candidate for 
register of deeds for Plymouth county in 
1 88 1, and candidate for the state Senate, 
t886. He was elected to the House of 
Representatives from the 6th Plymouth dis- 
trict in 1888 and '89, and served each year 
upon the committee of the judiciary. 

Mr. Pratt is unmarried. 

PRATT, JOSEPH Lawrence, son of 

Benjamin Pratt, Jr., and Hannah (Weston) 
Pratt, was born in Reading, Middlesex 
county, January 18, 1814. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in the common schools and at Read- 
ing Academy. 

In 1834 he first engaged in business as a 
shoe manufacturer. In 1857 he changed 
liis business to that of dealer in lamps and 
glassware. 

He has been for eleven years a member 
of the board of selectmen of Reading. 

Mr. Pratt was first married in Reading, 
February 25, 1841, to Martha, daughter of 
Captain Timothy and Elizabeth Wakefield. 
His second marriage, July 4, 1861, was 
with Mary W., daughter of Joseph and 
.Martha (Crooker) Hopkins. He has had 
two children : Ruth L. and Alice H. 
I'ratt. 

He is now retired from active business. 

PRATT, Stillman Baxter, .son of Rev. 
Stillman Pratt of Reading and Eleanor 
Morton (Dickinson) Pratt of Amherst, was 
born in Orleans, Barnstable county, Novem- 
ber 24, 1836. 

He is a lineal descendant of John Pratt, 
who came from county Kent, England, in 
1630, and settled in Dorchester, the suc- 
cession being John of Medfield, John of 
Reading, Samuel, Ephraim, Benjamin Still- 
man, and Stillman Baxter Pratt. 



490 



I'KATT. 



PRESBREY. 



His educational training was receivetl in 
the public schools of his native place and 
at Phillips Academy, Andover. He at 
first learned the shoemaker's trade and 
subsequentl)' evinced a strong desire to 
follow the sea. His first vovage to the Grand 
Banks, where he was for four months out 
of sight of land, cnred him of this propen- 
sity. He then learned the news|iaper 
business in the " (iazette " office. Middle- 
borough. 

In 1859 he established the "Marlbor- 
ough Mirror ; " became pi'oprietor of the 
" Middleborough Gazette " on the death 
of his father in 1862 ; and soon after 
established weekly papers in Bridgewater, 
East Bridgewater, and Wareham. 

During the war for the Union he was in 
the provost-mar.shal's office of the ist 
Massachusetts district at New Bedford. In 
1868 he sold the " Middleborough Gazette " 
and purchased the " Randolph Register," 
removing his residence to that town. 

In 1869 he established in Boston the 
" American Workman," a reform journal 
for the discussion of the labor problem. 
For two years he was the candidate of the 
Labor Reform party for secretary of the 
Commonwealth. In 187 1 here-purchased 
the " Marlborough Mirror " and returned 
to that town, and soon after established 
the " Framingham Gazette." During the 
following fifteen years he purchased or 
founded over forty weekly papers in New 
Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachu- 
setts. Seven of them were on the South 
Shore, his summer home for several years. 
In 1889 he .sold his newspaper business to 
his sons, and has turned his attention to the 
development of electrical mechanics. 

Mr. Pratt was married in Middleborough, 
1856, to Ellen Myrick, daughter of William 
Whitteniore and Hannah (Foster) Goss. 
Of this union were eleven children : Elea- 
nor Morton (Mrs. W. C. Han.son, Marl- 
borough), Arabella Frances (Mrs. George 
L. Stevens, Marlborough), Ransom Dick- 
inson, William Walter, Stillman Foster, 
Eugene Lincoln, Elra Sinclair (deceased), 
Lily Maude, Herbert Emerson, Charles 
Brigham (deceased), and Elmer Campbell 
Pratt. 

Mr. Pratt was one of the pioneers in in- 
troducing the order of the Knights of 
Pythias, in the East, having founded many 
lodges in Massachusetts. In 1861 he was 
made a Mason. He has been a prominent 
Son of Temperance, Good Templar and 
Knight of Honor ; was a non-commis- 
sioned officer in the New Bedford cavalry; 
has been a member of the Congregational 



church since 1856, and for twenty-five 
years a Sunday-school teacher ; a leader 
in many literary and reformatory organiza- 
tions. He has published various books, 
notably the " History and Directory of 
Plymouth County; " has been always inter- 
ested in heredity and genealogy, as well as 
in local antiquities ; has long been a mem- 
ber of the New England Historic Genea- 
logical Society ; is a member of the Subur- 
ban Newspaper Association, Massachusetts 
Press Association, and the National Edi- 
torial Association, having served two years 
on the executive committee of the latter 
organization. 

Mr. Pratt has made three pleasure trips 
to Europe, has broadened his horizon by 
study and travel, and as an all-round 
editor and newspaper publisher, has long 
been noted for his close attention to busi- 
ness. No reformatory cause or needy 
individual ever appealed to his heart in 
vain. 

PRESBREY, Silas DeaN, son of Bil- 
lings Troop and Clarissa Burt (Dean) Pres- 
brey, was born in Taunton, Bristol county, 
October 19, 1838. 

He passed the usual time in the public 
schools ; was prepared for college in Taun- 
ton high .school ; entered Harvard College, 
and was graduated therefrom in the class 
of i860. Immediately after graduation 
he commenced the study of medicine, and 
having already accomplished a good part 
of the first year's course, he accepted the 
position of principal of Taunton high 
school, servmg from December, i860, to 
July, 1863, when he received his degree of 
A. M. from Harvard. He then resumed 
his medical studies, entering Harvard med- 
ical school, from which he was graduated 
M. D., March 8, 1865. He at once en- 
tered upon the practice of medicine and 
surgery, in which he is now engaged. He 
has attained an enviable position in the 
profession, and is acknowledged as a lead- 
ing physician in Bristol county. 

Dr. Presbrey was married in Taunton, 
October i, 1863, to Sarah Williams, daugh- 
ter of Artemas and Susan Shaw (Williams) 
Briggs. Of this union were three chil- 
dren : Clara Briggs, Florence Nathalie, 
and Laura Edith Presbrey. 

Dr. Presbrey is a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Medical Societv, American Medical 
Association, American Academy of Medi- 
cine ; has been president of the Massachu- 
setts Medico-Legal Society ; and an hon- 
orary member of the Medico-Legal Society 
of New York. He has been medical e.vam- 
iner of the second division, Bristol county. 



PRESCOTT. 



PRESCOTT. 



491 



since the estahlishnu'iit of the office in 1S77; 
lias been a member of the Taunton school 
board fifteen years ; is a trustee of Bristol 
Acadeni)-, Taunton ; has been a member 
of the boartl of water commissioners of 
Taunton since 1881 ; is president of the 
Taunton Hospital Company (Morton Hos- 
jiital) ; senior member of the consulting 
staff of Morton Hos])ital, and a member 
of the board of investment of the 15ristol 
County Savings Bank. 




SILAS D, PRESBREY. 

To Dr. Presbrey's agitation of the sub 
ject, and persistence in the charitable work, 
was due the success of establishing the 
city hospital in Taunton, known as the 
Morton Hospital, and named in honor of 
the late Marcus Morton, whose home- 
stead estate was presented the hospital 
corporation by his daughter, Mrs. Susan 
T. Kimball, of Boston. This was in 
1888, the year of the founding of the hos- 
pital. 

PRESCOTT, Charles, .son of .\aron 
A. and Betsey (Hunt) Prescott, w'as born 
in Randolph, Norfolk county, October 11, 

'845- 

The common and high schools gave him 
his educational training. 

His first venture was in the grocery 
business in Randolph, with his brother. 
This relation continued ten vears. when he 



became sole proprietor of the business, in 
which he has continued to date. 

Mr. Prescott was married in East Ran- 
dolph (now Holbrook) in December, 1870, 
to .Vbbie M., daughter of Lewis and Abi- 
gail N. (Belcher) Alden. Of this union 
were two children : Bessie A. (deceased) 
and Nellie G. Prescott. 

Mr. Prescott served in the 42d regiment 
Massachusetts volunteers in 1863. He is 
a member of the order of F. & A. M., and 
of the Royal .Arcanum. 

PRESCOTT, Charles J., .son of Ed- 
ward and Catharine L. (Clough) Prescott, 
was born in Boston, February 15, 1838. 
His mother was a daughter of Ebenezer 
Clough. 

He pursued his early studies at the 
Brimmer school ; in 1853 entered the Eng- 
lish high school and was graduated in the 
class of 1856. 




v'\ 



CriAKLtb J PHLbuuTT. 

He then was employed as clerk in the 
coal and wood business till May. 1862, 
when he became a partner in the firm of 
W. I,. iS: C. J. Prescott. This relation 
continued until 1887. He is now' commis- 
sioner of public institutions, Bo.ston, having 
been appointed by Mayor Hart for the 
term of two years ending in April, 1891. 

Mr. Prescott was married in Thetford, 
Vt., December 30, 1868, to Anna Frances, 



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PRINCE. 



PRINCE. 



(laiit;litL-i' (if judge Lyman Hincklev of 
'I'lictford, Vt., and Ann (Smith) Hinckley 
of l'',liswortiT, Me., the latter of whom had 
formerly held a position as teacher in the 
Boston ])uhlic schools. Of this imion were 
five children : Arabella, Edward Lyman, 
Charles J., Jr., .\nna Hinckley, and also 
Samuel Cobb Prescott, who died in iSSi. 

Mr. Prescott was a member of the Jicxs- 
ton school board from 1870 to '75, board of 
aldermen 1874 and '75, and board of direc- 
tors for public institutions of Boston 1876 
to '81 ; member of the House of Represen- 
tatives 1877, '78, and '79, serving as chair- 
man of the committee on public charitable 
institutions ; has always been an active 
Rei)ul)lican in national and state affairs, 
serving on the ward and city committee, 
and Republican state central committee for 
several years — but always being non-parti- 
san in municipal politics. 

He has lived in lioston fifty-one yeai's 
and has changed his residence but once. 
Mr. Prescott has always taken a great in- 
terest in educational matters and public 
institutions, ever alive to a thorough inves- 
tigation of all matters that properly come 
before him as a public man. He has the 
courage of his convictions, and possesses a 
strong individuality, both arguing well for' 
a conscientious and successful discharge of 
duties. 

PKINCH, Frederick Octavius, .son of 

Thomas and Caroline Prince, was born in 
Boston, January 18, 181S. He is one of 
an illustrious family which as long ago as 
15S4 was prominent in England, living at 
ih.ii lime in Shrewsbury upon their estate 
known as ".Abbey Foregate " — John 
Prince being then rector of East Sheffield. 
In 1633 his son, lilder John Prince, came 
to this country and settled in Hull. His 
grandson, Thomas Prince, graduated from 
Harvard College in 1707, and in 1718 was 
ordained co-pastor with Dr. Sewall of the 
Old South Church in Boston. The late 
James Prince, the grandfather of Mr. 
Prince, well known in his day and genera- 
tion as a prominent merchant, was ap- 
pointed by President Jefferson as naval 
officer of the port of Boston, and afterward 
United States marshal for the district of 
Massachusetts. 

Freilerick (). Prince was prepared by 
.Abel Whitne)' for the Boston Latin school, 
which he entered in 1827, graduating in 
1832, receiving the F'ranklin medal and 
two other medals for scholarship. He en- 
tered Ihirvard College in 1832 and gradu- 
ated in 1836. He was class poet and sec- 
retary. In 1S37 he commenced the study 



of law in the office of Franklin DcMcraiul 
William H. Cardiner, and was admitted at 
the Suffolk bar in 1840, when he imme- 
iliately took an active part in politics as an 
active and earnest \Vhig. 

In 1S48 Mr. Prince married Helen, 
daughter of Barnard Henry of Philadel- 
phia, for many years United States consul 
at Gibraltar, where Mrs. Prince was born. 
He made his residence in \\ iiuhester, re- 
taining his law office in Boston. 

In 1851, '52 and '53 he re]M-esented \\'in- 
cliesler in the lower house of the state 
Legislature. In 1853 he was a prominent 
member of the famous Constitutional Con- 
vention. In 1854 he was electeil to the state 
Senate, where he at once became an influ- 
ential member. Upon the disruiition of 
the Whig party, in i860, he allietl himself 
with the old opponents of the party, and 
has since acted with the Democrats. He 
was sent as a delegate to the memorable 
national Democratic convention which met 
in Charleston, S. C, in i860, and, adher- 
ing to the Douglas wing of that party, was 
appointed secretary of the national Demo- 
cratic committee for the campaign of i860, 
to which office he was re-elected by each 
succeeding convention until 1888, repre- 
senting the Massachusetts members on the 
committee for twenty-eight years. In 1888, 
although again unanimously elected, he 
resigned, receiving a resolution of thanks 
for the "unfiagging zeal and distinguishetl 
ability" with which he had served. 

In December, 1876, Mr. Prince was nom- 
inated by the Democrats as mayor of the 
city of Boston, and was elected by a large 
vote, although his party at that time was in 
the minority. Tlie following year he was 
again nominated, and only defeated after 
one of the most hotly contested elections 
ever known in Boston. Again, the follow- 
ing year, there was a re-action in his favor, 
and he was re-elected by a handsome ma- 
jority. In 1879, '80 and '81 he was returned 
to the same office. In 1882, though ear- 
nestly pressed, he declined renomination. 

.Among the notable achievements of his 
administration are the " park system " and 
the improvement in sewers. Mr. Prince 
was early interested in the " park system," 
and its final adoption and sul)sec|uent lay- 
ing out are largely due to his efforts. He 
appreciated keenly the necessity of an im- 
proved sewage for the rapidly growing 
city under his care, and by his earnest ad- 
vocacy of the measure, contributed not a 
little to the complete success of that won- 
derful piece of engineering known as the 
great intercepting sewer which takes to 



I'ROCIKR. 



PROCTER. 



493 



Moon Island, outside tlie liarbor of lioston, 
all the sewage of the city and the district 
lying south of Charles River. The mag- 
nificent buildings for the high and Latin 
schools were also erected through the inllu- 
ence of Mr. Prince. 

In 1885, Mr. Prince was noniinateil by 
the Democrats as governor of the State. 
He was defeated upon a strictly party vote, 
and in 1888 was appointed to the board 
having e.^clusive control of the construc- 
tion of the new building of the Boston 
public library. To this work he is now 
giving his entire attention, and with this 
exception he has retired from both profes- 
sional and public life, after making for 
himself an honorable name in the one, and 
in the other a record alike successful and 
meritorious. 

PROCTER, Francis, eldest son of 
Captain Francis Epes and Ann (Allen) 
Procter, was born in Gloucester, P2sse.\ 
county, March 16, 1833. 

He received his education in the public 
schools of his native town. His father 
died in 1846, leaving him, at the age of 
thirteen, with two younger brothers, the 
support of his widowed mother, who 
shortly after lost her eyesight. Borrowing 
the capital of one dollar with which to start 
business, he purchased thirty-three copies 
of the "Flag of Our Union," published 
by F. Gleason, of Boston, and entereil 
upon his career that has since embraced 
every department of printing, publishing, 
book, stationery, wall-paper, fancy-goods, 
antl a general newspaper business. 

Pearly in business life he took his only 
brother, Ceorge H. Procter, into partner- 
ship, his youngest brother, William A., 
having died in 1848. In July, 1853, he 
started a monthly paper, which was circu- 
lated free, and afterwards changed to a 
subscription semi-monthly paper — "The 
(;ioucester Advertiser." In 1856, in com- 
pany with his brother, the " Cajje Ann 
Weekly .Advertiser " was started, which is 
still published. In 1888 the Procter broth- 
ers began the publication of a one-cent 
evening paper — "The Gloucester Daily 
Times" — still published. They also con- 
duct the Cape Ann News Company, a 
branch book and stationery store, which 
was established in 1884, and the Procter 
Circulating Library, established by Francis 
Procter in 1851. 

Mr. Procter has always taken an active 
and influential part in public matters and 
enterprises for the growth and welfare of 
his native city, notably the development of 
what is known as Bellevue Heights. 



Mr. Procter was married in Marlbor- 
ough, March 15, 1856, to Mary Melissa, 
daughter of Solomon and Mary LI. Perkins 
Rice, of that town. His children by that 
marriage are : Frank Rice, George Per- 
kins (decea.sed), \\illiam .\llen, and .Mary 
M. Procter. 

Mr. Procter was a delegate to the first 
Free Soil state convention, at \N'orcester ; 
was an auditor of town accounts in 1861, 
and alderman of the city of (Houcester 
(ward 4) 1876, besides filling other minor 
offices. He has always been a Repub- 
lican, excepting in the Greeley cam]5aign 
of 1872. Heattended the state convention 




FRANCIS PROCTER. 

of that year, and was a member of the con- 
ference'committee of the two parties that 
nominated Charles Sumner for governor. 

He is a prominent Mason — secretary of 
Tyrian Lodge two years ; was chairman of 
the parish committee of the Independent 
Christian church (the oldest Universalist 
church in America) from 1883 to '89, and 
a director in the Gloucester Electric Com- 
pany ; is president of the Willoughby Park 
Lantl Association, secretary and treasurer 
of the Wolf Hill Land Company, and was 
a member of the Gloucester Artillery Com- 
pany 185 I to '56. 

He was one of the prime movers in or- 
ganizing the Massachusetts Press Associa- 



494 



PROUTY. 



PUTXA.M. 



tion. 1869, lias served as secretary two 
years, vice-president five years, and presi- 
dent tliree years. He was Massachusetts 
delegate to the second convention at Cin- 
cinnati, of the National Editorial Associa- 
tion, 1886, and a member of the executive 
committee for 1887 ; and also a delegate 
to the fourth convention, which met at San 
Antonio, Texas, i88g. 

The energy and perseverance of Mr. 
Procter have been severely taxed during 
his business career. Three times the busi- 
ness has been burned out, in the fires of 
1853, '64 and '73. Mr. Procter has been 
quite a traveler, has seen much of his na- 
tive land, and as a writer has contributed 
interesting sketches of his visits to Ber- 
muda, California, and Mexico. He is an 
enterprising, industrious and public-spir- 
ited citizen. 

PROUTY, David, son of David and 
Abigail (Bisco) Prouty, was born in Spen- 
cer, Worcester county, October 18, 1813. 

The usual attendance in the common 
schools in those davs, with two terms at 
the academy, gave him his preparatory 
education. 

Mr. Prouty was a farmer in early life, 
and later was in the wine business a 
few years. In 1S52 he became interested 
in the manufacture of boots, with Charles 
E. Denny and John G. Prouty. In 1854, 
upon the death of John G. Prouty, and 
the retirement of Mr. Denny on account 
of ill health, John Boyden was taken into 
partnership. He soon retired and Isaac 
L. Prouty was associated as a partner in 
1859. This relation continued until 1876, 
when the subject of this sketch retired 
from active business. 

While never a politician, he has been 
called to serve his town, county and state 
in various official capacities — has held the 
office of selectman and assessor several 
terms ; was a representative to the General 
Court in 1876 ; is vice-president of the 
Spencer National Bank, and one of the 
vice-presidents of the Spencer Savings 
Bank. 

Mr. Prouty is widely known as a man of 
high moral character, unquestioned in- 
tegrity, and quiet but systematic benevo- 
lence. His generosity shuns an_v approach 
toward ostentation. He has always been 
specially interested in every educational 
movement that promised to be beneficial. 
He is now erecting a high school building, 
that when completed and furnished for 
school use will be a gift to the town (jf 
Spencer, at a cost not far from forty-five 
thousand dollars. 



Mr. Prouty was married in Spencer, in 
January, 1840, to Caroline, daughter of 
Dr. Jonas and Persis (Bemis) Guilford. 
Mrs. Prouty died in November, 1863. Mr. 
Prouty was again married, to Mrs. Sarah 
B. Denny, sister of his first wife. She died 
in June, 1S73. He has had but one child, 
Jonas C;. Prouty, who died in July, 1864. 

PUTNAM, ADRIAN LOUIS, son of Ad- 
rian and Fanny (Flint) Putnam, was born 
in Danvers, Essex county, August 29, 

1834- 

He passed through all the grades of 
public schools in Danvers, including the 
Holten high school. He was graduated 
from the state normal school at Bridge- 
water, in 1S56. From 1856 to '60 he was 
engaged in teaching in Provincetown and 
Danvers. 

He began the business of jeweler and 
stationer in Provincetown, July, 1862, under 
the firm name of Atkins & Putnam. He 
has continued in the business the last 
twenty-four years under the firm title of 
A. L. Putnam & Co. 

Mr. Putnam was married in Province- 
town, December 18, i860, to Addie O., 
daughter of Henry and Abigail (Rich) 
Cook. Of this union are two children ; 
Nellie Flint and Abbie Cook Putnam. 

Mr. Putnam has held the chairmanship of 
both town and county Republican commit- 
tees, the former for ten years ; has been 
treasurer of the Masonic lodge for nine- 
teen years ; officer of the Royal Arcanum, 
Knights of Honor, and Royal Good Fellows 
since their formation in Provincetown. 

He is a trustee, and has been a member, 
of the board of investment in the savings 
bank for the last ten years ; a trustee of 
the public library building ; a member of 
the school board twenty-five years ; and is 
agent for the Commonwealth Loan & Trust 
Company of Boston. 

PUTNAM, ARTHUR A., son of Elias and 
Eunice (Ross) Putnam, was born in Dan- 
vers, Essex county, November 18, 1829. 

He obtained his early education in the 
district schools of his native town, and at 
the academies of Westfield, and Thetford 
and West Randolph, Vt. 

In the meantime he taught school in 
Danvers, Boxford and Brookline. Fitting 
for college, he enteretl Dartmouth in 1852, 
but left after completing the sophomore 
year. He studied law at the Dane law 
school, Cambridge, and in the offices of the 
late S. B. Ives, of Salem, and of Culver, 
Parker & Arthur (the late President Ar- 
thur), of New York City. 



PUTNAM. 



PUTNAM. 



495 



He was admitted to the bar December, 
1859, and at once commenced practice in 
his native town. April, i86i, he turned 
his law office into a recruiting office, and 
recruited a company known as " Putnam 
C'lUards " for the 14th regiment, Massachu- 
setts volunteers. He was commissioned 
captain of company I, same regiment. 

From October, 1863, to the close of the 
war he was ist lieutenant and captain. He 
served at Newbern, N. C, as assistant pro- 
vost-marshal, district of North Carolina, 
and as judge-advocate at Plymouth, N. C. 

At the close of the civil war he opened a 
law office in Blackstone, and was in active 
practice till his appointment as judge, June, 
1872, removing to Uxbridge, May, 1877. 
He holds the position of judge of the 2d 
district court of Southern Worcester. 

Judge Putnam was married in Black- 
stone, November 25, 1868, to Helen Irving, 
daughter of Artiman and Esther (Burn- 
hanl) Staples. Of this union are two 
children : Alden L. and Beatrice Putnam. 

Judge Putnam was si.x years chairman of 
the prudential committee of the First t'on- 
gregational church of Uxbridge ; served 
on the school board in Danvers, Black- 
stone and Uxbridge, and on the library 
committee of the Peabody Institute ; was 
for many years a trustee of the Worcester 
Agricultural Society, and a trustee of the 
Uxbridge Savings Bank. 

He is the author of " Ten Years a Police 
Court Judge ; " " HLstory of Blackstone ; " 
various pamphlets, including "A Glance 
at the History of the Village Bank, Dan- 
vers ; " " .An Open Letter to the Constable 
of the Commonwealth ; " " The Sunday 
Law in Massachusetts," and the "Story of 
the Putnam Guards." He was" war editor " 
of the " Peabody Press " ( 1 862-'63) ; also of 
" The Flag," a paper published two months 
at Plymouth, \. C. He has been an 
occasional contributor to papers and maga- 
zines since 1855, has lectured in lyceum 
courses, and has spoken in political cam- 
paigns. He received the honorary degree 
of A. M. from Dartmouth College, 1887. 

He represented his district (Danvers) in 
the Legislature in 1857 and '60 ; was alter- 
nate delegate to the national Republican 
convention in i860, and also in 1876. 
While in the Legislature in i860, he took 
an aggressive position in opposition to the 
bill for the slaughter of cattle suspected of 
being diseased with pleuro-pneumonia. 
He was attacked in the Legislature by press 
and people, but time vindicated his position, 
and the abuse hurled at him soon recoiled 
upon its authors. 



PUTNAM, John Pickering, son of 

John Pickering and Harriet (Upham) Put- 
nam, and grandson of Judge Samuel Put- 
nam, of Salem, Mass., was born in Boston, 
April 3, 1847. 

.A primary school in Boston, and gram- 
mar and high schools in Lawrence, furn- 
ished the first courses of his education. 
He entered the public l^atin school in i860, 
and graduated in 1864. P^ntering Harvard 
College the same year, he was graduated 
in the class of 1868. He entered L' Ecole 
des Beaux Arts, Paris, in 1869, after a 
year's preparation, the Royal Academy of 
Architecture, Berlin, in 1870, and began the 
practice of architecture, Boston, in 187 1. 

In 1883 he began a special course of 
study and investigation into the subject of 
house drainage, and in this study invented 
the "sanitas" plumbing appliances, to 
supply a demand for simpler and more sci- 
entific fixtures and methods of plumbing 
than at that time were in use. He founded 
the Sanitas Manufacturing Company. 

Mr. Putnam married, in Framingham, 
1885, Grace Cornelia, daughter of Edwarcl 
O. and Elizabeth L. Stevens. They have 
one child : (Jrace Elizabeth Putnam. 

Mr. Putnam was for some years a mem- 
ber of the American Metrological Societv, 
the American Spelling Reform Association, 
the Boston Society of Architects, and vari- 
ous other .social and scientific societies. 
He published, in 1882, a treatise on "The 
Metric System of Weights and Measures," 
and a work on heating and ventilation, 
entitled "The Open Fire-place in All .■\ges;" 
in 1886, a book on "The Principles of 
Home Drainage," and, in 1887, another on 
" Improved Plumbing .Appliances." Since 
1883 he has contributed many articles on 
sanitary plumbing and drainage to the 
" American .Architect and Building News," 
and other building journals; and has lec- 
tured on the subject of house drainage 
before architectural, engineering and med- 
ical societies in Boston and Worcester. 

PUTNAM, WlLLARD, son of Samuel 
and Elizabeth F. (Richardson) Putnam, 
was born in New Salem, Franklin county, 
September 6, 1838. 

He was educated at New Salem Acad- 
emy, where he was fitted for college. He 
entered Amherst College, from which he 
was graduated in the class of i860 ; he 
taught school for one year and six months 
after graduation, and then, following his 
rural tastes, chose farming as a vocation. 

His present residence is in Cooleyville, 
New Salem. He has been an active mem- 
ber of the school board since 1866. 



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He has been a trustee of the New Salem 
Academy since 1880, and is now president 
of the board ; was a member of the lower 
branch of the Legislature, 1875, and has 
been trial justice for Franklin county. 

Mr. Putnam married, in New Salem, July 
14, 1862, Nellie L., daughter of David Bur- 
nett, of New Salem. He has two children : 
Willard A. and Bertrand F. Putnam. 

PUTNEY, Lyman K., son of Joseph 
and Mary (Winch) Putney, was born in 
Troy, Cheshire county, N. H., August 2, 

1833. 

He received a common school education 
in the public schools of those days. At 
fifteen years of age he began to learn the 
trade of woolen manufacturer, and worked 
steadily at this for three years. In 185 1 
he went to Boston and worked in the mar- 
ket there three years, then started in the 
business of trucking, which he has since 
followed. He has also the management 
of his large stock and dairy farm, the im- 
proving of his real estate, etc. 



He is treasurer and manager of the Wel- 
lesley Co-operative Creamery Compan}'. 

.Mr. Putney was married in Boston, .\pril 
3, 1858, to Abbie A., daughter of William 
and Louisa (Aldrich) Marshall. Their 
children are : .\lice M., Henry AL, and 
Ethel W. Putney. 

Mr. Putney was selectman four years in 
Needham, has been selectman in Wellesley 
seven years, assessor two years, and is still 
in office. He is a member of the Wellesley 
water commission, and was a member of 
tile Ceneral Court from Needham in 1S80, 
and from Wellesley in 1883. 

A prominent member of the F. & A. M., 
and a member of Newton R. \. Chapter ; 
he is also a member and officer L O. O. F., 
and was two years district deputy for the 
28th district. He is also an active working 
member of the Needham Farmers' and Me- 
chanics' Association, having been its secre- 
tary three years and president four years. 

He is now serving his second term as 
master of Wellesley Grange. 



QUA, Francis Winnie, son of Robert 

and Jane (Moncrief) Qua, was born in 
Lisbon, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., Sep- 
tember 2, 1845. 

He was educated in the district schools 
and in the institute at Ogdensburgh, N. \'. 

He began business life clerking in a 
boot and shoe store in Waddington, N. \'. 
At sixteen years of age he taught school 
in Lisbon and the neighboring towns, and 
at twenty began the study of law with 
George G. Simonds, Madrid, N. Y. In 1867 
he went to McGregor, Iowa, and studied 
with Willis DrunmTond. Later he was 
principal of the North McGregor school, 
and afterwards principal of the grammar 
school at Ogdensburgh, N. Y. Failing 
health compelled him to abandon teaching, 
and he entered the oflfice of the Central 
Vermont Railroad and remained there two 
years. He was subsequently connected 
with the " Franklin County Times," (Green- 
field. He finally resumed the study of law 
with Austin De Wolfe, Greenfield, went to 
Lowell in 1877, and was admitted to the 
bar in 1878. 

He was a member of the House of 
Representatives m 1888, serving as chair- 
man of the committee on towns, and was 
re-elected in 1889, being appointed to the 
committees on manufactures and rules, 
and chairman of the committee on pro- 
bate and insolvency. 




FRANCIS W, QUA. 

Mr. Qua w^as married in Ogdensburgh, 
N. Y., September 16, 1879, to Alice L., 
daughter of Michael and Mary Ann (Call) 
Harder. They have one child : Stanley 
E. Qua. 



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QUINT, Alonzo Hall, son of Oeorge 
and Sally \\'. (Hall) Quint, was born in 
Barnstead, Belknap county, N. ti., March 
22, 1828, his parents' residence being Dover, 
N. H. 

He was graduated from Dartmouth 
College in 1846 ; read medicine in Dover 
eighteen months, and studied in mechanical 
work later. He was graduated from An- 
dover Theological Seminary in 1852, and 
took the post-graduate year ; was ordained 
pastor of the Central Congregational 
church, Jamaica Plain, Boston, December 
27, 1853, which church accepted his resig- 
nation in JMay, 1863. 

He was chaplain of the 2d Massachusetts 
infantr}% from 1861 to '64, and was offici- 
ally mentioned for good conduct in several 
severe engagements. 

He was installed pastor of the North 
Congregational church. New Bedford, in 
1864, and resigned becau.se of ill health, 
after eleven years' service. He returned 
to New Hampshire, and later on engaged in 
literary work. From 1881 to '84 he was in 
charge of the Broadway church, Somerville. 
He w-as a member of the New Hampshire 
House of Representatives, 1881 to '85, 
serving as chairman of the railroad com- 
mittee in his second term. To his efforts 
was due in a great measure the enactment 
of the "lease law" and the "railroad 
commissioner law." In 1886 he became 
the pastor of the .■\llston Congregational 
church, where he still remains. 

Mr. Quint was a member of the state 
board of education from 1855 to '61. He 
was at that time chairman of the West 
Roxbury school board. He was also chair- 
man of the Dover (N. H.) school board, after 
his return to New Hampshire, until his res- 
ignation in 1884. He served as a manager 
of the Congregational Publishing Society 
twenty-one years, and has been a director 
(now senior) in the American Congrega- 
tional Association twenty-five years ; has 
been secretary of the board of Ministerial 
Aid from its origin in 1868; secretary of the 
Massachusetts General Association of Con- 
gregational Churches twenty-five years ; 
was chairman of the committee to draft 
the constitution for a national Congrega- 
tional council. He opened its first session 
in Oberlin, Ohio, 187 1, and was its secre- 
tary the next twelve years ; issued the 
national statistics of the Congregational 
churches from 1859 to '84, except during 
the war. 

He received the degree of D. D. from 
Dartmouth in 1866. He has been a trus- 
tee of Dartmouth since 1870. Mr. Quint 



was the first New England man mustered 
into the (jrand Army of the Republic, and 
helped to form Post i, New Bedford ; he 
has since been prominent in Ci. ,\. R. coun- 
cils ; was its first chaplain-in-chief; and 
on its committee to frame its constitutions ; 
was chaplain of the Massachusetts Grand 
Todge of Free Masons from 1869 to '80. 
He was chaplain and preacher for the An- 




ALONZO H. QUINT. 

cient and Honorable Artillery Companv in 
1884 ; he preached the election sermon be- 
fore the Legislature of 1866 ; and later, 
the sermon before the Congregational con- 
vention. He w'as chaplain at the dedica- 
tion of the soldiers' monument, Boston 
Common, and has delivered many more 
memorial addresses that have been pub- 
licly mentioned. 

Besides various sermons and other ad- 
dresses, he has published three volumes of 
his works ; "The Potomac and Rapidan," 
" The Record of the 2d Massachusetts In- 
fantry," and " The First Parish, Dover, 
N. H., 1633-1883." He was joint editor 
and owner of " The Congregational Quar- 
terly " from 1859 to '75. He has contrib- 
uted numerous articles of local New Hamp- 
shire history and on denominational polity. 
He is a corresponding member of the New 
Hampshire and New York Historical socie- 
ties, and of the Maine Genealogical Society, 



498 



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RANDALL 



and was once resident member of the 
Massachusetts Historical Society. 

Mr. Quint was married in Boston, Janu- 
ary 31, 1854, to Rebecca P., daughter of 
Allen and Eliza (Page) Putnam, of Salem. 



(H this union were five children : George 
Putnam (deceased), Clara (',. (Wheaton 
Seminary, 1877), Wilder I). (Dartmouth, 
1887), Katharine M. (Wellesley, 1889), and 
John H. (in Dartmouth). 



RAND, Arnold Augustus, son of 

Edward Sprague and Elizabeth (Arnold) 
Rand, was born in Boston, March 25, 1837. 

He is of the eighth generation in 
descent in Massachusetts from Robert 
and Alice Rand, who settled in Charles- 
town, 1635. His education was obtained 
in the public and private schools of Bos- 
ton and Dedham, and was supplemented 
by a course of study abroad. 

After fitting for college, intending to 
enter Harvard with the class of 1858, he 
began his business training in the count- 
ing-room of William B. Reynolds & Co., 
commission merchants. Here he passed 
the successive grades to assistant book- 
keeper. He then spent nearly two years 
in study in Europe. 

On his return he entered the banking 
house of Blake, Howe & Co., remaining 
as cashier with them and their successors, 
Blake Brothers & Co., until the outbreak 
of the civil war. 

Before the call for troops he was already 
an enlisted man of the 4th battalion, Mas- 
sachusetts volunteer militia. His first 
commission, October 30, i86i, was that of 
2d lieutenant in the first Massachusetts 
cavalry. He was soon promoted to a 
captaincy, and the following year was 
made assistant adjutant-general with the 
rank of captain, and ordered to duty in 
the department of the South. In the fall 
of 1863 he was recalled by Governor 
Andrew, assigned as superintendent of 
recruiting for Suffolk county, and directed 
to form the 4th regiment, Massachusetts 
cavalry, to which he was commissioned as 
lieutenant-colonel. Early in 1864 he took 
the regiment to the army of the James, 
having been promoted to colonel, and was 
in active service till his resignation in 1865. 

Returning to Boston, after four years of 
military service, he entered his father's 
ofifice and began the study of law. In 
1874 he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, 
devoting himself to real estate and probate 
practice. 

Colonel Rand is an active and promi- 
nent member of the Military Order of the 
Loyal Legion, serving as recorder of the 



commandery of Massachusetts since 1881. 
He is a member of Post 144, G. A. R., and 
has served on the department staff. He 
has never participated in politics, though 
in 1884 he was nominated by Mayor Mar- 
tin a police commissioner of the city of 
Boston, to succeed the retiring General 
Nat. Wales. The nomination was con- 
hrmed by the board of aldermen, but ow- 
ing to a variance between the mayor and 
tlie common council, it failed of confir- 
mation in that branch of the city govern- 
ment. 

In 1885 Colonel Rand, in connection 
with the late N. J. Bradlee, formed the 
Massachusetts Title Insurance Company, 
becoming its vice-president, and organiz- 
ing and conducting its office and business 
up to the present time. 

Colonel Rand was married in 1877, to 
Annie Eliza, daughter of Abner W'. and 
Eliza (Le Barron) Brownell, of New Bed- 
ford. He resides in Boston. 

RANDALL, CHARLES STURTEVANT, 
son of George and Martha (Sturtevant) 
Randall, was born in New Bedford, Bristol 
county, February 20, 1824. 

His educational training was received at 
Charles W. Greene's school, Jamaica Plain, 
in the Friends' Academy, New Bedford, 
the New Bedford high school, in F^rance, 
and finally under the care of private tu- 
tors, with whom he fitted for Harvard. He 
did not matriculate, however, but entered 
into business. Touched by the "gold 
fever," in 1849 he went to California, 
where he worked in the mines in which he 
was interested. He remained two years ; 
returned in 185 1, and did a commission 
business until i860 ; was then made treas- 
urer of the New Bedford Copper Company 
— the largest copper manufacturing com- 
pany in the country — in which position he 
remained seven years. He resigned in 
1867, and devoted his energies until 1872 
to the shipping and commission business. 
He then retired from active business, and 
traveled abroad with his family for three 
years. 

Mr. Randall was a member of the state 
Senate in 1883 and '84, serving upon the 



RANDALL. 



RANDALL. 



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ciniiniittees on mercantile affairs and en- 
grossed bills, acting the latter year as 
chairman of the committee on mercantile 
affairs. 

Although he has engaged in no active 
business since his return from Kurope, he 
is a director and stockholder in various 
manufacturing companies. 

.Mr. Randall was elected to the national 
House of Representatives (51st Congress) 
in 1888. 

He was married in New Bedford, No- 
vember 10, 1851, to Sarah .Spooaer, daugh- 
ter of Jireh and Nancy (Nye) Perry. Of 
this union were two children : Harriet 




CHARLES S. RANDALL. 

(.Mrs. \\'alter Clifford, New Bedford) and 
Sarah (Mrs. John W. Griswold, Troy, N.\'.) 
Mr. Randall is a lineal descendant on 
his father's side from Tristram Coffin, who 
landed in Nantucket in 1640. His grand- 
mother was Jerusha Coffin, a descendant 
of Tristram. On his mother's side his 
descent is direct from Samuel Sturtevant, 
a surveyor, who was in Plymouth as 
early as 1637, and Richard Bourne, one 
of the incorporators of Sandwich in 1637. 
Mr. Randall now owns the farm in Plym- 
outh county (Rochester) settled in 1699 by 
("harles Sturtevant, who married thegrand- 
daughter of Rev. Samuel Arnold, the first 
minister settled over the town of Roches- 



ter. Charles Sturtevant, the grandfather 
of Mr. Randall, was in the battle of Lex- 
ington, corporal of a company of militia 
from Rochester. 

R.4NDALL, WlLLlAM PRITCHARD, son 
of George and Martha (Sturtevant) Ran- 
dall, was born in New Bedford, Bristol 
county, November 30, 1832. 

He was educated at the Friends' Acad- 
emy in New Bedford, at .Andover, and 
later was four years in the College dii 
Havre, at Havre, France. After graduat- 
ing he chose the sea as his profession, and 
was an experienced navigator and ship- 
master at the opening of the war in 1861, 
and was about to sail in command of a 
merchant ship at that time. He gave up 
his command, offered his services to the 
United States, and on the 24th of July, 
1861, was appointed an acting master in the 
United States navy. As an endorsement 
for his standing and ability, he had pre- 
viously presented to the government a cer- 
tificate signed by the president of every 
insurance company in New Bedford, to the 
effect that their offices would insure any 
vessel under his command at the lowest 
rates of insurance. 

He was first ordered to the " Cumber- 
land," and served on that vessel at the 
capture of Forts Clarke and Hatteras, and 
in the contest with the " Merrimac " at 
Newport News, March 8, 1862. He was in 
command of the after pivot-gun, which was 
the last gun fired on the ship in that mem- 
orable contest. On the 28th of May, 1862, 
he was promoted to the rank of volunteer 
lieutenant, and served on the gun-boat 
'■ VoxX. Royal " through that summer. From 
January 26, 1863, he commanded the Unit- 
etl States bark " Pursuit " until August 12, 
1 864, and from that date he commanded the 
United States bark " Restless " until Feb- 
ruary 23, 1865, when he took command of 
the United States steamer " Hendrick 
Hudson," and remained in that command 
until March 9, 1865. On the 17th of 
March, 1865, he was promoted to the rank 
of volunteer lieutenant-commander. On 
the 19th of IJecember, 1865, he was honor- 
ably discharged from the United States 
navy, with the rank of lieutenant-com- 
mander. On the 26th of November, 1866, 
he was appointed as acting master in the 
regular navy. March 12, 1868, he received 
a commission as ensign, and was promoted 
to lieutenant, March 21, 1870. 

Since that time Mr. Randall has served 
in that rank, and has rendered very valu- 
able service to the government. His rec- 
ord is without spot or stain. He was de- 



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RANNEY. 



RANNEY. 



sirous of remaining on the active list, but 
when the time for promotion came, al- 
though mentally and morally qualified, he 
was found physically disqualified, and on 
February 15, 1S82, he was placed upon the 
retired list as a lieutenant. 

In the action between the " Cumber- 
land " and the " Merrimac " in 1862, he 
received the injuries which later on pre- 
vented his promotion, but which through- 
out his twenty years of service had not in- 
terfered with the prompt and entirely effi- 
cient performance of his duties. By a 
special act of Congress, passed in 1885, he 
was retired with the rank and pay of a 
lieutenant-commander, which he would 
have received had he remained in the 
service. 

RANNEY, AMBROSE A., son of Wait- 
still R. and Phoebe (Atwood) Ranney, was 
born in Townshend, Windham county, ^'t., 
April 16, 182 1. 

He fitted for college at the Townshend 
Academy, and was graduated from Dart- 
mouth College in the class of 1844. Hi.s 
early life was spent on the home farm 
until he was nineteen years of age. His 
father was the leading physician of his 
native place, and was, for two years, lieu- 
tenant-governor of the state of Vermont. 

After graduation he studied law with 
Hon. Andrew Tracy in ^^'oodstock, Vt., 
and was admitted to the bar in Vermont 
in December, 1847. He immediately re- 
moved to Boston, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in June, 1848. 

Mr. Ranney was married in Cavendish, 
Vt., December 4, 1850, to Maria D., daugh- 
ter of Addison and Maria (Ingals) Fletcher. 

Of this union were four children : 
Fletcher Ranney (now a partner in his law 
firm), Maria F., Helen M., and Alice Ran- 
ney (now Mrs. Thomas Allen). 

He was city solicitor for Boston 1855 
and '56 ; member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives 1857, '63 and '64; elected to 
Congress in 1880, as a Republican, from 
the 3d congressional district ; was twice 
re-elected, serving through the 47th, 48th 
and 49th Congresses. He joined the Re- 
publican party at its organization, and has 
ever since remained a staunch and active 
worker in its ranks. 

He served two terms in Congress on 
the committee on elections, investigating 
frauds and rendering most valuable service 
in the interests of fair elections and the 
integrity of the ballot-box, dealing, as had 
been his wont at the bar, heavy blows in 
his condemnation of all frauds and in- 
fringements of the rights of citizens. 



During the last term he was a member 
of the judiciary committee and was ap- 
pointed at the head of a special committee 
on the Republican side of the House to in- 
vestigate the famous Pan Electric scheme, 
involving the reputation and conduct of 
high governmental officials and e.vciting 
great public interest. His services on 
this committee are a matter of honorable 
record. 

His absorbing aim and ambition was, 
however, in the profession of the law. In 
this, before entering Congress, he had 
achieved eminent success in fame and for- 
tune. He had been only a few years at 
the bar when the office of city solicitor 
was conferred upon him, and his duties 
therein were discharged with entire satis- 
faction to all. He had little taste for 
politics, and political honors have at all 




AMBROSE A. RANNEY. 

times been thrust upon him, rather than 
sought for. But during his legislative 
service, both state and national, he won 
the respect and esteem of all parties, 
and impressed the public generally by his 
manly bearing, his fidelity to duty, as he 
understood it, and his great ability as a 
profound lawyer, and a successful legisla- 
tor. He may be said to have achieved a 
national reputation. While his return to 
private life, and his chosen profession, may 



RANNEY. 



KAY. 



SOI 



have been more congenial to him, his loss 
to the public service was the cause of deep 
regret among all who knew him and appre- 
ciated his virtues. 

RANNEY, Henry Sears, son of George 
and Achsah (Sears) Ranney, was born in 
Ashfield, Franklin county, March 5, 1817. 

His early education was obtained in the 
common schools of his native town and in 
Sanderson Academy. 

He began life as a clerk in mercantile 
business in Ashfield, 1833, in which busi- 
ness he remained eight years. 

Between the years 1841 and '58 he was 
in the same business on his own account 
for fourteen years, and in same business 
four years in Boston, in partnership with 
his brother-in-law, the late Cieorge C. 
Goodwin. 

He has spent the greater part of the 
last twenty-five years in Ashfield, his pres- 
ent residence. His tastes lead him into 
agricultural pursuits, in which he passes 
the time not given to the public service as 
a justice of the peace, town clerk and 
general factotum for the village. Po.ssess- 
ing the confidence of his townsmen, he has 
held various municipal offices, has been 
town clerk forty-one years, and justice for 
thirty-eight years. He served the Com- 
monwealth as representative from his dis- 
trict during the years 1852 and '68. 

Mr. Ranney was married in Ashfield, 
June 20, 1844, to Maria Jane, daughter of 
Anson Goodwin of Ashfield. Mrs. Ranney 
died Januarv 14, 1855, leaving two chil- 
dren : Ralph H. and Ella L. (Mrs. Albert 
Packard) Ranney. Both are now deceased. 
Mr. Ranney's second marriage was at Ash- 
field, June 26, 1856, to Julia A., daughter 
of Francis Bassett. 

RANTOUL, Robert Samuel, son of 

Robert Rantoul, Jr., and Jane Elizabeth 
(Woodbury) Rantoul, was born in Beverly, 
Essex county, June 2, 1832. In 1769 his 
paternal ancestor, Robert Rantoul, at the 
age of sixteen, came to Boston from Kin- 
ross in a British man-of-war, and subse- 
quently commanded Salem ships and was 
lost at sea, off ^'irginia capes, in the "Iris," 
in March, 1783. The name is traced in 
Kinross as far back as 1359. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived at the Beverly Academy and the 
Boston Latin school, where he prejiared 
for college. He entered Harvard, gradu- 
ating in the class of 1853, and choosing 
the profession of the law, was graduated 
from the Dane law school, Harvard Uni- 
versity, class of 1856. 



Mr. Rantoul was married in Salem, May 
13, 1858, to Harriet C., daughter of David 
A. and Harriet C. (Price) Neal. 

Mr. Rantoul represented Beverly in the 
lower branch of the Legislature in 1858, 
and the city of Salem in 1884 and '85. He 
was appointed by President Lincoln, in 
1865, collector of the port of Salem and 
Beverly, and served until 1869. 

He was active in bringing the water from 
^Venham Lake into Salem, i863-'68; was 
arbitrator between the Commonwealth and 
the Massachusetts Historical Society in 
the matter of the Hutchinson papers in 
1873 ; was orator at the centennial cele- 
bration of American independence, at 
Stuttgart, Wiirtemberg, 1876, and at the 
commemoration of the two hundred and 
fiftieth anniversary of Winthrop's landing 
at Salem, in 1880. He is a vice-president 
of the Essex Institute. He resides at 
Salem in the winter, and at Beverly Farms 
in the summer months. 

Among other writings he has published 
the following : " Notes on Wenham Pond " 
(1864) ; "The Cod in Massachusetts His- 
tory" (1865); "Address on Taking the 
Chair of the Essex Liberal Conference " 
(1S69) ; "Port of Salem" (1870) ; "Notes 
on Old Modes of Travel " (1872) ; report 
as arbitrator between the Commonwealth 
and the Massachusetts Historical Society 
(1874) ; "The Essex Junto," "The Long 
Embargo," " The Great Topsfield Caucus 
of 1808 " (1882) ; "Authenticity of the Por- 
traits of Governor Endicott " (1883) ; re- 
ports to the Massachusetts Legislature 
against abolishing the poll-tax qualifi- 
cation (1S85), and against the biennial 
amendments (i884-'5) ; "Material for a 
History of the Name and Family of Ren- 
toul— 'Rintoul — Rantoul" (1885); "A 
Contribution to the History of the Ancient 
Family of Woodbury" (1887), and "The 
Spirit of the Early Lyceums" (1888). 

RAY, James Paine, son of Joseph and 
Lydia (Paine) Ray, was born in South 
Mendon (now East Blackstone), Worcester 
count)', August I, 1820. 

He attended the common and high 
schools in Bellingham and Uxbridge, and 
the Manual Labor School in Worcester, 
and at the early age of fifteen he took 
charge of a district school in Northbridge, 
which he taught one term. He was then 
employed as a clerk in a store in Upton, 
and subsequently worked in a cotton fac- 
tory in South Mendon. 

In 1837, lacking four years of his major- 
ity, with a capital of seven dollars, he be- 
ean to make cotton battinir on his own 



KAV. 



RAY. 



account in Franklin. In 1839 he moved 
to Unionviile, adtling to his plant the manu- 
facture of wicking. 

On May 31, 1843, at Franklin, he mar- 
ried Susan, daughter of Captain Alfred and 
Eleanor (Hawes) Knapp, of Franklin. 
Their children are : Edgar Knapp, James 
Francis, and Alfred Knapp Ray. 

Mr. Ray continued until 1844 in the 
manufacture of cotton batting, wicking, 
twine, etc., in Unionville, when he was 
brought into financial embarrassment by 
the partner of a Boston commission house 
which was handling his goods. He was 
enabled, however, to get an extension of 
time, and in 1847, having met the last of 




JAMES P RAY. 

his obligations, he resumed his business 
career, which has since been most prosper- 
ous. He represented the town of Franklin 
in the state Legislature of 1861, and fur- 
nished all the recruits for the war, paying 
for them out of his own pocket, and waited 
until the town had a right to reimburse him. 

In 1865 Mr. Ray removed to Woon- 
socket, where he remained until 187 1, 
when he returned to Franklin. He again 
represented that town in the Legislature 
of 1877, and was a member of the state 
Senate in 1880 and '81. 

Up to the time of removing to Franklin 
the firm hatl seen many changes ; two 



brothers had been associated, then a thirtl 
was taken in as a partner. In i860 the 
firm of Ray Brothers was dissolved, Francis 
B. retiring, and the business being con- 
tinued by James P. and Joseph G., under 
the firm name of J. P. & J. G. Ray. In 
1873 the firm of Ray, Rathbun & Co. w-as 
organized at Woonsocket. Previous to 
this time the Ray brothers had bought and 
enlarged a mill in North Bellingham for 
the manufacture of satinets, under the firm 
name of Ray's Woolen Company, James 
P. Ra)', president. Ray, Rathbun & Mc- 
Kenzie built a factory in Franklin for the 
manufacture of felting, and in 1877, J. P. 
& J. G. Ray built a factory for the manu- 
facture of fancy cassimeres. 

In 1878 the Messrs. Ray purchased the 
property of the Putnam Manufacturing- 
Company, Putnam, Conn., and made a 
stock company, of which James P. Ray is 
president. They also bought the interest 
of Mr. Eaton, in the firm of Eaton & Wil- 
son, Medway, and now manufacture batting 
there under the firm name of Ray tS: AVilson. 
James P., with Fxl.gar K., his son, bought 
the George C. Ballon mill in Woonsocket, 
R. I., where they manufacture cotton goods 
untler the firm name of J. P. & ¥,. K. Rav. 
The same firm own the Windsor Mills at 
( Ireenville, R. I. 

The progress of James P. Ray and his 
associates since 1847 has been steady and 
successful. Beginning in both branches 
of the textile industry in their simpler and 
coarser forms, they have reached the finest 
fabrics in both, without dropping any one 
branch or grade of work when taking on 
another. 

Mr. Ray is president of the folhiwing 
corporations : City Mills Company, City 
Mills ; First National Bank of Franklin ; 
the Milford, Franklin & Providence Rail- 
road Company, and the Rhode Island & 
Massachusetts Railroad Company (Massa- 
chusetts division). He is the treasurer of 
the Franklin Cotton Manufacturing Com- 
pany, and president of the Woonsocket 
Horse Railroad Company, owning a con- 
trolling interest in the latter. He is also 
the president of the recently organized 
Dean Co-operative Bank of Franklin. 

RAY, JOSEPH G., son of Joseph and 
Lydia (Paine) Ray, was born in .South 
Mendon (now East Blackstone), Worcester 
county, October 4, 183 1. 

Ll'p to the age of twelve years he was 
educated at the public schools of his native 
town ; he then passed a year at school at 
Nashua, N. H., and in 1847, having saved 
sufficient money for the purpose, he went 



RAV. 



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503 



for a year to a school in W'alpole, N. IT. 
From tlie age of eight years he was work- 
ing mornings and evenings for his brother 
at Unionville, manufacturing twine. From 
that time until he left school, he was em- 
ployed in the various departments of the 
mill, and became quite an expert in the 
work cari'ietl on there. 




JOSEPH G, RAY, 

In 1850, with his brother Francis, he 
started the first rag-picker in that district, 
and laid the foundation of the first shoddy 
mill in New F.ngland, under the firm title 
of Ray Brothers. In i860 this firm was 
dissolved, Francis B. Ray retiring. The 
business was then carried on by J. P. 
& J. f^. Ray, who purchased the Bartlett 
mill at Woonsocket, R. I., and engaged in 
the manufacture of cotton sheetings. In 
1865 they purchased a woolen mill in 
North Bellingham, for the manufacture of 
satinets. In 1870 they built a mill at 
Franklin Centre for the manufacture of 
shotldy, and in 1877 another in Franklin 
for the manufacture of fancy cassimeres. 

Joseph G. Ray was chosen to represent 
Blackstone in the Fegislature in 1859, he 
being then twenty-eight years of age. In 
1869 he was elected senator by the Nor- 
folk district, in which he resided. In 1884 
he was elected a delegate to the national 
Republican convention at Chicago, by the 



9th congressional district of Massachu- 
setts. He has for several years past been 
chairman of the Republican town com- 
mittee. 

He is treasurer of Ray's Woolen Com- 
pany, City Mills Company, Massachusetts 
& Rhode Island Railroad, and the Milford 
& Providence Railroad, president of the 
Franklin Library Association, a director of 
the Franklin National Bank, and a trustee 
of Dean Academy, Franklin. 

Mr. Ray was married at East Black- 
stone, in 1854, to Emily, daughter of Col. 
Joseph and .\nnie Rockwood, by whom he 
has two children : I.ydia P. and Annie R. 
Ray. 

'i'he business of Mr. Ray and his asso- 
ciates, since 1850, has covered all the 
ground in both cotton and woolen textile 
industries, from batting to finished cotton 
cloths, and from shoddy to fancy cassi- 
meres. 

RAY, William Francis, only child of 

I'rancis B. and Susan B. (Rockwood) Ray, 
was born in Franklin, Norfolk county, 
March 2, 1854. 




WILLIAM F RAY, 



He enjoyed the educational advantages 
furnished by the public schools of his na- 
tive town, preparing for college in Dean 
Academv, from which he was graduated in 
1870. He entered Brown University, 



504 



RAYMOND. 



READ. 



Providence, R. I., and was graduated in 
the clas.s of 1874. 

He then joined his father in the woolen 
business, remaining until 1883, when he 
went into business for himself. He is now 
treasurer and manager of the Norfolk 
Woolen Company. 

Mr. Rav was married in CheLsea, De- 
cember 25, 1875, to Harriet Phipps, 
daughter of Charles A. and Mary J. 
(Phipps) Richardson. Of this union were 
five children : Mabel, Maude Louise, 
Charles .-V. R., William F., and Alice Mar- 
jorie Ray. 

Mr. Ray has been called to serve his town 
and state in various offices. He has been 
chief of the lire department, selectman, 
member of the school board ; has been 
moderator at ;he town meetings for many 
years, and represented the 9th Norfolk 
district in the House of Representatives 
in the sessions of 1S85 and '87, serving 
upon the committees on manufactures, 
pavroll, and public service, and on the 
child labor commission. 

RAYMOND, JOHN Marshall, .son of 

Alfred .\. and Sarah (ButTurn) Ra\mond, 
was born in Salem, Essex count v, (une 16, 
1852. 

He received his educational training in 
the common schools of Salem, the Friends' 
boarding-school, Providence, R. I., and the 
Boston University law school, graduating 
from the latter institution in the class of 
187S. 

His first connection in business was as 
a clerk in a crockery store. He was after- 
w-ards connected with the freight depart- 
ment of the Eastern and Boston & Lowell 
railroads, at Salem, and still later was 
station agent at Peabody. 

In October, 1878, Mr. Raymond was 
admitted to the Essex county bar, and 
immediately began the practice of his pro- 
fession in Salem, where he has since re- 
sided. 

In June, 1879, at Salem, he was married 
to Anna Belle, daughter of John Jackson, 
by whom he had three children ; Eva S., 
Helen J., and Grace Raymond, the latter 
dying in 1884. Mrs. Raymond died in 
January, 1885. 

Mr. Raymond is a member of the Essex 
Lodge of Masons, Scottish Rites, 2d lieu- 
tenant-commander, Massachusetts Con- 
sistory; 32d degree ]\Lison; a member of 
the Winslow Lewis Commandery, K. T.; 
Sutton Chapter Royal Arch Masons and 
Council Royal Arch Masons ; is past grand 
of Fraternity Lodge, LO. O. F.; president 
of Salem Mutual Benefit .'\ssociation, one 



of the oldest benefit associations in the 
State. He is also president of the Salem 
Co-operative Bank, and chairman of the 
trustees of the Salem public librarv. 

Li 1880 Mr. Raymond was a member of 
the executive council, in 1881 and '82 
president of the Salem common council, 
and in 1885, '86, '87 and '88 mayor of the 
city of Salem. 

Four times chosen to the office of mavor, 
Mr. Raymond was instrumental in estab- 
lishing the public library of Salem, and also 
in increasing the rate of liquor licenses 
before the late act of the Legislature. 
Many of the reforms which have tended 
to the growth and improvement of the 
city of Salem were conceived b)- him and 
successfully carried out during his adminis- 
tration. After two terms Mr. Raymond 
decided not to again stand for mayor, but 
in answer to a petition of the leading men 
of Salem, he once more consented to be a 
candidate, and was elected by a largely 
increased majority. 

READ, Franklin P., son of Festus and 
Rebecca (Blackman) Read, was born at 
Windsor, Berkshire county, June 14, 1827, 
and moved to Pittsfield in 1836. 

He was educated at the common schools ; 
was in California in i85i-'52, after which 
he began his first mercantile employment 
in the groceries and meat business in 1854. 
Resigning from that occupation in 1876, 
he devoted his attention to insurance and 
to the ice business. He is now largely en- 
gaged as public administrator in the settle- 
ment of estates. 

On the 9th of August, 1857, in Pittsfield, 
Mr. Read was married to Martha C, 
daughter of James B. and Lvdia (Plant) 
Butler. Their only living chikl is : Frank- 
lin F. Read, Jr. 

For four years Mr. Read was assessor 
and tax-collector in Pittsfield, and for one 
year served as selectman. He has been 
treasurer and a trustee of the Methodist 
Episcopal church, and is actively identified 
with several benevolent societies, being 
well known in his community as a man 
of influence and energy, upholding all 
social and religious movements towards 
reform. 

READ, Joseph Henry, son of Zacchcus 

and Mary (Heyward) Read, was born in 
Westford, Middlesex county, August 5, 

1835- 

After securing a common school educa- 
tion in the public schools of his native 
town, he availed himself of a course of 
study in the Springfield English and Clas- 



READE. 



KEADE. 



505 



sical school, and afterward at Westford 
Academy 

He chose farniin.14 for a calling, and has 
made no change since. 

Mr. Read was married in Westford, Jan- 
uary 13, 1S57, to Mary Eleanor, daughter 
of Daniel and Mary Ann(iieebe) Falls. 
Of this union were six children : M. Alice, 
Carrie E., Nelie A., Abbie M., Henry B. 
and Florence H. Read. 




He has held the various town offices, as 
selectman, overseer of the poor, school 
committee, auditor, etc. He has been a 
director in the Stony Brook R. R. since 
1873, and a director and secretary of the 
Westford Mutual Fire Insurance Company 
since 1S76. 

He was a representative to the General 
Court in i872-'3, and has been commis- 
sioner of Middlese.x county, since January, 
1876. 

His residence is Westford. 

READE, JOHN, son of Patrick and 
Mary (O'Neil) Reade, was born in Kil- 
kenny, Ireland, December i, 1825. 

Coming to this country at an early age, 
he obtained the advantages of a common 
school education. In 1846 he entered the 
•woolen mill at Waterford, Conn., as a spin- 
ner, remaining there a year and a half. 
He then went to Milford in 1848, and took 



charge of one of the departments in the 
woolen mill : remained there nearly twent)' 
years, being engaged in the boot and shoe 
business, and also in the real estate busi- 
ness, accumulating considerable wealth, 
the largest portion of which was spent in 
organizing companies for the war. He 
removed to Charlestown in 1868, where he 
still resides, his business being a dealer in 
real estate, auctioneer, undertaker, and 
stable-keeper. 

In 1851 Mr. Reade was married, in Lei- 
cester, to Elizabeth, daughter of John and 
Elizabeth (Riley) Hogan. Of this union 
are three children now living : Vincent 
de Paul, Ceorge E., and Nellie T. Reade. 

Mr. Reade has been a member of the 
1 )emocratic ward antl city committee for 
many years ; also a member of the Chari- 
table Irish Society, and Montgomery Light 
(luards; president of the local lodge of 




the Land League ; treasurer of the Ancient 
Order of Hibernians ; colonel of Thomas 
Francis Meagher Post 3, \'eteran Lhiion, 
and has been a member of Post 1 1, G. A. R., 
for twenty years. He was elected to the 
House of Representatives in 1880, and 
was re-elected the two succeeding years, 
1881-82. 

In 1S61 he organized, at his own ex- 
pense, a compan}" of the 48th Massachu- 



S06 



REKl). 



KKKI). 



setts regiment, and went with llieni in the 
front ; was atterward attached to the 27th 
reijinient, and was taken prisoner at Peters- 
burjj, July 50, 1.S64. Me was tlie onlv 
eomniissioneti officer left when captured at 
the mine, all the rest being; kiUetl. womuled 
or sick ; was an iinnate of the rebel prison 
for over seven months, and at the end of 
the war was commissioned captain bv Presi- 
dent Ji.)hnson, for his brave and valuable 
services during the rebellion. He also 
raised a company for the 57th veterans. 

Captain Reade enjoys the well-merited 
respect and esteem of his fellow-townsmen. 
He has shown himself a loyal soldier, a 
patriotic citizen, a faithful legislator, and an 
ini'orni|ilible administrator of everv public 
and private trust committed to his hands. 

REED, ERASTUS MALTBY, son of Wil 
Ham and Mary (Dennis) Reed, was born 
in Taunton, Bristol county, July j8, 1832. 

Public schools and Bristol Acailemy, of 
Taunton, gave him his early educational 
training. He then studieii law in ilu- 
office of Hassett iS: Reed, 'I'atnitnn, .nul 
was admittetl to practice in the Ihistol 
county bar, 1856. 

Mav i^v ''^56, he o|5ened a law office in 
Mansiield, in the Old Meeting House. He 
has remained in Mansfield ever since, but 
for several years held legal connections 
with James H. Dean, Taunton. 

Mr. Reed was married in I'aunton, .\ii- 
gust 21, 1857, to Sar.ih Jane, tlaughter of 
John and Mary (Pierce) t'lockette of Mid 
dietown. Conn. ( )f this union is one 
child: Hertha llnldcn Rceil. 

Mr. Reed has lucn town clerk, town 
treasurer, enrolling oflicer umler the United 
States government iluring the war of the 
rebellion ; a member of the school boaril, 
aiul superintendent of schools : was a 
member of the lower branch of the Legis- 
lature, 1S66 and '67 ; clerk of the Ortho- 
dox t'ongregational society ; a trustee of 
the Bristol County Savings Bank ; justice 
of the peace, notary public, trial justice 
and special justice of the first tlistrict 
court of Bristol count \- ; commissioner nl 
insolvencv, master in chancery ; president 
of Cobb Stone iS; Machine Company, 'i'aun- 
ton ; for manv vears treasurer of St. James 
Lodge, 1'. \' .\. M., of which he was one 
of the charter members. 

RHED, JOSIAH, the son of Thomas S. 
antl t'vnthia (Shaw) Reed, was born .\pril 
iS, 1826, in South Weymouth, Norfolk 
county. He is a lineal descendant of \\\\- 
liam Reed and Ivis, his wife, who settleil 
in \\'eyniouth in 1635, being the eighth 



generation ficiin Wilham 1. Williau! Keeil 
was the first representative to the (leneral 
Court from Weymouth after its incorpora- 
tion. .\mong the ancestors of Josiah 
Reed were Colonel Thomas Reed, wiio 
du'd in I 7 II); Captain John Reed, who died 
in 1757, and Captain John Reed, who 
served in the revolutionary war. These 
early ancestors were inspectors of leather 
in Weymouth, at that time such officials 
being chosen by the town, Among the 
later generations were Harvey and Quincy 
Reed, who established the first wholesale 
boot and slioe store in the citv of Boston. 




JOSIAH REED. 

In fact, this family claim to be the found- 
ers of the boot and shoe business of this 
country. 

Mr. Reed's unbinken ri'i oiil ol persever- 
ing nuhistr\- has an eaiiv beginning, he 
working at the age of mne at a bench by 
his father's side in his shoe-maker's shop 

The winter months, sjient in the district 
si-hool, served rather as a vacatitJii than as 
a season of labor. .\ service of several 
vears with Nathaniel Shaw Ov Co. was the 
preliminary to his successful business ca- 
reer as boot and shoe manufacturer, l^pon 
tills he entered in 1851, when twenty-five 
vears of age, and in January, 1832, he sold 
the first gooils for the California market. 
He made a specialty of that traile for the 



Ki;i;i). 



KKVNdl.DS. 



507 



iK'Xt I'lfU'ca years, and lairii'd his business 
up to a position of commercial slaiulin<;' 
widely known and universally respected. 

In due course of time Henry H. Recti 
and the late F. Sumner Reed were admitteil 
to the firm. In 18.S6 he gave the reins into 
younger hand.s, leavinjf to his successor, 
Henry H. Reed, not only a sound and well- 
established business, but a record of strict 
and unblemished mercantile integrity. 

Mr. Reed was married in 1845, to Sarah 
C. Fogg, whose death occurred in 1863. 
His second wife, Mary j. Ainsworlh, lived 
but a few years, and in 1874 Mr. Reed 
married Mrs. Helen M. Matson, of Milwau- 
kee, \\'is., a daughter of ^^'alter P. and 
Susan (Cireeley) Flanders. His surviving 
children are : Mrs. |. W. Melil of Dorches- 
ter, Henry P.. Reed", .Mrs. J. H. Klwcll of 
South Weymouth, and Ralph Durycaand 
Kate Isabel Reed, childriMi in the famih- 
iiome. 

Mr. Ret'd has been idcnlificd wilh all 
good measures and works in his nali\c 
town. In the single point of introduction 
of water he is deserving of the most endur- 
ing gratitude. llis was the llrst voice 
raised to advocate this greatly needed 
improveuu'nl. Unmoved by threats, un- 
ilaunted by opposition, Mr. Reed firmly 
pressed his point, gaining slowlv in supjiort, 
until in 1884, the motion to introduce 
water into the town was carried by a two- 
thirds vote. 

A leading spirit in the councils of tlu' 
town, his inlluence has been felt. .\ 
staunch worker in the Rejiublican party, 
he has never failed to respond to a call to 
tluty. In charities, an open hand has been 
constantly bestowing its quiet and liberal 
gifts. He has been a deacon in the Con 
gregational church for the last thirty-seven 
years ; is i)resitlent of the Savings Pank. 
and vice-president of the First National 
Bank of \Veymouth. 

REED, William, Jr., son of wiiiiam 

and Sophia (I. add) Reed, was born in 
Newbury|)ort, Kssex ct)untv, Deiember j, 
1842. 

He received his early educational train 
ing in the public schools of Newburypoit 
and C'andiriilge. He was graduateil from 
Harvard College in the class of 1864. 
After graduation he taught in high schools 
in Mas.sachusetts, New \'ork, and Pennsyl- 
vania, hut having a taste for journalism, 
became editor of the "Daily News" of 
Fall River, in 1866. 

In 1 868 he went to Montana Territory 
and took editorial charge of the Helena 
" Daily Herald," the first Republican daily 



<if that tcrritorv. He wvul I rom there as 
a jjress correspondent to Idaho, Oregon, 
California, and Washington Territory, but 
returned F'^ast in 1870 to become city editor 
of the Proviilence "Morning Herald." 

In 1872 he purchased the Taunton 
'' Daily Oazette," and has since been jjub- 
lislier and managing editor of the same. 

He was married in Xewburyport, De- 
cember 26, 1870, to Katharine T., daugh- 
ter of Cieorge W. and Ann S. Hale. Of 
this union there are four children: William, 
Ceorge H., Katharine, and Sophia Reeil. 

Mr. Reed was representative for the 3d 
ISristol district in the I.egislatm-es of 1878 
and '79. He was the senator from the ist 
I'ristol district in 1882, He served as a 
member and clerk of the special committee 
on convict labor of the Commonwealth, 
which reported to the Legislature of 1880. 
He was three years a member of the 
Taunton school board, and president of 
the Taunton board of trade for the years 
1885 and '80, and has held many other 
offices of honor and trust. 

REYNOLDS, RICH MUNN, son of Jo- 
seph L. and Oral (Munn) Reynolds, was 







RICE M, REiNOLDS, 



horn in Mon.son, Hampden coimtv, Decem- 
ber 18, 1838. 

He was educated in tl;e public schools 
and Monson .Academv. 



5o8 



RICE. 



RICE. 



At sixteen A'ears of age he was employed 
as clerk by William ]i. Converse, with whom 
he remained five years. After the expira- 
tion of his minority, he engaged in the 
woolen manufacturing business with his 
father. For twenty-one years he and his 
brother, Theodore Reynolds, iiave been in- 
terested in the ownership and management 
of these mills which their father established. 

Mr. Reynolds has been selectman for 
three years, and two years chairman of the 
board. 

In 1876, and again in 1877, he represented 
his district in the Legislature. He was one 
of the original incorporators of the Monson 
Savings Bank, and has been a trustee since 
its organization. He is a director and 
vice-president of the Mon.son National 
Bank. With A. A. Gage he is interested 
in the manufacture of men's straw hats, 
also, with the estate of the late Alfred 
Norcross, is an owner of the Central Block, 
the largest and most elegant business struc- 
ture in the town. It was through his exer- 
tions that the beautiful Memorial Hall was 
erected. 

RICH, ALE.XANDER Ha.WILTON, son of 
Thomas and Lydia (.Smith) Rice, was born 
in Newton, Middlesex county, August ;o, 
1818. 

He attended the public schools, was pre- 
pared for college in the academies of those 
days, and having pursued his studies in 
Union College, was graduated in the class 
of 1S44, from which institution he received 
his A. M. three years later. He was com- 
mencement orator in 1844, and received 
the degree of LL. D. from Harvard Uni- 
versity in 1876. 

After graduation he began business life 
in the house of Wilkins, Carter (.\: Co , 
paper manufacturers, Boston. He has 
continued in the same line to the present 
time, having built up an extensive business, 
and is now senior member of the house of 
Rice, Kendall & Co., paper dealers. 

He has been twice married, and is the 
father of four children : two daughters 
and two sons, all of whom are married, 
except the youngest. 

Mr. Rice was mayor of Boston, 1856 to 
'58 ; a member of the national House of 
Representatives from 1859 to '67; and gov- 
ernor of Massachusetts from 1876 to '79. 
He is vice-president of the Webster Histor- 
ical Society; a member of the American 
Archasological Society, and American His- 
torical Association ; a Trustee of the Mas- 
sachusetts Institute of Technology, Art 
Museum of Boston, and of the Epi'scopal 
theological school at Cambridge; a director 



of the .American Loan & 'J'rust Company 
and of the Massachusetts National Bank, 
also of the Bunker Hill Monument Associ- 
ation; president of the National Sailors' 
Home, and honorarv chancellor of Union 
Universitv, N. Y., 18S1. 




ALEXANDER H. RICE, 

Massachusetts, it is generally conceded, 
is unusually well equipped with public 
men, who, from their scholarly attain- 
ments, inherent ability and acquired ex- 
perience, reflect great credit upon their fel- 
low-citizens when called upon to exercise 
high and executive functions. No more 
conspicuous figure to-day fills the later his- 
tory of the old Bay State than Governor 
Rice. Of dignified and genial presence, 
possessed of a fertile imagination, winning 
address and felicitous grace of expression, 
he is universally acknowledged to be a 
model executive officer. In commercial 
circles his judgment and experience find 
scope and exercise upon the numerous 
boards with which he is connected, and in 
the walks of his private life are exemplified 
the virtues of one to the manner born. 

RICE, Charles J., son of Benjamin 
and Lucy (\^'hitney) Rice, was born in New 
Gloucester, Cumberland county, Maine, 
July 2, 1832. 

The common schools gave him his early 
education. He finished his school life in 



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RICE. 



509 



the "Winchendon and Leicester academies. 
He was a teacher in the pubhc schools of 
Massachusetts for twelve years. 

In 1 86 1 he began his business career as 
a lumber dealer, in the firm of Bigelow, 
Wyman & Rice. A change in the firm 
occurred in 1869, to Raymond, P'orristall 
& Rice, and in 1872, Mr. Forristall having 
deceased, the firm became Raymond & 
Rice — the name of the present company. 

Mr. Rice was married, February i, 1872, 
to Sarah M., daughter of George and 
Miranda (Moore) C'ummings. They have 
no children. 

From 1862 to '71 Mr. Rice held the 
position of deputy collector of internal 
revenue for what was then the 9th con- 
gressional district, comprising northern 
\Vorcester and F'ranklin counties. He has 
been a director of the F'irst National Bank 
from 1S65 to the ]5resent time. He was 
elected to the House of Representatives 
in 1885 and '86. He has been a member 
of the Winchendon school board for sev- 
eral years, and at present is its chairman. 

RICE, JOHN W., son of John and Alice 
(Ames) Rice, was born in Rutland, Wor- 
cester countv, December 8, 1818. 




JOHN W, RICE. 



His early education was obtained in the 
common schools and at the normal school 
at Barre. 



In 1843 he began business life with Noah 
Humphrey in Barre, manufacturing boots 
and shoes. After one year he assumed the 
entire business, and continued it alone for 
twenty years, during which time he had 
connected a mercantile business with the 
former. He then associated his son with 
him, under the firm name of J. W. Rice & 
Son. This relation continued about ten 
years. 

Latterly Mr. Rice has turned his atten- 
tion to horticulture, in Barre, where he 
resides. He also holds a fire insurance 
broker's license, and does quite an extensive 
and prosperous business. 

Mr. Rice was married in liarre, Novem- 
ber 16, 1843, to Myra, daughter of Ethan 
and Phebe (Harwood) Holden. Of this 
union were three children : Albert E., 
Maria L. Jervis, and Martha A. (Stone), 
now deceased. 

Mr. Rice has held the office of select- 
man and town treasurer, and in 1874 repre- 
sented the town in the House of Repre- 
sentatives. Mr. Rice, though a Republican, 
was succeeded in the Legislature by his 
son, Albert E. Rice, who was elected on the 
Democratic ticket. 

At the time the town was raising her 
quota of men for the war he was very active 
in the Union cause, and without waiting 
for the sanction of the proper authorities, 
paid out, as treasurer, over ten thousand 
dollars in bounties, on his own responsi- 
bility. 

Mr. Rice was a charter member of the 
Barre National, and also of the Barre 
Savings Bank, and served many years as 
a director in one, and as a trustee in the 
other. 

His son, Albert E., was a member of the 
famous "Sleeper's battery," and received 
an honorable discharge at the close of the 
war. 

RICE, William, son of WiUiam and 
Jerusha (Warriner) Rice, was born in 
Springfield, Hampden county, ^Larch 10, 
182 r. 

He is descended from Edmund Rice, 
who settled in Sudbury in 1639. His 
father came to Springfield in 1817. After 
receiving the education afforded by the 
public schools of Springfield, he attended 
the Wesleyan Academy at \\'ilbraham, 
graduating from that institution with 
honor at the age of nineteen. 

He entered the ministry of the M. E. 
church in 1841, and, under its system, 
served, as pastor, various large and influ- 
ential churches of the denomination. His 
health becoming impaired, he retired from 



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RICE. 



the active ministry in 1S57, and removed 
to Springfield, where he has since resided. 
He was elected to the general conference 
of the church in 1856, and took an active 
part in the great controversy then going 
on concerning slavery in the church. He 
was again elected in 1876, and was a lead- 
ing member of the committee appointed 
for the revisal of the hymn-book, and be- 
came the editor under whose supervision 
the "Methodist Hymnal" was published. 

Among other literary works, Mr. Rice 
published a few years ago, " Moral and 
Religious Quotations from the Poets," a 
" Pastor's Manual," and an excellent cata- 
logue of the Springfield city library, which 
is still in use. 

In 1855 the Wesleyan University, Mid- 
dletown, Conn., conferred upon him the 
degree of A. M., and in 1876 the degree 
of D. 1). For many years he has been a 
trustee of the university, and president vi 
the board of trustees of the Wesleyan 
Academv. For eighteen years he was a 
member of the state board of education 




WILLIAM RICE 

and of the school board of Springfield. 
During this period he devoted much time 
and attention to the work of popular edu- 
cation. He has also been closely identi- 
fied with the history of the City Library 
Association of Springfield. He has been 



its secretary and librarian since 1861, and 
in this capacity the selection and classifi- 
cation of the books have devolved entirelv 
upon him. His wide range of reading, 
liberal views, cultivated taste, and sound 
judgment eminently fitted him for this 
work, and have given the Springfield city 
library in a great degree its present high 
position among the libraries of the countrv. 
In 1843 Mr. Rice was married to Caro- 
line L., daughter of William North, of 
Lowell. Their children are : Rev. William 
North Rice, Ph. D., LL. D., professor in 
the Wesleyan Lhiiversity, Middletown, 
Conn.; Edward H. Rice, Ph. I)., a well- 
known teacher in our public schools ; Rev. 
Charles F. Rice, A. M., a minister in the 
Methodist Episcopal church ; and Caroline 
L., A. M., wife of Prof. Morris B. Craw- 
ford of the Wesleyan University. 

RICE, WlLLIA.M W., son of Rev. Ben- 
jamin and Lucy (Whitney) Rice, was born 
in the old historic town of Deerfield, Frank- 
lin county, March 7, 1826. 

His collegiate education was accjuired at 
Bowdoin, from which he was graduated in 
the class of 1846. The degree of LL. D. 
was conferred upon him bv his a/wa mater 
in 18S6. 

After graduating he spent four years as 
a preceptor in the far-famed Leicester 
Academy, and in 1851 commenced the 
study of law in the office of Emory \Vash- 
buin, then in full practice in Worcester. 
After the usual course of three years' study 
he was admitted to the bar, and from the 
first year of his professional life to the 
present time he has been a diligent and 
conscientious practitioner. His courtesy 
of manner, deference to the court, and 
fairness in judicial practice have contrib- 
uted not a little to his success as an 
advocate. 

He has been constantly called by his 
fellow-citizens to fill positions of honor, 
trust and responsibility. In the municipal 
administration of Worcester he has served 
in various capacities, particularly in those 
connected with educational interests. In 
1S60 he was mayor of Worcester. In the 
capacity of special justice of the police 
court, and as an occupant of the bench of 
the county court of insolvency, his course 
met with marked approval. 

In 1868 he was elected district attorney 
for the Worcester district, which position 
he held five years, and his record is that 
of one who, always acting with fidelity to 
the State, showed a manly regard for the 
rights of those whom it became his duty to 
prosecute. 



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511 



As a member of Congress, Mr. Rice is 
most widely known. He was first elected 
in 1876 to the national House of Repre- 
sentatives, where he at once took foremost 
rank. He was re-elected in 1878, '80, '82 
and '84. He was able in debate, courte- 
ous in bearing, and firm and consistent in 
his convictions. 

Politically, Mr. Rice has loni; been an 
honored member of the Republican jiarty, 
and is on record as the first Republican 
mayor of Worcester. In the war of the 
rebellion his voice gave no uncertain sound. 

In his religious sentiments he is a Uni- 
tarian. 

Mr. Rice was united in marriage, Novem- 
ber 21, 1855, with Cornelia A., daughter 
of Augustus R. and Sophia H. (Le Clanche) 
Moen, of Stamford, Conn. Of this union 
were two sons : the elder, William \\'. 
Rice, Jr., dying in childhood, and the 
younger, Charles Moen Rice, a graduate 
of Harvard, and now a member of his 
father's law firm. Mr. Rice's first wife died 
June 16, 1862, In September, 1875, he mar- 
ried Alice M., daughter of Henry W. and 
Nancy (Merrick) Miller, of Worcester. 

RICH, ISAAC B., son of Isaac B. and 
Margaret (Lewis) Rich, was born in North 
Bucksport, Hancock county. Me., February 
23, 1827. 

He received his early education in the 
public schools of his native town, and in 
1846 entered the employment of William 
Pelby, manager of tlaeold historic National 
Theatre, and has since been connected with 
Boston play-houses, gradually working his 
way up to the position of manager and 
liroprietor. His connection with the How- 
ard .Athenaeum dates back to the days of 
the famous old "stock company." For a 
short time he himself flourished as an actor. 
For three years he was treasurer of James 
.Myer's and Ni.\on & Kemp's Equestrian 
companies. In August, 1868, he formed a 
managerial partnership with Joseph Trow- 
bridge when the Howard Athenreum stage 
was given u|3 to variety business. During 
the following season Joseph Hart became 
a partner, and later John Stetson took Mr. 
Hart's place, when Messrs. Rich and Stet- 
son purchased Mr. Trowbridge's interest 
and continued their partnership for nearly 
seven years. November 9, 1885, Mr. Rich 
opened the Hollis Street Theatre, and con- 
tinues to hold the position of one of the 
most popular and prosperous of managers. 

.•\side from the exacting demands ujion 
his time and vitality in his theatrical busi- 
ness, Mr. Rich has for years been the 
successful proprietor of the well-known 



"Banner of Light," and has carried on an 
extensive business in the publication of 
works relating to Spiritualism. 




ISAAC B RICH. 

Mr. Rich is married and has five chil- 
dren : Clara E., .\bbie M., Charles J , 
George I., and Maude L. Rich. 

RICHARDS, Fred Gardner, son of 

William Bradford and J. Amanda (Nelson) 
Richards, was born in Georgetown, Essex 
ct)unty. May i, 1854, but when two years 
t)f age removed with his parents to Haver- 
hill, where he has ever since resided. 

He received a liberal education in the pub- 
lic schools of the city, including the high 
school, and attended a course at Bryant & 
Stratton's Commercial College, of Boston. 

\\'hen eighteen years of age he entered 
business life with his father, who at that 
time owned a large livery-stable in Haver- 
hill. Three years later he took the entire 
management of the business. In 1885, in 
addition to his other business, he started 
the firm of Richards & Dole, undertakers. 
He also owns and carries on himself a farm 
of one hundred acres, in Bradford. 

Mr. Richards was married in Haverhill, 
January 20, 1S81, to Alice M., daughter of 
Nathan S. and Lucy M. (Swazey) Kimball. 
Thev have one child : Alice G. Richards. 

.Aside from attending to his large busi- 
ness interests, and to the onerous duties 



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RICHARDS. 



RICHARDSON. 



incumbent upon him as executive of the 
municipal government of a large city, Mr. 
Richards is a central figure in nearly all 
the civic societies of Haverhill, including 
the Masons and the Odd Fellows. He is 
a Knight Templar, ex-governor of the U. 
O. P. F. ; past councilor of Junior O. U. 
A. M., a Knight of Pythias, and a mem- 
ber of the Uniform Rank, K. of P., of 
which he is a staff officer, with title of 
colonel ; a member of the I. O. R. M., and 
M. V. C. C. of Haverhill, Lawrence, and 
Lowell. He is one of the vice-presidents 
of the Haverhill board of trade. 

He served one year in the city council, 
and two years on the board of aldermen, 
one term of which he was chairman of that 
body. He ran for the mayoralty in 1888, 
and was defeated by the largest vote ever 
cast in that city against a candidate. The 
next year, however, he retrieved his political 
ft)rtunes, defeating the same candidate and 




FRED. G. RICHARDS. 

being elected by the largest majority ever 
given a candidate for that office. Mr. Rich- 
ards is the youngest man yet elected to the 
office now held by him. He is bringing to 
his work as executive those qualities which 
have made him so popular and so promi- 
nent, and his administration bids fair to be 
of great benefit to the city he is serving, 
with which he is so honorablv identified. 



RICHARDSON, CHARLES ADDISON, 
son of Elishaand Harriet (ISlake) Richard- 
son, was born in Franklin, Norfolk county, 
October 9, 1829. 

He was educated in the district schools 
of his native town, at the academies in 
Franklin and the neighboring town of Hol- 
liston, and at the state normal school in 
Westfield. He conunenced a preparation 
for the ministry, but feeble health pre- 
vented the continued prosecution of this 
design. At the age of fifteen he became 
a member of the church in Franklin, then 
under the pastoral care of Rev. Tertius D. 
.Southworth, a successor of Dr. Emmons. 
He taught schools in Medway, Franklin, 
Montague, South Maiden (now I'^^verett) 
and Dedham, 

Mr. Richardson was in i854-'5 a clerk 
in the book-store of John P. Jewett & Co., 
in Boston. Li January, 1856, he became 
one of the proprietors and editors of the 
"Congregationalist," a religious newspaper 
founded in Boston in 1849. The large and 
steady increase in the circulation of this 
journal is due, in no small degree, to Mr. 
Richardson's energv and sound discretion. 
When he took the paper in charge as its 
managing editor, he threw himself into the 
work with great enthusiasm. During the 
war for the Lhiion he prepared the summary 
of news for each successive week, which 
presented a careful and comprehensive his- 
tory of the progress of events. 'I'his sum- 
mary gained for the pgper a high reputa- 
tion, it attracted many readers, and was 
pronounced by many persons the best ac- 
count the)' could anvwhere find of the trans- 
actions of the times. Mr. Richardson has 
always had charge of the selections and 
communications for the paper, and has at- 
tended to the " make-up " every week of 
his connection with it, save when absent 
from home. 

He was an active participant in the pur- 
chase of the old "Boston Recorder," work- 
ing earnestly to accomplish a union of the 
two papers, which was finally effected in 
1867. Li 1869 he made a trip to Europe 
lasting four or five months, and was again 
abroad in 1880, attending the world's 
Sunday-school convention in London. He 
was present at the famous Ober-.Ammergau 
Play the same year, and wrote various let- 
ters to the " Congregationalist " on both 
these trips. He also visited California in 
1874, going out by the Isthmus and return- 
ing overland. In 1882 he again vi^ited 
the Pacific coast, including Oregon. 

Since 1855, Mr. Richardson has resided 
in Chelsea, where, for a considerable time. 



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he was an active member of the school 
committee. He was siiperintendent of the 
Sumiay-school of the First Congregational 
church for five years, and has been an 
officer of that church most of the time for 
twentv-five vears. He was also moderator 



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CHARLES A, RICHARDSON. 

of the general association of the Congre- 
gational churches of Massachusetts at its 
meeting in Xew Bedford in 18S6. 

He was married at W'estfield, May ,;, 
1852, to Mary Jane, daughter of John and 
Mary Jane (Knapp) Phipps. 'J'hey have 
had six children : of whom Harriet Phipps 
and Alice Maude are now living, the former 
being the wife of William F. Ray, of 
Franklin. .\lbert 1). Richardson of the 
" New York Tribune," author of "Beyond 
the Mississippi," and several other popular 
volumes, was a brother of the suiiject of 
this sketch, 

RICHARDSON, SOLON OSMOND, 
son of Solon O. and Susan ( Barnard ) 
Richardson, was born in South Reading 
(now Wakefield), Middlesex county, Sep- 
tember 9, 1 84 1. 

He derived his early education from the 
public schools of his native town and the 
Park Latin school, Boston. 

In 1867 he associated himself in busi- 
ness with Daniel 1). Foster, under the firm 
name of Foster &: Richardson, 141 Wash- 



ington Street, Boston, also 505 Broadway, 
New York, as New York and New Eng- 
land agents for the Florence sewing ma- 
chine, also wholesale dealers in machine 
twist, cotton and linen thread, and sewing 
machine findings. In 1871 they sold the 
business to the Florence Sewing Machine 
Company, and dissolved the co-partner- 
ship. 

On the death of his father, August 31, 
1873. he succeeded to the business of " S. 
O. Richardson, Sherry ^^'ine and Jaundice 
Bitters." He took charge of this business 
and has since continued in it. 

Mr. Richardson was married in Wake- 
field, October 2, 1862, to Abba Maria, 
daughter of Daniel D. and Susan (Patch) 
Foster. Of this union are two children : 
Solon O. Richardson, Jr., and Dana Fos- 
ter Richardson. 

Mr. Richardson was chairman of the 
Wakefield board of health. He was a rep- 
resentative to the General Court in 1881 
and '82. He is now a selectman of Wake- 
field. 




SOLON O R.CHARLSOIJ. 

He was treasurer of the First Univer- 
salist Society of Wakefield, and is now 
a trustee of the Beebe town library, presi- 
dent of the Wakefield Savings Bank, 
and a director of the P.oston Wharf C'om- 
pany. 



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RICHMOND. 



RICHMOND. 



RICHMOND, GEORGE B., son of 
Gideon Richmond, of Dighton, and Re- 
becca (Barstow) Richmond, of Scituate, 
was born in New Bedford, Bristol county, 
November 9, 1S21. When a boy he at- 
tended the Friends' Academy, New Bed- 
ford, and Pierce Academy in Middlebor- 
oiigh. Two years were passed at Brown 
University, but Mr. Richmond's college 
course was cut short bA'ill health. On his 
return to New Bedford he engaged actively 
in busines.s, and at once became earnestly 
interested in public and political affairs. He 
soon took a leading place among the public- 
spirited men of the city, and has constantly 
maintained it to the present time. 

In 185 1 Mr. Richmond was elected upon 
the Whig ticket as a representative in the 
state Legislature of 1852. He was ap- 
pointed on the I'lrst of May, 1861, as in- 
spector, weigher, gauger and measurer in 
the New Bedford custom house, holding 
the office until January, 1874, when he re- 
signed. During his service in the custom 
house, the temperance question became 
prominent in local ]5olitics, and Mr. Rich- 




GEORGE B. RICHMOND. 

mond was at once foremost on the side of 
the temperance men. An ardent Republi- 
can, he was also an ardent advocate of 
prohibitory measures for the suppression of 
the liquor traffic. 



Mr. Richmond was mayor in 1870, '71, 
'72, '74 and '78, each time being chosen as 
the representative of the distinctively tem- 
perance element. To this day, his admin- 
istration is cited by prohibitory advocates 
as proof of the soundness of their views. 
Aside from this, Mr. Richmond's mayoralty 
was highly successful. His administration 
was signalized by a new era in the exten- 
sion of streets, and his enterprise in this 
and other public improvements contributed 
in a marked degree to the prosperity of 
the city. On the ,31st of December, 1873, 
he was appointed by Governor Washburn 
a member of the board of police commis- 
sioners, and held the office until the board 
was abolished in July, 1874. 

In 1880 and '81 he was a member of the 
state Senate, representing the 3d Bristol 
district. The last named year he was 
chairman of the committees on public 
charitable institutions and the liquor law. 
A vacancy occurring in the office of regis- 
ter of deeds for the southern Bristol dis- 
trict in March, 1883, he was appointed to 
fill the vacancy, and has since been thrice 
elected by the people, the third time almost 
unanimousl}'. As register of deeds he has 
been an efficient and popular official. 

In the spring of 1886 he was appointed 
liy Governor Robinson a trustee of the 
Westborough Insane Hospital, and in Feb- 
ruary, 1887, was re-appointed by Clovernor 
Ames, for five years. 

Mr. Richmond was a member of the 
Republican state central committee for 
1 888 He was chairman of the Republican 
county committee several years ; chairman 
of the 1st congressional district Republican 
committee three years ; and for some time 
chairman of the 3d Bristol district senato- 
rial committee. In 188S he declinetl a re- 
election on all of these committees, desiring 
to devote his time to the duties of his 
office. 

Mr. Richmond was elected a director of 
the Bristol County Mutual Fire Insurance 
Company in 1889. He is chairman of the 
board of trustees of the F'irst Baptist So- 
ciety. For seven years Mr. Richmond was 
president of the Young Men's Christian 
-Association, and five years superintendent 
of the First Baptist church Sunday-school. 
He has been closely identified with many 
movements for promoting the moral and 
material welfare of the city, and is one of 
New Bedford's most honored citizens. 

Mr. Richmond was married at Middle- 
borough, November 5, 1844, to Rebecca R. 
C, daughter of Rev. Ebenezerand Rebecca 
C. (Childs) Nelson, of Middleborough, by 



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515 



wluim he had seven children, five of whom 
are living. Mrs. Richmond died July 31, 
1863. His second marriage was at New 
Bedford, December 15, US64, to .Abby S., 
daughter of Deacon Nathaniel and Han- 
nah (Smith) Nelson, of New Bedford, who 
died July 30, 1868. His third marriage 
was at New Bedford, November 2, 187 1, 
to Elizabeth E., daughter of Charles D. 
and Marv H. (Crane) Swift, of New Bed- 
ford. 

RICHMOND, Silas PeirCE, was born 
at Freetown, Bristol county, June ig, 1831. 
He received his early education at the 
" Forge " district school in Freetown, fin- 




SILAS P RICHMOND 

ishing at Pierce Academy, Middleborough. 
Upon leaving school, he commenced farm- 
ing on the Richmond homestead in Free- 
town. He then tried the grocery and 
]3rovision trade at Beloit, Wis., the express 
business at Lawrence, Kan., the lumber 
trade at Newport, Ind., and the grain trade 
at Decatur, Mich., where he lost a fortune 
by the great fire in that city. He then re- 
turned to farming at Freetown, on the old 
homestead that has been in the Richmond 
familv one hundred and thirteen years. 

.Mr. Richmond has held the position of 
turnkey of the state prison and deputy 
master of the Bristol county house of cor- 
rection. He is at present the general trav- 



eling agent of Clark's Cove Cuano Com- 
pany, New Bedford. 

He was for many years moderator of the 
annual town meetings. He has been town 
auditor, town clerk, assessor, and a mem- 
ber of the school committee, .selectman and 
overseer of the poor, and also president 
of the Bristol County Agricultural Society. 

In 1854 he was captain of the Assonet 
Light Infantry ; in 1855 and '56 major 
and inspector of the 2d brigade M. V. 
M.; in i860 and '61 a captain and aide-de- 
camp of the 2d brigade M. V. M., serving 
at Fortress Monroe, Hampton, Va., and at 
the battle of Big Bethel, Va.; in 1862 and 
'63 he was colonel of the 3d regiment 
Massachusetts volunteers in the North 
Carolina campaign; in 1864 and '65 colonel 
of the 58th regiment Massachusetts volun- 
teers, and also in 1865 assistant provost- 
marshal, department of the South. He is 
a member of Sutton Commandery, Knights 
Templar, and of William Rodman Post i, 
G. A. R., New Bedford. He now holds 
his fourth commission as justice of the 
peace and of the quorum. 

Mr. Richmond was married at Freetown, 
June 16, 1850, to Elizabeth J. Haskins, by 
whom he had si.\ children : F^mma A., 
Cynthia E., Sarah E. E., Walter S., Flora 
J., and Lillian F. His second marriage 
was with Zadie, daughter of Dr. John 
Scott, of Michigan, by whom his children 
were : .\nnie E., Roy S., Ruth E., Forrest 
S , and Isaac Foster. Of the children, 
Cynthia E. was drowned by the upsetting 
of a sail-boat in .\ssonet Bay, June 14, 
1S71 ; Forrest S. died August 26, 1883; 
Ruth E. died June 20, 1884, and Emma A. 
died January 13, 1885. Annie E. married 
Herbert Stone, Freetown, August, 1886. 

RICKER, Ja.MES W., son of Charles 
and Eliza B. (Perkms) Ricker, was born in 
Portsmouth, Rockingham county, N. H., 
January 31, 1829. 

He was educated in the public schools 
of his native place, and his introduction to 
business was in a printing-office at Great 
Falls, N. H. By unceasing perseverance 
and earnest attention to business, he ac- 
quired habits that subsequently became 
invaluable when he went to the city of 
Boston to better his condition in life. 

On the 28th of December, 1S52, in 
Chelsea, Mr. Ricker was married to Sarah 
F., daughter of Henry W. and Rebecca H. 
(Darracott) Fenno. Their children are: 
Julia Marland and Everett Wilder Ricker. 

Ah-. Ricker's present residence is at 
Jamaica Plain, Boston. He was elected 
collector of the city of Boston in 1883, and 



RICKER. 



ROAUS. 



has been re-elected each successive year 
since then, giving the universal impression 
that he is the right man in the right place. 
He was fitted for the position to which he 
was elected by a long experience, having 
entered the citv treasurer's office in 1S62, 




JAMES W RICKER 

when the collection of taxes was one of 
its duties. When the collector's office was 
established in 1875, Mr. Ricker was a 
candidate in opposition to (ieneral Sher- 
win, who was elected, and l:)y whom he 
was immediately appointed chief clerk. 
When General Sherwin resigned, Mr. 
Ricker was at once placed in the position 
which he now occupies. The wisdom of 
the choice has been abundantly justified, 
Mr. Ricker being a remarkably well-posted 
man in municipal affairs, a courteous and 
genial official, very popular with both 
[)olitical parties, although his own affilia- 
tions have ever been with the Democrats. 
Before entering the employ of the city he 
was connected with several of the Boston 
newspapers at various times, and was one 
of the projectors of the "Ledger," which 
was publislied in Boston some seventeen 
years ago. 

Mr. Ricker is descended on the paternal 
side from Cjeorge Ricker, who emigrated 
to this country in 1760, and settled in 
Somersworth, then a part of Dover, N. H. 



The surname Ricker is supposeil to be a 
corruption of the French J<ic/u-i\ several 
persons of which name have Ijeen eminent 
in the literature of France. 'I'he first per- 
.sons of that name in New England are 
traditionally reported to have come from 
Jersey, the island on the coast of F'rance. 

ROADS, Samuel, Jr., the sixth of 

the name in line of descent from one of 
the early settlers of Marblehead, was born 
in that town October 22, 1854. He is the 
eldest son of Samuel and Emma L. (Wood- 
fin) Roads. His family traces its lineage 
back to several of the most prominent 
families of New England, Dr. Elisha Story, 
an eminent physician, and a surgeon on 
the staff of General Washington during 
the revolution, being one of his ancestors. 

Mr. Roads received his education in the 
public schools. He early developed liter- 
ary talent, and a taste for journalism, ni 
which latter profession he has become 
widely known. Before coming of age 
he demonstrated his abilitv in this line of 
work in the conduct of a local paper pub- 
lished in his native town. He soon formed 
connections with the "Boston Post," the 
" Boston Globe," and other metropolitan 
papers, and is now engaged in this and 
other literary work. 

Mr. Roads is the author of the interest- 
ing and widely read "History and Tradi- 
tions of Marblehead," a work published 
I)y Houghton, Osgood & Co., in 1880, and 
which has been aptly termed by reviewers 
" a model history of an American town." 

His first public office was as a member 
of the board of trustees of Abbot public 
library, of Marblehead, to which he was 
elected in 1883. In November of that 
year he was elected a member of the 
House of Representatives, and served by 
continuous re-elections during the sessions 
of 1884, '85, and '86. In 1887 and '88 he 
was a member of the state Senate, repre- 
senting the 2d Essex district, comprising 
the city of Salem and the towns of Mar- 
blehead and Beverly. The district has a 
large Republican majority, but Mr. Roads, 
though a Democrat in politics, was twice 
elected by phenomenal majorities. In 
1888 he received the honor of a unanimous 
nomination for representative in Congress, 
by the Democrats of the 7th congressional 
district, and though defeated at the polls 
after a most spirited contest, demonstrated 
his popularity as a candidate by running 
nearly one thousand votes ahead of his 
party ticket. 

Mr. Roads has shown marked ability in 
the public positions to which he has been 



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517 



called, and while in the Legislature, he 
was recognized as one of the leading 
members of his party. He commanded 
respect, and won merited encomiums for 
his strength and force as a debater, and 
the tact and talent exhibited in the man- 
agement of the manv important cases in 
which he took a iivel}' interest. 

ROBERTS, James H., son of John and 
Joanna (Hutchins) Roberts, w-as born in 
Gilford, Belknap countv, N. H., April 15, 
1831. 

His earlv educational advantages \vere 
limited, a very few terms of the district 
school comprising all his opportunities for 
obtaining an education. 

The prominent characteristic of his youth 
was untiring energy. This was indicated 
by the fact that he determined to leave the 
home farm life, and seek his fortune in 
Boston, when, to do so, he was obliged to 
earn the money for his expenses at the 
rate of eight cents per day. 

At the age of fifteen he entered the 
employ of Denio & Roberts, machinists 
and safe manufacturers, becoming profi- 
cient in all departments of their extended 
business. He remained in their employ 
until 1S62, when he accompanied Clen- 
eral Butler to New Orleans as division 
armorer. 

.\fter his return from the war, he asso- 
ciated himself with his former employers 
in business — the firm being known as 
Denio, Roberts & Co. — and continued witli 
them until the firm disposed of their inter- 
ests to the American Steam Safe Company, 
when the two senior partners retired from 
business. 

In 187 1 he established the present well- 
known house of James H. Roberts & Co . 
manufacturers and dealers in machinery, 
pjoston, where he has since remained. 
While an active member of the firm of 
which he was the head, he found time to 
devote his energies to various objects, ren- 
dering his life a very busy one. 

Mr. Roberts was married November 8, 
1862, to Mrs. Sarah Jane Chase, the daugh- 
ter of William and Clarissa Rollins. They 
have no children. 

The public career of INIr. Roberts began 
in 1862, he instituting that year the widely- 
known '• Bay State Lecture Course." 'I'his 
course w'as in many respects the most 
noted in the country, embracing in its list 
of lecturers, readers, and musical artists, 
the most distinguished in the United States 
and Europe. 

His pronounced temperance principles 
are well known, as he has been an active 



member of tiie various temperance organi- 
zations for many years. He has served 
with great acceptance upon many of the 
most important committees, and held some 
of the highest offices in these societies. 

Mr. Roberts represented his district in 
the lower branch of the Legislature in 1869, 
but only for the purpose of using his influ- 
ence towards the re-enactment of the pro- 
hibitory law which had been repealed. This 
having been accomplished during that ses- 
sion, he declined to allow the use of his name 
for re-election to the House of 1870, and 
retired from public office at that time. 

For several years he was a member of 
the Republican state central committee, but 
becoming dissatisfied with the attitude of 
his party upon the temperance question, he 
withdrew, and has become of late one of 
the most aggressive leaders of the Prohibi- 
tion ]3arty. 

For several years he has maintained, 
largely at his own expense, a series of 




JAMES H. ROBERTS. 

Sunday evening and afternoon temperance 
meetings, lield in Music Hall, Tremont 
Temple, and People's Church, Boston. 

Mr. Roberts is still in the full vigor of 
life, and, as ever, actively engaged in benev- 
olent work and the many agencies of moral 
reform in which he has hitherto been a 
conspicuous leader. 



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ROBINSON. 



ROBINSON, Charles, son of Charles 
and Mary (Davis) Robinson, was born in 
Lexington, Franklin county, November 6, 
1829. 

His early educational training was ob- 
tained in the public schools of his native 
town and the first Model School of Massa- 
chusetts, at Lexington, of which the re- 
nowned Cyrus Peirce was principal. He 
was afterwards educated in the higher 
branches at Groton and Lexington acad- 
emies. He at first intended to devote his 
life to agricultural pursuits, but a taste for 
the legal profession finally decided his 
choice, and he read law with James Dana 
and Moses (1. Cobb, at Charlestown. He 
was adniittetl to the bar July 2, 1852. He 
began the practice of law in Charlestown 
and continued there until 1868. He then 
removed his office to Boston, where it has 
since remained. 

Mr. Robinson was married in Charles- 
town, July 4, 1858, to Rebecca T., daugh- 
ter of Philander and Rebecca (Gibbs) 
Ames. Of this union are three children : 
Emma .\. (wife of Charles L Travelli, Pitts- 
burgh, Pa.), Miner, and Sumner Robinson. 

Mr. Robinson was commissioner on the 
girls" school at Lancaster, and was also 
trial justice in Charlestown several years 
before the police court of that city was es- 
tablished. He was mayor of Charlestown 
in 1865 and '66, and, although at the time 
residing in Newton, he in 1874 and '75 was 
solicitor for the city of Somerville. 

He was a member of the House of 
Representatives in 1874, with his brother 
George D. Robinson, subsequently the 
governor of the State, and was again 
elected to the same body in 1880, where, 
with his legal abilitv and large experience 
in civil life, he renderetl most efficient 
service. 

He is a Universalist in his religious be- 
lief. He has been since 1857 a trustee, 
from 1869 to '83 vice-president, and ever 
since then president, of the corporation of 
Tufts College. Mr. Robinson was origi- 
nally a Democrat, having voted for Frank- 
lin Pierce for president, but becoming dis- 
satisfied with his administration, he then 
left the Democratic party, and has always 
from that time been prominently identified 
with the best material of the Republican 
party. He has never sought office, but 
has not evaded the responsibilities of citi- 
zenship when called upon by his neighbors 
thus to serve the body politic. 

Mr. Robinson has found his enjoyment 
in the duties of his profession, and as an 
advocate and counselor has won a gratify- 



ing success and the confidence of his manv 
clients and the public. 

His early fondness for the cultivation of 
fruits and flowers continues ; his friends 
and neighbors and the sick have often had 
occasion to realize this fact, as well as his 
generous thought of them. 

ROBINSON, David Ingersoll, son 

of John and Sarah l.ufkin (Ingersoll) Rob- 
inson, was born in Manchester, Essex 
county, October 6, 1844. He is a descend- 
ant of Abraham Robinson, one of the 
earliest settlers of Cape Ann (Gloucester), 
probably one branch of the family of Rev. 
John Robinson of Puritan renown. 

He removed with his parents to Illinois 
in 185 I, receiving his educational training 



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DAVID I, ROBINSON. 



in .\lton of that state. He taught school 
in 1863 and '64, and in May, 1864, enlisted 
in company H, 133d regiment, Illinois vol- 
unteer infantry. At the expiration of his 
term of service he received an appointment 
as ist lieutenant in a new regiment then 
recruiting, but owing to sickness was not 
again mustered into service. 

He served in the provost-marshal's office, 
Alton, III, and at the close of the war went 
into business with his brother, under the 
firm name of Robinson Brothers. 

In 1866 he visited his birthplace, and 
decided to make his permanent home in 



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the East. In January, 1S69, he married 
Nellie A., daughter of Samuel E. and Han- 
nah (Clott) Smith, of Gloucester, and settled 
in that town ; of this union are three chil- 
dren : Willie A., Emma C, and Helen I). 
Robinson. 

He entered the firm of Stockbridge & 
Smith, first as bookkeeper, then became 
partner, under the firm name of Stockbridge 
& Co. Later on he became a stockholder 
and active partner in the Atlantic Halibut 
Company, one of the largest fresh-fish com- 
panies in the United States. He is a part- 
ner in the firm of Pool, Gardner & Co., 
vessel outfitters and fish packers ; and also 
treasurer of the Gloucester Fish Company 
(incorporated), of Boston. 

In politics a Republican, he has served 
in various official positions in the city of 
Ciloucester — precinct officer, councilman 
in 1880 and '8r, serving the latter year as 
president of the common council. He was 
elected mayor in 1886, serving during the 
year 1887. His administration was char- 
acterized by a vigorous campaign against 
the liquor traffic. At the close of the year 
he was re-elected. In May, 1888, licenses 
were issued by the board of aldermen, but he 
stoutly refused to affix his signature. The 
case was carried to the supreme court, and 
a decision was rendered that a mayor of a 
city could not use discretionary powers in 
the granting of licenses, but must sign them ; 
and a writ of mandamus was ordered to be 
issued. He immediately resigned the office, 
against the wishes of many supporters, 
rather than sanction the sale of liquor hv 
an official act within his control. 

During Mr. Robinson's mayoralty many 
radical improvements were inaugurated — 
among them the erection of two public 
buildings, high school house, and the police 
station and court room. The city debt 
was bonded at reduced interest, and the 
general financial and municipal affairs were 
managed to the satisfaction of all, without 
respect to party affiliation. 

In temperance organizations he has been 
prominent, and held the highest ofiice in the 
gift of the Tenqile of Honor. In religion 
he is a Baptist, actively engaged in Sunday- 
school work, for many years sujierintend- 
ent, and at present is a deacon of the First 
Baptist church, Cdoucester. He is a mem- 
ber of the G. A. R., and F. \- A. M. 

ROBINSON, George Dexter, son of 

Charles anil Mary (Davis) Robinson, was 
born in Lexington, Mitldlesex countv, Janu- 
ary 20, 1834. 

He passed through the common district 
schools of Lexington ; attended Lexing- 



ton Academy one year, and was one year 
in Hopkins classical school, Cambridge. 
Having fitted for college, he entered 
Harvard, and was graduated therefrom in 
the class of 1856. \\'hile pursuing his 
college course, he taught district schools 
during two winters, in Lexington. 

Immediately after graduating he became 
l^rincipal of the high school at Chicopee, 
and held the position until March, 18C5. 
He then studied law in Charlestown, with 
his brother, Hon. Charles Robinson, and 
was admitted to the bar in March, 1866. He 
immediately opened an office in Chicopee. 

He was first married in Lexington, 
November 24, 1859, to Hannah E., daugh- 
ter of William and Nancy (Pearce) .Stevens, 
who died September 5, 1864. He was 
again married in Lexington, July 11, 1867, 
to Susan E., daughter of Joseph F. and 
Susan (Mulliken) Simonds. By the first 




GEORGE D. ROBINSON. 

marriage he has one chikl : A\'alter Stevens 
Robinson, born March 22, 1861, and by 
the second : Annie Florence Robinson, 
born October 4, 1869. 

He was a representative in the Legisla- 
ture in 1874; senator in 1876, re|)resen- 
tative in the 45th, 46th. 47th and 48th 
United States Congresses. 

He was elected governor of the Com- 
monwealth of Massachusetts in 1884, and 



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KOBINSOX. 



re-elected in 1885 and '86. In 1887 Ciov- 
enior Robinson was tendered by Presi- 
dent Cleveland, an appointment on the 
Interstate Commerce Commission, but de- 
clined it. In 1889 he was appointed by 
President Harrison, commissioner to the 
Cherokee and other Indian tribes, to 
receive title to lands in the Indian Terri- 
tory, but declined the office. He is now 
engagetl in the practice of his profession 
at his home in Chicopee. 

Ciovernor Robinson has never been 
invited to a position of public or private 
trust, that, having been accepted, has not 
been filled with honor, and managed with 
ability. He has been signally fortunate 
in being called upon at critical times in the 
history of the Connnonwealth to serve her 
people, and few occupants of the guber- 
natorial chair have surpassed him in the 
dignified, courageous and impartial admin- 
istration of her interests. In the higher 
council of the Nation he left a record fur 
an earnest, manly and broad statesman- 
ship which has reflected infinite credit 
upon the State which has a generous 
remembrance of his loyal service. Massa- 
chusetts has indeed cause to be proud of 
this, one of her most illustrious sons. 

ROBINSON, James T., son of Thomas 
and Xaniy (Wells) Robinson, was born in 
Adams, Berkshire county, September 0, 
1822. 

He was educated in the public and select 
schools of Adams, North Adams, and the 
academies at Lenox, Shelburne Falls antl 
Worthington. Having fitted for college, 
he entered Williams College in 1840, and 
was graduated in the class of 1844. He 
then studied law with his father, a leading 
lawyer at the Berkshire bar, and was ad- 
mitted to practice in 1844 ; at once enter- 
ing into practice with his father, with whom 
he remained until the death of the seniiu' 
partner. 

Father and son were Whigs, but in the 
Free Soil movement of 1848, they endorsed 
the principles of that party, and, later on, 
were among the first in the Republican 
ranks ; and the father lived to cast his bal- 
lot the second time for Lincoln, and par- 
ticipate in the national victory of freedom 
over slavery. 

In 1852 Mr. Robinson was a member of 
the state Senate, elected by union of Free 
Soilers and Democrats. In 1859 he was 
again elected to the Senate, and was made 
chairman of the judiciary committee. Soon 
after the organization of the Senate he was 
appointed judge of probate for Berkshire 
county, to fill the vacancy caused by death 



of the incumbent. He left the Senate to 
accept the judgeship, and has continued in 
the same office up to the present time, 
having served over thirty years, and never 
having missed a session of the court from 
any cause. 

He has been editor and part owner of 
the " North Adams Transcript " since 1865, 
and is now publisher and sole owner. His 
son, a graduate of Williams College, now 
has the editorial management. 




JAMES T ROBINSON 

In 1853 Judge Robinson was appointed 
one of the secretaries of the Constitutional 
Convention. He was a delegate to the 
national Republican convention that nomi- 
nated Lincoln for the second time. 

Judge Robinson was married in Marble- 
head, May 6, 1846, to Clara, daughter of 
Dr. Calvin and Rebecca (Monroe) Briggs. 
Of this union were three children : .-Vrthur, 
and two others who died in infancy. 

ROBINSON, Levi Walter, son of 

Howlaiul J. and Mary Jane (Shorts) Rob- 
inson, was born in Worthington, Hampshire 
county, May 29, 1854. 

Cntil fourteen years of age he attended 
the district school. He then went to work 
in the country store of E. H. Brewster & 
Son, of Worthington, where he remained 
three years. He later on worked for H. 
Cole is: Son, Worthington, nine months, 



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Koing from there to Springfield, where lie 
wcjrked three years for A. A. Prince tV Co., 
carpet dealers. He then formed a partner- 
ship with F. P. (Hark, of Ware, in the dry- 
goods and grocery business, and, after two 
years, bought the interest of his partner 
and continued in the same business five 
years. He is now engaged in the real 
estate and insurance Ijusiness at Ware, 
his place of residence. He has a place 
of business in Worcester, devoted to the 
sale of sewing machines and musical mer- 
chandise. 

Mr. Robinson was married in Worthing- 
ton, May 15, 1S77, to Julia A. (since de- 
ceased), daughter of Jonathan H. and 
Mary (i'arsons) Eager. He has no chil- 
dren. 

Mr. Robinson was a deputy sheriff from 
1881 to '84, and road commissioner from 
)886 to '89. He was a member of the 
House of Representatives in 1887, serving 
on' the committee of public charitable in- 
stitutions. 

ROBINSON, Marvin Pease, son of 

Jonathan S. and Amelia (Chapin) Robin- 
son, was horn in Springfield, Hampden 
county, .\ugust 15, 1848. 




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MARVIN P ROBINSON 



His early education was obtained at the 
l)ublic schools, but his further attendance 
thereon was interrupted by the civil war. 



In June, 1864, he enlisted as a drummer boy 
in the 30th unattached heavy artillery com- 
pany, with which he remained until the 
close of the war, when he was mustered 
out at (lallup's Island, Boston Harbor, in 
1865. He then took the position of clerk 
in the office of the Massasoit House, 
Springfield, where he remained until No- 
vember, 1866, when he became clerk of 
the Kennard House, in Cleveland, Ohio. 
March i, 1872, he took the position of 
clerk at the Tremont House, Boston, and 
in 1879 at the Brunswick. In 1881 he 
moved to Providence, R. I., as proprietor 
of the Narragansett Hotel. He returned 
to the Brunswick in Boston, in 1884, and 
is now the ]5roprietor of the already famous 
Boston Tavern, which he opened January 
28, 1889, associated with ^Ir. James A. 
Pitzsimmons. 

Mr. Robinson was married in Spring- 
field, October 24, 1872, to Laura A., daugh- 
ter of Ransley and Katherine (Church) 
Hall. They have two sons : Harris Col- 
burn and (irosvenor P. Robinson. 

ROCKWELL, Francis Willia.ms, 

son of Julius and Lucy F. (Walker) Rock- 
well, was born in Pittsfield, Berkshire 
count)-, May 26, 1844. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in the Edwards Place school, 
Stockbridge. Here he prepared for col- 
lege, and entering Amherst, he graduated 
therefrom in the class of 1868. Choos- 
ing the profession of law, he entered Har- 
vard law school and was graduated in 
1S7,. 

In October of the same year he began 
the practice of law, and has successfully 
practiced in his profession to the present 
time. He was appointed one of the special 
justices of the district court of central 
Berkshire in 1873 ; has held various local 
offices ; was elected to the House of Rep- 
resentatives in 1879 ; was a member of the 
state Senate in 1881 and '82 ; was elected 
on January 17, 1884, as a Republican, to 
the 48th Congress to fill a vacancy caused 
hv the resignation of Hon. George I). 
Robinson, who had been elected governor 
of Massachusetts — a special mid-winter 
election being held, the Legislature having 
passed an act legalizing the same. He 
was re-elected to the 49tli, the 50th, and 
5 I St Congres.ses. 

Mr. Rockwell was married in Pittsfield, 
his present home, June 11, 1873, to Marv 
Ciilbert, daughter of Henrv Oilbert and 
Mary Bullard (Dowse) Davis. Of this 
union are seven children : William Walker, 
Henrv Davis, Samuel Forbes, lulius. Law- 



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ROLFE. 



rence Dowse, Francis Williams, and Eliza- 
betli Rockwell. 

While one of the youngest of the Mas- 
sachusetts delegation now in Congress, 3'et 
b}' his diligent work and native power, he 
has acquired an influence and made a rec- 
ord of which he may well be proud. He 
was appointed by the speaker as a member 
of the important committee on foreio-n 
affairs .\ great favorite in his district, he 
is honored with the suffrages of his con- 
stituents, irrespective of their party affilia- 
tions. Possessed of ample means', he dis- 
penses to the ever welcome guest a hospi- 
tality alike generous and refined. 

ROGERS, Charles Smith, son of 

William and Charlotte ( VanVelson) Rogers, 
was born in Huntington, Long Island, N Y ' 
May 13, 1831. 

Passing through the public schools of 
his native place, he spent two years at 
Amenia Seminary, Dutchess county, N. Y., 
where he prepared for college. He en- 
tered Wesleyan University in Middletown, 
Conn., and was graduated in the class of 
1858. 

In the winter of iS58-'59 he taught 
natural science in Amenia Seminary. In 
the spring of 1859 he joined the' New 
England conference of the Methodist 
Episcopal church. He was stationed at 
Sudbury, serving in that place two years. 
His subsequent appointments have been : 
Quincy Point, i86i-'63; Dorchester, 1804 
-'66 ; Newton, i867-'69 ; Beverly, 1870 
-'71; Dorche.ster Street, Bo.ston, 1872-74; 
Boston Street, Lynn, i875-'77 ; Trinity 
church, Worcester, 1882-84; State Street, 
Springfield, 1885-87 ; Harvard Street, 
Cambridgeport, 1888, where he now re- 
sides. In 1878, '79, '80, and '81 he was 
presiding elder of the North Boston dis- 
trict, and in 1880 was elected a delegate 
to the general conference of the Methodist 
Episcopal church. He received the honor- 
ary degree of D. D. from Grant University 
in 1881. 

Mr. Rogers was married in Middletown, 
Conn., June 13, i860, to Catharine S., 
daughter of Jonathan and Maria W. 
(Tracy) Barnes. Her father was a gradu- 
ate of Yale, an eminent lawyer, and for 
many years a trustee of We'sleyan Uni- 
versity. Her mother was grand-daugliter 
of General Artemas Ward, and a lineal 
descendant in the fifth generation from 
Increase Mather. Of this union were two 
children : Henry Tracy, born March 9. 
1861, deceased January 11, 1883, and 
Maria Van Velson Rogers, born Septem- 
ber 26, 1864. 



ROGERS, Jacob, .son of John and 
Martha Poor (Cram) Rogers, "was born 
June 29, 1829, in E.xeter, Rockingham 
county, N. H. 

The private schools of his native town 
furnished his early education. This was 
supplemented by five years in Phillips 
Academy, E.xeter. Leaving the academy 
at the age of fifteen, Mr. Rogers made 'a 
voyage to China in the .ship " Tonquin," 
and a subsequent voyage to Calcutta in 
the ship " Angelo." 

He went to Lowell at twentv years of 
age, and served as clerk in the' hardware 
store of John F. Rogers. He was soon 
admitted into partnership, and in 185^, 
became sole proprietor, continuing actively 
in the business until 1875, when he retired 
to accept the presidenc_v of the Railroad 
National Bank, which position he still 
holds. 

Mr. Rogers was married in Lowell, Octo- 
ber 28, 1868, to Mary Howard, daughter 
of James G and Clarissa (U'illett) Carney. 
Of this union are three children : Mary 
Carney, Alice Poor, and John Jacob 
Rogers. 

Mr. Rogers represented the city of 
Lowell in the Legislature of 1864 and '65. 
He also served on the Lowell board of 
aldermen 1875 and '76. 

He has been a trustee of the Old Ladies' 
Home for the past six years, vice-president 
and president of the Middlesex Mechanics' 
Association, vice-president of the Mechan- 
ics' Savings Bank for many years, a direc- 
tor and treasurer of the Lowell Gas Light 
Company since 1870, a director and treas- 
urer of the Stony Brook R. R. since 1875, 
president of the J. C. Ayer Company since 
its organization, presid'ent of the 'Kitson 
Machine Company for the past three years, 
a director in the Tremont and Suffolk 
Mills, in the Traders' & Mechanics' In- 
surance Company, and in the National 
Hide & Leather Bank of Boston, and one 
of the trustees of the estate of Dr. J. C. 
Ayer since his death in 1S78. He" was 
prominently identified with the building 
of the Lowell &: .Andover R. R., a branch 
of the Boston & Maine, and was one of its 
first directors, and its treasurer during its 
construction. 

He has been a member of the Kirk 
Street Congregational church for many 
years. 

ROLFE, Joseph NOYES, .son of Moses 
and Sarah Putnam (.\oyes) Rolfe, was born 
in Newbury, Essex county, August 24, 1822. 

His educational advantages were limited 
to the common schools of his native town. 



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He has always resided on the farm where 
he was born, and farming has been his 
principal occupation, although from 1857 
to '67 he was engaged in the flour and grain 
business in Newburj-jiort. Leaving this, 
he gave his whole attention once more to 
farming, and has ever since spent his time 
in agricultural pursuits. 

Mr. Rolfe was married, April 28, 1847, 
to Mary Little, daughter of Richard and 
Abigail (Little) Adams. Of this mar- 
riage are five children : Moses, John C, 
Helen N. (now Mrs. Edward A. Noyes 
of Newbury), Willard G., and Abbie L. 
Rolfe. 

Mr. Rolfe has served the town of New- 
bury as selectman, assessor, and overseer 
of the poor fifteen years in succession 
(with the exception of one year). He has 
been town treasurer three years, and a jus- 
tice of the peace twelve years, and has 
always been especially active in all munici- 
pal matters. He represented his district 
in the House of Representatives in 1869, 
and in the Senate of 1881 and '82. 

ROLFE, William James, son of John 

and Lydia Davis (Moulton) Rolfe, was 
born in Newburyport, Essex county, De- 
cember 10, 1827. 

His boyhood was mainly passed in Low- 
ell where he was fitted for college in the 
high school. He entered Amherst College 
in 1845. After remaining three years he 
gave up his studies in order to become a 
teacher. After teaching in Kirkwood Acad- 
emy, Maryland, he became principal of Day's 
Academy, Wrentham, where he remained 
until December, 1S52 ; then took the mas- 
tershi]) of the Dorchester high school, and 
remained there until the summer of 1857, 
when he was invited to take charge of the 
high school in Lawrence. After four years 
in Lawrence he removed to Salem, but after 
one year, he was offered the mastership of 
the Cambridge high school. This he ac- 
cepted, and has since continued to reside 
in Cambridge, though he resigned his posi- 
tion in the school in 1868. Since that time 
he has devoted himself to editorial and 
literary work. 

Since 1869 he has been one of the editors 
of " Popular Science News " ( formerly 
"Boston Journal of Chemistry"), and f(u- 
several years has had charge of " Shake- 
speariana " in the " Literary World," besides 
contributing to other literary and scientific 
periodicals. 

In 1S65 he published a "Hand-book of 
Latin Poetry" in conjunction with J. H. 
Hanson, A. M., of Waterville, Me. In 
1867 he published an edition of Craik's 



"English of Shakespeare.'' Between 1867 
and '69, in connection with J. A. Gillet, 
he brought out the " Cambridge Course of 
Physics," in six volumes. This series has 
since been entirely re-written by the au- 
thors. In 1870 he prepared a school edi- 
tion of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice," 
and followed it up with editions of the 
"Tempest," "Julius Caesar" and "Henry 
VHI." Others were eagerly called for 
both by students and the general reading 
public, and the edition is now complete in 
forty volumes. Its sale has far exceeded 
that of any other American edition, amount- 
ing to more than a third of a million vol- 
umes. 

}\[v. Rolfe has also published a volume 
of selections from Cray's poems, and others 
from Goldsmith's and Wordsworth's in 
style similar to that of Shakespeare ; also 
the " Minor Poems of Milton," Scott's 
" Lady of the Lake," " Marmion," and 
" Lay of the Last Minstrel ; " Tennyson's 
" Princess," three volumes of selections 
from Tennyson ; Byron's " Childe Harold," 
and two volumes of selections from Brown- 
ing. With his son, John C. Rolfe, Ph. D., 
he has edited Macaulay's " Lays of Ancient 
Rome." He has also begun a series of 
more elementary " English Classics," three 
volumes of which have already appeared. 
It is generally understood that he is the 
author of the Satchel " Ckiide to Europe," 
though his name does not appear on the 
title-page. 

Mr. Rolfe received the honorary degree 
of A. M. at Harvard, in 1859, and the same 
degree subsequently at Amherst, where he 
was enrolled as a regular graduate of the 
class of 1849, at the suggestion of President 
Seelye his old classmate and "chum." In 
1887 he received the further honor of the 
degree of doctor of letters from Amherst. 
Mr. Rolfe was elected to the presidency of 
the Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute, 
on the resignation of Colonel Sprague, in 
the spring of 1882, and held the office until 
1888. 

Mr. Rolfe was married in Dorchester, 
July 30, 1856, to Eliza Jane Carew (agradu- 
ate'of his school), daughter of Joseph and 
Eleanor (Grifiiths) Carew. Of this union 
are three children : John Carew, George 
\Villiam, and Charles Joseph Rolfe. 

Mr. Rolfe is foremost among the Shake- 
spearian scholars of .Vmerica, and is ac- 
knowledged as one of the most delicately 
critical interpreters of the " Prince of 
Poets," As a specialist in some lines of 
scientific research, he has been widely 
quoted both in this country and Europe. 



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ROWE. 



ROOT, Joseph Hubbard, the son 

of Erastus and Caroline (Hubbard; Root, 
was born at Montague, Franklin county, 
February 19, 1823, being a descendant 
from the early settlers of the town, where 
he has always lived. 

After attending the public schools, at 
the age of fourteen he was employed as 
clerk in the store of Edward L. Delano, in 
Montague, where he remained about si.x 
years, when he formed a partnership with 
Hollis Chenery, continuing in the mercan- 
tile business until i86i, when he sold his 
interest and retired from mercantile life. 

Mr. Root has been twice married, his 
first wife being Sarah A., daughter of 
Isaac Chenery, of Gill, whom he married 
in 1853, and who died in 1878. In 1S82 
he married Mrs. Julia M. Giles, the daugh- 
ter of Dr. George Wright of Montague. 

Mr. Root has held various town offices. 
He was elected clerk and treasurer of the 
town in 1867, holding the position for 
eighteen years. In i860 he was commis- 
sioned a justice of the peace by Governor 
Banks, which office he still holds. He is 
a director of the First National Bank of 
Greenfield, and president of the Turner's 
Falls Savings Institution. 

In 1872 and '76 he was a member of the 
House of Representatives, and in i88o-'8i 
a senator from the Franklin district. 

ROTCH, William J., son of Joseph 

and Anna Ridgway (Smith) Rotch, was 
horn in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1819. 

His early training was in the private 
schools of New Bedford, Mass., where he 
fitted for Harvard College, entering in 
1834. He was graduated from Harvard 
in the class of 1838. 

His first connection in business was with 
his brother, Benjamin S, Rotch, in the New 
Bedford Cordage Company. This busi- 
ness has been continued to the present 
time. Mr. Rotch has, in the meantime, 
enlarged his area of business enterprise, 
including many ventures in manufacturing 
and railway investments. His career has 
been eminently successful as a manufac- 
turer and merchant. 

Mr. Rotch was married in New Bedford, 
May 26, 1842, by Rev. Ephraim Peabody, 
to Emily, daughter of Charles W. and 
Sarah (Rodman) Morgan. He was married 
agam, January 11, 1866, to Clara Morgan, 
sister of his first wife, deceased. His chil- 
dren are : William (engineer of the Fall 
River Water Works), Morgan (mayor of 
New Bedford in 1885, '86, '87 and '88), 
Helen, Isabel, Sarah, Emily, Anna, and 
Mary Russell Rotch. 



Mr. Rotch is a trustee of the Arnold 
fund for the poor of New Bedford, and of 
St. Luke's hospital ; president and treasurer 
of the Friends' Academy of New Beilford ; 
and was aide-de-camp to Governor Clifford. 
He was a representative in the Legislature 
in 1842, and mayor of New Bedford in 
1852. He is president of the New Bed- 
ford Cordage Company ; president of the 




WILLIAM J, ROTCH. 

Howland Yarn Mills ; a director of the 
Wamsutta and Potomska Cotton Mills; 
president and director of the Mt. Washing- 
ton (Mass Company ; a director of the 
i'airpoint Silver Plating Manufacturing 
Company ; director of the New Bedford 
Gas Company ; president of the Rotch 
Wharf Company ; director of the Old 
Colony Railroad ; director of the Cleve- 
land lit Canton Railroad ; director of the 
National Bank of Commerce, and vice- 
president and trustee of the New Bedford 
Institution for Savings. 

ROWE, George Howard Malcolm, 

son of Jonathan Philbrook and Maria 
Louisa (Morrison) Rowe, was born in 
Lowell, Middlesex county, February i, 
1841, and lived in Rollinsford, N. H., from 
1850 to '60. 

His early education was received at the 
Berwick Academy, Berwick, Maine. He 
fitted for college at Phillips Academy, 



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Exeter, N. H., and entered nartmouth 
College, pursuing the full course, from 
which he was graduated A. B. in 1864, 
receiving his A. M. in 1867. 

He studied medicine with Dr. John S. 
Butler, Hartford, Conn., and in the Har- 
vard medical school. From the latter he 
received his degree of M. D. in 1868. 

He served as superintendent of the 
Massachusetts Institution for Feeble- 
minded Children, in 1867, '68 and '6g. In 
1870 he was appointed assistant superin- 
tendent of the Boston Lunatic Hospital. 
He was elected superintendent and resi- 
dent physician of the Boston City Hospital 
in 1879, which position he still holds. 

Dr. Rowe has closely followed the medi- 
cal profession and hospital work, refusing 
all outside allurements of business or politi- 
cal preferment. He is a member of the 
jVIa.ssachusetts Medical Society, American 
Public Health Association, New England 




GEORGE H, M. ROWE. 

Psychological Society, Boston Medico- 
Psychological Society, Boston Society for 
Medical Improvement, etc. 

Dr. Rowe has seen longer service as 
medical superintendent in a general hos- 
pital than any (with one exception) in the 
United States. He has always taken 
great interest in, and has occasionally 
written on, matters relating to hospital 



construction and management, and upon 
sanitary and hygienic subjects. He has 
done much to develop and advance the 
cause of schools for the training of nurses. 
His management has had much to do with 
the present development of the Boston 
City Hospital, until it now stands fore- 
most among American general hospitals, 
and is held in high repute in Great Britain 
and on the Continent. 

Dr. Rowe was never married. 

ROWELL, Frank, son of David and 
Belinda (Hadlock) Rowell, was born in 
Weare, Flillsborough county, N. H., Feb- 
ruary 2, 1832. 

Both families were late settlers in Weare, 
coming from Kingston. The Rowells were 
original settlers at Salisbury and the 
Hadlocks at Gloucester. 

His early life was that of any boy in the 
country, with its daily lessons of obedience 
and duty. His education was received in 
the district school. 

He entered upon business through the 
branch of ornamental painting, from which, 
in 1855, he passed to that of photography. 
Herein Mr. Rowell has achieved marked 
distinction. The efforts of artists have 
been largely directed towards successfully 
fi.xing the delicate gradation of tones of 
light. Following the early discovery that 
the most luminous rays are least active 
chemically, artists have encountered num- 
erous difficulties so novel, that to overcome 
them required continual exercise of skill, 
care, and patient observation. In the 
honors gained in this development of the 
art, whereby the vanishing daguerreotype 
and the fading sun prints of a generation 
ago have been succeeded by the perma- 
nent and lasting carbon prints of to-da}', 
Mr. Rowell has earned a full share, recog- 
nized and accorded by his fellow-artists. 

The gold medal of the Massachusetts 
Charitable Mechanic Association and that 
of the United States Centennial Exhibition 
of 1876, awarded the firm in which for the 
last twenty-seven years he has been a 
member, give the stamp of authority to 
this reputation. In all, the firm have been 
the recipients of seven medals. 

In 187 I the practical mind of Mr. Row- 
ell conceived the idea of teaching boys 
from tiiirteen to sixteen years of age the 
art of wood-carving, through utilization of 
the passion for whittling, born in every 
Yankee boy. For such a school, in con- 
nection with Rev. George L. Chaney, he 
procured the use of the chapel of the 
HoUis Street church in the city of Boston, 
and organized the first " whittling school." 



526 



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RUSSELL. 



This labor of love and devotion was a suc- 
cess, and after a history of five seasons, it 
was united with the Boston Industrial 
School. It was not designed to make 
finished wood-carvers, but to save young 
men from drifting into idleness, or the 
crowded lines of employment, by develop- 
ing and guiding the whittling habit into a 
useful application. 

Mr. Rowell was married in 1852, at 
Lebanon, N. H., to Almira Alden, daugh- 
ter of Abner and Lydia Pinney (Alden) 
Balch, of that town. 

RUGG, Arthur P., son of Prentice 
M. and Cynthia (Ross) Rugg, was born in 
Sterling, Worcester county, August 20, 
1862. 

He attended the district schools of Ster- 
ling and fitted for college at the Lancaster 
high school. He was graduated from Am- 
herst College in the class of 1883, and from 
the Boston Lhiiversity law school, with 
highest honors, in the class of 1886, being 
one of the commencement speakers in the 
latter institution. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk county bar in July, 1886. He im- 
mediately began the practice of law in 
Worcester, and formed an association with 
John R. Thayer, which relation continues 
to date. 

Mr. Rugg was married in Worcester, 
April 10, 1889, to Florence M., daughter of 
Charles and Esther J. (Jewett) Belcher. 

Mr. Rugg has served four years as a 
member of the Sterling school board, and 
three years as a trustee of the public library. 
He is a Republican in politics, and has 
served for several years as a member of 
the Republican town committee. His in- 
creasing and successful practice has alone 
prevented his acceptance of a nomination 
to the House of Representatives, frequently 
urged upon him by his fellow-citizens. 

RUMRILL, James Augustus, son of 

James Bliss and Rebecca Rumrill, was 
born April 8, 1837, in New York City. He 
attended private schools in New York until 
ten years of age, when he was sent to a 
boarding-school in West Cromwell, Conn., 
kept by Dr. S. W. Gould, and later to a 
boarding-school in Jamaica Plain, Mass. 
When sixteen years old he went to Phillips 
Academy, Andover, where he fitted for 
Harvard College, entering in 1855 and 
graduating in 1859. 

After graduating from Harvard, he 
studied law in the office of the late Chief 
Justice Chapman, for a year, and then at 
Harvard law school, where he graduated 
in 1 86 1. He went abroad to the Univer- 



sity at Berlin for a year, and returning in 
1862, was admitted to the bar, and prac- 
ticed law in Springfield until chosen attorney 
of the Western R. R. Corporation, in the 
fall of 1865. This office he held till the 
road was consolidated with the Boston & 
Albany R. R., in 1868. He was then ap- 
pointed solicitor and secretary of the con- 
solidated company, which position he held 
until 1880, when he was elected to his 
present position of vice-president. 

Mr. Rumrill was an alderman during the 
Democratic administration of the city gov- 
ernment of Springfield under William L. 
Smith, mayor, and a member of Covernor 
Gaston's staff. He has also filled the offices 
of president of the Chapin National Bank, 
president of the Ware River R. R., vice- 
president of the Springfield Cit}' Library, 
vice-president of the Hampden Savings 
Bank, director of the Union Pacific R. R., 
the Ware River R. R., the Pittsfield \- North 
Adams R. R., the Monadnock and the 
Peterborough & Hillsborough R. R., the 
New London Northern Railroad, and the 
Charleston, Cincinnati & Chicago R, R. 

In social and philanthropic circles, Mr. 
Rumrill has held important offices ; has 
been a director of the Springfield city hos- 
pital, and the Springfield cemetery, and 
has been president of the Springfield Club. 

In political life he has always been an 
earnest worker ; and in the fall of 1888 
was urged to accept the nomination of the 
Democratic party as congressman from the 
district, but declined. 

On May 22, 1S61, he was married in 
Springfield, to Anna Cabot, daughter of 
Hon. Chester W. Chapin. Their children 
are : Rebecca, Anna C, and Chester Chapin 
Rumrill. 

RUSSELL, Daniel, son of Daniel and 
Mary W. Russell, was born in Providence, 
R. I., on the i6th day of July, 1824, and 
educated at the public schools of Provi- 
dence. 

The necessity of self-support was early 
impressed upon him, and at the age of 
seventeen he began real life in his own 
behalf as a mechanic. For three years 
he served an apprenticeship at one branch 
of carriage manufacturing in his native 
city, and upon graduating from this school, 
he labored in the same place and at Mid- 
dleborough, Mass., as journeyman for four 
years, at the end of which time (1847), 
accompanied by a fellow - workman, he 
moved to Boston and began the business 
of selling small-wares by sample. Two 
years later he determined to go to Cali- 
fornia, but the Hon. Nathan Porter offered 



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him ernplovnient in Providence, where he 
remained for two )-ears, returning to Bos- 
ton in 1852, and enterinjr the employ of 
Edward Locke & Co., clothiers. Three 
years later Mr. Russell became connected 
with the wholesale clothing house of Isaac 
Fenno tS: C^i., and became a member of the 
firm in 1861, retiring in 1SC9 with a com- 
petency. 

In 1852 Mr. Russell went to Melrose to 
reside, and has ever since been intimately 
identified with the welfare of the town. 
He has served three years on the board of 
selectmen, and is at present commissioner 
of the water loan sinking fund. He is 
also president of the Melrose Savings Bank. 




DANIEL RUSSELL 

In 1878 he was elected to represent the 
6th Middlese.K senatorial district, serving 
as chairman of the committee on insurance, 
and as a member of the committee on agri- 
culture. He was re-elected in 1879, and 
in 1880 was a delegate to the national 
Republican convention. He is a director 
in the Malilen iV Melrose (las Light Com- 
]5any and the Putnam \Voolen Company, 
and is connected with the Masonic organ- 
izations of Melrose. 

October 21, 1850, Mr. Russell married 
Mary, daughter of Jonathan and Mar\- 
Lynde, of Melrose. Their chiklren are : 
William Clifton and Daniel Blake Russell. 



RUSSELL, Edward, was born in North 
Yarmouth, Cumberland county, Maine, in 
1S20. He was the son of Gen. Edward 
Russell, a prominent citizen of that town, 
who during the administrations of govern- 
ors Lincoln and Huntoon, held the office 
of secretary of state for the state of Maine. 
His early education was derived from op- 
portunities afforded by the academies at 
North Yarmouth, Corham and Portland, 
Maine. 

Having given up the idea of a college 
course, he entered the employ of the well- 
known house of Hurd, Hutchins & Skin- 
ner, Boston, West India goods and grocer- 
ies. While yet a lad, he was promoted to 
the responsilDle position of book-keeper in 
tile Charlestown store carried on by the 
same firm. Following this engagement, 
he became book-keeper for two years in a 
bank in Charlestown. 

In 1842 Mr. Russell became a partner 
with David Dow, under the firm name of 
Dow & Russell, groceries and ship stores. 
Commercial Street, Boston. This was ter- 
minated in 1844, when he entered the ser- 
vice of the Mercantile Agency in Boston, 
founded two years previously by Hon. 
Lewis Tappan, of New York. Becoming 
its chief clerk, he followed up the method 
and system originally established, adding 
such improvements as the continuous en- 
largement of the business required. A 
change was made in 1S53, and the firm 
name of the Mercantile Agency became 
I'Ahvaril Russell & Co., Mr. Russell being 
the controlling spirit of the concern, as he 
I'.as ever since been. His success has 
shown his ability in this direction. 

October 8, 1845, Mr. Russell was mar- 
ried to Mary W. F'ield, of North Yarmouth, 
Maine, by whom he had two children : a 
son and daughter, of whom only the son, 
I'Alward Baldwin Russell, survives. He is 
now his partner in business. His first wife 
having deceased, Mr. Russell was married 
in June, 1876, to Oertrude, younger daugh- 
ter of the late Loring Wheeler, of East- 
port, Maine. 

Mr. Russell has long been a life member 
of the New FLngland Historic Genealogical 
Society, and resides at ISrookline. 

RUSSELL, JOHN E., son of John Rus- 
sell, and a native of Greenfield, F'ranklin 
county, was born January 20, 1834. 

H is mother was a descendant of the 
^\'itmers of Lancaster, Pa. He received 
his early training in private schools, but 
adopted no profession. 

In 1858 Mr. Russell traveled in Central 
America, and being familiar with the 



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RUSSELL. 



RUSSELL. 



Spanish language as well as the country, 
he was employed by the Panama R. R. and 
Pacific Mail S. S. Company, in their busi- 
ness with the Central American govern- 
ments. He returned to the United States 
and represented the Pacific Mail S. S. 
Company in their negotiations with the 
government of Nicaragua, at Washington 
in 1863, through the minister from Nicara- 
gua and Costa Rica. He then joined Ben- 
jamin HoUiday in the Overland Mail, and 
the steamship lines from San Francisco to 
Oregon and Mexico. 

He retired from business in 1868, and 
has since devoted himself to country life 
and to study. 

Mr. Russell was elected secretary of the 
Massachusetts state board of agriculture 
in 1S80, and re-elected for six consecutive 
years. His labor in this position was unre- 
mitting and enthusiastic, and, inspired by 
his zeal, the board of agriculture became a 
working force in the Commonwealth. His 
reports were called for from all parts of 
the civilized world. As a trustee of the 
Agricultural College, he kept its needs 
continually before the legislative com- 
mittees, and the growth in its usefulness 
and influence is due in no small measure 
to his labors. 

He was elected to Congress from the 
loth district of Massachusetts in 1886. 
Here he at once made a record for inde- 
pendent, thorough and conscientious work. 
As an orator, he always held the attention 
of the House. As a member, he contrib- 
uted his full share to the maintenance of 
that high standard of liberal, progressive 
and patriotic policy which has ever charac- 
terized the Massachusetts delegation in 
Congress. 

Mr. Russell was married in Leicester, 
(where he now resides) March 18, 1856, to 
Caroline Nelson of that town. He has no 
children living. 

Mr. Russell has traveled extensively, 
and evidently with his eyes open, in all 
parts of the world, and has devoted much 
time to the collection of books and engrav- 
ings, his private library containing above 
eight thousand choice volumes. 

He is a member of the American Geo- 
graphical Society, the Century and Reform 
clubs of New York, and the Somerset anil 
Reform clubs of Boston. 

RUSSELL, William Augustus, son of 

AVilliam and Almira (Heath) Russell, was 
born in Wells River, Orange county, Vt., 
April 22, 1 83 1. The Russell family is of 
pure English blood, and allied to a family 
honored in Anglo-Saxon history. 



Mr. Russell, while at his home in Frank- 
lin, N. H., to which town his father had re- 
moved, attended the public schools and the 
Franklin Academy, occupying his vaca- 
tions at work in the paper-mills of Pea- 
body & Daniels until the age of sixteen. 
He subsequently attended a private school 
in Lowell, which completed his early edu- 
cational training. 

In 1S48 he commenced work in his 
father's paper mill, where he remained until 
185 1. By diligence and foresight he at 
once established his reputation as a suc- 
cessful manufacturer. Two years later the 
father and son formed a co-partnership 
and moved their works to Lawrence. The 
senior Mr. Russell's health .soon failed, and 
he was compelled to retire from active 
business, leaving the entire interests in the 
hands of his son, who proved equal to the 
task, and began to meet the growing de- 
mands of the business by leasing, in 1856, 
two mills in Belfast, Me. In 1861 he pur- 
chased a mill in Lawrence of a firm that 
had failed in business, and later on two 
other mills fell into his hands, having 
previously been overtaken by misfortune. 
Mr. Russell was soon in the front rank of 
paper manufacturers of the country. 

Having found by costly experiments 
that wood-pulp was the fibre needed for 
improved machinery and rapid work, he 
established a wood-pulp mill in Franklin, 
N. H., in 1869, for the production of this 
new fibre. He succeeded in this where 
many hail failed, and instituted an entirely 
new department of industrial art in this 
country. He began to convert the pro- 
duct of his pulp-mills into paper by the 
purchase, in 1879, of the Fisher cS: Aiken 
and Daniel mills, Franklin. He also erected 
one the same year in Bellows Falls, Vt. 
To carry out his scheme successfully, he 
was obliged to purchase the entire water- 
power here, build a new dam and enlarge 
the canal. Through his enterprise, this 
small town grew into one of the thrifty 
towns of the State, ranking third in valua- 
tion. 

Mr. Russell's principal works are here, 
and in Lawrence. He has also large inter- 
ests in other mills, at several points in 
Maine, and St. Anthony Falls, Minn. 

Politically, Mr. Russell began life a 
Whig. At the dissolution of that party he 
allied himself with the Republican party, 
and has unwaveringly supported it since. 
He uniformly declined to accept any pub- 
lic office until 1867, when he was elected 
alderman in the city of Lawrence. The 
following year he was chosen a member of 



RUSSELL. 



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529 



the state Legislature. In 1S68 he was 
also chosen a delegate to the national Re- 
publican convention in Cincinnati. 

He was elected to the 46th Congress 
from the 7th Massachusetts district ; served 
on the committee on commerce, and was a 
member of a sub-committee to investigate 
the cause for the decline of American 
cornmerce. His report showed a thorough 
knowledge of the subject, and resulted in 
Massachusetts leading off in a change of 
the laws in relation to the taxation of prop- 
erty in ships. He was re-elected to the 
47th Congress, serving on the committee 
of ways and means, a position he was 
amply qualified to fill. Here he achieved 
distinction duringthe discussion of the tariff 
issues, from the pi:otection standpoint. 
Yielding to the demands of his constituents, 
he was again nominated by acclamation 
and elected to the 48th Congress. In his 
church connections Mr. Russell is a Con- 
gregationalist. 

He was married in Bradford, February 
I, 1S59, to Elizabeth Haven, daughter of 
William Hall. Of this union were three 
children : Mary Frances, Annie Elizabeth, 
and Grace Uunton Russell (deceased). 
Mrs. Russell died at St. Paul, Minn., De- 
cember iS, 1866. June 25, 1872, Mr. Rus- 
sell married Frances Spofford, sister of his 
first wife. Their children are : William 
Augustus, Jr.. Elizabeth Haven, and Rich- 
ard Spofford Russell. 

RUSSELL, William Eustis, son of 

Charles Theodore and Sarah Elizabeth 
(Ballister) Russell, was born in Cambridge, 
Middlese.K county, January 6, 1857. 

His early education he received in the 
public antl high schools of Cambridge, 
entering Harvard in 1873 and graduating 
in 1877. He then entered the law school 
of the Boston University and was gradu- 
ated in 1879, suniiiia cum laude, at the head 
of his class. He won the Lawrence prize 
for the best essay and delivered the class 
oration. He was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 1880, when he became a member of 
the firm of C. T. & T. H. Russell, attor- 
neys-at-law, in Boston, and now has a very 
large and important practice as a member 
of the same firm. 

At Cambridge, on the 3d of June, 1885, 
Mr. Russell was married to Margaret Man- 
ning, daughter of Joshua A. and Sarah 
(Hodges) Swan. Their only child is : \\'\\- 
liam Eustis Russell, Jr. 

From the outset. Air. Russell's career has 
been successful. He was a member of the 
common council of Cambridge in 1882. In 
1883 and '84 he was a member of the Cam- 



bridge board of ahlermen. In 18S5, '86, 
'87, and '88 he was the popular mayor of 
Cambridge, and in 1888, as the Democratic 
candidate for governor, stumped the State, 
making nearly fifty speeches in favor of 
Cleveland and tariff reform. He also 
spoke a number of times in other states, 
and was presiding officer at the conven- 
tion of Democratic clubs at Baltimore, 
July 4, 1888. In iS8g he was renominated 
by the Democratic party as its standard- 
bearer in the gubernatorial campaign of 
this year. He has also been president of 
the alumni of the law school of the Boston 
University, and president of the Middlesex 
County Democratic Club, while in 1886 he 
declined the Democratic nomination for 
Congress from the 5th district. He has 
always resided in his native town. He is 
secretary of his college class of 1877. His 
religious connections are with the Congre- 
gational church of Dr. iVIcKenzie, in 
Canil)ridge. 

RYDER, William Henry, son of 

Oliver H.and Harriet R. (Jackson) Ryder, 
was born in Elyria, Lorain county, Ohio, 
July 25, 1842. 

He was educated at Oberlin College, 
from which he was graduated in the class 
of 1866. He pursued his theological stud- 
ies in the theological seminary at Andover, 
from which he was graduated in 1869. 

Mr. Ryder was first ordained as minis- 
ter, December 14, 1869, and was called to 
the pastorate of the Congregational 
church at Watertown, Wis., the same year. 
He remained one year, when he was called 
to the professorship of Greek in Oberlin 
College, where he remained until 1877. 
He then accepted the pastorate of the 
First Congregational church in Ann Arbor, 
Mich. 

In 1887 he was called to the chair of 
New Testament Exegesis in Andover 
Theological Seminary, where he still offi- 
ciates. 

Professor Ryder was married in Oberlin, 
Ohio, June 29, 1870, to Mary E., daughter 
of Seth A. and Caroline (Billings) Bush- 
nell, who died November 10, 1S78. His 
second marriage occurred October 12, 
1 88 1, at Ann Arbor, Mich., when he was 
married to Ada, daughter of Charles and 
Margaret (Henning) Tripp, of that place. 
He has six children. 

In 1864 Professor Ryder enlisted as a pri- 
vate in the 150th Ohio volunteers, and the 
same year was commissioned lieutenant in 
the 5th regiment United States colored 
troops. He was wounded in the siege of 
Richmond, October 27, 1864. 



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SAFFORD. 



SALISBUKV. 



SAFFORD, Nathaniel Foster, son 

of Nathaniel Foster and Hannah (U'ood- 
hur}-) Safford, was born in Salem, Essex 
county, September 19, 1815. 

He fitted for college at the Latin gram- 
mar school in Salem; entered Dartmouth 
College, and graduated in 1835. He 
studied law with Hon. Asahel Huntington, 
of Salem, and commenced practice in 
Dorchester and Milton Village, where he 
has since resided. 

For over thirty years his office has been 
in Boston, where he has continued the 
pursuit of his profession, now extending 
in all over a period of nearly fifty years. 
In tiie earlv vears of professional life he 




NATHANIEL F SAFFORO. 

acted as a magistrate, and as master 
in chancery, exercising also jurisdiction 
under the operation of insolvent laws. 
He was a representative to the General 
Court from the town of Dorchester in 
1850 and '51. In 1853 he succeeded Hon. 
Samuel P. Loud, as one of the board of 
county commissioners for the county of 
Norfolk, at the time when Roxbury, West 
Roxbury and Dorchester formed part of 
that county. Mr. Safford served as chair- 
man of the board fifteen vears, while 



living in Dorchester, and an ailditional 
term of six years while residing in Milton. 

Mr. Safford has been instrumental in the 
entire extinguishment of corporate fran- 
chises in turnpikes and toll-bridges, and 
the establishment of free bridges and roads 
within those town limits ; the location and 
relocation of highways, the remodeling of 
court-houses and prisons, and fire-proof 
a|5artments for records ; also the location 
of railroad-crossings, and such local move- 
ments having for their object the welfare 
of that section of the county of Norfolk. 

February 10, 1845, at Milton, he married 
Josephine Eugenia, daughter of Joseph (a 
descendant of George Morton, who arrived 
at Plymouth in 1623) and Mary (Wheeler) 
Morton. They have one child : Nathaniel 
Morton Safford. 

SALISBURY, Stephen, son of Stephen 

and Rebekah Scott (Dean) Salisbury, was 
born in Worcester, March 31, 1835. 

His education was begun at the private 
infant school of Mrs. Levi Heywood. At 
the age of six years he passed the winter 
of 1841-42 with his parents in Savannah, 
Ga. In 1S42 he attended the private 
school of Mrs. Jonathan Wood, and for a 
short time in 1844 was a pupil at Miss 
Bradford's private school, Boston. 

Passing through the grammar and high 
schools of Worcester, he entered Harvard 
College in 1852, and was graduated in the 
class of 1856. He then went to Europe 
and became a student in the Friederich 
William L'niversity, Berlin. In 1857 he 
attentled lectures for some months at 
L' Ecole de Droit, Paris, and during the 
summer and autumn, traveled extensively 
in (rreece and Asia Minor. He resumed 
his studies in Berlin the next winter ; in the 
spring he re-visited Paris, whence in May 
he set out with his father's family upon a 
tour for several months in Italy, England, 
Scotland, Ireland, and ^^'ales. 

Mr. Salisbury returned to Worcester in 
December, 1858, studied book-keeping for 
a time, and then entered the office of Dewey 
& A\'illiams as a law student. A year later 
he entered the Harvard law school, and 
after two years' study received the degree 
of LL. B., and was admitted to the bar in 
Worcester, October, 1861. 

The next winter he spent in Yucatan, 
studying, during his stay of six months, 
many of the Maya Indian ruins and monu- 
ments. He again visited Yucatan in 1885, 
extending his journey to other parts of 



SALISBURY. 



SALTONSTALL. 



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Mexico and to Cuba. In 18S8 he re- visited 
Europe and traveled in Spain, Belgium, 
Holland, and France. Most of the chief 
cities of Spain were visited in this jour- 
ney, which extended into Portugal. Mr. 
Salisbury's travels have been sources of 
historic gleaning, the results of which have 
been given to American societies of histor- 
ical investigation. 




STEPHEN SALISBURY 

Mr. Salisbury was a member of the com- 
mon council of Worcester in 1863, and its 
president in 1866 ; president of the Worces- 
ter County Horticultural Society in 1882 ; 
trustee of the Massachusetts school for the 
feeble-minded from 1870 to '82 ; commis- 
sioner of Hope Cemetery and secretary of 
the board from 1869 to '84; commissioner 
of public grounds from 1869 to '84; director 
of the Worcester Natural History Society 
from 1867 to '84 ; director of the Music 
Hall Association and its treasurer for ten 
years from 1869, and its president in 1886 ; 
trustee of the city hospital from 187 1 to 
'89, and its secretary for seventeen years ; 
director of the Worcester, Nashua & Roch- 
ester R. R. Co., and of the Boston, Barre 
& Gardner R. R. Co. at the time of their 
absorption by the Boston & Maine and the 
Fitchburg R. R. Co.'s, respectively ; trustee 
of the Rural Cemetery Corporation in 
1884 ; trustee of Clark University since 



1887 ; director of the Worcester National 
Bank in 1865, and its president since 
1884; a member of the board of invest- 
ment of the Worcester County Institution 
for Savings in 1877, and its president since 
1882 ; director of the State Mutual Life 
Assurance Company since 1863 ; trustee 
of Leicester Academy since 1869 ; trustee 
of the Memorial Hospital since 1879, and 
its secretary for ten years ; member of the 
American Antiquarian Society since 1863 ; 
a member of the council since 1874, and 
its president since 1887 ; member of the 
SoiieJaJ JMexiiana de Gcografia y Estadis- 
tica since 1879 ; member of the Conseiva- 
tjiio Yiuateco since 1879, of the Massachu- 
setts Historical Society since 1880, and of 
the American Geographical Society since 
1887 ; trustee of the Peabody Museum of 
Archeology since 1887 ; council of the 
American Archaeological Society since 
1880; commissioner of the sinking funds 
of the city of Worcester since 1888, and 
trustee of the Worcester Polytechnic Insti- 
tute since 1884. 

Mr. Salisbury has aided the growth and 
prosperity of Worcester in various ways, 
by the erection of buildings for the pur- 
pose of business and residence, and by 
generous contributions to public charitable 
and scientific institutions ; he has given 
to the city a park of eighteen acres, known 
as Institute Park. 

SALTONSTALL, Leverett, son of 
Leverett and Mary F^lizabeth (Sanders) 
Saltonstall, was born in Salem, Essex 
county, March 16, 1825. 

Having been prepared for college ma- 
triculation in the Salem Latin school, he 
entered Harvard, and was graduated 
therefrom in the class of 1844. 

Choosing the profession of law, he con- 
tinued his legal studies in the law school 
of Harvard University, and was graduated 
A. M. and LL. B. in 1847. He was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar, where he continued in 
active practice until 1862, when he retired, 
and devoted himself to agriculture, and 
the interests of various trusts. 

He is at present collector of customs, port 
of Boston, to which office he was appointed 
by President Cleveland, December i, 1885. 

Mr. Saltonstall is a gentleman of liberal 
culture, and has been repeatedly called to 
serve in positions of honor and trust — 
positions demanding much time and con- 
scientious labor, remunerative chiefly in 
the consciousness of having performed 
l)eneficial work. 

He was a member of the board of over- 
seers of Harvard College from 1876 to '88, 



SI 



SALTOXSTALL. 



SANDERSON. 



and elected again in 1889 for another term. 
He is a member of the Massachusetts His- 
torical Society, New England Historic 
Genealogical Society, and the Bostonian 
Society. He is a member of the board 




wife of Richard Saltonstall (1610), son of 
Sir Richard Saltonstall (1586), and Grace 
Kaye, wife of Sir Richard, the descent is 
had from the oldest families in England 
and Scotland. The first ancestor in this 
country was Sir Richard, of Huntwick, 
knight, lord of the manor of Ledsham, 
near Leeds, England, who began the set- 
tlement of Watertown in 1630, and was 
original patentee of Connecticut. His son 
Richard came to New England in 1630, 
and settled in Ipswich, 1635. Mr. Salton- 
stall's grandfather was Nathaniel Salton- 
stall, an eminent physician and patriot of 
Haverhill. Nathaniel's son Leverett (Har- 
vard, 1802), the father of Mr. Salton- 
stall, was eminent as an advocate ; speaker 
o( the House of Representatives, president 
of the state Senate, member of Congress, 
A. .\. S. and S. H. S., LL. D., Harvard 
University, and a member of the board of 
overseers. 

SANDERSON, GEORGE WEBSTER, 

son of Ira and Asenath (Hatch) Sanderson, 
was born in Littleton, Middlesex county, 
( )ctober 6, 1830. 



LEVERETT SALTONSTALL. 

of trustees of the M.assachusetts Society 
for Promoting Agriculture, and numerous 
other societies of kindred nature. He is 
also president of the Unitarian Club. In 
1854 he was appointed on the staff of Gov- 
ernor Emory Washburn, with the rank of 
lieutenant-colonel. In 1876 he was com- 
missioner from Massachusetts to the cen- 
tennial exposition at Philadelphia. 

Mr. Saltonstall was married in Salem, 
October 19, 1854, to Rose S., daughter of 
John Clarke and Harriet (Rose) Lee. Of 
this union were si.K children : Leverett 
Saltonstall, Jr. (deceased 1863), Richard 
Middlecott, Rose Lee (Mrs. Dr. George 
West), Philip Leverett, Mary E. (Mrs. 
Louis Agassiz Shaw) and Endicott Pea- 
body Saltonstall. His residence is Chest- 
nut Hill, Newton. 

It is given to a very few, if any, to trace 
an unbroken genealogical line so far back 
as the family of Mr. Saltonstall. He is in 
direct descent from Thomas De Salton- 
stall of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 
England, who lived in the fourteenth cen- 
tury. Through Muriel (Sedley) Gurdon, 




GEORGE W. SANDERSON. 



He obtained his early education in the 
public and private schools of his native town. 

He began business as a farmer in 1848, 
and was appointed clerk of the ist district 
court of northern Middlesex county, June 



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SANFOKl). 



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4, 1874, in which dual business he is still 
occupied. 

Mr. Sanderson was married in Littleton, 
Xovember2 7, 185 i, to Charlotte Klizabeth, 
daughter of Edmund and Louisa (Fletcher) 
Tuttle. Of this union were six children : 
Elizabeth Webster (^L•s. Charles F. F'lagg), 
Mary Louisa (Mrs. Josiah P. Thatcher), 
George Augustus, Charlotte Tuttle, Fannie 
Adams, and Gertrude Fletcher Sanderson. 

He was selectman in Littleton six years ; 
a member of the school board, at intervals, 
upwards of thirty years ; a member of the 
House of Representatives, 1877, serving on 
the committee on public charitable institu- 
tions ; a member of the state Senate in 18S4 
and '85, serving on the committee on towns, 
engrossed bills, printing, agriculture, Hoo- 
sac Tunnel, and Troy & Greenfield R. R. 
He has been chairman of the board of 
trustees of the public library, from its open- 
ing in 1886. He is a director in the Ayer 
National Bank, and a trustee of the North 
Middlesex Savings Bank. 

SANFORD, ALPHEUS, son of Joseph 
B. and Mary C. (Tripp) Sanford, was born 
in North Attleborough, Bristol county, July 

5. 1856. 




ALPHEUS SANFORD. 



He attended the primary school at North 
Attleborough until his removal to Melrose, 
where he attended the grammar and hitrh 



schools. He then moved to Boston, where 
he attended the Boston Latin school. He 
entered Bowdoin College in 1S72, and was 
graduated therefrom in 1876. He was 
])resident of the class, a member of the 
Kappa chapter of Psi Upsilon Fraternity, 
and captain of the college base-ball nine. 

He first began the study of law in the 
office of the late Joseph Nickerson ; was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 
1879, and has continued the practice of 
law in Boston, where he has since resided. 

Mr. Sanford was married in Acushnet, 
September 20, 1883, to Mary C.V., daugh- 
ter of William H. and Charlotte E. (Read) 
Gardiner. Of this union is one child: 
Gardiner Sanford, born in Boston, October 
27, 188S. 

Mr. Sanford has been a member of the 
Republican ward and city committee of 
Boston for the past five years ; two years 
chairman of the ward 17 Republican com- 
mittee, and for the last two years, secre- 
tary of the Boston Republican city com- 
mittee. He was a member of the Boston 
common council in 18S6. 

He was a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives in 1888, serving as House 
chairman of the committee on election 
laws. He reported the reform ballot bill 
known as the "Australian Ballot Act." 

SANFORD, BaaliS, son of Baalis and 
Abby (Burt) Sanford, was born in East 
Bridgewater, Plymouth county, October 4, 

1833- 

The common schools of his native town 
furnished his early educational training, 
this being supplemented by an attendance 
upon the Bridgewater and East Bridge- 
water academies. 

April I, 185 I, he began work as a book- 
keeper for Robinson iS; Barr)' in what was 
then known as North Bridgewater. Feb- 
ruary I, 1858, he was admitted as a mem- 
ber of the firm of H. W. Robinson & Co., 
of Brockton, of which house he has ever 
since been a member, and is now financial 
manager. 

Mr. Sanford was married in North Bridge- 
water (now Brockton), August 19, 1856, to 
Lucy Cotton, daughter of Benjamin and 
Anna (Whitman) Hapgood. Of this union 
were three children : L'ene G., .Anna Cora 
(who died in iS6o),and Ahibel Louise San- 
ford (who died in 1869). 

Mr. Sanford was a member of the lower 
branch of the Legislature in 1878; secre- 
tary of the town school board from 1875 
to '85, inclusive. He was elected city 
auditor of Brockton in 1S82, being the first 
auditor under the city charter, which posi- 



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SANFORD. 



SANGER. 



tion he now holds. He has been justice 
of the peace since 1881. He was master 
of Paul Revere Lodge, F. & A. M., from 
1867 to '69 ; high priest of Satucket R. A. 
Chapter from 1869 to '72 ; eminent com- 
mander of Bay State Commandery, K. T., 
from 1875 to '78 ; a life member of the 
Massachusetts Consistory {s-d degree) 
since March 27, 1870 ; was elected senior 
grand warden of the Grand Lodge of 
Massachusetts, F. & A. M., December 8, 
1886, and grand scribe in the Grand R. A. 
Chapter of Massachusetts in 1876. 

He was pi;esident of the Security Co- 
operative Loan Fund Association in 1878 
and '79, and was elected treasurer of the 
Brockton Gas Light Company in 1886. 

He is a director in the Masonic Mutual 
Relief Association of Springfield, having 
held the office since 1885 ; dictator of 
Brockton Lodge No. 218, Knightsof Honor, 
in 1873 ; commander in Excelsior Council 
No. 16, A. L. of H., in May, 1879, and a 
permanent member of the Grand Council, 
.•\. L. of H. He is recorder of the Bay 
State Commandery, K. T. (having held the 
office ten years), and has been treasurer 
and secretary of the Commercial Club five 
years. 

SANFORD, Frederick Coleman, 

son of Giles and Margarett Sanford, was 
born in Nantucket, Nantucket county, 
February 3, 1809. 

He attended the various schools on the 
island until fourteen years old. He then 
made a voyage to the Pacific Ocean, visit- 
ing many places of intense interest at that 
time, including many of the islands dis- 
covered by Captain Cook. 

He returned home and decided to learn 
the watchmaker's trade. In 1828 he began 
business for himself in Nantucket, and 
continued in the same for ten years. In 
the meantime he went into shipping, whal- 
ing, etc. ; he was successful, and selling his 
last ship, retired from active business in 
1856. 

Previous to this, in 1849, he went into 
.some California enterprises, fitting four 
ships for San Francisco that year, and in 
1850 went out to San Francisco to meet 
one of his vessels. He remained two years, 
receiving ships and cargoes from his east- 
ern friends. After a successful season he 
returned home, but shortly again went 
back, remaining until September, 1854, 
when, after realizing handsomely on his 
investments, he returned to Nantucket. 

Mr. Sanford was married in Nantucket, 
October 7, 1831, to Mary Coleman, daugh- 
ter of William C. Allen. Of this union 



were seven children, all deceased, except 
Amelia Coffin Sanford, who married 
Thomas A. Scott of Boston. 

Mr. Sanford was an intense Jackson 
Democrat. When the war broke out he 
was found among those who sustained the 
government, and finally became an ardent 
Republican, and has since remained in 
affiliation with that party. He was among 
the first to sho.w perfect confidence in 
United States securities, and was ready to 
exchange his entire property for bonds, if 
necessary, to carry on the war. 

He went to England in 1855, to receive 
the " Great Republic," the largest mer- 
chant ship at that time afloat. He char- 
tered her to the French government, and 
was in that employ fourteen months. Mr. 
Sanford remembers his sojourn in Califor- 
nia as the pleasantest part of his life. 
While in New Zealand, in 1839, he saw the 
need of an American consul there — sev- 
enty American ships in port and no gov- 
ernment representatives — and called the 
attention of the state department to the 
fact. Mr. Forsythe, secretar)' of state, 
courteously responded, and appointed a 
gentleman recommended by Mr. Sanford, 
James R. Clendon, residing there, and doing 
a large business. 

He has been a man of remarkable en- 
ergy and push, has preserved his integrity 
and dignity, both at home and with foreign 
commercial agents, with whom he has an 
extensive acquaintance. 

He is chairman of the Humane Societv, 
a position held for twenty-five years, and 
has been president of the Pacific National 
Bank of Nantucket for twenty-two years. 

SANGER, Chester P., eldest son of 
Warren and Lucy J. (Allen) Sanger, was 
born in Somerville, Middlesex county, De- 
cember 22, 1858, and is a direct descendant 
of Richard Sanger who came over from 
England in 1636, and settled in Hingham. 

He received his first education in the 
primary school of Cambridge, whither he 
was sent by special arrangement, and his 
father soon after removing to that city, he 
passed through every grade of the Cam- 
bridge public schools and entered Harvard 
in 1876, graduating in 1880. 

Almost immediately after graduation he 
entered the law office of Morse & Allen in 
Boston, where he studied for three years. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, 
and since that time has been engaged in 
the active practice of his profession. 

On the 25th of June, 1884, Mr. Sanger 
was married, in Cambridge, to Ciertrude F., 
only daughter of Horace P. and Lydia L. 



SANGER. 



SANGER. 



535 



(Flint) Blackman. Their son, Paul Allen 
San>;er, was born July 15, 1885. 

Mr. Sanger is a Reiiublican in politics, 
and for the last ten years has taken an ac- 
tive interest in public affairs in the city of 
Cambridge. For five years he has been 
treasurer of the Republican city committee, 
and in 1887 was a member of the common 
council from ward 5. In 1888 he was a 
member of the House of Representatives 
from the ist Middlesex district, and was 
returned in 1889, making for himself an 
e.xcellent record. In October, 1889, he was 
appointed justice of the 3d eastern Micklle- 
se.K district court. 




CHESTER F. SANGER. 

He is a man of originality and ability, 
with positive convictions. In the positions 
of responsibility in which he has been 
placed thus early in his career, he has con- 
ducted himself to the eminent satisfaction 
of his constituents, and gives promise of 
enlarged popularity and prominence in the 
future. 

SANGER, George Partridge, son of 

Ralph and Charlotte (Kingman) Sanger, 
was born in Dover, Norfolk county, No- 
vember 27, 1819. 

He is a lineal descendant of Richard 
Sanger, of Hingham, in Norfolk, England, 
who settled in Hingham, Mass., in 1636. 
The American ancestors of Mr. Sanger 



have been distinguished for sturdy patriot- 
ism, refined scholarshi|5 and exemplary 
piety. His father and grandfather (Zede- 
kiah Sanger, D. D.), were clergymen of 
profound scholarship. 

George P. Sanger was fitted for college 
under the instruction of his father, and at 
the academy in Bridgewater, where he 
spent the summer and fall of 1833 and '34. 
He taught school in Dover in the winter 
of 1834, and in Sharon, in that of 1835; 
entered Harvard College in 1836 ; was 
graduated in the class of 1840, and 
taught a private school in Portsmouth, 
N. H., from November, 1840, to )ulv, 
1842. 

He was appointed proctor in Harvard 
College in August, 1842, and entered the 
Dane law school the same year. In the 
spring of 1843 he was appointed tutor in 
Latin, holding the position until 1846, 
keeping up his connection with the law 
school during the four years. He re- 
ceived in course the degrees of A. M. and 
LL. B. from the college, and was for sev- 
eral vears a member of the committee 
for examination of the undergraduates in 
Latin. 

He was admitted to the bar in Boston 
in the spring of 1846, and the same year 
became a law partner with Stephen H. 
Phillips, of Salem, a companion in the law 
school. This relation continued until Mr. 
Phillips removed his law office to Salem, 
lie was then for a short time partner with 
a college classmate, Charles G. Davis, of 
Plymouth. In 1849 he became assistant 
to the Hon. (Jeorge I>unt, attorney of the 
United States for the district of Massa- 
chusetts during the Taylor-Fillmore ad- 
ministration. He subsequently resumed 
general practice, chiefly in the admiralty. 
In January, 1853, he was appointed by 
Governor Clifford on his military staff, and 
in October was made district attorney for 
the Suffolk district. 

In September, 1846, he married Elizabeth 
Sherburne, daughter of William Whipple 
Thomp.son, of Portsmouth, N. H.,and took 
up his residence in Charlestown, where he 
resided until 1853, when he removed to 
Boston. Of this union were five sons : 
John \Vhite, William Thompson, George 
Partridge, Charles Robert Sanger — all 
graduates of Harvard — and Henry Clif- 
ford Sanger (deceased in infancy). 

In Charlestown he was two years a 
member of the school board and two years 
member of the board of aldermen ; was 
first captain of the Charlestown City 
(Uiards, then one of the most noted military 



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SARGENT. 



SARGENT. 



organizations of the Commonwealth. In 
i853-'54 he commanded tlie Ancient and 
Honorable Artillery Company of Massa- 
chusetts. He was district attorney for 
Suffolk from October, 1853, until the sum- 
mer of 1854, when he was appointed by 
Governor Emory Washburn, a judge of the 
court of common pleas, holding until the 
abolition of that court, in 1869, when he 
resumed practice in Boston. 

He was a member of the Boston com- 
mon council in 1870. In 1861 he was 
again appointed district attorney for Suf- 
folk district, and elected in the autumn of 
that year for the remainder of that term of 
three years; was re-elected in 1863 for 
three years, and again in 1866, but declined 
to serve another term. 

In 1867 he removed to Cambridge, where 
he still resides. He was for several years 
president of the John Hancock Mutual 
Life Insurance Company of Boston ; mem- 
ber of the House of Representatives in 
1873 ; was appointed United States attor- 
ney for the district of Massachusetts by 
President Grant in 1873 ; was re-appointed 
in 1877 by President Hayes, and again in 
1882 by President Arthur. 

He has spent much time during his pro- 
fessional years in literary labors ; was 
editor of the " American Almanac and 
Repository of Useful Knowledge," from 
1848 to '60 ; was twice editor of the " Law 
Reporter ; " edited the " Statutes at Large 
of the United States," from 1855 to '73, 
vols. ii. to xvii. inclusive. 

In i860 Judge William A. Richardson 
and Mr. Sanger were appointed by the 
Massachusetts Legislature to prepare and 
publish the "General Statutes" of i860; 
and again to prepare and publish an annual 
"Supplement to the General Statutes." 
'I'his work they performed continuously 
for twenty-one years, until the General 
Statutes were superseded by the " Public 
Statutes " in 1881. 

SARGENT, Horace M., son of David 

P. and Mary W. (Bartlett) Sargent, was 
born in Haverhill, Essex county, October 
19, 1 86 1. His mother was the daughter of 
Ezekiel G. Bartlett, of Hill, N. H.. who 
for many years was a prominent man in 
his section of the state. 

His early education was received in the 
schools of Bristol and Franklin, N. H., 
where his parents temporarily resided. 
When thirteen years of age he was appren- 
ticed as a " printer's devil " in the " Essex 
Banner " office, Haverhill, and subse- 
quently worked in various offices as jour- 
neyman printer until 18S4. He then 



studied law in the offices of N. C. Bart- 
lett and Moody & Bartlett, Haverhill, 
and at the Boston University law school. 
He was admitted to the bar, June 30, 
1886, and is now in legal practice in 
Haverhill. 

Mr. Sargent was married in Haverhill, 
June 23, 1886, to Ida Currier. 

Mr. Sargent is an active member of the 
Centre Congregational church, in which he 
has held various church and parish offices. 
He has been a member of the common 
council for the past two years, serving on 
imjiortant committees, including that on 
rebuilding city hall. He has been a mem- 
ber and secretary of the Republican city 
committee for the past four years, and is 
a prominent young Republican of Haver- 
hill. He is interested in various fraternal 
organizations, in which he has been called 
to official service. 

SARGENT, JOSEPH Leonard, son of 

Joseph R. and Hannah E. Sargent, was 
born in Boston, September 27, 1829. 

He received his early education in the 
Eliot school, Boston, which was supple- 
mented by academic training in Methuen. 

His first connection in business was with 
Smith Barker, manufacturer of cork goods 
in Boston. He went to Lowell in 1845, 
and was for a time with S. T. and William 
H. Hardy, provision dealers. Later he 
entered the employ of the Massachusetts 
Cotton Mills, Lowell, and remained until 
the closing of the mills in 1862 — the last 
ten years having charge of the weaving in 
mills Nos. I and 2. 

In June, 1863, he opened a provision 
store in Lowell, remaining in this business 
until 1875, when he accepted a position 
tendered by the manufacturing corpora- 
tions of that city, as inspector. The better 
to serve them in this capacity, he was 
appointed deputy sheriff. In 1880 he ac- 
cepted a call from the textile and other 
manufacturers of Massachusetts, to rep- 
resent them before the committees of the 
Legislature in all matters in w'hich they 
had an interest, and up to date he has been 
so employed, at the same time holding 
the office of inspector for the Lowell cor- 
porations. 

Mr. Sargent was for years a member of 
the board of aldermen of Lowell, two years 
a member of the common council, two 
years a member of the lower branch of the 
Legislature, and has been generally active 
in municipal and political matters. He 
was alternate at the national Republican 
conventions, Chicago, in 1880 and '84, and 
deletrate in '88. He is chairman of the 



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SAVAGE. 



537 



county committee, and has long been a 
justice of the peace. 

For many years Mr. Sargent was presi- 
dent of the Middlese.v North Agricultural 
Society, and is vice-president of the Mid- 
dlesex Club. 

Mr. Sargent was married in Franklin, 
N. H., April, 1850, to Frances, daughter 
of Rev. Benj. Hazelton, of Northfield, 
N. H., who died in i860. In 1865 he mar- 
ried H. .\ugusta, daughter of Henry P. 
and Hannah (i. Clough, of Lowell. He 
has two children : Alexis D. and Francis 
J. Sargent. 

His church connections are with the 
Congregational church. He is a member 
of the Eliot School .Association, Boston, 
and is associated with the Knights of Pyth- 
ias and I. O. C). F. 

SAUNDERS, AMOS J., the only son 
of Joseph and Mary (Mighill) Saunders, 
was born in Rowley, Essex county, August 
3, 1826. 

He received his primary education in 
the common schools of his native town. 
At the age of twelve he entered Dummer 
Academy, Newbury, then under charge of 
Nehemiah Cleveland. He remained here 
a }-ear or more. In 1850 he entered Pierce 
Academy, Middleborough, where he re- 
ceived the greater part of his preparation 
for college. He entered Brown Univer- 
sity in 1852. Soon after his graduation 
from Brown, he was engaged as a teacher 
in the grammar school at Danvers. In 
August, 1856, he was elected principal of 
the Merriniac Academy. He followed this 
profession until 1867, when he resigned his 
charge to engage in mercantile pursuits. 
He bought out a store in Pepperell, and 
the next year opened a branch store in 
East Pepperell, where he soon after re- 
moved with his family. 

Mr. Saunders has filled nearly all the 
offices in the gift of his town. In 1873 
and '76 he represented his district in the 
popular branch of the General Court. In 
1876 he was elected to the Senate to re|i- 
resent the 5th Middlesex district, and was 
re-elected the succeeding year, serving on 
the following joint standing committees : 
liquor law, woman suffrage, claims, taxation, 
and education. In 1878 he was appointed 
chairman of the committee on education. 

In 1874 he was appointed a justice of 
the peace, which position he still holds. 

In November, 1856, he married Lucy P., 
daughter of John and Mary Savage. Of 
this union are four children : Lucy Blanch- 
ard, Joseph Amos, May H., and Stella F. 
Saunders. 



SAVAGE, Edward Baxter, son of 

Samuel K. and Chloe (Stone) Savage, was 
born in Hubbardston, Worcester county, 
August 6, 1846. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in the common schools of his native 
town, supplemented by a course at the 
Wesleyan Academy, VVilbraham. 

Choosing the profession of law, he pur- 
sued his legal studies in the office of Bacon 




EDWARD B, SAVAGE 

& Aldrich. Worcester, and was admitted 
to the Worcester county bar in 1872. 
Prior to his admission to the bar he was 
engaged in teaching in the common schools 
of Hubbardston and vicinity, acceptably 
serving his native town as chairman of the 
school committee for several years. 

He was subsequently connected with the 
management of the state reform school. 
In 1883 he came to Haverhill, where he 
has since remained in honorable and suc- 
cessful practice. 

November i, 1875, at Somerville, Mr. 
Savage was married to Louisa J., daughter 
of Oraman and Louisa (Latimer) Hunton. 
Of this union were four chiklren : Edward 
H., tleorge A., William A., and Harry L. 
Savage (who died in 1886). 

When Mr. Savage was but a boy, his 
patriotic spirit asserted itself, and he ran 
away from home to join the army. Finally 



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SAVAGE. 



gaining the consent of his parents, he 
enlisted in the 42d Massachusetts regiment, 
and served with honor and distinction 
throughout the war. 

Mr. Savage for years has been identified 
with the G. A. R., and is past commander 
of Major Howe Post, No. 47. In 1888 he 
was appointed by Governor Ames a mem- 
ber of the commission to estabhsh the 
boundary line between New Hampshire 
and Massachusetts, which office he still 
holds. He is a staunch Republican, and 
has ever been actively identified with local 
and state ]5()litics. 

He was elected to the Haverhill com- 
mon council in 1888, and honored with a 
re-election to the same body in i88g, and 
was called by his fellow-members to pre- 
side over their deliberations. 

SAVAGE, MiNOT J , son of Joseph I,, 
and Ann S. Savage, was born in Norridge- 
wock, Somerset county, Maine, June 10, 
1 84 1 . 

His father was an industrious farmer, 
and during his boyhood Mr. Savage stud- 
ied as he was afforded opportunity, with 
the idea of ultimately entering college. Ill 
health prevented, however, but in spite of 
discouraging circumstances, the early am- 
bition to enter the ministry constantly in- 
creased. He had always been a student 
from the time when he was first able to read. 
He was brought up in the Orthodo.x faith, 
and in 1861 entered the Bangor Theolog- 
ical Seminary. He was graduated in 1864, 
and took a commission from the American 
Home Missionary Society of New York to 
engage in missionary work, which was his 
most earnest ambition. Hesailed from New 
York in September, 1864, for California, 
via Panama, three days after his marriage. 

He was assigned to San Mateo, twenty 
miles south of San Francisco, on the shores 
of the bay, where he began preaching in the 
local schoolhouse. He remained here for 
a year and a half, and then for a year and 
a half preached in Grass Valley, among 
the foothills of the Sierras. On his return 
from California, he preached for a few 
Sundays in Dr. Webb's church and in the 
Park Street church in Boston, and subse- 
quently accepted a call from the Congre- 
gational church in Framingham. The 
western fever still possessed him, however, 
and after two years he accepted a call 
from Hannibal, Mo. Here he remained 
for three and a half years, experiencing a 
decided change in his theological views, 
becoming convinced that he must leave 
the Orthodox faith for a freer field. At 
the end of his Hannibal pastorate he re- 



ceived flattering calls from Congregational 
churches in Indianapolis and Springfield, 
111., and from the Third Unitarian church in 
Chicago. His change of opinions led him to 
accept the call from Chicago. Thus the first 
time that he ever stood in a Unitarian pul- 
pit was when he stood in his own. In 1874 
Mr. Savage came to Boston to attend the 
May anniversary meetings, spoke in Music 
Hall and preached in the Church of the 
Unity, from which he soon afterwards re- 
ceived a very complimentary call. Here 
he has remained ever since, and here he 
has built up a reputation as one of the 
most prominent theological teachers of the 
day. He is one of the shining pulpit 




MINOT J. SAVAGE. 

lights, not only of Boston but of the coun- 
try. He is known to thousands who have 
never seen his face nor heard his voice. His 
published sermons have a very wide circu- 
lation, reaching India, South Africa, Aus- 
tralia and Japan ; and in other literary en- 
deavors he wields great influence. As an 
author, his name figures conspicuously in 
the religious and critical literature not only 
of our own country, he being an able and 
faithful contributor to newspapers and 
magazines, but several of his books have 
also been republished in London 

His congregation is eminently an intelli- 
gent one ; and though a radical of the 



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SAWYER. 



539 



radicals, his rliief work is in the line of re- 
construction : so he has come to enjoy the 
esteem and good will of his ministerial co- 
temporaries, as well as the deep respect 
and loyal attachment of his parishioners. 

On the 29th of August, 1864, Mr. Savage 
was married in Harvard to Ella .-\,, daugh- 
ter of John and .Ann S. Dodge. Their 
children are: (lertrude, Philip H., Helen L. 
and Max S. Savage. 

SAVILLE, Leonard Augustus, son 

of David and Ann W. Saville, was born in 
Gloucester (.\nnisquam), Esse.x county, 
January 31, 1S33. His grandfather on the 
mother's side was Ezra Leonartl, for many 
years minister at Annisquam. His paternal 
ancestors were shipmasters. 

He was educated in the common and 
high schools of {Gloucester and Charles- 
town. 

At the age of si.xteen he went to California 
(1849) around Cape Horn in the sailing 
vessel " Harriet Rockwell," working his 
passage. He arrived there early in 1850, 
went to the mines that summer, and after- 
wards was in trade, running a store in the 
mining regions in 1853. 

He left San Francisco in January, 1854, 
in the ship " Northern Light," bound for 
Boston, arriving there in .April, He worked 
as draughtsman in an architect's office for 
several years, but in 1861 went into the 
grocery busine.ss in Lexington under the 
firm name of Bennett & Saville. His part- 
ner died in 1864, He continued the busi- 
ness until 1868, when he was called to Cali- 
fornia by the death of his father. Return- 
ing by the way of the Isthmus, as he went, 
in 1869 he took his family and again went 
to California by the Union Pacific Railroad 
soon after it was opened for travel. He 
opened a commission business in San Fran- 
cisco, where he remained until 1871, when 
he returned once more to Lexington, and 
bought out his old business, 

Mr, Saville was married in Lexington, 
June 5, 1862, to Rebecca H., daughter of 
James and Caroline W, (Brooks) Ciould. 
Of this union were two children : Fred C. 
and Annie M. Saville. 

Mr. Saville has been called to serve his 
town in nearly every municipal office ; is 
now town clerk, which position he has 
filled seventeen years. He was first master 
of Independence Lodge, A. O. U. W., 
treasurer of the Lexington Historical 
Society, a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives in 1883, serving as monitor 
and clerk of the committee on towns. He 
is a justice of the peace, and does consider- 
able probate business. 



SAWYER, Henry O., son of Oliver 
1). and Angeline A. Sawyer, was born in 
Berlin, \\'orcester county, June 10, 1844. 

He received his early education in the 
public .schools of West Boylston and a pri- 
vate school at Lancaster. 

At twenty-one years of age, in 1865, Mr. 
Sawyer bought the general merchandise 
business of '1'. \'. Phelps & Co., in West 
Boylston. In .August of the same year 
he admitted M. K. Walker into the part- 
nership, the firm name being Sawyer & 
Walker. January i, 1872, he sold his 
interest in the business to Mr. Walker. 

He immediately purchased of E. Brim- 
hall his interest in the furniture business 
at Clinton, the firm name being Field & 
Sawyer. .A])ril i, 1878, he sold his inter- 
est to Lucius Field, repurchasing the 
business of Mr. Walker, he, with his 
brother, continued the same, under the 
firm name of Sawyer Brothers, dealers in 
.general merchandise, and furnishing un- 
dertakers. January 18, 1889, he bought 
out his brother and admitted his son, 
H. L. Sawyer, and J. F. Higgins, and 
is now conducting the business under 
tlie firm name of H. O. Sawyer & Com- 
pany. 

Mr. Sawyer was married in Clinton, 
January i, 1866, to Flora .A., daughter of 
Solon and Laura P. ^^'etherbee. Of this 
union are four children : Harry L., Angle 
F., Cora A., and Carl W. Sawyer., Mrs. 
Sawyer died September 20, 1888. 

Mr. Sawyer has been called to serve his 
town in the various municipal offices, as 
town clerk, selectman, treasurer, a mem- 
ber of the school board, etc. He is a 
trustee and a member of the investment 
committee of the Security Savings Bank, 
in West Boylston He has been chairman 
of the Republican town committee for the 
past ten years, and was a member of the 
Massachusetts delegation to the Chicago 
convention, in lune, 1888. 

He was a representative to the General 
Court in 18S1, and served on the com- 
mittee on education. He is worshipful 
master of Trinity Lodge, F. & A. M.; 
regent of Beaman Council, No. 964, R. A., 
and is one of the executive committee of 
the Worcester County Grocers' Associa- 
tion, 

He was a private in company E, 42d 
regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, has 
been commander of Post 28, G, A. R., 
three terms, and of Post 64 one year. 

He is a member of the West Boylston 
Business Men's Club, and one of its vice- 
presidents. 



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SAWYER. 



SAWYER. 



SAWYER, Joseph, was bom in Bos- 
ton, October 22, 1823. He is a lineal de- 
scendant of James Sawyer, who was born 
in England about 1630, and emigrated to 
this country between the years 1665 antl 
'69. He settled first in Ipswich and sub- 
sequently removed to (iloucester. The 
father of the subject of this sketch was a 
mariner ; made a number of voyages to 
England, and before he was twenty-one 
years of age was master of a packet-ship. 
He married Ellen Whyte in Liverpool, 
England. 

Joseph, the eldest of eleven children, 
received his education in the Eliot school, 
Boston, but at fourteen years of age was 
desirous of entering into business, and ob- 
tained a situation in the retail dry-goods 
store of the late Joshua Stetson on Hanover 
Street, then the headquarters of this line 
of trade. 

He continued with his employer after he 
had established an e.xtensive jobbing busi- 
ness. In 1844 the firm of Wilkinson, Stet- 
son & Co. was organized in the woolen im- 
porting and jobbing business. This house 
recognized the industry and application of 
Mr. Sawyer, and in 1849 he was admitted 
as a partner. These relations continued 
until 1S62, the house representing some of 
the largest mills in New England. 

At this time the commission house of E. 
R. Mudge, Sawyer & Co. was formed for 
the sale of textile fabrics. They purchased, 
in company with the old firm of Wilkinson, 
Stet.son & Co., the Burlington Woolen Mills 
of Winooski, Vt., the largest woolen mills in 
the .state, and of which Air. Sawyer's friend 
and partner, Joshua Stetson, was treasurer. 

On the death of Mr. Stetson in 1869, 
Mr. Sawyer succeeded to the treasurership 
of the corporation, from which he retired 
in 18S2 to assume the presidency. Since 
the death of Hon. E. R. Mudge' the firm 
has been dissolved, and Mr. Sawyer has 
retired from active business. He remains, 
however, a special partner in the firm which 
is the successor to the large and prominent 
business which has been built up. 

Mr. Sawyer has been for many years a 
director in the National Revere Bank, 
trustee of a number of estates, and con- 
nected with various charitable and benevo- 
lent societies. 

Mr. Sawyer was married in Boston, in 
1847, to Anna Maria, tlaughter of \\'illiam 
Dillaway. 

SAWYER, Thomas Jefferson, son 

of Benjamin and Sally (York) Sawyer, was 
born in Reading, Windsor county, N. Y., 
January 9, 1804. 



His formal educatihn began in the com- 
mon school of the neighborhood. At the 
age of eighteen he entered upon the work 
of teaching, and, at the same time, of fitting 
himself for college. He entered Middle- 
bury College, Mickllebury, Xi., in 1825, 
and was graduated in 1829. 

He entered the Christian ministry in 
connection with the Universalist church, 
receiving his fellowship and ordination iu 
Seiitember, 1829. His first settlement as 
pastor, 1830, was in New York City. In 
1831 he became editor of the " Christian 
Messenger," a paper devoted to the pro- 
motion of the cause of Universalism. 

In 1845, after fifteen years of prosperous 
service in the ministry, he accepted the 
principalship of the Clinton Liberal Insti- 
tute at Clinton, Oneida county, N. Y. 
Hero, in addition to his supervision and 
teaching in the routine work of the school, 
he taught classes in theology, thereby pre- 
paring a large number of young men for 
the ministry of the church to which he was 
devoted. To him, also, belongs the honor 
of calling an " educational convention," 
the fruit of which was the founding of 
Tufts College, at College Hill, near Boston. 

In 1850 he received the honorary degree 
of doctor of sacred theology from Harvard 
College. In 1852 he returned to New York, 
re-assuming the work of his old pastorate, 
and completing a ministry of a quarter of 
a century in New \'ork City. 

In 1863 he was made editor-in-chief of 
" The Christian Ambassador," a paper pub- 
lished in New York. In 1869 he was elected 
Packard professor of systematic theologv 
in the divinity school of Tufts College, 
which office he still holds. 

Dr. Sawyer was twice honored by an 
election to the presidenc)' of Tufts Col- 
lege ; to the presidency of Canton theo- 
logical school, which he was active in 
founding, and of Lombard University, at 
(ialesburg. 111. All of these offers he de- 
clined from distrust of his own executive 
ability. 

Though past eighty-five, he still preaches 
and is also a frequent contributor to the 
religious papers of his church. During his 
ministry of sixty years, he has been an 
earnest defender of the faith according to 
the L^niversalist interpretation, and most 
of his books and essays have the contro- 
versial cast, .\lways an advocate of good 
learning, his influence in the cause of edu- 
cation has been felt throughout the Uni- 
versalist- church, in wdiich he has witnessed 
the rise and progress of all its schools, col- 
leges and theological seminaries. 



SAWYER. 



SCHIMM.EK. 



541 



Dr. Sawyer may be regarded as the 
father of the Univcrsahst Historical Soci- 
ety, of which he has been secretary and 
librarian for more than fifty years, during 
which time he has collected about three 
thousand volumes. Dr. Eddy dedicates 
the second volume of his " Universalism in 
America" to Dr. Sawyer, "whose influ- 
ence," he says, " in shaping the thought of 
the Univer.salist church far exceeds that of 
any other living man." 

SAWYER, Timothy Thompson, son 

of William and Susannah (Thompson) 
Sawyer, was born in Charlestown, Middle- 
sex, now in Suffolk county, January 7, 1817. 
His ancesters were among the earliest set- 
tlers in Massachusetts. One of them, James 
Thompson, came to Charlestown with (iov- 
ernor Winthrop's company in 1630. On 
the other side, Thomas Sawyer settled in 
Lancaster in 1641. 

His early education was chiefly obtained 
at the public schools. His business life 
was commenced in the hardware and ship- 
chandlery store of his uncle, Thomas M. 
Thompson, in Merchants' Row, Boston. 
When he was twenty years of age his uncle 
died, and for five years he continued the 
business alone. In 1842 he formed a part- 
nership witli John W. Frothingham, untler 
the firm name of Sawyer & Frothingham, 
who carried on the same business for two 
years. About this time the firm of Gage, 
Hittinger & Co. was formed to engage in 
the wharfage and ice business, of which 
Mr. Sawyer was a partner. In 1846 the 
firm name was changed to Gage, Sawyer & 
Co. The house was extensively engaged 
in the shipment of ice, and had business 
connections in the principal southern cities, 
in several of the West India Islands, in 
Rio Janeiro, and Calcutta, and was widely 
and honorably known. Mr. Sawyer retired 
from active business in 1862. 

P'or thirty-eight years Mr. Sawyer has 
been a director in the Bunker Hill National 
Bank, and a trustee of the Warren Institu- 
tion for Savings nearly as long. In 1880 
lie was made president of the Warren In- 
stitution for Savings, and in 1884 was 
elected president of the Bunker Hill Na- 
tional Bank, which offices he still holds. 

During his active career he has held 
many local offices of trust and responsi- 
bility. In 1840 he was a member of the 
finance committee, and assessor in 1841 of 
the town government of Charlestown. In 
1843, '44, and '4^ he was a member of the 
school committee. The town became a 
city in 1847. In 1848, '53, and '54 he was 
a member of the common council under 



the city government — elected president 
the last year, but declined to serve. He 
was mayor of Charlestown in 1855, '56, 
and '57, and chairman of the school com- 
mittee from 1855 to '64. In 1857 he was 
a representative in the Legislature, and in 
1858 state senator. His first election to 
the office of mayor was as the citizens' 
candidate in opposition to the candidate 
of the Know-Nothing party, and this was 
the first defeat of that party after its 
organization in the State of Massachu- 
setts. 

When the Charlestown public library 
was established, in i860, he was elected 
president of the board of trustees, and 
continued to hold the office until the city 
was annexed to Boston, in 1872. He was 
president of the Mystic water board from 
1871 to '76, and of the Boston water board 
from 1876 to '79, and for the first three 
years of its existence was a member of the 
fire commission of Boston. Mr. Sawyer 
has been treasurer of the Bunker Hill 
Monument Association since 1879, and for 
years one of the trustees of Tufts Col- 
lege. 

In religious matters Mr. Sawyer has been 
equally active and prominent, liaving been 
upon the standing committee of the First 
Universalist church of Charlestown for 
nearly half a century, and for ten years its 
chairman. 

SCHINDLER, SOLOMON, one of the 
foremost of Boston's rabbis, was born 
April 24, 1842, at Neisse in Silesia. 

In the gymnasium (Latin school) at 
Neisse, and at Breslau he perfected tlie 
early mental training which he received at 
home. His father, a great Hebrew scholar, 
devoted many hours a day to instructing 
his son in Hebrew and Talmudical lore. 
Mr. Schindler, however, discovered at an 
early age that he could not believe in the 
letter of the Bible, and therefore he ob- 
jected to being trained for the Jewish 
ministry. He left Breslau, and after many 
struggles he subsequently attended the 
normal school for teachers at Ober-(ilogau, 
his intention at that time being to become 
a pedagogue. 

The full term at that institution is three 
years, but he completed it in two years. 
He passed successful examinations at 
Breslau, and afterwards "pro schola ct 
rcctoratu," at Buren in Westphalia, obtain- 
ing the title of rector. 

His life had been full of tribulation dur- 
ing the years of his studies, but this ended 
when he became a tutor in private families, 
preparing boys for college. 



542 



SCHINDLER. 



SEARS. 



June 24, 1868, he married Henrietta 
Sciiutz, a lady of good birth, at Holzhausen 
in Westphalia. Their children are : Otto, 
Paul, Carl, and Clara Schindler — two others 
who were born to them died. 

About this time he took charge of a 
Jewish congregation in Westphalia, offici- 
ating as a rabbi, a position which he filled 
with his usual success, but his heart and 
advanced thought were not attuned to the 
orthodo.x themes of ancient Judaism ; they 
rebelled under this discord, and when the 
pressure became too strong he emigrated 
with his wife and three children, and 
arrived in New York in July, 1871. 

On arriving in New York with his family, 
Mr. Schindler, who was without money or 
friends, found the darkest hours of his life 
before him. He made a brave struggle 
against starvation and death, which at this 
sad time robbed him of the dearest of his 
children. He found that fate was sum- 
moning him back to the pulpit, a sphere 
he wished to avoid. Yet in the battle for 
bread he was tempted to respond to a 
call from a small Jewish congregation in 
Hoboken, N. J., named Adath Emuno. 
Out of several candidates, Mr. Schindler 
was chosen, and in November, 187 1, he 
again donned his sacerdotal robes, and from 
that time the star of fortune began to 
illumine his sky. In 1874 he came to Bos- 
ton and took charge of the congregation 
Adath Israel, which then worshiped in a 
small cliapel on Pleasant Street. Ten 
years later the little Pleasant Street syna- 
gogue moved to the imposing temple, cor- 
ner of Columbus Avenue and Northampton 
Street. 

Rabbi Schindler is a gentleman of rare 
literary attainments ; he is a bold and 
versatile writer, and is the author of the 
following works : " Messianic Expectations 
and Modern Judaism," " Dissolving Views 
in the History of Judaism," and '' Ein 
Riieckblick" (the German translation of 
" Looking Backward," by Bellamy). Many 
of his lectures were published in the Bos- 
ton "Herald," "Globe," and "Beacon." 

He interprets Judaism in the most liberal 
manner, and endeavors to enlighten both 
lews and Gentiles in regard to what he 
claims is the " true mission of modern 
Judaism." 

He ranks to-day as one of Boston's 
most esteemed citizens. In 1888 he was 
elected by a unanimous vote to the school 
board for three years, having been put 
forward as a candidate by all political 
parties. He is the secretary of the United 
Hebrew Benevolent Society, and has 



helped, in this capacity, to bring about 
changes and improvements which make it 
one of the best regulated organizations of 
that kind in the country. 

SEARS, Stephen, son of Barnabas and 
Hannah (Crocker) Sears, was born in 
South Yarmouth, Barnstable county, July 
15, 1822. 

His knowledge from books was gained in 
a limited attendance at the district school 
and by home study. His industrial educa- 
tion was fostered by labor upon the farm, 
in salt works, etc. 

His earlier manhood was spent in quite 
versatile pursuits, including the several oc- 
cupations of farmer, manufacturer, sailor, 
mechanic, teacher, agent for publishing 
houses, etc. He has been called to serve 
his town in various offices, some of which 
he now holds ; and the commission of jus- 
tice of the peace he has held for thirty 
years. 

Mr. Sears was married in Clarence, 
N. Y., to Henrietta A., daughter of Andrew 
and Laura (Leonard) Hull. C>f this union 
are two living children : Laura H. (Sears) 
Hallett and Dr. Stephen H. Sears. 

Mr. Sears has been identified with all 
that has been progressive and for the ad- 
vancement of the material prosperity of 
his native town, and stands to-day a typi- 
cal representative of the sturdy, self-made 
men who contribute by their sterling in- 
tegrity and force of character to the suc- 
cess and maintenance of New England's 
cherished institutions. 

SEARS, William BaRNAS, son of Barnas 
and Elizabeth Griggs (Corey) Sears, was 
born in Hamilton, Madison county, N. Y., 
June 1 1, 1832. 

He received his educational training in 
the private school of Ebenezer Woodward, 
of Newton Centre, Mass., the German clas- 
sical school of Dr. Carl Seidhof (three 
years) and under private tutors, of whom 
were President Eben Dodge, Madison Uni- 
versity, President Alvah Hovey, D. D., 
Newton Theological Institution, and Pro- 
fessor William Russell, Normal Academy, 
Derry, N. H. 

He was engaged for a time as assistant 
teacher m the Pierce Academy, Middle- 
liorough, in the departments of German, 
Latin, and Greek. 

His earliest associations in business life 
were with Gardner Colby, Boston, three 
years ; Harrison Fay and Aaron Corey, 
Alton III, one year ; Lyman Sears & Co., 
boots and shoes. New York, three years ; 
Bowen, McNamee & Co., jobbers of silks 



SEARS. 



SEELYE. 



543 



and dress-goods, New York, three and one- 
half years, anil with Paton & Co., importers 
of lace and upholstery, New York. 

June 6, I1S61, he was commissioned hv 
Governor \\m. Sprague ist lieutenant, 2d 
regiment, Rhode Island volunteers, and re- 
ceived a captain's commission, October 28 
of that year. He was mustered out of 
service, June 17, 1864, at the expiration of 
his term of service. His honorable con- 
duct in the war was uniformly attested by 
his associate and superior officers, and the 
record has since been emphasized by the 
many positions of honor and trust to which 
he has been called by his comrades-in- 
arms. 

He was senior vice-commander of I'ost 
26, (;. A. R., and an original member of 
the Post ; was commander of Post 143, 
Cj. a. R., Brookline, two years, and has 
been re-elected twice since, but declined to 
serve. He was a member of the Ancient and 
Honorable Artillerv Company ten years ; 
Roxbury Horse Cuards, ist ^Iassachusetts 
cavalry militia, eight years ; captain of 
company C, ist regiment, Massachusetts 
militia, during the Boston fire ; has been a 
member of the Military Order of the 
Loyal Legion since 187 1 ; served on the 
staff of General \\'illiam Cogswell, depart- 
ment commander of Massachusetts, also 
on the staff of Governor Lucius P'airchild, 
national department commander-in-chief, 
G. A. R. He was president of the 2d R. I. 
Yeteran Association, 1887. 

Mr. Sears has been a member of the 
Boston Baptist Social Union since 1868, 
having been a director two years, and vice- 
president in 1887 and '88. He is a promi- 
nent member of the Masonic fraternitv, 
32d degree. 

His business since 1865 has been that of 
fire insurance agent and broker, with an 
office at 45 Kilby Street. His residence 
is Brookline 

Mr. Sears was married in Roxburv, 
February i, 1863, to Emily A., daughter 
of Stephen and Rebecca W. (Langley) 
Faunce. His second marriage was with 
Sadie A., daughter of Joshua and Annie 
(Pearse) Hunt, October 24, 1881, in Provi- 
dence, R. L His children are : William 
B. Sears, Jr., Langley B., Harry Bowers, 
Stephen !•'., and Ktlward H. Sears. 

Mr. Sears is peculiarly fortunate and 
honored in his ancestry. Few more con- 
spicuous or honorable lives have blessed 
their generation than that which closed 
with the decease of his father, the Rev. 
Barnas Sears. He was born in Sandis- 
field, Berkshire countv, graduated from 



Brown University and Newton Theologi- 
cal Institution ; was pastor of the First 
liajnist church, Hartford, Conn.; professor 
in Hamilton College, N. Y.; studied three 
years in Leipsic, (jerman)-, and in Paris ; 
was professor, and later on president, of the 
Newton Theological Institution ; secretary 
of the state board of education, appointed 
by Governor Briggs to succeed Horace 
Mann ; was president of Brown Univer- 
sity, succeeding Dr. Wayland ; was ap- 
pointed by George Peabody, of London, 
general agent of the Peabody educational 
fund for the Southern states, and after 
twelve years' service died in Saratoga, 
N. Y., July 6, 1880. 

The mother of Mr. Sears, Elizabeth 
Griggs Corey, was the daughter of Deacon 
Elijah Corey, Corey Hill, Brookline. 

SEELYE, Julius Hawley, son of Seth 
and Abigail (Taylor) Seelye, was born in 
Bethel, Fairfield county. Conn., September 
14, 1824. 

His earl V education was obtained in the or- 
dinary district schools. He entered Amherst 
College and was graduated therefrom in 
the class of 1849 ; studied at Auburn Theo- 
logical Seminary from 1849 to '52 ; after 
which he traveled abroad, and for a year 
(i852-'3) he pursued his theological stud- 
ies in Halle, Germany. 

Returning home, he was ordained in 
Schenectady, N. Y., and called to the pas- 
torate of the First Reformed Dutch church 
in that place, where he remained until 
1858. His erudite scholarship attracted 
the attention of his tr/j//a viaicr, and upon 
his resignation of his pastorate he was 
called to the chair of mental and moral 
philosophy in Amherst, where he remained 
until 1875. His influence for a higher and 
broader education was not confined, how- 
ever, to the college grounds. The inhab- 
itants of the congressional district where 
he resitled decided that the state and the 
nation at large should receive the benefit 
t)f his independent thought and practical 
work, and irrespective of party affiliations, 
elected him a member of the 44th Con- 
gress, and he served as a member of the 
national House of Representatives from 
December 6, 1875, to March 3, 1877 ; he 
declined, however, a second term. While 
in Congress, though usually voting with 
the Republicans, he opposed the Electoral 
Commission and the declaration of the 
election of Rutherford B. Hayes. He was 
called to the presidency of Amherst Col- 
lege in 1877, which office he now holds. 

He has traveled extensively, and in 1872 
resjionded to an invitation from India to 



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SEELVE. 



SHATTUCK. 



deliver a course of lectures. He served 
on the state commission appointed in i<S74 
to revise the laws relating to taxation. 

The " Amherst system " of self-govern- 
ment was inaugurated by President Seelye, 
and has been of incalculable benefit to the 
students, who now have a large share in the 
maintenance of discipline. 

President Seelye has been a trustee of 
the Clarke Institution for Deaf Mutes, and 
of Smith College, Northampton, and a 
member of the board of visitors of Ando- 
ver Theological Seminary. He was chair- 
man of the board before whom the cele- 
brated "Andover case" was tried in 1887. 

Union College conferred the degree of 
D. D. in 1862, and that of LL. I), was re- 
ceived from Columbia in 1876. 

President Seelye has frequently written 
for the leading magazines and reviews ; 
has published a translation of Dr. Albert 
Schwegler's " History of Philosophy " 
1856); "Lectures to Educated Hindus" 
1873), republished under the title " The 
Way, the Truth and the Life." This has 
also been translated into Hindustani, Jap- 
anese and German. " Christian Mission " 
and a revision of " Hickok's Moral 
Science " are also from his pen. 

SEELYE, Laurenus Clark, .son of 

Seth and Abigail (Taylor) Seelye, was born 
in Bethel, Fairfield county, Conn., Septem- 
ber 20, 1837. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in private schools. Having passed his 
preparatory course, he entered Union Col- 
lege in 1853 and was graduated in the class 
of 1857. He remained one year at Union 
College, pursuing post-graduate studies, 
and afterwards entered Andover Theo- 
logical Seminary, taking the courses of 
study with the junior and middle classes. 
He then went to Europe and studied in 
the universities in Berlin and Heidelberg 
during the )-ears 1861 and '62. 

Returning, he was called to the pastorate 
of the North church, Springfield, in 1863, 
where he remained two years. In 1865 he 
became professor of rhetoric and English 
literature in Amherst College, where he 
officiated until 1873. He was called to the 
presidency of Smith College, Northampton, 
the latter year, which position he still holds. 

President Seelye was married in Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., November 17, 1863, to Henri- 
etta, daughter of Lyman and Harriet (Shel- 
don) Chapin. Of this union were seven 
children : Ralph Holland, Harriet ("hapin, 
Abigail Taylor, Arthur Moody, ^Valter 
Clark, Henrietta Sheldon, and Bertram 
Seelye (deceased). 



SHARPLES, Stephen Paschall, son 

of Philip Price and Mary A. (Paschall) 
Sharpies, was born in West Chester, Chester 
county. Pa., April 21, 1842. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in private schools, finishing with Bol- 
mars .\cademy and the West Chester nor- 
mal school, the Agricultural College of 
Pennsylvania, and the Lawrence scientific 
school, Harvard University, where he was 
graduated in 1S66 with honors. 

He was one year instructor in chemistry 
in the Lehigh LTni versify in Bethlehem, Pa.; 
three years assistant at the Lawrence sci- 
entific school ; assistant editor of the 
" Boston Journal of Chemistry " one year ; 
appointed professor of chemistry in the 
Boston Dental College in 1874, a position 
which he still holds. He was engaged as 
an expert on the tenth census, and pre- 
pared and wrote one-third of the ninth 
volume. He has written a number of 
articles on adulteration of food, and has 
been constantly employed in the courts 
as an expert in matters relating to chem- 
istry. 

He is at present engaged in writing, 
together with L. A. Morrison, a special 
treatise on genealogical history. He has 
made many extended trips to the important 
mineral fields of North America — notably 
in 1881 to Turk's Island, in 1882 to West 
Virginia, and 1886 to the north coast of 
Newfoundland. 

Prof. Sharpies is a fellow of the Ameri- 
can Academy of Arts and Sciences, the 
Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, the 
Natural History Society of Boston, the 
American Pharmaceutical Association, the 
American Chemical Society, and the Amer- 
ican Association for the Advancement of 
Science. He is a member of the American 
iVIining Engineers, and the Society of In- 
dustrial Chemistry of London ; assayer 
and inspector of intoxicating liquors for 
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and 
has his residence in Cambridge. 

Prof. Sharpies was married in Cambridge, 
June 16, 1870, to Abbie M., daughter of 
brrin and Sarah N. (Stickney) Hall. Of 
this union were five children : Mabel H., 
Philip P., Sarah H., William H., and Alice 
W. Sharpies. 

SHATTUCK, George Otis, son of 

Joseph and Hannah (Bailey) Shattuck, was 
born in Andover, Essex county. May 2, 
1829. Both his grandfathers were soldiers 
in the war of the revolution, and his great 
grandfather, Bailey, was killed at Bunker 
Hill. His family is descended from Wil- 
liam Shattuck, who was born in Enigland 



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SHAW. 



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about 162 1, and uIki dieil in \\ atertown, 
August 14, 1672. 

?^Ir. Shattuck prepared for college at 
Phillips Academy, Andover ; entered Har- 
vard College ill 1847, and was graduated 
in the class of 185 1. Selecting the pro- 
fession of the law, he began his legal studies 
in the office of Charles (i. Loring, and at- 
tended for two years the Harvard law school, 
from which the degree of LL. B. was re- 
ceived in 1854. 

Admitted to the bar in January, 1855, 
he commenced legal practice in September 
of that year, and for a short time was as- 
sociated with J. Randolph Coolidge. In 
]\Ia)% 1856, he became associated in the 
practice of the law with the Hon. I'eleg 
W. Chandler, this relation continuing until 
February, 1S70. At that date he associ- 
ated himself with William A. Munroe, and 
later with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., these 
relations continuing until the appointment 
of ■ Mr. Holmes to the supreme bench of 
Massachusetts in 1882 — the firm now 
being Shattuck & Munroe. 

Mr. Shattuck was a member of the Bos- 
ton common council in 1862, and for many 
years has been one of the overseers of Har- 
vard College, and is a member of the Mas- 
sachusetts Historical Society. 

In 1857 Mr. Shattuck was married tu 
Emily, daughter of Charles and Susan 
(Sprague) Copeland, of Roxbury. He has 
one daughter : Susan, now the wife of Dr. 
Arthur I'racy Cabot. 

Mr. Shattuck has had an e.xtensive legal 
practice, and has been particularly success- 
ful as a corporation lawyer, and in the 
handling of commercial cases of mag 
nitude. His success in obtaining from 
the jury heavy verdicts in three successive 
trials of the well-known suit of Snow vs. 
Alley, with Hon. Robert G. Ingersoll as 
an opponent, proves his power as a jury 
lawyer. 

SHAW, BENJAMIN Franklin, was born 
in Monmouth, Kennebec county, Maine, 
November 2, 1832. 

His earl)^ education was obtained in the 
common schools and academies of Tops- 
ham and Brunswick, Me. His first con- 
nection in business was in Philadelphia, 
1853, in sash, blind and door manufactur- 
ing. In 1854 he was accountant for l.ip- 
pincott, Grambo & Co., subsequently J. 15. 
Lippincott iS: Co., publishers. Leaving 
their employ, he established a cattle ranch 
in Kansas, having collected his young 
stock in southern Missouri, amid the 
perils incident to the condition of affairs 
at that time. In 1866 he became real 



estate clerk for J. C Ayer & Company, 
Lowell, Mass. 

While there, he invented the seamless 
stocking, and the Shaw stocking loom. 
In 1869 he became a partner in the glue 
and phosphate business of Upton, Shaw & 
Company, Peabody and Brighton, residing 
at Cambridgeport. In 1876 he returned 
to Lowell and perfected the " Shaw-knit " 
stocking and loom, which in 1877 became 
the property of the Shaw Stocking Com- 
pany, of which he became and still remains 
manager. In 1888 he established the 
Babe's Ease Manufacturing Company. 




BENJAMIN F. iHA/V. 

Mr. Shaw was married in Gardiner, 
Me., in January, 1853, to Harriet Newell 
Howard. Of this union were four chil- 
dren : Addie Frances, Clifford Franklin, 
Ralph Henry, and Jennie May Shaw. 

While in Philadelphia he assisted in the 
compilation of the "Allen Primary Geog- 
raphy," and wrote "The Comprehensive 
Geography" for higher schools. This was 
a novel work, many of whose features have 
been adopted by succeeding or contempo- 
raneous authors, and was highly com- 
mended by Barnas Sears, President Hill of 
Harvard, and other leading educators. The 
book was compiled by night, after the work 
of the counting-house was over, and occu- 
pied in its preparation about three years. 



546 



SHAW. 



SHAW. 



W'hWe engaged in the glue and phos- 
pliate business, he patented a number of 
processes and apparatuses incident and 
valuable to that business. 

In 1880 he visited England to introduce 
the seamless stocking industry, and exhib- 
ited his looms in Chancery Lane, Lon- 
don, to manufacturers from every Euro- 
pean country, and at the palace of West- 
minster before the Lord Chancellor. He 
sold the English patent to a corpora- 
tion, to be operated at Leicester. His 
machine was threatened with destruc- 
tion by the hand -frame knitters of Leices- 
ter, and proposing investors were subjected 
to intimidation. Before leaving London 
he was complimented with a banquet, and 
with a public recognition of the service he 
had done textile manufacturers, second 
only to that of William Lee of England, 
the inventor of the first stocking-frame. 

In 1S79 he acquired a large tract of land 
on the Ossipee Mountain, Moultonbor- 
ough, N. H., which he laid out and im- 
proved under the name of " Ossipee Moun- 
tain Park." In 1882 the highest summit 
of the Ossipee Mountain range was named 
" Mt. Shaw " by the citizens assembled in 
their annual March meeting. This honor 
Mr. Shaw acknowledged by building a look- 
out on the summit, and by entertaining at 
his house the entire population of the 
town, July 4th of that year — a memorable 
event in the history of the town. This 
park, which has become famous for its 
romantic scenerv, and its grand views of 
lake and mountains, and which is open to 
the public, is the summer residence of the 
family of Mr. Shaw. 

SHAW, Edward PAYSON, son of Ma- 
jor Samuel and Abigail (Bartlett) Shaw, 
was born in Newburyport, Esse.x county, 
September i, 1841, 

He derived ins earl\- education from 
public and private schools 

From 1859 to '63 he drove a hack in 
business for himself, the youngest driver 
ever licensed in Newburyport. He was 
frugal, and attentive to his business, al- 
ways to be relied upon. He was able in 
1863 to purchase an express business, run- 
ning from Newburyport to Boston — 
" Shaw's Express." 

This he continued until 187 1, when he 
engaged in the wholesale flouring and prod- 
uce business, buying the interest of Mr. 
Swasey, of the firm of Sumner. Swasey & 
Currier. In 1880 he bouglit out the other 
members of the firm, continued the busi- 
ness about one year, and leased the prop- 
erty. 



He then began the business of running 
steamers between Newburyjjort and Salis- 
bury Beach (Black Rocks), and from Ames- 
bury f/a Newburyport to Boston, under 
the name of " The People's Line," of which 
he is president and chief owner. 

In 1882 he took the first contract to fur- 
nish sixty thousand tons of stone to build 
the north jetty at the mouth of the Merri- 
mack River. For furnishing the stone, he 
opened the quarry on the river near Chain 
Bridge, and formed the Newburvport 
Quarry Company, of which he is now presi- 
dent. 

He was lessee of the Newburyport & 
Amesbury Horse R. R. about three years 
from 1884 In 1887 he built and owned 
the Plum Island Street Railway, and was 




EU/llARU P SHAW 

its first president. He has since sold the 
controlling interest, but is still a director. 
He owns three-fourths of the Black Rock 
& Salisbury Beach R. R., and is general 
manager as well as its president. He is 
president of the Newburyport Car Manu- 
facturing Company (builders of street 
cars). 

Mr. Shaw was married in Cambridge- 
port, December 24, 1867^ to Annie Payson, 
daughter of James Fullerton and Frances 
Jane Trott, of Bath, Me. Of this union 
are seven children ; P^dward Payson, Annie 



SHELDON. 



SHELDON. 



547 



liartlett, James Fullerton, Lizzie .Sumner, 
(Irace Hodgdon, -Samuel Jaque.s, and Pau- 
line Shaw. 

Mr. Shaw was a member of the House of 
Representatives, 1881, '82, '88, and '89, and 
has been a member of the city council of 
Newburyport two years. He has held 
various offices in benevolent and mercan- 
tile associations, and has been for eleven 
years a director in the First National Bank 
of Newburyport. 

He is a self-made man, and one whom 
the people of his city and county deliglit 
to honor. He is ever found ready to en- 
gage in any progressive enterprise that will 
benefit the place of his nativity. 

SHELDON, George, .son of Seth and 
Caroline (Stebbins) Sheldon, was born in 
Deerfield, Franklin county, November 30, 
1 818, on the homestead which has been in 
the family since 1708. The Sheldon family 
have long been among the most distin- 
guished of the Connecticut \'alley. The 
first of the name who settled in Deer- 
field was f^nsign John Sheldon, 1684. 
.About 1698 he built the dwelling afterwards 
famous as the " Old Indian House," which 
was removed in 1848. 

George Sheldon is a lineal descendant in 
the fifth generation from Ensign Sheldon. 
His father, Seth Sheldon, was a farmer, and 
the son worked on the farm until he was 
twenty-one years of age, when an accident 
disabled him from manual labor for some 
len years. 

His early education was obtained in the 
public school and at Deerfield .Academy, 
which he attended during several winter 
terms. Mr. Sheldon has been [principally 
engaged in literary and antiquarian pursuits, 
and is an honorary or corresponding mem- 
ber of many historical societies. He is the 
author of the " History of Deerfield," orig- 
inally published in the " Gazette and 
Courier," Greenfield ; also the article on 
Deerfield in the " History of the Connect- 
icut Valley," and other historical papers of 
local interest. 

He was activelv instrumental in found- 
ing and organizing the " Pocumtuck \'al- 
ley Memorial .Association," of which he has 
been president since its organization in 
1870. He is a notary public; has been a 
justice of the peace for thirty-three years ; 
was a member of the House of Represen- 
tatives in 1867, and of the state Senate in 
1872. Mr. Sheldon was married June 11, 
1844, to Susan Stewart, daughter of John F. 
and Catherine (Knapp) Alexander Stearns. 
His only living child is : John Sheldon of 
dreenfield. 



SHELDON, HENRY Clay, son of Ira 
and Fanny .Maria (liinghani) Sheklon, was 
born in Martinsburgh, Lewis county, N. V., 
March 12, 1845. 

His primary educational training was 
received in the public schools, and his pre- 
paratory course was pursued at Lowville 
Academy, N. Y. He was graduated from 
Yale College in the class of 1867 ■ from 
the school of theology, Boston LIniversity, 
in 187 1 ; studied at Leipzig University a 
portion of the time during the years 1874 
and '75 ; was an instructor in Delaware 
Literary Institute, I'ranklin, N. Y., one 
year after leaving college ; was engageil 
in pastoral work for three }'ears, 1871 to 
'74, and since 1875 has taught in Boston 
University as professor of historical theol- 
ogy. His residence in recent years has 
been in West Newton. 

Professor Sheldon was married Septem- 
ber 16, 1875, to M. Louise, daughter of 
Theodore S. and Mary J. (Owen) McLellan. 
Of this union are two children : Herbert 
Prescott and Ernest McLellan Sheldon. 

Professor Sheldon first aiijieared as an 
author in 1886, at which date his " History 
of Christian Doctrine," in two volumes, 
was published bv Harper & Brothers, New 
York. 

SHELDON, Henry S., son of Simecm 
and Naomi (Clapp) Sheldon, was born De- 
cember 21, 1828, at Southampton, Hamp- 
shire county. 

He was educated in the common schools 
and high school of his native town. 

Lie chose the occupation of farmer, anil 
has made no change of busine.ss. 

Mr. Sheldon was married in Westfield, 
June I, 1854, to .Antoinette E,, daughter 
of Job and Laura (Tuller) Searle. Of this 
union are five children : Lillie E., Franklin 
H., Robert H., Hattie A., and Millie T. 
Sheldon. 

Mr. Sheldon is a trustee of Sheldon 
.Academv, also of the librar)- association ; 
a trustee and steward of the M. F>. church, 
in Southampton, and has been chairman of 
the selectmen and assessors for many 
years. He was also a member of the 
House of Representatives in 1879. 

SHELDON, Wallace C, son of 

Charles and Sally (Felt) Sheldon, was born 
at Nelson, Cheshire county, N. H., .April 
6, 1832. 

He attended the conniion district school 
of Nelson about si.x weeks in the year until 
twelve years of age. He then attended 
school at Jaffrey, N. H., and subsequently 
the high school at Saxton's River, ^'t. 



548 



SIIEPARD. 



SHEPARD. 



In 1853 he became interested in the 
meat business with Horace Bond, at Ware, 
and the next year went into the hotel busi- 
ness with Samuel H. Phelps, and after- 
w'ard, having bought out Mr. Bond, con- 
tinued the meat business for fifteen years, 
when he made a change, and selling out 
his interests, took up the real estate busi- 
ness, which he now carries on at Ware. 

He served as deputy sheriff for nine 
years, which included the time of the cele- 
brated Northampton bank robbery, he hav- 
ing charge of the prisoner, Dunlap, nearly 
the whole time he was on trial. 

Mr. Sheldon was married in AVare, 1855, 
to Lucy A., the daughter of Horace and 
Nancy (Hatch) Bond, by whom he has two 
sons and a daughter. 

SHEPARD, Edward Olcott, the son 

of Rev. John W. and Eliza (Burns) Shep- 
ard, was born in Hampton, Rockingham 
county, N. H., November 25, 1S35. 

He was fitted for college at the Nashua 
high school, N. H., entered .\mherst Col- 
lege, and graduated with the class of i860. 
He then became principal of the high 
school at Concord, Mass., and continued in 
that relation till Jime, 1862, when he 
enlisted for the war, being commissioned 
1st lieutenant of company G, 32d regiment 
Massachusetts volunteers. 

He was promoted to captain and major 
in the same regiment, and breveted lieu- 
tenant-colonel ; was present at Fredericks- 
burg, Chancellorsville, second Bull Run, 
Antietam, Gettysburg, battles of the Wil- 
derness, battles before Petersburg, and, in 
fact, every battle of the 5th corps of the 
army of the Potomac down to the surrender 
at Appomattox court-house. He was 
wounded and taken prisoner at the second 
battle of Hatcher's Run, while in command 
of the brigade skirmish line, February 5, 
1865; incarcerated in Libby Prison, and re- 
leased on parole February 22, 1865. 

Upon being honorably mustered out at 
the close of the war, General Shepard 
studied law with Harvey Jewell, William 
Gaston and Walbridge A. Field, in Boston, 
and was admitted to the bar April 18, 1867. 
He became a member of the firm in 187 1. 
Upon Mr. Gaston's election as governor, 
the firm became Jewell, Field & Shepard, 
and upon the appointment of Judge Field 
to the supreme bench in 1881, Jewell iS: 
Shepard. Since the decease of Hon. Har- 
vey Jewell, in December, 1881, Gen. Shep- 
ard has carried on the practice of law by 
himself. His firm were the counsel for 
the Metropolitan Street Railway Company 
from 1865 to '81, and General Shepard 



was its general counsel from 1881 until it 
was merged into the West End Street 
Railway Company, in 1887, when he be- 
came counsel of that corporation for the 
department of claims and accidents, which 
responsible position he holds at the pres- 
ent time. 




EDWARD O, SHEPARD. 

He was a member of the common coun- 
cil of Boston, 1872, and president of that 
body, 1873 and '74. He was appointed 
judge-advocate general upon the staff of 
Governor Oliver Ames, with the rank of 
brigadier-general, in 1887, and now holds 
that position and military rank. 

He married, June 18, 1874, Mary C, 
daughter of the Hon. Micajah and Mary 
(Johnson) Lunt, of Newburyport, by whom 
he has four children : Mary Lunt, Edward 
Olcott, Ralph Lunt, and Allan Richards 
Shepard. 

SHEPARD, Harvey Newton, son of 

William and Eliza Shepard, was born in 
Boston, July 8, 1850. 

He received his early education in the 
Eliot school, graduating in 1863, and en- 
tered Wesleyan Academy, at Wilbraham, 
w^here he graduated in 1867. He then 
entered Harvard College, graduating in 
the class of 1871, and then the Harvard 
law school, from which he graduated the 
following year. 



SHEPAKIX 



SHEPARI). 



549 



Connecting himself with the law firm of 
Hillard, Hyde i!v: Dickinson, he remained 
for three years, when in 1875 he opened 
an office of his own. From 1883 to '87 
he was assistant attorney-general of the 
Commonwealth, and has since that time 
continued in the practice of his profession. 
In 1 88 1 he was admitted to practice at the 
bar of the United States supreme court. 

Mr. Shepard was married at Everett, on 
the 23d of November, 1S73, to Fannie 
May, daughter of Azor and Temperance 
Woodman. Their children are : (Jrace 
Florence, Marion, Alice Mabel, and Edith 
May Shepard. 

Mr. Shepard was a member of the Re- 
publican city committee of Boston in 1874 
and '75, of the Republican state central 
committee in 1875, '76 and '77, and presi- 
dent of the Young Men's Republican state 
committee in i879-'8o. He has been an 
earnest member of the Massachusetts 
Tariff Reform League since its organiza- 
tion and is now the chairman of its e.xecu- 




HARVEY N. SHEPARD. 

tive committee. The tariff issue has 
taken him out of the Republican party, and 
to-day he is an active Democrat. 

He was a member of the Boston city 
council, 1878, '79, and '80 — its president 
during the latter year — a trustee of the 
Boston public library, i878-'79, on its 



examining committee, 188S and '89, man- 
ager of the Old South A.ssociation, 1880. 
and a member of the House of Represen- 
tatives, 1 88 1 and '82. He was president 
of the Excelsior Associates, i867-'7i ; 
president of the Eliot School Associa- 
tion, i88i-'82, and treasurer since then ; 
worshipful master of St. John's Lodge, 
F. &: A. M., 1881-82 ; high priest of St. 
John's Chapter, i882-'83 ; thrice illustri- 
ous master of East Boston council, 1887- 
'88 ; district deputy grand master of the 
ist Masonic district, 1883, '84, '85 ; com- 
missioner of trials of the Grand Lodge, 
1885, '86, '87, '88, and '89 ; president of 
the New P2ngland Club in 1886, '87, '88, 
and '89 ; vice-president of the Boston Loan 
& Mortgage Company, Kansas City, Mo., 
i888-'89 ; a director in the Revere Street 
Railway Company, 1888 ; president of the 
Arlington Brick & Tile Company of 
Florida, 1886, '87, '88, '89. 

He delivered the Fourth of July oration 
before the city government of Boston in 
1884, and the oration before the faculty 
and graduates of the Wesleyan Academy, 
1887. He has always taken an active part 
in political matters since 1874, and has 
spoken in most of the political campaigns. 
He has been orator on Memorial Day in 
some prominent town or city since 187S. 

Mr. Shepard thus shows a record of ac- 
tive and successful service rarely equaled 
by a young man of his years. He has in 
his chosen profession conducted and won 
several celebrated causes, both in private 
practice and for the Commonwealth, and 
few stand to-day better equipped for a 
career of continued success and enlarged 
usefulness. 

SHHPARD, John, son of John and 
Lucy (Hunt) Shepard, was born in Canton, 
Norfolk county, March 26, 1834. 

He received his early education in the 
public schools of Pawtucket, R. L, and at 
an evening school in Boston. 

In 1845 he worked for J. W. Snow, Bos- 
ton, in the drug business, and in 1847 for 
1. A. Jones in the dry-goods trade. In 
1853, at nineteen years of age, he went 
into business for himself under the firm 
name of John Shepard & Co., and in 1861 
he bought out Bell, Thing & Co., Tremont 
Row, doing business until 1865 under the 
name of Farley & Shepard. Since that 
time he has been the senior partner of the 
firm of Shepard, Norwell & Co., dry-goods 
merchants, on Winter Street in the city of 
Boston. 

Mr. Shepard was marrieii in Boston, 
lanuary i, 1856, to Susan .\., tlaughter of 



550 



siiEriiEkii. 



SHERMAN. 



Perkins H. and Charlotte (White) P.agley. 
Their two children are : John Shepard, Jr., 
and Jessie Watson Shepard. 

Mr. Shepard is a member of the Mer- 
chants' Association, a director of the Lin- 
coln Bank, the Lamson Store Service 
Company, the Connecticut River Paper 
Company, and vice-president of the Burn- 
stein Electric Company. 

Mr. Shepard is an ardent and well- 
known lover of fast trotting horses, he 
himself having owned some of the most 
valuable ec|uine stock in the country. He 
continues to find in raising anil driving the 
finest horses, relaxation from the e.xacting 
demands of the immense business he has 
brought to such a high standard of honor- 
able prosperity. 

He resides in the winter on Beacon 
Street, in the city of Boston, and has a 
summer residence called " F^dgewater" at 
l^hillips Beach, in Svvampscott. 

SHEPHERD, Joseph Choate, son of 

Ceorge H. and Mary Ann (Choate) Shep- 
herd, was born in Gloucester, Es.sex county, 
.March 24, 1845. 




JOSEPH C. SHEPHERD. 

His education was limited to the common 
schools. He has always been engaged in 
the meat business since he entered upon 
his life's career, and for twenty years he 
has been in business for himself in Glou- 



cester, ranking among the leading mer- 
chants of that city. 

He is a member of the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows, Patriarchs Militant, 
Independent Order of Red Men, Knights 
of Honor, Ancient Order of United Work- 
men, Royal .'Arcanum, and the Grand .\rmy 
of the Republic. 

During the war he served as private in 
the 8th Massachusetts regiment. In 1878 
he was elected to the common council ; 
was a member of the board of aldermen 
in 1887, and re-elected in 1888. 

Mr. Shepherd is in that branch of the 
distinguished Choate family in which 
Rufus Choate is found. 

He was married in Rockport, June 20, 
1869, to Martha Sanborn, daughter of 
Emers<m and Martha L. Colbv. Of this 
union were three children : Frank C, Ella 
B., and Ralph C. Shepherd. 

SHERMAN, David, son of Roger Stev- 
ens and Orilla (Moses) Sherman, was born 
in New Lebanon, Columbia county, N. V., 
June 17, 1822. He is a descendant of 
Hon. Philip Sherman, one of the original 
settlers of Boston. His early life was 
spent with his father on a farm. 

He passed through the public schools 
of his native place, the classical school 
of New Lebanon, Bristol's classical school, 
Canaan, N. Y., and the Wesleyan Acad- 
emy, Wilbraham, finishing his course of 
three years at the latter institution in 1843. 

The same year he was married, in Wil- 
braham, June 4th, to Catharine Bardwell, 
daughter of Chester and Nancy (Brewer) 
Moody. Mrs. Moody was the daughter of 
Gains Brewer, grandson of the old Spring- 
field parson. Of this union are two chil- 
dren : Roger Cecil (clergyman), and Stephen 
O. Sherman (city editor of the "Boston 
Traveller.") Mrs. Sherman died January 
23, 1885. 

Mr. Sherman united with the Methodist 
Episco|)al church in 1838 ; joined the New 
England conference in 1843, and since that 
time has been in continuous charge of a 
church as minister, or of a district as presid- 
ing elder. His charges have been in Ware 
( r843-'45), Chicopee ( i845-'46), Jenksville 
( 1847), North Blandford (i848-'49), Shrews- 
bury (i85o-'si), Southbridge (i852-'53). 
South lioston (1854), superuLimerar}' rela- 
tion (185:;), Spencer (i856-'57), Warren 
{i8s8-'6o), Medford (1865), Lynn (1878- 
'80), Hopkinton (i88i-'84), Holliston 
(i884-'86), and in 1887 Easthampton, his 
present residence. 

He was presiding elder of the Worcester 
district from 1861 to '64 ; Springfield dis- 



SI IKK MAN. 



SHERMAN. 



551 



trict, 1866 to '69 : l.vnn district, 1870 to 
'73 ; and of Boston ilistrict, 1874 to '77. 

He was a member of the general confer- 
ences of 1864, '68, and '72 He proposed 
woman's ballot on lay delegation, antl sev- 
eral important amendments to the church 
discipline. He received the degree of D. 1). 
from Wesleyan University in 1872 ; pub- 
lished a volume on " New England Divines" 
in i86o; " History of the Discipline," 1874; 
has for several years been correspondent 
of the church papers ; editor of the " New 
England Methodist " three years, and for 
twenty-five years has reviewed Harjier's 
entire book-list. He prepared the Sherman 
Genealogy for the " (Genealogical Regis- 
ter " for i87o-'73. 

SHERMAN, Edgar Ja'i', son of David 
and Fanny (Kendall) Sherman, was born 
in \Veathersfield, Windsor county, Vt., No- 
vember 28, 1834. In about 1632 Edmund 
Sherman and wife emigrated to .America 
from Dedham, England, and settled in 
Watertown ; removed to Weathersfield, 
Conn., and finally fi.xed their abode in New 
Haven, where they died. There are two 
distinct branches of the Sherman family in 
this country. From the branch whose an- 
cestor is recorded above sprang the pater- 
nal ancestry of Gen. William T. Sherman, 
and ITnited States Senator John Sherman 
of Ohio, as well as that of the subject of 
this sketch. 

Mr. Sherman attended the district 
schools of Weathersfield, \'t., until he had 
attained his sixteenth year, and was then 
sent to study in the Wesleyan Seminary in 
Springfield, Vt. Here he remained until 
his parents removed to Lawrence. There 
he entered upon a course of private study 
under the tuition of Professor Pike, which 
he prosecuted for several )-ears, teaching 
school during the winter months in Barn- 
stable county. 

He began the study of law in 1855, and 
in -March, 1858, was admitted to the bar. 
He immediately began legal practice, and 
formed a co-partnership with Daniel Saun- 
ders, under the firm title of Saunders & 
Sherman. These relations lasted until 
1864. He was subsequently associated 
with John K. Tarbo.x, under the firm name 
of Sherman & Tarbox, until 1870, after 
which he was in practice alone until 1878, 
when he formed a partnership with Charles 
U. Bell, under the name of Sherman & 
Bell, which terminated in 1887. 

.Mr. Sherman was appointed clerk of the 
Lawrence police court, holding the office 
from 1859 to '6r, when he resigned. In 
the year 1862 he enlisted as a private 



soldier in the 4Sth regiment, Massachu- 
setts volunteers, and was soon elected 
and commissioned captain of company F. 
He was sent to the department of the 
Gulf under command of General N. P. 
Banks, doing excellent service, notably 
at the second assault on Port Hudson, 
June 14, 1863, and for which he was brev- 
eted major for gallant and meritorious 
conduct. 

.■\t the expiration of his term of service 
he returned home, and when the enemy at- 
tempted a raid on Washington, he organized 
a military company at two days' notice, 
and again went to the front as captain in 
the famous 6th Massachusetts regiment. 
With it he completed the retjuired term of 
service and then returned once more to 
civil Hfe. 

In 1865 Mr. Sherman received his first 
election to the House of Representatives, 
and served on the committee on the judici- 
ary and on federal relations. In 1866 
he was re-elected and served on several 
important committees ; the same year he 
was appointed judge advocate upon the 
division staff, state militia, with the rank of 
major. In 1867 he was promoted to the 
position of assistant adjutant-general and 
chief of starf,with the rank of colonel. This 
office he held until 1876. In 1868 Mr. Sher- 
man was elected district attorney for the 
eastern district of Massachusetts, served to 
popular acceptance, and received the honor 
of five consecutive re-elections. He re- 
signed this office to accept that of attorney- 
general of the Commonwealth, to which of- 
fice he had been nominated and elected in 
1882 on the Republican state ticket. This 
office he resigned October i, 1887, to accept 
the appointment of associate justice of the 
superior court. He was appointed register 
in bankruptcy by Chief Justice Chase in 
1877. 

For many years he has been a member 
of the standing committee of the Essex 
Bar .Association, of which he is an 
acknowledged leader. He has been a di- 
rector in the Lawrence National Bank 
since 1872 ; and a trustee of the Broadway 
Savings Bank several years. He is in- 
debted for his brilliant success to his own 
native abilities, assiduous self-culture, in- 
tlomitable persistence, and commendable 
self-reliance. 

.Mr. Sherman was married November 24, 
1858, to -Vbbie Louise, daughter of Stephen 
P. and Fanny B. Simmons, of Lawrence. 
Of this union were six children : Fred Fran- 
cis, Fanny May, Elizabeth, Melvina, Roland 
Henrv. and .Abbie Maude. 



55^ 



SHILLABER. 



SHORES. 



SHILLABER, BENJAMIN PenhalLOW 
("Mrs. Partingtoi;"), son of AVilliam Shilla- 
ber and .Sally (Cutts) Sawyer, was born in 
Portsmouth, Rockingham county, N. H., 
July 12, 1S14. 

His education was obtained in the public 
schools of those days. 

At sixteen, in 1830, he was an appren- 
tice on the " New Hampshire Palladium," 
Dover, N. H. He went back to Ports- 
mouth in 1832 and worked on the "Chris- 
tian Herald" and "Courier." 

He worked as a book printer in Boston 
from 1833 to '36, and from 1836 to '38 on 
the " Royal Gazette," Demerara, British 
Ciuiana, having gone to the tropics for his 
health. He returned from Guiana in 1838. 
From 1840 to '55 he was on the " Boston 
Post," e.xcepting two years spent on the 
"Carpet Bag," 185 1 to '53, and on the 
"Saturday Evening Gazette" from 1856 
to '67. 

His present vocation is that of miscel- 
laneous writer and general newspaper cor- 
respondent. 

Mr. Shillaber was married in Boston, 
August 15, 1838, to Ann Tappan, daugh- 
ter of Ma.ximilian John de Rochemont and 
Sarah Ham Moses. Of this union were 
eight children : Ann Maria, William, Ben- 
jamin Penhallow, Caroline Wheeler, F^mma 
Frances, Louis Ira, Luc}' Grace and Lizzie 
Chase (twins) Shillaber. 

Mr. Shillaber was a member of the school 
board, Chelsea, nine years. He has been 
connected since 1843 with the L O. (). F., 
the Franklin Typographical .Society since 
1847, and the iVIasonic fraternity since 
1857. He has filled the various positions 
incident to a literary life as printer, reporter, 
editor and publisher. He has brought out 
eight books which have been successful, 
viz. : " Rhymes with Reason and With- 
out," " Life and Sayings of Mrs. Part- 
ington," " Mrs. Partington's Knitting 
Work," "Partingtonian Patchwork," "Lines 
in Pleasant Places," " Ike Partington and 
His Friends," "Cruises with Captain 
Bob," and " The Double Runner Club," — 
with one completed and ready for publi- 
cation. 

He is liberal in his religious belief and 
a Democrat in politics. He is an honorary 
member of the Dartmouth chapter uf the 
Phi Beta Kappa Society. 

While suffering latterly from painful and 
protracted disease, he has been, as ever, 
sunny and unsoured, the consciousness of 
his having tried to make the world happier 
enabling him to smile at the inevitable and 
make no wrv faces at fate. 



SHIPLEY, JOSEPH LUCIEN, son of 
John and Rebekah (Dickey) Shijilev, was 
born in Londonderrv, Rockingham county, 
N. H., March 31, 1836. 

By making the most of every facility 
offered at the district school, while work- 
ing upon the farm and at the carpenter's 
trade, he succeeded in entering Kimball 
LTnion Academy, at Meriden, N. H., and 
there fitted for Yale College, where he was 
graduated in 1861. 

Immediately after graduating, he ac- 
cepted the position of principal of Bacon 
Academy at Colchester, Conn., which posi- 
tion he held for two years, resigning it in 
1863 to become night editor of the 
"Springfield Republican." In 1869 he 
became connected with the editorial staff 
of the " Boston Journal," which position 
he held for three years. For three years 
following he was connected with papers in 
Scranton and AUentown, Pa., and in 1872 
accepted an editorial position on the 
" Springfield ITnion." He has since then 
resided in Springfield, and since 1882 has 
been editor of the " LInion " and president 
and treasurer of the company which oumis 
that paper. 

Mr. Shipley is a deac(jn of the First 
church of Springfield, and in 1885 and '86 
was vice-president of the Conngcticut 
Valley Congregational Club, and a dele- 
gate from the Massachusetts general asso- 
ciation of Congregational churches to the 
national Congregational council in Chi- 
cago, in 1886. 

On the 4th of October, 1864, Mr. Ship- 
ley was married, in Maiden, to Margaret 
H., daughter of Captain Hiram and Mar- 
garet (Dunham) Weeks of Colchester, 
Conn. They have no children. 

SHORES, David, .son of Rev. Silas 
and Abigail (Stacy) Shores, was born in 
Falmouth, Barnstable county, November 
27, 1823. 

His early training was under the per- 
sonal care of his parents, and the public 
school supplemented his home instruction 
until he had prepared himself in turn 
to give instruction in writing and vocal 
culture. Later in life he adopted farming 
as a vocation, and to this added the manu- 
facture of charcoal in kilns and the manu- 
facture of lumber. 

Mr. Shores was married in Shutesbury, 
December 7, 1845, to Emeline A., daugh- 
ter of Nathan and Melita (Fish) Paull. 
They have eight children : Silas S., Henry 
D., Benjamin, (ieorge H., Jonathan Ed- 
wards, Charles B., Mary \., and Nellie .M. 
Shores. 



SHUMWAV. 



SIMONS. 



553 



Mr. Shores has served on the school 
board of Pelham, his present residence ; 
held the office of assessor and selectman ; 
been forty years superintendent of the Sab- 
bath-school, and director of sacred music. 

SHUMWAY, AMOS WIGHT, son of 
John and Abigail Shumway, was born May 
13, 1819, at Dover, Norfolk county. 

He received his education in the public 
schools of his native town, and after leav- 
ing school, entered upon the occupation of 
farming, which he has ever since followed. 

He has been chairman of the Democratic 
town committee, and has held the office of 
selectman for twenty-three years, and that 
of assessor for thirty-four years. He has 
been a member of the school committee 
for six years, and in 1873 he was sent as a 
representative to the (leneral Court from 
the 9th Norfolk district. He was commis- 
sioned a justice of the peace in 187^, and 
has held many offices of trust, to the satis- 
faction of his fellow-townsmen. 

Mr. Shumway was married December i, 
1847, at Dover, to Hannah, daughter of 
Oliver and Sarah Harding, by whom he 
has three children : Hannah Louisa, Amos 
Wight, and William Frederick Shumway. 

SHUMWAY, ElieL, the son of Peter 
and Sarah (Spaulding) Shumway, was born 
in Townshend, Windham county, Vt., Sep- 
tember 29, 1809. 

After attending the public school at 
Townshend for one year, his parents re- 
moved to O.xford, Mass., where he was 
sent to the public school, in which he re- 
mained eight years. 

In 1835 he started in business at the 
West Groton grist and saw mills, where he 
remained twelve years. In 1847 he removed 
to Groton Centre, upon the farm he still 
owns. In 1 85 6 and '57 he held the office 
of selectman for the town of Groton. In 
1858 he was elected to represent his dis- 
trict in the House of Representatives. Mr. 
Shumway was recruiting officer for the 
town all through the war, ^nd also held the 
position of deputy provost-marslial. 

In the spring of 1S62 he was elected 
chairman of the board of selectmen, asses- 
sors, and overseers of the poor, and was 
re-elected for five successive years. In 
1873 he was again elected to the same 
offices, and was honored with a successive 
re-election in 1874 and '75. 

He was for fifteen years treasurer, and 
for twenty years trustee, of Lawrence 
Academy, Groton. At the time of re-build- 
ing the academy, he was appointed to 
superintend the same. 



Mr. Shumway was married October 24, 

1833, to Lucy E., daughter of Xoah Ball 
of Townsend, Mass., who died December 
I, 1864. He married again May 16, 1867, 
Mrs. Emma Perry, daughter of Jonathan 
Storer of Norwich, Conn. 

SIMONS, SELAR, son of Reuben and 
'I'heda (Phelps) Simons, was born in 
Orford, Grafton county, N. H., September 
22, 1803. 

He acquired a very limited education in 
the public schools of those days, and from 
a few terms' attendance at Gilmanton 
Academy, N. H. Reared on a farm, he 
followed a farmer's occupation, with a di- 
version by way of teaching during the win- 
ter season. 

In 1824 he went to Portland, Maine, and 
embarked in trade. There he remained 
four years. In 1828 he went to New Or- 
leans, La., where, for three years and 
eight months he taught a public school for 
boys, when the debilitating effects of the 
climate made it necessary for him to go 
North, and he removed to St. Louis, Mo. 

His first business there was mercantile. 
His first public employment was that of 
sheriff, to which office he was twice elect- 
ed. His next occupation was that of a 
steamboat captain on the Mississippi River, 
from St. Louis to New Orleans. 

Upon the death of a relative he was 
called home in 1854, and went to Carlisle. 
Here he has since remained, giving his at- 
tention, up to 1883, principally to farming. 
He has been a member of the school 
board, selectman, and town clerk; was con- 
nected with the assessment of internal rev- 
enue eight years ; was census enumerator 
in 1870, and has been superintendent of 
schools. He made his last annual school 
report at eighty-six years of age. He is 
the oldest school superintendent in Massa- 
chusetts, and his report is full of sugges- 
tions showing intelligence and good judg- 
ment upon educational matters, and a 
soundness of theory in discussing the 
school curriculum that is at once con.serva- 
tive and yet progressive. 

In politics he has always been conserva- 
tive. His first vote was for John Quincy 
Adams, not having at that time nor since 
any faith in the democracy of Jefferson or 
Thomas Paine, as a sovereign remedy for 
political ills, or as calculated to secure to 
any people an orderly or stable government. 

Mr. Simons is a liberal and public- 
spirited man, possessing the respect and 
esteem of his fellow-citizens. 

He was married in Carlisle, October 5, 

1834. to Clarissa, daughter of Zebulon and 



554 



SLADE. 



SLATER. 



Dorcas (Parker) Spaulding;. He has given 
up active lousiness, and among tiie peace- 
ful deligiits and occupation of liis garden, 
is enjoving the retiospect of an honored 
career, and calmly awaiting the, to him, 
not unwelcome summons to the life 
beyond. 

SLADE, Lucius, son of Samuel Slade, 
Jr., and Kunice (Angier) Slade, was born 
in Alstead, Cheshire county, N. H., April 
12, 1818. He attended public schools dur- 
ing his early scliool days, and subsequently 
was a student in the academy at Ludlow, 
Vt., and also in Unity, N. H. The early 
part of his life was spent upon a farm. 




LUCIUS SLADE. 

In 1 85 I he went into business in Faneuil 
Hall market in the city of Boston, where 
he remained ten years, then in Faneuil 
Hall Square twenty-eight years, where he 
still carries on the business. 

Mr. Slade was married in Alstead, N. H., 
March 26, 1840, to Lucy E., daughter of 
Daniel and Susanna (Evans) Rust. Of this 
union were three children : Franklin Lucius, 
Carrie L., and Lelia Lucy Slade. 

Mr. Slade joined the National Lancers 
in 1849, and is still a member of that corps. 
He has held the offices of captain and major 
of cavalry ; has been a member of the Bos- 
ton school board eight years ; a member of 
the common council two years ; served as 



alderman eight years ; was a member of 
the state Senate in i860 and '61, and been 
president of the Boston produce e.xchange. 
He is a trustee of the North End Savings 
Bank ; is an Odd Fellow and a member of 
the order of F. & A. jNL 

SLATER, AREA COVEL. son of Silas 
and Susan Slater, was born in East 
Killingly, Windham county, Conn., April 
19, 1824. 

His education was limited to that obtain- 
able in the district schools of those days — 
two terms a year until he was of age to be 
useful on the farm, then the winter term 
was his only source of book knowledge. 
But he made good use of what advantages 
he had — always exhibiting in study the 
same untiring devotion that he otherwise 
displayed in manual labor. 

In his twenty-first year he entered a 
factory at Stafford Springs, Conn., learning 
to run a dresser. In 1846 he went to 
Newton L'pper Falls, Mass., following the 
same line of work. His manifest abilitj" 
led, in 1847, to an offer from Portsmouth, 
N. H., as second overseer of a mill The 
overseer resigning four years after, he was 
promoted to that place. In the spring of 
1853 he went to Lyman Mills, Holyoke, 
where he became outside superintendent. 
I'he mill shutting down at the outbreak of 
the rebellion, he went into the armory at 
Springfield, where he remained until the 
spring of 1864. He then went to Olney- 
ville, R. I., to assist in starting the new 
Atlantic delaine mill. He began as over- 
seer, but was soon made assistant superin- 
tendent. In the fall of 1867 he became 
superintendent of the Linwood Mill at 
Wliitin Station, which position he still holds 
— a model superintendent of a model mill. 
His relations with his employers and em- 
ployees have always been pleasant, their 
love and respect being held and secured 
by his ability, common-sense and faithful 
devotion to their interests. 

Mr. Slater represented Holyoke in the 
House of Representatives in 1855, and was 
selectman in i860. He has been a trustee 
of the public library in Uxbridge for eight 
years, and vice-president of the savings 
bank for twelve years. In the Masonic 
fraternity he has been master in Mt. Tom 
Lodge, Holyoke, and in Solomon's Temple, 
LIxbridge. He was three years deputy 
grand master of the 12th Masonic district. 

August 25, 1844, Mr. Slater married 
Lucy Clarke, daughter of Frederick and 
Rachel Avery, of Kulingly, Conn. Mrs. 
Slater died January 9, 1888, leaving no 
children. April 9, i88g, Mr. Slater con- 



SLEEPER. 



SLEEPER. 



555 



traded a second marriage with l-'Ua M. 
I'otter Pierce, daughter of Henry C'iiristy 
and Rmerilda Potter. 

Mr. Slater's religious connections are 
with the Baptist church, of which, for 




ARBA C. SLATER. 

many years, he has been a consistent mem- 
ber and officer. 

SLEEPER, Jacob, son of Jacob and 
Olive (I)insdale) Sleeper, was born in New 
Castle, Lincoln county, Maine, November 
21, 1802, and died at his residence in Bos- 
ton, March 31, 1889. 

At the common schools of his native town 
and at Lincoln Academy, New Castle, he 
received his early educational training. 
At fourteen years of age he had lost both 
parents, their deaths occurring within a 
year of each other. 

Left in the care of an uncle, who became 
his guardian, he was removed to Belfast, 
Me., where he began life a poor boy. 
.\fter working as clerk for some years in 
his uncle's store, he started a store for 
himself in the same town. He was then 
twenty-one years old. After three years 
he removed to Boston and became book- 
keeper for True & Brodhead. In 1835 he 
formed a co-partnership under the firm 
name of Carney & Sleeper, clothiers. 
l''rom this date he steadily rose in finan- 
cial prosperity, and amassing a fortune in 



the w'holesale clothing business and in real 
estate transactions, he was enabled to 
retire from business in 1850. 

He had early become settled in his 
religious convictions, and it was only by 
accident that his course of life was not 
radically changed to that of the gospel 
ministry, at the age of twenty-three. 

From the very outset of the business 
life of Mr. Sleeper, he conscientiously 
abstained from hoarding his increasing 
wealth, but had always reserved a portion 
of his income for charitable and religious 
objects. For the last two years before his 
decease he had given away his entire 
income, not allowing his household ex- 
penses to e.xceed five thousand dollars per 
year. Through the greater part of his 
life he was a ]irince of benefactors, and 
his noble gifts outside of his innumerable 
private charities for the alleviation of the 
sufferings of hundreds of families will 
make his memory a precious one to many 
hearts. 

The social position to which he rose may 
be indicated by some of the offices which 
lie filled. He was president of the Massa- 
chusetts Bible Society, and vice-president 
of the American Bible Society ; president 
of the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion ; a trustee of Wesleyan University, 
Middletown, Conn., and Boston Univer- 
sity, of which he was one of three found- 
ers ; a trustee of Wilbraham Academy, 
and for twelve years overseer of Harvard 
College. In the Bromfield Street Metho- 
dist Episcopal church, which he joined in 
1825, he was a trustee, steward, and class- 
leader. He was forty-six years treasurer 
of the trustees, and for fifty-nine consecu- 
tive years the beloved Sunday-school 
superintendent. He helped to build hun- 
dreds of churches throughout America 
and in other lands. He also took a deep 
interest in the establishment of the New 
England Conservatory of Music, and the 
grand hall of that institution, known as 
Sleeper Hall, perpetuates his name. He 
endowed the Wesleyan Home for Children 
at Newton, and gave very largely to mis- 
sions. 

In 1852 he served as a member of the 
board of aldermen of the city of Boston ; 
was a member of the House of Represen- 
tatives two years ; a member of Governor 
Andrew' s council, also of the council of 
Governor Banks. He was one of the 
directors of the Bank of Commerce, and 
of the North American Insurance Com- 
pany from their organization, and was also 
officiallv interested in western railways. 



SS6 



SLEEPER. 



SLEEPER. 



Mr. Sleeper was an earnest temperance 
advocate, and was president of the Massa- 
chusetts Temperance Association. For 
over sixty years he was a power for good 
in city and state. Aside from all other 
qualities giving his name prominence, he 
stood throughout his life eminent among 
the most noble and generous philanthro- 
pists. 



f ^- 



lished a branch of the same business, 
under the firm name of C. S. Prescott & 
Co., later changing the name to Prescotts, 
Sleeper & Chase. In 1859 he returned to 
Boston, and in i860 established himself in 
the same business, which he now conducts 
under the name of J- K. C. Sleeper & Co. 

On the 3d of July, 185 1, Mr. Sleeper 
was married, in Boston, to Hannah Moore, 
daughter of Asa and Mary T. (Hill) Shaw. 
Their son, Charles Frederick, died in 1887. 
.\ daughter, Mary Emma, is their only 
living child. 

In i860 Mr. Sleeper took up his resi- 
dence in Maiden, and was mayor of that 
city in 1883, a representative in the Legis- 
lature in 1874 and '77, a senator in 1887, 
re-elected in 1888, and has been a member 
of the school committee three years. He 
has also been vice-president of the Maiden 
Industrial .\id Society for eleven years, a 
trustee of the public library for four 




JACOB SLEEPER. 

Mr. Sleeper was twice married ; first at 
Billerica, May 7, 1827, to Plliza, daughter 
of Benjamin and Mary (Mann) Davis; and 
again April 7, 1835, to Maria Davis, her sis- 
ter. His children are: Mar)- Elizabeth, nt)\v 
Mrs. Geo. N. Davis, Boston ; Julia Maria, 
now Mrs. E. P. Dutton, New York ; Caro- 
line, now Mrs. J. \\'. Harper, New York ; 
and Major Jacob Henry Sleeper. 

SLEEPER, JOHN KiLBOURNE CLOUGH, 

son of Amos and Phcsbe (Clough) Sleeper, 
was born in Bridgewater, Grafton county, 
N. H., February 7, 1828. 

He attended the public schools of his 
native town and of Concord, N. H., and 
the seminary at Newbury, Vt. 

In 1845, when seventeen years of age, 
he came to Boston and began work in a 
wholesale millinery establishment, where 
he continued for eight years as boy, sales- 
man and book-keeper. In 1854 he re- 
moved to Cleveland, O., where he estab- 




JOHN K, C, SLEEPER- 

j^ears, and in religious circles has always 
been known as an earnest worker, holding 
the position of superintendent of the 
Sunday-school for nine years, and a mem- 
ber of the board of trustees of the Centre 
M. E. church. Maiden, for twenty years. 
Of this board he is now president. 

When twelve years old, Mr. Sleeper 
signed the pledge, and has been a strong 



SMALL. 



SMITH. 



557 



Prohibitionist all his life, rolitically he 
has consistently acted with the Rei)ubli- 
can party since its origin. He is dis- 
tinctly one of the self-made men of New 
England, acknowledging his indebtedness 
to the strict moral and religious principles 
inculcated in his youth, and to untiring 
devotion to his life-work. 

SMALL, Cyrus, son of Nathaniel C. 
and Margaret (Phinney) Small, was born 
in Limington, York county, Me., December 
17, 1S22. 

He obtained his early education in the 
common schools of his native town and the 
academy of Limerick. He was then en- 
gaged on the farm until about twenty years 
of age, when he went to Boston and en- 
tered the grocery store of Lemuel A.Cool- 
idge, where he remained about four years, 
when he opened a grocery store on his own 
account, and remained in business until 
May 20, 1852, when he was appointed on 
the " old watch," where he served two 
years. The departments of the watch and 
police were united and made a permanent 
department May 26, 1854. He was ap- 
pointed lieutenant of the police October 
30, 1854, at station 5. He was appointed 
captain July 20, 1866, and held the posi- 
tion until October 21, 1878, when police 
commissioners were appointed, and the de- 
partment was re-organized, and he was 
made deputy superintendent. In Septem- 
ber, 1885, he was promoted to superintentl- 
ent, which office he still holds. 

Superintendent Small was married in 
Boston, May 16, 1847, to Eliza, daughter 
of James and Susan (Randall) Knott. Of 
this union are three children : Josephine 
A., Lawrence R., and Carrie A. Small. 

His residence is Boston, Dorchester dis- 
trict. 

SMALL, Emulous, son of Zebina H. 
and Ruth A. (Nickerson) Small, was born 
in Harwich, Barnstable county, December 
20, 1834. 

His education was limited to the common 
school. He began business life in a retail 
country store in Harwichport. 'Later on 
he was managing a large establishment in 
the wholesale flour, grain, and grocery busi- 
ness. He IS now largely engaged in cran- 
berry culture at Harwichport, where he 
resides. 

Mr. Small was married in Harwichport, 
November 12, 1856, to Irene Thatcher, 
daughter of Valentine and Lydia (Nicker- 
son) Doane. They have no children. 

Mr. Small is a director in the Cape Cod 
National Bank of Harwich. 



SMITH, ANSEL C, son of Rufus and 
Achsah (Inghram) Smith, was born in ^Vil- 
mington, Windham county, Vt., December 
29, 1816. 

His early education was obtained in the 
common district schools of those days. 
Upon leaving school he went to Greenfield, 
Ma,ss., where he learned the tanning and 
shoe-making business with Isaac Burton of 
that town. He continued at this until 
1844, when he began business on his own 
account as shoe manufacturer and mer- 
chant, at Colrain, which business he carried 
on until 1888, when he retired, and devoted 
his attention to farming, in which vocation 
he still remains. 

Mr. Smith was married in Hartford, 
Conn., June 7, 1848, to Sophia J., daugh- 
ter of HoUis and Jane Thompson, of Col- 
rain. Of this union were two children : 
Henry A. and Mary J. Smith. 

In 1866 Mr. Smith was elected town 
clerk and treasurer of Colrain, and has 
retained that office ever since. 

SMITH, Charles Hunt, .son of Abner 

L. and Mary \V. (Howe) Smith, was born 
in Dover, Norfolk countv, .Xpril 5, 1850. 




CHARLES H. SMITH. 

He obtained a common school educa- 
tion. 

In 1868 he was connected with the 
Grant Locomotive \\'orks, Paterson, N. J , 



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as engineer. He .subsequently chose the 
vocation of farmer, as better suited to his 
tastes, and settled in his native town. 

Mr. Smith was married in West Ded- 
ham, November 26, 1876, to Mary Hardy, 
daughter of John Humphrey, a com- 
mander in the United States navy during 
the rebellion, and Mary S. (Hardy) Hum- 
phrey, sister of the late Hon. Alpheus 
Hardy. Of this union are : Bessie M., 
Maud C, .\bner H., and Edith H. Smith. 

Mr. Smith has been chairman of the 
Unitarian parish conmiittee, and a trustee 
of the Barden library fund ; treasurer of 
the Norfolk county Republican committee 
for the past six years ; was one of the 
originators of the Norfolk Club, and has 
been one of the e.xecutive committee of 
the club since its organization ; has been 
town clerk for the past thirteen years, hav- 
ing succeeded his father, who had held the 
same office twenty years ; and has been a 
member of the board of selectmen, over- 
seers of the poor and board of health for 
six years — having lately resigned to ac- 
cept the position of county treasurer. 

SMITH, Frank, son of .Albert L. and 
Sarah E. (Howe) Smith, was born in Dover, 
Norfolk county, June 11, 1854. 

He received his educational training in 
the public schools. 

In 1872 he was appointed teacher of the 
Dover east school ; two years later he be- 
came teacher of the centre school, where 
he remained several years. In 1882 he 
entered the educational department of the 
publishing house of Thompson, Brown & 
Co., Boston, as agent for their school 
books, in which business he has since con- 
tinued. 

Mr. Smith was married in West Dedham, 
October 17, 1888, to JennieClertrude, daugh- 
ter of Samuel F. and Hannah (Ellis) .Allen. 

Mr. Smith has been superintendent of 
the Unitarian Sunday-school for thirteen 
years ; chairman of the Dover school 
lx)ard, ami superintendent of public schools 
since 1883 ; lecturer in the Middlesex and 
Norfolk union grange ; was a representa- 
tive in the Legislature from the 9th Nor- 
folk district in 1887, and served on the 
committee on education. He was distin- 
guished as a Prohibitory Democrat. 

He delivered the Dover centennial ad- 
dress in 1876, and the address at the dedi- 
cation of the town hall in 187S. 

SMITH, George Edwin, son of David 

H. and Esther (Perkins) Smith, was born 
in New Hampton, Belknap county, N H., 
April 5, 1849. 



He received his early education in the 
common schools of his native town, and was 
fitted for college in Nichols's Latin school, 
Lewiston, Me., and the New Hampton Liter- 
ary Institute, N. H. 

He was graduated from Bates College, 
Lewiston, Me., in the class of 1873. He 
then studied law in the office of Hon. Wil- 
liam P. Frye (Frye, Cotton & White), 
Lewiston, Me. He was admitted to the 
bar in Boston, in May, 1875, and was asso- 
ciated in business in the same city with the 
late Horace R. Cheney. On the death of 
Mr. Cheney, in December, 1876, he as- 
sumed the business himself, which he still 
carries on. 

In 1883 and '84 Mr. Smith was one of 
the representatives to the Legislature from 
the 8th Middlesex district. He is one of 
the trustees of the Everett public library, 
which position he has held for about eight 
years. In 1879 he was elected by the 
alumni a member of the board of overseers 
of Bates College, and in 1884 he was chosen 
by the corporation a member of the board 
of president and fellows of the same insti- 
tution. He belongs to the Palestine Lodge 
of Masons, Everett, where he now resides. 

Mr. Smith was married at Buxton, Me., 
October 31, 1876, to Sarah F., daughter of 
Charles E. and Eliza (Allen) Weld,, by 
whom he has one child : Theodosia \\'eld 
Snnth. 

SMITH, George Herbert, .son of Ed- 
mund H.and Lucy (lilanchard) Smith, was 
born in Chicopee, Hampden county, July 
4, 1840. 

His earlier education was received in the 
common schools, and after taking a partial 
course in the high school at South Hadley 
Falls, he entered the Wesleyan Academy 
at Wilbraham, from which he graduated in 
186!. 

Immediately after graduation, he com- 
menced the study of medicine under the 
tuition of Dr. R, T. Chaffee of Windso:', 
Conn., and pursued his studies until Sep- 
tember, 1862, at which time he enlisted in 
the 25th regiment, Connecticut volunteers, 
and became a member of the expedition to 
Louisiana, under command of Oen. N. P. 
Banks. In March, 1863, he was appointed 
to the surgical staff of his regiment, which 
position he occupied during his term of 
service. .After his return from the scene 
of active hostilities, he resumed his studies 
and graduated from Bellevue Medical Col- 
lege in March, 1865. 

Dr. Smith commenced practice in Sims- 
bury, Conn., where he remained till Sep- 
tember, 1866. Failing health induced him 



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to remove tii Svcamore, 111., where he 
practiced .succes.siullv until November, 
1868. 

He then returned lo Massachusetts, set- 
tled in Holyoke, and has since become a 
permanent resident of that city, and has 
established a large and lucrative practice. 

Yielding to the wishes of his fellow-citi- 
zens, Dr. Smith has been elected to various 
local offices, which he has filled to the 
satisfaction of his constituents. In 1875 
he served as a member of the common 
CQuncil, and re-elected in 1876, he was 
chosen president of the council. 

In 1877 and '78 he was a member of the 
board of aldermen, during which time he 
was a director of the Holyoke & West- 
field Railroad, in which the city is inter- 
ested. Since 1881 he has been a member 
of the school committee. He is also a 
member of the park commission, and 
chairman of the board of health. 

Dr. Smith was married June 8, 1869, to 
Ada M., daughter of Dr. Charles W. and 
Cornelia (Cushman) Babcock. Three chil- 
dren, of whom two are now living, are the 
fruit of this union. 

SMITH, James GODDARD, son of Na- 
thaniel and Betsey ((loddard) Smith, was 
born at Phillipston, Worcester county, De- 
cember 22, 1820, and was educated at the 
common schools. 

In Natick he learned the trade of a car- 
penter, returning to his native place in 1844, 
to take charge of the homestead farm, 
which had been in the family for three 
generations, and where he remained until 
1888, when he moved to Athol, where he 
at present resides 

In Athol, on the 26th of May, 1847, Mr. 
Smith was married to Eunice, daughter of 
Jotham and Hannah (Taft) Haven. Their 
only child dietl in infancy. 

Mr. Smith was selectman, assessor, and 
overseer of the poor in the town of Phil- 
lipston, and in 187 I a representative to the 
General Court. He is at present a director 
of the National Bank of Athol, and a trus- 
tee of the Athol Savings Bank. 

In religious matters he is a prominent 
leader and a deacon in the Congregational 
church. Politically he has for forty years 
been actively identified with the work of 
the Republican party. 

SMITH, Jonathan, son of John and 
Susan (Stearns) Smith, was born in Peter- 
borough, Hillsborough county, N. H., Octo- 
ber 21, 1842 

He attended the district schools, fitted 
for college at the New Hampton Literarv 



Institute, and was graduated from Dart- 
mouth College in 187 i. 

He served as principal of the academy 
at Lancaster, N. H., for several terms, and 
from 1871 to '73 was editor of the "Coos 
Republican," Lancaster. He relinquished 
this pursuit by reason of ill health. He 
then studied law with Hon. David Cross, 
Manchester, N, H.; was admitted to the 
bar of Hillsborough county, N. H., in 
1875 ; practiced in Manchester till 1878, 
when he removed to Clinton, Mass., where 
he now is in practice of the law. 

Mr. Smith's first marriage was on Decem- 
ber 13, 1876, with Tirzah A. R., daughter 
of Levi and Hannah (Drake) Dow, of Can- 
terbury, N. H., by whom he had two chil- 
dren : Theodore (deceased), and Susan 
Dow Smith. Mrs. Smith died August 28, 
1 88 1. He was again married in Clinton, 
February 23, 1886, to Elizabeth C, daugh- 
ter of William and Mary Ann (Brown) 
Stearns. 

Mr. Smith is a prominent Mason, and 
has served in the various offices of lodge 
and chapter ; was city solicitor of Man- 
chester, N. H., two and one-half years ; 
special justice of the second district east- 
ern Worcester, five years ; he w'as elected 
a representative to the Legislature in 
1886, serving as a member of the com- 
mittee on probate and insolvency, and as 
chairman of the committee on parishes and 
religious societies ; is a notary public ; was 
appointed master in chancery in 1886 ; 
town solicitor of Clinton 1889 ; a member 
of the Republican town committee seven 
years, during three of which he served as 
chairman ; and is president of the " Twen- 
ty-five Associates," a co-operative savings 
institution of Clinton. 

He enlisted in company E, 6th New 
Hampshire volunteers, m November, 1861; 
was discharged in January, 1863 ; drafted 
July, 1863, but rejected on account of 
physical disability ; enlisted in company E, 
ist New Hampshire cavalry, 1864 ; was 
appointed a sergeant and served until the 
close of the war. He served through two 
campaigns, and participated in several 
severe battles while in his first enlistment. 
He is a member of the G. A. R., and takes 
a great interest in anything affecting the 
welfare of the organization. 

SMITH, METCALF J., .son of Samuel 
and Lucy (Metcalf) Smith, was born in 
Middlefield, Hampshire county, September 
7, 1830. The early training in the house 
of his father, who had si.x sons and three 
daughters, bore abundant fruit in his later 
life. 'I'his faniilv circle was one of great 



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industry, where education, next to religion, 
was considered tlie one thing needful. For 
this, money was freely spent, and the fire- 
side-school occupied the winter evenings. 
After the preliminary training in the public 
schools of his native town, he entered Wil- 
liston Seminary, and was in the New York 
Central College from 185 1 to '55. He then 
became a teacher in the latter institution, 
remaining until 1858. 

He was subsequently professor of mathe- 
matics in Eleutherian College, Indiana, 
until i860 ; principal of Lewiston .\cademy. 
Pa., two years, and principal of the CoUins- 
ville high school from 1862 to '65. He 
then returned to the old homestead and 
engaged in agricultural pursuits, where he 
still remains. 

Mr. Smith was married in Cincinnatus, 
N. Y., December 30, 1857, to Harriet Louisa, 
daughter of Dr. Lyman and Adelphia 
(Carter) Eldredge. Of this union are seven 
children : Sophia Adelphia, Theodore Win- 
throp, Gerald Birney, Louis Carter, Kate 
Winnifred, Edward Cecil, and Samuel El- 
dredge Smith. 

Mr. Smith has been active in church and 
Sunday-school work, serving as superin- 
tendent of the Sunday-school and as treas- 
urer and chairman of the executive com- 
mittee. 

He was treasurer of the Highland .Vgri- 
cultural Society from 1 865 to '89, and select- 
man from 1870 to '85. He was a member 
of the House of Representatives in 1885, 
serving upon three important committees. 
.A.side from his devotion to agricultural 
pursuits, Mr. Smith has found time to teach 
high schools at Middlefield, Hinsdale, Ches- 
ter, and Huntington. His eldest daughter 
is engaged in teaching in the Sandwich 
Islands, and his eldest son, of Brown Univer- 
sity, is teachmg in the Polytechnic Insti- 
tute, Worcester. 

SMITH, Nathan Gilman, son of 

Phinehas B. and Margaret S. (^^iggin) 
Smith, was born at Roxbury, Norfolk 
county, March 30, 1840. 

He received his early education in the 
Washington school at Roxbury, and in the 
Roxbury Latin school, and in 1858 began 
a business career in the employ of E. M. 
Stoddard & Co., dealers in ice, his father 
being a member of the firm. 

In 1862 he enlisted in the 41st Massa- 
chusetts infantry, afterwards 3d Massachu- 
setts cavalry, serving with General ISanks 
in his Louisiana campaign. During the 
exciting and memorable siege of Port 
Hudson he participated in the assaults 
thereon, and was one of the famous " for- 



lorn-hope storming party " which General 
Banks commended so highly for bravery 
at one of the darkest moments of the war, 
when manly sacrifices were necessary for 
the success of the Union arms. 

After the capitulation of this most impor- 
tant post he was promoted to a captaincy, 
and given command of one of the com- 
panies of the 75th United States colored 
infantry, afterwards serving as commissary, 
(juartermaster and post-adjutant, also as 
United States provost-marshal, until his 
regiment was mustered out of service in 
1865. 

.■\fter the war he decided to spend a 
few years in Louisiana among the ex- 
confederates, in the cotton planting busi- 
ness. In the winter of i867-'68 he was 
appointed chairman of the board of 
registration for the Parish of Rapides. 
Returning in the summer of 1868 to Mas- 
sachusetts, he once more entered the ice in- 
dustry, and is at the present time treasurer 
and general manager of the Jamaica Pond 
Ice Company. 

Mr. Smith was married at HoUis, Maine, 
.•\pril 25, 1872, to Julia Frances, daughter 
of Joseph Woodman and Philomelia 
(Broughton) Haley. 

Mr. Smith was elected on the board of 
the Boston city council in i88i-'82, served 
on the board of aldermen in 1886, '87, and 
'88, receiving the honor of a nomination 
at the hands of all political parties. He 
is a prominent member of the G. A. R. 
and of the Military Order of the Loyal 
Legion, a Knight Templar of official rank 
in Joseph Warren Commandery, and also 
a member of the .\ncient Order of LTnited 
Workmen. 

SMITH, Nathaniel ' Austin, son of 

Austin and Sallie (Montague) Smith, was 
born in Sunderland, Franklin county, Feb- 
ruary 13, 1821. 

He received a good education in the 
public schools of his native town, supple- 
mented by a course at Williston Seminary, 
Easthampton. He then remained at home 
upon the farm till he had reached his 
twentieth year, and for the five succeeding 
years taught school during the winter 
months. 

He was married November 26, 1846, 
at Sunderland, to Clara J., daughter of 
Stephen and Esther Gunn of that place. 
He has two children : Austin I), and Km- 
ma F. Smith. 

Mr. Smith has always resided in Sunder- 
land, and during the greater part of his 
life has been engaged in agricultural labors. 
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brothers till 1S55, when :i division of the 
farm took place. 

He is an active member of the Franklin 
Harvest Club and of the Franklin and 
Hampshire Agricultural societies, having 
been president of the latter for two years. 
He has also been a devoted member of 
the Congregational society and Sunday- 
school for fifty years. 

In the local government he has held 
many official trusts, having been select- 
man, assessor, a member of the school 
committee, collector and treasurer. 

SMITH, Samuel Francis, son of Sam- 
uel and Sarah (Bryant) Smith, was born in 
Boston, October 21, 1808. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in the public schools of Boston, fitting 
for college in the Boston Latin school. 
He then entered Harvard, and graduated 
therefrom in the class of 1829. From 
Harvard he passed to the Andover Theo- 
logical Seminary, graduating in 1832. 

His tastes were scholarly, and he was 
.soon called to the professorship of mod- 
ern languages in Waterville College (now 
Colby University), Me. He had been 
called previously to the pastorate of the 
First Baptist church of Waterville, where 
he was ordained ; and he served for eight 
years in both capacities. He was subse- 
quently editor of the "Christian Review," 
Boston, holding this position seven years. 
He was also pastor of the First Baptist 
church, Newton, twelve and a half years, 
and afterwards connected with the Baptist 
mission rooms in Boston fifteen years. He 
is at present engaged in literary pursuits, 
residing in the city of Newton. 

Dr. Smith has been a constant writer for 
the press since he \vas twelve years old. 
Hymns from his pen are found in the 
hymn-books of all Christian denomina- 
tions. One of the best known, " The 
Morning Light is Breaking," has been 
translated into many languages. " The 
Psalmist," a hymn-book used almost ex- 
clusively in the Baptist churches of the 
United States for thirty years — a book 
mainly compiled by him — contained about 
thirty of Dr. Smith's compositions, inserted 
at the rec|uest of his co-editor. Dr. Baron 
Stow. Dr. Smith has often been styled 
"the James Montgomery of ,\merica." 
Most of the songs in the "Juvenile Lyre," 
published in 1832 by Dr. Lowell Mason, 
were written by him. Among the miscel- 
laneous writings of Dr. Smith are : " His- 
tory of Newton," " Missionary Sketches," 
and " Rambles in Missionary Fields." 
'{"he work of Christian missions has occu- 



pied the larger portion of his later years, 
a work to which a useful and honored son 
of his has devoted himself with great 
energy and success in the Burman empire 
since 1863. In i88i-'83 Dr. Smith trav- 
eled extensively in Europe and Asia, and 
visited many of the missions of his own 
and other Christian denominations. 

Dr. Smith's name is embalmed in Amer- 
ican history and in the hearts of the Amer- 
ican people, from the fact of his being the 
author of our national hymn, " America," 
written in February, 1832, while he was a 
theological student at Andover, and first 
produced on a festive occasion at a chil- 
dren's celebration of the anniversary of 
American Lidependence, at Park Street 
church, Boston, July 4th, the same year. 
Written without the slightest purpose to 
produce a national lyric, it was almost im- 
mediately taken up by the people, because 
it appealed to the popular heart. 

SMITH, SYLVANUS, .son of William and 
Charlotte (Poole) Smith, was born in the 
parish of Sandy Bay — now Rockport — 
Essex county, March 10, 1829. 

His book education was acquired in the 
common schools of his native village. -\t 
the early age of eleven he began the pur- 
suit of fishing, for a livelihood, and by per- 
severance rose from an ordinary hand to 
be master and owner. 

In 1864 Mr. Smith entered into partner- 
ship with Mr. Rowe, under the firm name 
of Rowe & Smith, as owners and outfitters 
of vessels, with wharves and offices at 
Gloucester, continuing their connection till 
1867, when it was dissolved by mutual 
consent. Mr. Smith then formed a part- 
nership with Mr. Gott. This relation con- 
tinued until 1 87 7, the date of the retire- 
ment of Mr. Gott. 

Mr. Smith carried on the business for 
some time alone, then admitted his son-in- 
law, E. A. Bradley, and eventually his son, 
Howard F. Smith, as associate partners. 

Mr. Smith has been twice married. His 
first wife was Sarah P. .\twood, who died 
leaving no issue. His second marriage was 
with Eliza C, daughter of Charles and 
Harriet (Smith) Rowe, of Rockport, by 
whom he has had twelve children, five of 
whom are now living : Martha, Eliza R., 
Howard F., Horace, and Sylvanus Smith. 

Li politics Mr. Smith is an ardent sup- 
porter of the Republican party. His 
church connections are with the Baptist 
church, of which he has been a member 
many years. 

He has been twenty-two years a director 
of the Gloucester Mutual Fishing hisur- 



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SMYTH. 



ance Company ; fifteen years a director of 
the First National Bank, and four years a 
director of the Gloucester Net & Twine 
Company, and also vice-president. 

SMITH, Wellington, was born in 

Lee, Berkshire county. December 15, 1841. 
He was the only son of John R. and Par- 
thenia C. (Yale) Smith, and on his mother's 
side is a direct descendant of Captain 
Josiah Yale and Ruth Tracy, the first 
couple married in the town, and also a 
lineal descendant of Stephen Hopkins, 
who came over with the Pilgrims in the 
" Mayflower " in 1620. 

Mr. Smith spent his boyhood in Lee and 
Russell, his father owning a paper mill in 
the latter town with his brother Elizur, and 
with Cyrus W. Field, since of Atlantic Cable 
fame. He gained his school education in 
the common schools, and by attendance at 
the higher schools kept by Alexander 
Hyde at Lee, and Joseph Hyde at Sheffield. 

At the age of fifteen Mr. Smith was en- 
gaged as clerk in the store of Smith & 
Bosworth in Lee, but a year after, at the 
age of si.\teen, took charge of the store of 
D. C. Hull & Sons, as general manager of 
the store and business. Two years later, 
in company with H. S. Hurlbert, he began 
business for himself in a store and flouring 
mill. This was unprofitable, and he went 
to New York at the age of twenty, and 
became a salesman for Leonard Brothers 
in the silk business, at a dollar a da}'. His 
success was so marked that his salary was 
handsomely increased, and he was taken 
into partnership ; but in two years he left 
to enter the Smith Paper Company as 
treasurer. On the organization of the 
American Paper Makers' Association, in 
1878, he was chosen first vice-president, 
and subsequently president. He is still a 
prominent leader in the paper-making 
business of the United States. 

In 1874 Mr. Smith made a tour of 
Europe, and wrote home letters of great 
interest. At the convention of the nth 
congressional district Mr. Smith was 
elected a delegate to the national Repub- 
lican convention of 1880. He proposed 
General Garfield before the meeting of the 
convention, and his views were published 
in the " New York Herald " and other pa- 
pers. In 1882 he was chosen e.xecutive 
councilor for the 8th district — the year 
(ien. Butler was elected governor, and in 
the same year was president of the Berk- 
shire Agricultural Society. 

In 1 86 1 Mr. Smith married Mary, daugh- 
ter of William A. and Juliet (Clark) Shan- 
non, of Lee. who died in 1877, leaving two 



children : .\ugustus R, and Mary Shannon. 
In 1878 he married Annie, daughter of 
James and Harriet (Bulkley) BuUard. 
They have three children : Wellington 
Bullard, Etta Lucy and Elizur Smith. 

SMYTH, Egbert Coffin, was born in 

Brunswick, Cumberland county, Maine, 
August 24, 1829. His father was Pro- 
fessor William Smyth, so many years oc- 
cupying the chair of mathematics in Bow- 
doin College. His paternal grandparents 
were Caleb Smyth and Abiah Colburn. 




EGBERT C. SMYTH 

His early education was shaped in pri- 
vate schools, under the tutorship of Rev. 
Smith B. Goodenow and Alfred Pike. 
Fitting for college at Dummer Acadeni)-, 
Byfield, Mass , in charge of Rev. Frederick 
A. Adams, M. A., Ph. D., he entered Bow- 
doin College in 1844, and was graduated 
therefrom in 1848. After a season of 
school-teaching in charge of a high school 
at Farmington, N. H., he entered the Ban- 
gor Theological Seminary, and after com- 
pleting the junior year, served two years 
in Bowdoin College as tutor of Greek 
and mathematics. Returning then to the 
seminary, he graduated in 1853. In July, 
1856, he was ordained as a Congregational 
minister, having passed the interim as 
professor of rhetoric and oratory in Bow- 
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From 1856 to '63 he held the CoIHns pro- 
fessorship of natural and revealed religion 
in Bowdoin In 1862 and '63 he studied 
abroad, principally in Halle and Berlin. 

Since 1863 he has held the chair of 
Brown professor of ecclesiastical history in 
Andover Theological Seminary ; being also 
lecturer on pastoral theology, i863-'68. 
He received the degree of L). D. from 
Bowdoin College in 1866, and from Har- 
vard University in 1886. He is a member 
of the American Antiquarian Society, and 
of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 

Dr. Smyth was married in Portland, Me., 
August 12, 1857, to Elizabeth B. Dwight. 
He has been an overseer of Bowdoin Col- 
lege, and trustee of the same since 1877. 
He has also been a trustee of Abbott 
Academy ; and was a member of the pru- 
dential committee of the A. B. C. F. M. 
from 1875 to '86. He is president of the 
faculty of Andover Theological Seminary, 
and has been a co-editor of the "Andover 
Review" since January, 1S84. 

SNOW, Frederick, son of Timothy 

and Ruth Snow, was born in Becket, Berk- 
shire countv, March 21, 1820. 




FREDERICK SNOW. 



He received a common school education 
in the public schools of Becket, and subse- 
quently studied in select schools in Becket 
and Otis. 



He turned his attention to farming in 
early life, and has ever since followed his 
chosen occupation. 

Mr. Snow has never accepted any polit- 
ical office, but has served his town and 
church in various relations. 

He represents in character, as well as 
descent, the old New England stock now 
rapidlv disappearing from the Berkshire 
Hills.' 

He is a liberal reader of whatever bears 
upon agriculture and kindred pursuits, in- 
terested in all its improvements, with a 
genuine attachment for his vocation. He 
resides on his broad patrimony of acres, 
possessed by his sterling ancestry since the 
settlement of the town. He is a true rep- 
resentative of the prosperous New England 
farmer. 

Mr. Snow is unmarried. 

SNOW, Samuel, son of .\lvan and 
Almira Snow, was born in Hyannis, in the 
town of Barnstable, Barnstable county, 
April 14, 1828. 

He received his education in the com- 
mon schools of his native place. 

During his early manhood he sought the 
sea for a livelihood, but this he relin- 
quished in 1847, and engaged in the 
lumber trade in Hyannis until 1869, when 
he retired. 

Mr. Snow was married in Lawrence, 
November 23, 1853, to Sarah J., daughter 
of Pardon and Mercy S. Armington. They 
have one child : Frank Snow. 

Mr. Snow has been called to serve in 
various municipal offices, and in 1876 and 
'77 was elected to the House of Repre- 
sentatives. He was elected to the Senate 
from the Cape senatorial district for the 
years 1880 and '81, and county com- 
missioner of Barnstable county in 1887. 
He was connected with the Barnstable 
Savings Bank as trustee, and as one of 
its receivers when it was closed up. He 
has been one of the directors of the 
First National Bank of Yarmouth since 
1879. 

SOHIER, William DaVIES, .son of Wil- 
liam and Susan Cabot (Lowell) Sohier 
(daughter of John Amory Lowell), was 
burn in Boston, October 22, 1858. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in private schools in Boston and the 
public schools of Beverly. He studied in 
the Institute of Technology in the class of 
1875, and in the Harvard law school in 
i876-'79. He pursued his legal studies 
also in the office of Henry W. Paine and 
Robert D. Smith. 



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SOLEY. 



Mr. Sohier is at present in tiie practice 
of law in Boston in the office of his uncle, 
John Lowell, ex-judge of the United 
States circuit court. 

Mr. Sohier was married in Boston, Decem- 
ber 13, 1880, to Edith F., dauijhter of 
Walter B. and Julia E. (White) Alden. 
She is a lineal descendant of John Alden 
of colonial fame. Of this union are three 
children : Eleanor, Alice, and William 
Davies Sohier. 

Mr. Sohier was a member of the com- 
mittee appointed by the town of Beverly 
to oppose its attempted division ; served 
as counsel (without pay) for the first two 
years of the famous contest in 1886 and 
'87, and was chosen to represent the town 
in the lower branch of the Legislature in 
1888. He was here again successful in 
their behalf, and was re-elected to the 
House in 1889. During this session he 
performed telling work for his constituents, 
and by his shrewd and successful labors, 
defeated the strenuous efforts made to 
divide the town. In the opinion of those 
competent to judge, his personal popu- 
larity among the members was as powerful 
a factor in the result, as the able plea he 
made ujion the floor of the House. 

He is descended from a legal family on 
both sides ; on the maternal side, a 
descendant of Judge John Lowell, of the 
United States district court, appointed 
by Washington ; and on the paternal side, 
his father, grandfather and uncles have 
been prominent members of the bar. He 
is a nephew of the late Edward D. Sohier. 

SOLEY, John CODMAN, son of John 
J. and Elvira (Degen) Soley, was born in 
Roxbury, Norfolk county, October 22, 1845. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in the grammar schools of his native 
town. He fitted for college in the Rox- 
bury Latin school ; entered Harvard Col- 
lege, and was to have graduated in the class 
of 1862, but he severed his connection with 
the college and entered the Naval Acade- 
my, Newport, R. L, November 19th of the 
same year. 

He visited England, France, Portugal, 
and Spain in the U. S. sloop-of-war " Mac- 
edonian," in 1863 ; was graduated June 
12, 1866 ; ordered to Sacramento the same 
year ; was wrecked on the Coromandel 
coast of India, June 19, 1S67, remained in 
India three months, and returned to the 
United States in a British troop-ship. 

Lieutenant Soley served at the United 
States Naval Academy at Annapolis as in- 
structor in ordnance and gunnery, and in 
command of the infantry battalion until 



July, 1S73. He was then ordered to the 
European fleet and joined the " Wabash," 
at Corfu, Creece, in August of that year. 
He was appointed flag-lieutenant to Admi- 
ral Case, who was in command ; was pres- 
ent at Carthagena during the fight between 
the Republican troops and the Commu- 
nists, and afterwards visited Barcelona and 
traveled through western France. 

In the following winter he returned to 
the Lhiited States,and served in the squad- 
ron at Key West, as flag-lieutenant to Ad- 
miral Case, who was then commander-in- 
chief of the LInited States forces assembled 
in anticipation of a war with Spain. 




JOHN C SOLEY 

He was transferred to the " Franklin," 
returned to Europe in May, 1874, and 
visited the principal ports in the Mediter- 
ranean. He was appointed, February, 
1875, flag-lieutenant to Admiral Worden, 
commander-in-chief in European waters. 

Lieutenant Soley edited the second 
edition of " Cooke's Ordnance and Cun- 
nery," and is the author of an article on 
"Built-up Guns " in that work ; he wrote 
another, also, on " Naval Operations on 
Shore," and has written a |3aper on the 
naval brigade in the proceedings of the 
" Naval Institute." 

He went to the Naval Academy as 
gunnery and tactical instructor, where he 



SOUT}IARD. 



SOUTHtJATE. 



565 



remained till June, 1880. He made a 
cruise on the coast as executive officer of 
the "Mayflower," in the summer of 1878, 
with cadet engineers. In June, 18S0, he 
was ordered as executive of the frigate 
" Constellation " for a cruise on the coast 
with cadet midshipmen. He was ordered 
as executive of the sloop-of-war " Sara- 
toga," in the fall of 1880, and cruised on 
the coast till the fall of 1881. He took 
part in the Yorktown celebration, in com- 
mand of the artillery battalion of the 
naval brigade. He refitted at Boston in 
the winter of i88i-'82, and sailed for 
Europe in the spring of 1882, visiting the 
|iorts of Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Cowes, 
in England ; Brest, in France ; and Lisbon, 
in Portugal. From Lisbon, he was ordered 
to Paris in July, as naval attach^ of the 
legation. He returned to the United 
States in November, and received leave 
of absence. He entered business as a 
stock broker in Boston, which is his 
present residence. He was placed on the 
retired list of the navy on account of 
color-blindness, in February, 1885. 

He is a member of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, and of 
the Algonquin, St. Botolph, and Naturalist 
clubs. He is commodore of the Dorches- 
ter Yacht Club and member of the East- 
ern, Boston Corinthian, and Corinthian of 
New York Yacht clubs. 

SOUTHARD, LOUIS C, son of Wil- 
liam L. and Lydia Carver (Dennis) South- 
ard, was born in Portland, Cumberland 
county. Me., April i, 1854. 

He was educated in the common schools 
of Portland, the Boston high school, Maine 
State College, and Boston University law 
school. 

He studied law under the direction of 
Hon. W. \V. Thomas, Jr. (now United 
States Minister to Norway and Sweden), 
and Clarence Hale of Portland, Maine, and 
was admitted to the bar of the supreme 
court of Maine in 1877. 

Removing to North Easton, Mass., the 
same year, he was admitted to practice be- 
fore the courts of this State. He was 
nominated as representative to the General 
Court in 1884, but declined the nomina- 
tion ; being re-nominated, however, in 
1886, he accepted, and was elected to rep- 
resent the three towns of Easton, Mansfield 
and Raynham, where he met with consid- 
erable success, serving as a member of the 
committee on the judiciary. 

He was chosen a member of the commit- 
tee to represent the State of Massachusetts 
at the centennial convention at Philadel- 



phia, Pa., in 1887. He was also in the same 
year a delegate to the national convention 
of the Republican League in New York 
City, and assisted in the organization of 
the Republican Club of Easton, of which 
he was unanimously chosen president, and 
in which capacity he has served ever since. 

Mr. Southard is of scholarly habits, and 
his success in his profession has been 
marked. He has been connected with many 
important cases that have attracted the 
attention of the public. In religious belief 
he is a Unitarian. His father, \\'illiam L. 
Southard, was born in Richmond, Manie, 
in 1 820. At one time he carried on an exten- 
sive business in Portland, and in 1867, when 
he retired from business, had probably the 
largest wholesale flour establishment in the 
state. He was a man of great influence, and 
an alderman of Portland during the war of 
the rebellion. He married Lydia Carver, 
who was born June i, 1819, daughter of 
Captain John Dennis, formerly of Taunton, 
but afterwards of Gardiner, Me., and a 
lineal descendant of Governor John Carver 
of Plymouth. On her paternal side she 
was a descendant of Abraham Dennis, a 
member of an old and aristocratic English 
family, who settled in Newport, R. I. He 
married Sarah Kirby, by whom he had 
several children, one of whom, Ezekiel, 
was killed in 1776 off the coast of Maine, 
in the first naval engagement of the revo- 
lution. His son, Captain John Dennis, 
was a captain in the service of the East 
India Company, but he never gave up his 
residence in Newport, where he married 
Elizabeth Dean. Captain John Southard, 
father of William L., born October 27, 
1 781, was a direct descendant of John 
Southworth of Plymouth colony fame. The 
name Southworth was formerly pronounced 
"South-ard," for some unexplained reason, 
and the branch of the family migrating to 
Maine ultimately changed the orthography 
to conform more nearly to the pronuncia- 
tion. 

Mr. Southard was married in F^aston, 
June I, 1881, to Nellie, daughter of Joseph 
and Lucy A. (Keith) Copeland. They 
have two children : Louis Keith and Fred- 
erick Dean Southard. 

SOUTHGATE, GEORGE ALONZO, son 
of Samuel and Charlotte Warren (Fuller) 
Southgate, was born in Leicester, Worces- 
ter county, September 23, 1833. 

He fitted for college at Leicester Acad- 
emy, after which he was under the care of 
a private tutor for two years. He then 
entered the medical department of Dart- 
mouth, but was graduated M. D. from the 



566 



SOUTHWURTH. 



SOUTHWORTH. 



University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, 

He commenced the practice of medicine 
in Millbury, in 1859, but removed to Ded- 
ham in 1863, where he is still engaged in 
an extensive practice in this and neighbor- 
ing towns. He is well known as a liberal in 
professional practice, religion, and politics. 




GEORGE A 50UTHGATE. 

Dr. Southgate was married in 1S60, in 
Petersham, to Mary Bigelow, tlaughter of 
Rev. Luther and Fidelia (Wells) Willson. 
Of this union were five children : Dr. Rob- 
ert Willson, Delia Wells (now Mrs. A. S. 
Marshall, Concord, N. H.), May Fuller, 
Walter Bradford, and Helen Louisa South- 
gate. 

Dr. Southgate is a member and cliairman 
of the Dedham board of health. 

SOUTHWORTH, ROBERT Alexan- 
der, son of Alexander and Helen South- 
worth, was born in Medford, Middlesex 
county, May 6, 1852. 

After obtaining his early education in 
the public schools of the Charlestown dis- 
trict, Boston, he entered Harvard College 
and was graduated therefrom in 1874. 
He then studied law with Hon. Charles 
Theodore Russell, and was admittetl to the 
Suffolk bar in 1876. 

He was appointed clerk of the commit- 
tee, chosen by the Legislature of 1881, to 



revise and publish the General Statutes of 
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and 
rendered efficient service in connection 
with that important work. He was asso- 
ciated with Messrs. Loring and Russell in 
the publication of the Massachusetts con- 
troverted election cases, and in the preface 
of their report they testify to his services 
in the following language ; 

" The editors are also under obligation 
to Robert A. Southworth, Esq., the efficient 
assistant-clerk of the House of Represen- 
tatives, whose access to, and knowledge of, 
legislative documents and actions have 
much aided our work. Mr. Southworth 
collected the material for the publication, 
examined the journals and records to 
ascertain the disposition of all the cases, 
and prepared the tables of cases reported 
and unreported, and the table of cases 
cited. He has also greatly assisted the 
cilitors in the supervision of the printing 
of the reports." 




ROBERT A, bUUTHWUKTH 

He was chosen clerk of the committee 
appointed to re-district the State into 
congressional districts in 1882, and pre- 
pared the plans and statistics on which 
that re-districting was based. 

He was for many years a member of 
the Republican district, city, and state 
committees, and was secretary of the Re- 



SOWDON. 



SOWDON. 



567 



publican state central committee in 18H7 
and 'S8. 

He was chosen the official messenger of 
the Massachusetts delegation to the na- 
tional Republican convention at Chicago 
in 1888. 

For five years he was the assistant-clerk 
of the House of Rejiresentatives, and in 
1888 represented the 2d Suffolk district 
(Charlestown district) in the Senate, where 
he was a member of the committees on 
railroads, bills in the third reading, and 
the library. He has since resumed the 
practice of law in the city of Boston, 
where he now resides. 

Mr. Southworth married Mary Eliza, 
daughter of William H. and Sarah A. B. 
Finney, and_ has one daughter : Constance 
Southworth. 

SOWDON, ARTHUR John Clark, son 

of John Sowdon, Jr. (deceased in New 
York, 1836), and Charlotte Harrison (Ca- 
pen) Sowdon, daughter of Thomas Capen, 
of Boston, was born in Boston, March 6, 

1835. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in the private .schools of Stoddard 
Capen, James H. Wilder, and Daniel B. 
Tower, under the Park Street church, in 
the -Adams grammar school, the Boston 
Latin school, and Harvard College, gradu- 
ating from the latter in the class of 1857. 
He was also graduated from the Dane law 
.school. Harvard, in the class of 1861. 

He began business life as a real estate and 
mortgage broker in the city of Boston, in 
1863, and carried on the business until 
1872, when he retired from active business. 

Mr. Sowdon early became a member of 
the first corps of cadets, Boston. In 1863 
he attended his first political convention. 
Republican, holden in \\orcester, and voted 
for John A. Andrew for governor. In 
1867 he was treasurer of the Union Club, 
Boston, and has since served on its various 
committees. In 1868 he set on foot the 
complimentary letter to Senator William 
Pitt Fessenden, after his famous vote 
against the iinpeachment of Andrew John- 
son. In 1874 he was one of the fifteen 
chosen at a Faneuil Hall meeting " to resist 
any inflation of the currency, and to secure 
a fi.xed standard of value ; " was a pro- 
moter of the mass meeting in Faneuil Hall 
to protest against (jeneral Sheridan's inter- 
ference with the Legislature of Louisiana ; 
was chairman of the committee to organize 
the Bristow movement, giving Massachu ■ 
setts to his support for the presidency; was 
chairman of the 4th district congressional 
committee. In 1879 and '80 he was a 



memiier of the House of Representatives 
from ward 10, Bostcm, serving on the com- 
mittees on rules and orders, taxation, and 
library. In 1879 he stumped the State for 
(Governor Long, and delivered an address 
at Stockbridge on Memorial Day of that 
year. He took a very active part in the 
citizens' movement in politics, in favor of 
Mayors Pierce and Cobb, and was chair- 
man of the executive committee in 1881, 
when Mayor Green was chosen. 

Mr. Sowdon was active in the Republi- 
can bolt against James (i. Blaine, and was 
vice-chairman of the " Independent " state 
committee. He is a " tariff reformer," 
and now acts with the Democratic party 




ARTHUR J. C SOWDON. 

in national matters. He believes in radi- 
cal civil-service reform, and assisted in the 
preparation of the first public appeal on 
the subject. He was secretary of the 
committee to raise money to build Har- 
vard Memorial Hall and the Boston Mu- 
seum of F'ine Arts. 

Mr. Sowdon is an Episcopalian ; in 1872 
he was a vestrvman in St. Paul's church, in 
Rome, Italy, and helped to select the site 
for the first Protestant church within the 
walls of the " Eternal City," with the 
hearty sanction of Victor Emmanuel and 
Prince Humbert. He is a vestryman of 
St. Paul's church, Boston ; president of 



568 



SPAULDING. 



SPAULDING. 



the Church Association ; a member of the 
diocesan board of missions ; one of the 
trustees of donations, Episcopal Charitable 
Society (founded 1724), and chairman of 
the executive committee of the Episcopa- 
lian Club ; a member of the Union and St. 
Botolph clubs, Bostonian Society, Bunker 
Hill Monument Association, Veteran Ca- 
dets, Longfellow Memorial Association, 
Latin School Association, New Eng- 
land Historic Genealogical Society, Mas- 
sachusetts Reform Club, Tariff Reform 
League, New York Reform Club, and a 
life-member of the Young Men's Christian 
Association, and the Christian LTnion. He 
has been three times in Europe, trav- 
eled much in this country, written often 
for the press, and delivered frequent ad- 
dresses. He is unmarried, and his present 
residence is in 'Fremont Place, in the city 
of his birth. 

SPAULDING, Henry George, son of 

Reuben and Electa ((loodenough) Spauld- 
ing, was born in Spencer, Worcester county, 
May 28, 1837. 

In his early home, in Brattleborough, 
Vt., he enjoyed the advantages of musical 
culture under his mother's teaching, and of 
guidance from his father in the study of 
Latin. When his father suffered reverses 
in loss of property, thougii a mere boy, he 
began his career of self-help by his labors 
as an organist and a teacher of music. He 
also began to contribute articles in prose 
and verse to the newspapers before he was 
fifteen years of age. 

He fitted for college in Northfield Acad- 
emy (Vt.) and at Phillips Academy, An- 
dover. He was graduated with the highest 
honors from Harvard in the famous "sol- 
dier class " of i860. 

After graduation he was for two years a 
private tutor in the family of a gentleman 
residing in Baltimore, Md. In 1862 he 
entered the service of the United States 
Sanitary Commission ; was in Maryland 
after the battle of Antietam, in the hos- 
pitals of Washington and Alexandria, and 
with the LTnion army at Newbern, N. C, 
and Beaufort, S. C. Here he collected 
material for an article which appeared in 
the "Continental Monthly," under the 
title of " Under the Palmetto." 

In the fall of 1863, he entered the theo- 
logical school of Harvard University, and 
was graduated in the class of 1866. 

In November, 1867, he was married to 
Lucy Warland, daughter of Sylvanus and 
Mary (Bell) Plympton, of Cambridge. Of 
this union are two children living : Henry 
Plympton and Elizabeth Bell Spaulding. 



In February, 1868, Mr. Spaulding was 
ordained pastor of the Unitarian church in 
Framingham. In 1872 he was in Europe 
several months, spending much of his time 
in Italy, in the study of art and archreology. 

He was settled over the Second LTnita- 
rian church in Dorchester from 1S73 to '77. 
During this time Mr. Spaulding delivered at 
the Lowell Institute in Boston two illus- 
trated courses of lectures upon " Rome 
and Roman Life and Art in the First 
Century." These were highly commended 
by scholarly critics, and were afterwards 
repeated in nearly every import'ant educa- 
tional centre in the eastern states. 

In May, 1883, Mr. Spaulding accepted 
the secretaryship of the Unitarian Sunday- 
school society, and is still discharging the 
duties of that position, having his office in 
Boston and residing in the suburban city 
of Newton. In later years his pen has 
been active upon topics of literature, art, 
music, and theology. He has compiled a 
valuable liturgy and hymnal for Sunday- 
schools, and has written Sunday-school 
manuals upon the "Teachings of Jesus," 
and the " Hebrew Prophets and Kings." 

He is an active member of a large num- 
ber of religious, literary and musical or- 
ganizations, including the Sunday-school 
Union, Vermont Association (of which he 
is chaplain), the Tuesday Club, St. Botolph 
Club, the O. K. and the Phi Beta Kappa 
societies of Harvard College, the Brown- 
ing Society of Boston, and the Harvard 
Musical Association. 

SPAULDING, William Chester, son 

of Chester and Emily (lUitton) Spaulding, 
was born in Sheffield, Berkshire county, 
March 21, 1832. 

He obtained his education in the public 
schools of Sheffield and at Williams Acad- 
emy, Stockbridge. 

In his youth and early manhood he en- 
gaged in farm work, teaching school, how- 
ever, one-third of the time from 1849 to 
'59. During this i^eriod he read law with 
Ensign & Bradford, Sheffield. He was 
admitted to the bar at Lenox, in June, 
1856 ; located for a short time in the 
village of Mill River, New Marlborough ; 
spent the winter of 1856 and '57 in Tennes- 
see ; removed to West Stockbridge in the 
spring of 1858, and has continued there in 
the practice of law to the present time. 

Mr. Spaulding was married in New 
Marlborough, October 7, 1856, to Sarah 
L., daughter of James B. and Sarah H. 
(Smith) Alger. C)f this union were five 
children, only two of whom are living : 
Emily B. and Frank A. Spaulding. 



SPEAKE. 



SPKACU'E. 



56g 



Mr. Spaulding was a member of the 
Sheffield school board one year, of the 
West Stockbridge school board nineteen 
years ; assessor three years ; town clerk 
fifteen years ; town treasurer fifteen years; 
has held a commission as justice of the 
peace since June, 1856, and as trial justice 
since March, 1861 ; was enrolling officer 
of the town during the war of the rebellion; 
postmaster for twenty-three years and 
eleven months, to April 20, 1886 ; has 
been treasurer of the iVIiners' Savings Bank 
since its organization in 1872 ; a director 
of the Housatonic National Bank three 
years ; and clerk of the Congregational 
society three years. He wrote the history 
of West Stockbridge, in 1885, and in 
November, 1888, was elected county com- 
missioner of Berkshire county for three 
years. 

Mr. Spaulding traces his ancestry back 
seven generations to Edward "Spolden," 
in England. 

SPEARE, ALDEN, soil of Sceva and 
Jane (Merril) Speare, was born in Chelsea, 
Orange county, Vt., October 26, 1825. 

After a common school education, he 
jirepared for college at Newbury Seminary, 
Vt., but at the death of his father he was 
obliged to relinquish his cherished purpose 
of obtaining a college education. 

Turning his attention into the channels 
of a commercial career, he obtained em- 
ployment as clerk in the dry-goods store 
of L. Stetson, Jr., Boston. In 1848 he be- 
came salesman in a wholesale dry-goods 
establishment in Boston. He worked as 
salesman for different houses until 1851, 
when he went into business with other 
gentlemen, under the name of Speare, 
Burke & Co., oils and starch. Mr. Speare 
is now a special partner in the firm of 
Alden Speare's Sons & Co., Boston. His 
residence is Newton. 

Mr. Speare was married March i, 1849, 
to Caroline M., daughter of Lewis and 
Sarah M. Robinson. Of this union were 
the following children : Sarah Jane, Her- 
bert Alden, Emma Caroline, Ella Maria, 
Lewis Robinson, and Edwin Ray Speare — 
the first three deceased. 

Mr. Speare served on the Boston school 
board nine years. He was mayor of New- 
ton in 1876 and '77. He was several 
years director, and in 1857 the president, 
of the Y. ^L C. A., Boston ; has been a 
member of the board of managers of the 
Foreign and Home Missionary societies 
of the Methodist Episcopal church since 
1872 ; trustee and vice-president of the 
Boston Universitv. 



He was in 1875, '82, '86, '87, and '88 
president of the Boston Wesleyan Associa- 
tion, owners of the Wesleyan Building, 
Bromfield Street, Boston, and publishers of 
" Zion's Herald." He has been president 
of the Boston Chamber of Commerce ; 
president of the Arkansas Valley Town 
& Land Company, which owns some one 
hundred and fifty towns in Kansas and 
Colorado ; is a director of the Connecti- 
cut & Passumpsic River Railroad Company 
of Vermont, of the Mexican Central Rail- 
road, and of the Atchison, Topeka & 
Santa Fe (since 1870), and of twenty-two 
other roads in Kansas, Colorado, New 
Mexico, Arizona, and California, that are 
connected with, or operated by, the Atchi- 
son, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. Company. 
He is a trustee of the Boston Penny Sav- 
ings Bank, a director in the Commercial 
National Bank of Boston, and of the 
Hamilton Woolen Company, Boston. 

The life of Mr. Speare has been one of 
uninterrupted activity, of hard, untiring 
labor, as the schedule of his tasks and the 
history of his successes will bear witness. 
He has been an important factor, not only 
in the business world, but in all the activi- 
ties of life incident to the career of one 
who lives not to himself alone. 

SPRAGUE, Augustus Brown Reed, 

son of Lee and Lucia (Snow) Sprague, was 
born in Ware, Hampshire count)'', March 7, 
1827. His ancestors on both sides were of 
Puritan stock ; his inaternal grandmother, 
Alice Alden, was a lineal descendant in the 
sixth generation from John Alden of the 
" Mayflower." 

He obtained his education in public and 
private schools ; was employed as a clerk 
in a dry-goods house in 1842, in Worcester, 
and engaged in mercantile business for 
himself from 1846 to '61. 

In 1859 and '60 he was a member of the 
common council, and of the board of alder- 
men in 187 1 ; city marshal in 1867, and 
resigned to accept the office of collector of 
internal revenue for the 8th Massachusetts 
district, which office he held from March 

4, 1867, to July I, 1872. He was appointed 
sheriff for the county of Worcester, Jul}- 

5, 1871, and has been elected for six suc- 
cessive terms of three years each. He is 
still holding the office to the full accept- 
ance of the count)-. 

General Sprague was an officer in the 
Massachusetts volunteer militia previous 
to the civil war, and on the 17th day of 
April, 1861, he was elected captain of the 
Worcester City Guards, company A, 3d 
battalion rifles, and left for the .seat of war. 



570 



Sl'RAGUE. 



SPRAGUE. 



April 20th ; was mustered out of service 
August 5th, and again September 9, 1861, 
was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of 
the 25th regiment, Massachusetts volun- 
teers, participating in its battles and skirm- 
ishes, and was officially reported for " brav- 
ery and efficiency " in the engagements at 
Roanoke Island and Newbern. November 
II, 1862, he was promoted to colonel of 
the sist Massachusetts regiment, and 
served in the department of North Caro- 
lina, and in Virginia and Maryland. After 
the expiration of its term of service, in 
June, 1863, Colonel Sprague offered his 
regiment for further service. General Lee's 
army being north of the Potomac. It was 
accepted by the secretary of war, and he 
was ordered to Baltimore, thence to Mary- 
land Heights, joining the army of the Po- 
tomac near Williamsport, Md. 

July 27, 1863, he was mustered out with 
his regiment. February i, 1864, he was 
commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the 2d 
Massachusetts heavy artillery, and served 
in southern Virginia and North Carolina, 
commanding the regiment in its field ser- 
vice, moving with General Schofield's com- 
mand to open communications with General 
Sherman at Goldsborough, N. C. Septem- 
ber 20, 1865, he was discharged at Gallup's 
Island, previous to which he was commis- 
sioned colonel of the regiment. He served 
more than three years and nine months, 
and was breveted brigadier-general of vol- 
unteers, to date from March 13, 1865, "fur 
gallant and meritorious service during the 
war." 

General Sprague was commander of the 
department of Massachusetts, G. A. R., in 
1868 ; was junior vice-commander of the 
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the 
United States the same year, and was quar- 
termaster-general of the Grand Army of 
the Republic in 1874. He is vice-president 
of the Merchants' Savings Bank, Worcester, 
and has been a director in the Worcester 
Electric Light Company from its organiza- 
tion. 

General Sprague was married in Worces- 
ter, December 23, 1846, to Elizabeth Janes, 
daughter of Samuel and Eliza M. (Shep- 
ard) Rice. Of this union were five chil- 
dren : Samuel Augustus, Willie Augustus, 
Josephine Elizabeth, Carrie Lee, and Fred 
Foster Sprague. 

SPRAGUE, Henry Harrison, son of 

George and Nancy (Knight) Sprague, was 
born in Athol, Worcester county, August 
I, 1841. 

He received his early education in the 
schools of his native town, and studied also 



for a short time previous to admission to 
college, at the Chauncy Hall school in 
Boston. 

He graduated at Harvard College in the 
class of 1864. After graduation he went 
to Champlain, N. Y., as a private tutor, and 
remained there until the summer of 1865. 
In the fall of that year he entered the Har- 
vard law school, and was at the same time 
a proctor of the college. 

In the fall of 1866 he became a law stu- 
dent in the office of Henry W. Paine and 
Robert D. Smith, in Boston, and February 
25, 1868, he was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar. He thereupon began the practice of 
his profession in Boston, where he has 
since practiced and resided. 

He was elected in 1873 to the common 
council of the city of Boston, and served 
on important committees in that body for 
the municipal years of 1874, '75, and '76. 
During the two latter years he also served 
as one of the trustees of the Boston city 
hospital on the 'part of the city council. 
In 1878 he was elected one of the trustees- 
at-large, and continued as such until the 
incorporation of the city hospital in 1880, 
when he was appointed as a trustee by the 
mayor. He has since held this position by 
successive re-appointments, and since 1878 
has also acted as secretary of the board. 

In 1880 he was elected a member of the 
House of Representatives from Boston, 
and served in that capacity for the years 
1 88 1, '82, and '83. In 1881 he was a mem- 
ber of the committee on the revision of the 
statutes, and of the committees on probate 
and chancery, and library. In 1882 he was 
chairman of the committee on bills in the 
third reading, and during that and the sub- 
sequent year he was also a member of the 
committee on the judiciary. 

He was elected a member of the Senate 
for the 5th Suffolk district for the year 
1888, and in that body acted as a member 
of the committee on the judiciary, on 
rules, and on cities, and, as chairman of 
the committee on election laws, he drafted 
and introduced the new ballot act. Being 
re-elected to the Senate of 1889, he acted 
as chairman of the committee on the juili- 
ciary, on election laws, and on rules. 

In 1884 he was a member of the execu- 
tive committee of the Municipal Reform 
Association, and was senior counsel of the 
association for the purpose of securing the 
passage by the Legislature of 1885, of the 
important amendments to the charter of 
the city of Boston, by which the executive 
authority of the city was vested in the 
mayor. 



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III 1S67 he was influential in restorinjf to 
activity the Boston Young Men's Christian 
Union, and has since continued as a mem- 
ber of the board of government, acting as 
secretary from 1867 to '79, and since 1879 
as vice-president of the society. 

In 1880 he engaged with others in the 
organization of the Boston Civil Service 
Reform Association, and he served as one 
of the executive committee until 1889, 
when he was elected president of the asso- 
ciation. 

He has been since 1879 one of the 
trustees of the Boston Lying-in Hospital, 
and recently has served upon the e.xecutive 
committee of the board. Since 1883 he 
has been secretary of the Massachusetts 
Charitable Fire Society, is a member of 
the New England Historic Genealogical 
Society, the Bostonian Society, the Bar 
Association and the Harvard Law School 
Association, and a member of the general 
committee of the Citizens' Association of 
Boston. He is a member of the Union, 
St. Botolph, and Unitarian clubs, of which 
latter he was for four years treasurer; he is 
one of the original members of the Tavern 
Club, and one of the trustees appointed to 
hold its real estate. He is also one of the 
trustees appointed to hold the buildings 
recently purchased and improved for the 
Women's Educational and Lidustrial 
Union, and acts as treasurer of the 
trustees. 

In 1884 he published a treatise entitlcil 
"Women under the Law of Massachusetts, 
their Rights, Privileges and Disabilities." 

SPRING, Charles Edward, son of 

Edward and Martha M. (.\twood) Spring, 
was born in (Irafton, A\'indham county, 
Vermont, November 19, 1842. He received 
his early education in the common schools 
and Burr Academy, Manchester, Vermont. 
He studied medicine in the Albany Med- 
ical College, from which he was graduated, 
1864. He served as assistant-surgeon, 
U. S. volunteers in 1865. 

Dr. Spring went into general practice 
at Jamaica, Vt., in 1867 ; removed to 
Holliston, Mass., in 1874, where he has 
continued his practice up to the present 
time. 

He was married in Windham, Vermont, 
January 24, 186S, to A'iorna M., daughter 
of Ceorge and Miranda .\dams. Of this 
union are five children : Mattie A., Charles 
L., Harvey A. (deceased), George E., and 
Harrold -\. Spring. 

Dr. Spring was a representative to the 
General Court in i888-'89. He has been 
a member of the Holliston school board 



fourteen years, and has served in various 
minor town offices. 

His church connections are with the 
Congregational church. 

SQUIRE, JOHN P., the son of Peter 
and Esther Squire, was born in the town 
of Weathersfield, Windsor county, Ver- 
mont, on the 8th day of May, 1819. His 
father was a farmer. The years of his 
boyhood were spent at his home, attending 
the public schools and working on the 
farm. 

On the first day of May, 1835, he entered 
the employment of a Mr. Orvis, the village 
store-keeper at West Windsor, Vermont, and 
remained with him until the winter of 
1837, when he attended the academy at 
Unity, New Hampshire, of which the Rev. 
A. A. Miner was then principal. He taught 
school at Cavendish during a part of the 
winter of i837-'38. 




On the 19th of March, 183S, he came to 
Boston, entered the employ of Nathan 
Robbins in Faneuil Hall market, and con- 
tinued with him until May i, 1842, when 
he formed a co-partnership with Francis 
Russell, and carried on the provision busi- 
ness at No. 25 Faneuil Hall market, under 
the style of Russell & Squire, until the 
year 1847, when the co-partnership was 
dissolved. 



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STAPLES. 



Mr. Squire continued the business alone, 
at the same place, until the year 1855, 
when he formed a new co-partnership with 
Hiland Lockwood and Edward Kimball, 
under the name of John P. Squire & Co. 
The firm name and business have continued 
until the present time, and the changes in 
the partners have been as follows : the 
retirement of Edward D. Kimball in the 
year 1866 ; the admission of W. W. Kim- 
ball in the same year, and his retirement 
in 1873 ; the admission of his sons, George 
W. and Frank O. Squire, in the year 1873 ; 
the death of Hiland Lockwood in the year 
1874 ; the retirement of George W. Squire 
in the year 1876 ; and the admission of 
Fred F. Squire, the youngest son, January 
1, 1884 — leaving the firm to-day composed 
of John P., Frank O., and Fred F. Squire. 

In 1855 Mr. Squire bought a small tract 
of land in East Cambridge and built a 
slaughter-house. Since that time the busi- 
ness has grown to such an extent that the 
firm of John P. Squire & Co. has to-day 
one of the largest and best-equipped pack- 
ing houses in the country, and stands third 
in the list of hog-packers in the United 
States. 

In 1843 he married Kate Green Orvis, 
daughter of his old employer. Eleven 
children were born of this marriage, ten of 
whom are now living, as follows : George 
W., Jennie C, Frank O., Minnie E., John 
A., Kate I., Nannie K., Fred F., Nellie G., 
and Bessie E. Squire. One son, Charles, 
died in infancy. 

In 1848 he moved to West Cambridge, 
now called Arlington, where he has ever 
since lived. 

Mr. Squire joined the Mercantile Library 
Association when he first came to Boston, 
and spent a good deal of his leisure time 
in reading, of which he was very fond. 
The position which he holds to-day in 
commercial circles is due to his untiring 
industry, undaunted courage, and marked 
ability. 

STAFFORD, JOHN HENRY, .son of 
James and Martha (Hampson) Stafford, 
was born in Denton, England, November 
16, 1841. 

He received a public school education. 

When thirteen years old he worked in 
the cotton mills, remaining there until the 
age of seventeen, when he engaged in the 
dry-goods business. In 1863 he came to 
this country, and locating in Indiana, 
taught school until he joined the 146th 
Indiana volunteers and went to the front, 
where he served until the close of the war. 
He came to Lawrence in November, 1865. 



and became connected with the mills ni 
that city. In June, 1867, he engagetl in 
the manufacture of brushes, and is still 
employed in the same industry. 

September 21, 187 1, in Lawrence, Mr. 
Stafford was married to Subie A., daughter 
of James and Susan (Burton) Hodgdon. 
Thev have no children. 




JOHN H STAFFORD 

Mr. Stafford is a member of the Masonic 
order and a Knight Templar. For twentv 
years he has been jjermanent secretary of 
Lawrence Lodge, I. O. O. F. He is also 
financial scribe of Lawrence Encampment, 
I. O. O. F.; has been 2d lieutenant, com- 
pany K, 6th regiment, Massachusetts vol- 
unteer militia ; was a member of the 
common council of Lawrence in iS82,and 
a member of the House of Representa- 
tives ill 1S84, and again in 1889. 

In politics Mr. Stafford is a Democrat, 
but his popularity outside of the party is 
shown in the fact that since 1884 he is the 
only Democrat that has been sent to the 
Legislature from his district — a Republi- 
can stronghold. 

STAPLES, Hamilton Barclay, son of 

AVelcome and Susan Staples, was born in 
Mendon, Worcester county, February 14, 
1829. 

After his common school course he pre- 
pared for college at ^\'orcester Academy. 



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He entered Brown University in 1847, and 
was graduated therefrom in the class of 
1 85 1, taking the Latin salutatory. 

He studied law in Providence, R. I., in 
the office of the late Chief Justice Ames, 
and in Worcester with the late Hon. Peter 
C. Bacon ; was admitted to the bar at 
Worcester, 1854, and went into practice in 
Milford. in partnership with the late Gen- 
eral A. B. Underwood, in 1855 ; was sub- 
sequently in partnership with John C 
Scammell, Hon. Charles A. Dewey, and 
William F. Slocum ; in 1869 he removed to 
Worcester, his present residence, and was 
engaged in practice in that city, in partner- 
shi'p with Hon. Francis P. Goulding, for 
twelve years, until 1881. 




HAMILTON B- STAPLES 

Mr. Staples was a member of the com- 
mon council of Worcester and a trustee of 
the city hospital in 1874; district attorney 
of the middle district for eight years ; was 
appointed one of the justices of the supe- 
rior court, February 16, i88i,and has since 
been on the bench of that court. 

JNIr. Staples was married in Mendon, in 
1858, to F^lizabeth A. Godfrey, step-daugh- 
ter of Hon. Benjamin Davenport. Mrs. 
Staples died July i, 1867. Mr. Staples was 
married the second time, in Northampton, 
October 8, 1868, to Mary Clinton, daugh- 
ter of the late Hon. Charles A. Dewey, 



judge of the supreme court, and Caroline 
H. Clinton, daughter of Cieneral James 
Clinton of New York. Of this marriage 
there have been two children : Charles 
Dewey Staples, who died in infancy, and 
Francis Hamilton Staples, born April 22, 
1872. 

He is an honored member of the Ameri- 
can Antiquarian Society, and has con- 
tributed to its proceedings the following 
papers : "A Day at Mt. Vernon in 1797 ;" 
" The Origin of the Names of the States ; " 
" The Province Laws ; " " The Winthrop 
Sword," and " The Monument to La Salle 
at Rouen." In 1884 he received from 
Brown University the honorary degree of 
[,L. 1). 

STAPLES, JOHN A., son of James H 
and Elizabeth (Dudley) Staples, was born 
in Lyman, York coun'tv, Maine, September 
5, 1841. 

His early educational trammg was re- 
ceived in the public schools of Biddeford, 
Me. Encouraged and assisted by his step- 
father, Judge Abel H. Jelleson, he fitted 
for college, and entered Dartmouth in 1858, 
graduating with his class in 1862. 

In 1 864" he formed business connections, 
with the LTnion Collar Company of New 
York City, in whose interest he visited the 
principal cities in the country. In 1865 he 
was stationed at Buffalo, N. Y. ; in 1866 
and '67 at Chicago, and in 1868 in New 
\'()rk City. 

During the winter of 1868 he returned 
to Biddeford, and was elected city clerk, 
which office he held until 1872. 

In 1873 he was appointed cashier of the 
freight department of the Boston & Maine 
Railroad, which position he ncnv holds. 

Mr. Staples was married in Biddeford, 
Me., December 5, 1867, to Josephine, 
daughter of AYilliam and Lucinda (Tarbo.x) 
(loodwin. Of this union were two chil- 
dren : Walter H. (born in 1870 — deceased), 
and Philip Clayton Staples (born in 1882). 

During his residence in Biddeford, in 
addition to his duties as city clerk, he 
was chairman of its school board, and 
has always taken a warm interest in educa- 
tional affairs. 

Since becoming a resident of Revere he 
has been town auditor for two years, and 
has been a member of the board of select- 
men for every year since 1882. 

Mr. Staples is an enthusiastic believer 
and helper in all the institutions which 
give character and standing to his town. 
He is prominent in lodge circles; president 
of the Sagamore Association, also of the 
Revere Co-operative Bank, and a director 



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STEARNS. 



in the Boston &: Maine Railroad Relief 
Association. With liis time largely en- 
grossed by his daily duties, he neverthe- 
less devotes a portion of each day to the 
more congenial pursuit of literature in his 
library. 

In politics Mr. Staples is a staunch Demo- 
crat, firmly believing in the creed as defined 
by Jefferson. He has been the candidate 
of his party for legislative honors, receiv- 
ing a flattering support from his opponents. 
In religion he is an attendant upon, and a 
supporter of. Congregational worship. 

STEARNS, EPHRAIM, son of Ephraim 
and Rachel (Learoyd) Stearns, was born 
in Waltham, Middlesex county, March 8, 
1839. 

After receiving a good education at the 
common schools, completed at the Waltham 
high school, he took up the mercantile 
profession, and began business life in 1856, 
with the firm of Milton Cushman & Com- 
pany, remaining with them nearly ten 
years. 

During this time he enlisted in company G, 
45th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, 
seeing service in North Carolina. At the 
expiration of his term of enlistment he 
returned with the rank of sergeant. 

Leaving the employ of Milton Cush- 
man & Company, he entered into co-part- 
nership under the firm name of Blake & 
Stearns, commission merchants and dealers 
in woolens — a house since enjoying much 
prosperity and a reputation for honorable 
dealing. 

Mr. Stearns was married in Waltham, 
October 26, 1S65, to Persis Louisa, daugh- 
ter of Charles W. and Hannah B. (Haven) 
Warren. They have two children : Charles 
Ephraim and Rachel Learoyd Stearns. 

January i, 1885, he was appointed on 
the staff of Governor Robinson, as assistant 
quartermaster-general, with the rank of 
colonel. 

Although nearly all his interests are in 
Boston, Mr. Stearns has not neglected the 
duties of a good citizen, and has been 
|irominent in the political and social affairs 
of his native town. 

Always active in politics, he has served 
several times as chairman of the Republi- 
can town committee, and was elected a 
dele,gate to the national Republican con- 
vention at Chicago in 1884. He was a 
member of the committee on the city 
charter, and was elected as an alderman 
of the first city government of Waltham. 

In December, 1888, he was elected presi- 
dent of the New England Commercial 
Travelers' Association. He has served as 



a trustee of the Waltham Savings Bank, 
and a commissioner of the sinking fund of 
the city of Waltham. He is a member of 
the First Parish church, Waltham, and has 
been chairman of the parish committee for 
several years. He is a member of Monitor 
Lodge, \\'altham Royal Arch Chapter, and 
also of the Middlesex Club of Boston 

STEARNS, George Andrew, son of 

Ephraim and Rachel (Learoyd) Stearns, 
was born in Waltham, Middlesex county, 
September 2, 1827. He received the cus- 
tomary public school education of the 
times, attending school in the winter and 
working on a farm in the summer, from 
nine years of age until he was sixteen. At 
the latter age he entered as an apprentice 
the machine shop of Coolidge &r Sibley at 
Stony Brook, where he devoted the usual 
four years to acquiring the elements of the 
machinist's trade, his special branch being 
the construction and setting up of cotton 
machinery. At the age of twenty-one he 
entered the Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- 
tute at Troy, N. Y., where he took a special 
course in civil engineering. After receiv- 
ing his diploma, he followed his profession 
for a year in the service of the Troy & 
Boston Railroad. He then accepted the 
position of clerk and paymaster at the Wal- 
tham Bleachery, and remained in the em- 
ploy of the company until 1872 — for the 
last four years of his service as superinten- 
dent of the works. In 1872 he resigned 
his position to enter into partnership with 
William H. Forbes of Boston, under the 
firm name of W. H. Forbes & Co., lithog- 
raphers and engravers. He has since con- 
tinued in the business, though the firm has 
resolved itself into a corporation — the 
Forbes Lithograph M'f'g Co. Mr. Stearns 
has held various offices of public trust. He 
is treasurer and general manager of the 
Waltham Gas Light Company, and has 
been a director in the Waltham National 
Bank ; treasurer of the Waltham Music 
Hall Company ; a member of the school 
board ; chairman of the board of managers 
of public cemeteries, and a member of the 
drainage and sewerage commission for 
Waltham. He has always been a promi- 
nent meml)er of the First Parish (Unita- 
rian), of Waltham ; was for years clerk 
and a member of the parish committee, 
treasurer of the society, and superintendent 
of the Sunday-school. 

Mr. Stearns, in common with all of the 
name in Waltham or its vicinity, is a de- 
scendant from Isaac Sterne, or Sternes, who 
came to America in 1630 from Norfolk, 
Eng., in the company of Sir Richard Sal- 



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575 



tonstall. Isaac Sterne settled in Water- 
town and acquired considerable property. 
He always used the spelling of his name 
adopted above until he signed his will, 
when he added an "s" to it, from which 
the form at present used is a corrup- 
tion. The subject of . this sketch is de- 
scended in the sixth generation from Isaac; 
through his third son, .Samuel ; the latter's 
fourth son, Isaac; from Isaac's fourth son, 
Joshua, and from Ephraim, the only son 
of Joshua. 

Mr. Stearns was married, in ^^'altham, 
October 4, 1853, to Lucretia Kendall, 
youngest daughter of Jonas and .\bigail 
Lawrence ^'iles. Eight children have been 
born to them, of whom si.x survive : Fred- 
erick Augustus, Helen Learoyd, George 
Andrew, Abby Lawrence, John ^^'alton, 
and AN'alter Mulliken Stearns. 

STEARNS, George Munroe, son of 

AVilliam L. and Mary (Munroe) Stearns, 
was born in Stoughton, Norfolk county, 
April 18, I S3 1. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in the common schools of the town 
of Rowe, where his father was settled as 
pastor of a Unitarian parish, supplemented 
by an attendance at Shelburne Falls 
Academy. 

Choosing the profession of law, he en- 
tered the office of the late Judge John 
Wells, at C.hicopee, where he pursued his 
legal studies. He was admitted to the 
Hampden county bar in April, 1852, and 
immediately entered into co-partnership 
with Judge Wells. This relation continued 
until the removal of the latter to Spring- 
field, when Mr. Stearns continued alone 
for several years, afterwards forming a 
co-partnership with M. W. Chapin at 
Chicopee. Later he opened an office in 
Springfield, in partnership with the late 
Hon. E. U. Beach, and still later with Hon. 
Marcus P. Knowlton — judge of the su- 
preme judicial court — and C. L. Long. 
Since 1878 he has continued in practice 
alone at Chicopee. 

May 17, 1855, at Brooklyn, N. Y., Mr. 
Stearns was married to Emily Caroline, 
daughter of Erasmus D. and Caroline 
(BuUard) Goodnow. Their children were: 
Mary Caroline and Emily Spaulding 
Stearns, the former dving at the age of 
twenty-eight, and the latter at twelve. 

Mr. Stearns held a commission as justice 
of the peace and quorum and notary pub- 
lic for several years. In 1859 he was a 
member of the House of Representatives, 
and was appointed one of the committee 
of thirty who reported the revision of the 



statutes in i860. In 1S71 he was a mem- 
ber of the Senate, serving on the commit- 
tee on railroads. In 1872 he was elected 
district attorney for the western district, 
holding the office for over two years, when 
he resigned. In February, 1886, he was 
appointed Llnited States attorney at Bos- 
ton, resigning the position at the end of 
seventeen months. 

In politics Mr. Stearns is a Democrat, 
and has frequently been a delegate to state 
conventions. In 1872 he was a delegate 
to the national Democratic convention, 
where he favored the nomination of Hor- 
ace Greeley. He was candidate for lieu- 
tenant-governor on the ticket with John Q. 
Adams, and also for the same place when 
Charles Sumner was nominated by the 
Democrats, but when the latter declined, 
Mr. Stearns did likewise. 

The ability of Mr. Stearns has long been 
known to the members of the bar, and to 
those who have been pitted against him in 
political debate; but the prominence given 
to the much-vexed question of the division 
of towns before recent Legislatures has 
afforded him an arena wherein he has 
added much to his reputation for keen wit, 
pungent sarcasm, and brilliant oratory. 
The eloquent presentation of the cause of 
his clients in many notable cases has been 
well-nigh irresistible. 

Mr. Stearns is a grandson of Charles 
Stearns, D. D., of Lincoln, who was made 
doctor of divinity by Harvard, and was one 
of the ablest and most learned men of his 
day. He was a close friend of Hon. Samuel 
Hoar of Concord, and his memory is still 
held in great respect. Dr. Stearns was 
offered the presidency of Harvard College, 
but declined it, because he considered it 
his duty to remain with the little parish at 
Lincoln, though his compensation was but 
four hundred dollars a year. Dr. Stearns 
was one of the founders of the LTnitarian 
sect, being, with Dr. Ripley, of Concord, 
among the earliest to dissent from the 
dogma of the trinity. 

STEARNS, Richard Hall, son of 

Leonard and Sarah (Colburn) Stearns, was 
born in Ashburnham, Worcester county, 
December 25, 1824. 

While an infant, his father removed to 
New Ipswich, N. H., and about nine years 
later to the town of Lincoln, about fifteen 
miles from Boston. He availed himself 
of every opportunity to attend the public 
schools, although as soon as his services 
were of value on the farm, his schooling 
was confined to the winter months. He 
made such good use of his limited ad- 



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STEELE. 



vantages, however, that at the age of 
twenty he was a successful teacher. 

One of his duties on the farm at Lin- 
cohi had been to start at two or three 
o'clock, A. M., with a load of farm pro- 
duce, which he sold in Boston. His 
acquaintance thus gained in Boston deter- 
mined him to take the first opportunity to 
leave the farm and begin business in the 
city. 

At the age of twenty-one he came to 
Boston, and secured a position with C. C. 
Burr, at a salary of one hundred and fifty 
dollars per annum. His energy, and a 




RICHARD H STEARNS. 

desire to accomplish more than was de- 
manded by his employer, earned for him a 
promotion to the position of salesman the 
first year. Less than two years from this 
time he left Mr Burr and went into 
business for himself without capital, but 
with credit with some of the merchants of 
those days, who recognized the qualities 
which have given Mr. Stearns his uninter- 
rupted success. At the start he did all 
the work himself, being buyer, salesman, 
and porter. His sales, which then were 
counted by a few hundreds of dollars, 
have increased steadily until they are high 
in the hundreds of thousands, and the 
working force has increased to several 
hundred. 



Mr. Stearns started with the idea that 
he would cater to the best trade, and make 
a specialty of goods of the highest grade. 
'I'his plan persistently carried out through 
so long a term of years has established a 
reputation for this house second to no 
other in the United States in its own par- 
ticular line. His fame is not confined to 
New England. He has the reputation of 
being personally known to more buyers 
who come to Boston than any other mer- 
chant in his business. 

Mr. Stearns was married in Boston. Sep- 
tember i8, 1855, to Louisa, daughter of 
Foster and Charlotte V. Waterman. Of 
this union were three children : F. W. 
Stearns, admitted a member of the firm 
of R. H. Stearns &: Co., June i, 1881 ; 
William F., a clergyman ; and R. H. 
Stearns, Jr., admitted a member of the 
firm January i, 1887. 

Mr. Stearns has been called to fill many 
positions of trust, being a director in the 
National Hide & Leather Bank ; director 
in the Massachusetts Loan & Trust Com- 
pany ; was a member of the Boston school 
board from 1867 to '71, and a member of 
the House of Representatives in 1874 
and '75. 

In religious matters Mr. Stearns has 
been prominently connected with the Con- 
gregational denomination. He was one of 
the early presidents of the Congregational 
Club of Boston, and is now a deacon of 
the Old South church of Boston. 

STEELE, George McKendree, son 

of Rev. Joel and Jerusha Rich (Higgins) 
Steele, was born in Strafford, Orange coun- 
ty, Vermont, .April 13, 1823. 

He attended district schools till eighteen 
years of age ; prepared for college at New- 
bury Seminary, Vt.; entered Wesleyau 
University, Middletown, Conn., in 1846, 
and was graduated in the class of 1850. 
From 1850 to '53 he was teacher of math- 
ematics and Latin in the Wesleyan .Acad- 
emy, Wilbraham. 

In 1853 he entered the ministry of the 
New England conference of the M. E. 
church. He was stationed at Warren, 
i853-'4; Fitchburg, 1855; St. Paul's church, 
Lowell, i856-'7 ; Watertown, i858-'9; First 
church, Lj'nn, i86o-'6i ; Church Street, 
Boston, i862-'3 ; Fitchburg, 1864 ; and was 
a delegate to the United States Christian 
Commission. In 1S66 he received the de- 
gree of D. D. from the Northwestern Uni- 
versity, and in 1879 that of LL.I). from 
the Lawrence LTniversity, Appleton, Wis. 
He has been a trustee of the Boston Uni- 
versity since 1880, and was a delegate to 



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the general conference of the Methodist 
I'^piscopal church. i868-'72-'76. 

In 1S65 he was made president of the 
Lawrence University, of Wisconsin, where 
he remained till 1879, Since that time he 
has been principal of the Wesleyan Acad- 
emy, Wilbraham. 

Mr. Steele was married Jnly i, 1852, to 
Susan Jane, daughter of John and Lydia 
(Snow) Swift, of Provincetown. He has 
one child living : George Francis Steele, 
having lost two daughters, Lillian and 
Harriet. 

Mr. Steele is a member of the Wiscon- 
sin .\cademy of Arts, Sciences and Letters; 
a member and councilor of the .\merican 
Economic Association ; a member and 
vice-president of the Connecticut Valley 
.Association and also of the American Insti- 
tute of Civics ; and a member of the board 
of visitors to the United States Naval 
.\cademy at .\nnapoHs, Md. (187 1). He 
traveled in Europe in 1873. He is the 
author of " Outlines of Bible Study " and 
" Outline Study of Political Economy," 
and has written largely for reviews, maga- 
zines and other periodicals. 

STETSON, George Fobes, son of 

George Fobes and Chloe Murdock (Bon- 
ney) Stetson, was born in Hanson, Plym- 
outh county, .April 11, 1833. 

His early education was obtained at the 
common schools, and by three terms, at- 
tendance in the Hanover Academy. 

From early life he devoted his attention 
to the trade of shoemaking until within 
two years, when he changed his vocation 
to farming, in which he is now interested. 

On the 3d of December, 1861, at Han- 
son, Mr. Stetson was married to Dorothy 
Brown, daughter of Hervey and Ruth T. 
(Reed) Dyer. Their children are : Flor- 
ence D. and George H. Stetson. 

In 1861, '62, '79, and '83, Mr. Stetson was 
sent as a representative to the state Legis- 
lature, and has served upon the school 
committee for a number of years. 

For five years from 1862 he was assis- 
tant United States assessor for the lotli 
division of the 2d district of Massachu- 
setts. 

He still resides at his birthplace, where 
he is well known and respected by a large 
circle of friends. 

STETSON, NahUM, the son of .Abisha 
and Alice (.\llen) Stetson, was born in 
East Bridgewater, Plymouth county, Au- 
gust 21, 1807. 

His early education was received in the 
district schools of those days, supplemented 



by two terms in Bridgewater Academy. 
He taught a country school before he was 
of age. 

In 1825 he began work with the Bridge- 
water Iron Works, at fifty dollars per year. 
In 1835, on the death of Nathan Lazell, 
he was elected agent and treasurer of the 
Bridgewater Iron Company, and in 1841 
of the Weymouth Iron Company, both of 
which offices he held till 1886 ; from 1844 
to '46 he was agent and treasurer of the Tre- 
niont Iron Company, of Wareham, where 
the first railroad iron was made in New 
England; from 1846 to '86, agent and treas- 
urer of the Parker Mills, of Wareham. For 
several years he was a director, and two 
years president, of the Taunton Locomo- 
tive Works. For about twenty years he 
was a director and president of the Dean 
Cotton Machine Company, of Taunton. 
For twenty years from 1854, he was presi- 
dent of the Providence Iron Company, of 
Providence, R. I., and was a director of 
the Bristol County Bank in Taunton, from 
1835 to '54, and president one year. He 
was one of the original directors of the 
Fall River Railroad, also the Cape Cod 
R. R. until the union with the Old Colony. 

Mr. Stetson was married in Hanson, 
November 13, 1828, to Sarah Wilson, 
daughter of Rev. George and Sarah Bar- 
stow. Of this union were four children : 
George Barstow, Sarah L., Nahum, Jr., and 
William Butler Stetson. His second mar- 
riage was with Lucy A. F. Barstow, sister 
of his first wife, to whom were born two chil- 
dren: LucyAnnand Helen Forester Stetson. 

Mr. Stetson once yielded to the oft-re- 
peated calls to public duty, and allowed 
himself to be sent as a representative to 
the General Court in 1838, '39, and '40. A 
life-long devotion to his business, however, 
has not prevented his maintaining a lively 
interest in the affairs of his native town of 
Ikidgewater, where he has always resided, 
and where he has so long been an honored 
and conspicuous citizen. 

STETSON, Thomas M., son of Rev. 
Caleb and Julia.\nn (Meriam) Stetson, was 
born in Medford, Middlesex county, June 
15- 1830. 

He was graduated from Harvard College 
in the class of 1849, and from the Dane 
law school. Harvard Lhiiversity, in 1S52. 

He began law practice with Hon. Thomas 
D. Eliot in New Bedford, and was subse- 
quently connected with Hon. Robert C. 
Pitman, now associate justice of the supe- 
rior court. Later on he was associated with 
Francis B. Greene, Lemuel L. B. Holmes, 
and Eliot D. Stetson, his son. 



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STEVENS. 



Mr. Stetson was married in New Bed- 
ford, September lo, 1856, to Caroline 
Dawes, daughter of Thomas D. and Fran- 
ces L. (Brock) Eliot, of Nantucket. Of 
this union were five children : Julia M. 
(Yale), Eliot I)., Frederick Dudley, Frank 
Eliot, and Edward Meriam Stetson. 




THOMAS M STETSON. 

Mr. Stetson is a lineal descendant of 
Robert Stetson, cornet of mounted troop 
under Miles Standish, and of Edward Gray, 
of the '* Mayflower." 

STEVENS, Charles Edward, son of 

Charles Abbot and Maria (Tyler) Stevens, 
was born in Ware, Hampshire county, 
April 21, 1843. 

He was educated at the common schools, 
and began business in 1859. He is one of 
a very few successful business men who 
have entered upon life's work at sixteen 
years of age, and found no occasion to 
change their occupation throughout their 
entire career. Mr. Stevens began with 
the woolen business in his native place, 
and stiil resides in Ware, engaged in woolen 
manufacture. 

Mr. Stevens is unmarried. He is a 
director in the Ware National Bank, and 
in 1882 was sent as a representative to 
the General Court, where he served upon 
the committee on railroads. In 1889 he 
was a member of the Senate, and again 



served upon the committee on railroads 
and on education. For many years he 
has been secretary of the nth congres- 
sional district Republican committee. 

STEVENS, Charles Edwin, son of 

Ansel and Sarah (Knight) Stevens, was 
born in Greenwood, Oxford county, Maine, 
February 25, 1847. His ancestors were 
among the oldest settlers of Maine, and 
patriots of the revolution. His father was 
a farmer, and a representative of one of 
the oldest families of that region. 

When he was six years old his father 
moved to Sutton, where the son obtained a 
common school education, and afterwards 
studied at the Wesleyan Academy at Wil- 
braham. He was learning the machinist's 
trade, at Whitinsville, when the war of the 
rebellion broke out, and he enlisted in the 
42d Massachusetts regiment. 

.Vfter his return he was for several years 
engaged as book-keeper and superintend- 
ent in the manufacturing establishments at 
Leeds. In 1881, with Mr. Mulligan of 




CHARLES E STEVENS. 

Springfield, president of the Connecticut 
River Railroad, he established the Crystal 
Emery Wheel Works, at Northampton, of 
which he was made treasurer and manager. 
In politics Mr. Stevens is a pronounced 
Republican, and has served with efficiency 
upon the local committee many years. He 



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is a member of the Northampton (Irand 
Arm)- post, and a member of the " old " 
Congregational church — a cautious, en- 
terprising man, thoroughly interested in 
reforms, and active in all questions of pub- 
lic improvement. 

On the 2oth of January, 187S, at Leeds, 
Mr. Stevens married Annetta AL, daughter 
of William F. and jMaria E. (Jackson) 
Quigley. Their children are : Grace Mil- 
dred and Mabel Annetta Stevens. 

STEVENS, Charles Godfrey, son of 

Godfrey and Hannah (Pool) Stevens, was 
born in Claremont, Sullivan county, N. H., 
September 16, 1821. 

His early education was obtained in the 
common schools and the high school of 
Claremont, supplemented by attendance at 
Kimball Union Academy, Aleriden, N. H. 
Later, he was a student of Washington 
(now Trinity) College, Hartford, Conn., 
studying also at Dartmouth College ; he 
then spent a short time at the law school. 
Harvard University. 

He began the practice of law at Clare- 
mont, N. H. The year 1845 found him 
practicing law in Boston, but in 1846 he 
removed to Clinton, where he has since 
remained in the practice of his profession. 

Mr. Stevens was married in Bellows 
Falls, Vt., September 29, 1846, to Laura 
A., daughter of Eli and Hepzibeth Floyd 
Russell. Of this union were three chil- 
dren : Edward G., Charles R. (deceased), 
and Ellen K. Stevens. 

Mr. Stevens was a member of the Con- 
stitutional Convention in 1853, and state 
senator in 1862 and '63. He was for many 
years senior warden in the Church of the 
Good Shepherd, Clinton; a director in sev- 
eral insurance companies ; secretary and 
solicitor of the Clinton Savings Bank (since 
i85i);was judge of 2d district court of 
eastern ^Vorcester from its establishment 
until his resignation in 1880, and a member 
of the school board of Lancaster and Clin- 
ton for many years. He is president of 
the First National Bank of Clinton. 

He took an active part in the division 
of Lancaster, as chairman of the residents 
of Clinton seeking a division, and has filled 
the office of moderator at the annual town 
meetings for nearly every year since the 
incorporation of the town in 1850. He 
organized the public schools of Clinton, 
preparing rules and regulations for graded 
schools. 

He was largely instrumental in the estab- 
lishment of a Mechanics' Listitute; was its 
first librarian, and aided in transferring its 
property to the Bigelow Library Associa- 



tion, and from the association to the town 
— its five thousand volumes forming the 
nucleus for a free public library, now con- 
taining nearly fifteen thousand volumes. 

STEVENS, Francis H., son of Moses 
and Maria (Stearns) Stevens, was born in 
Boxborough, Middlesex county, June 11, 
1839, and received his early education in 
the common schools of his native town. 
He began active life in farming and the 
milk business, and subsequently was senior 
partner in the firm of F. H. Stevens & 
Son, excursionists, from which he retired 
in 1888 to carry on the farm, and engage 
in the insurance business and real estate. 

During the war he served in the 26th 
regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, from 
1861 to '65, and was appointed a justice of 
the peace by Governor Ames in 1887. He 
is commander of the Isaac Davis Post, 
No. 138, G. A. R., has been chairman of 
the board of selectmen for the last five 
years, and town treasurer for the last four 
years, besides holding various other town 
offices. 

On the 13th of April, 1864, Mr. Stevens 
was married, at Harvard, to Frances A., 
daughter of Nathaniel and Lucy (Taylor) 
Mead. Their only child is Eugene C. 
Stevens. 

His present residence is at Stow. 

STEVENS, Francis Jewett, son of 

John Sherburne and Lucy (Jewett) Stev- 
ens, was born on the 20th of June, 1824, 
at Gilford, Belknap county, N. H. 

His early education was accomplished 
at home. When nine years old he was 
sent to a private school taught by the late 
Dudley Leavitt, the originator of"Leav- 
itt's Almanac ; " then he attended a dis- 
trict school, and afterward the Pembroke 
and Gilford academies, until his majority. 

When twenty-one years old he went to 
Schenectady, N. Y., and was for several 
months clerk in a book store. He then 
entered the office of the late Dr. John 
Lacy, where he learned the art of dentis- 
try, and began the study of medicine, 
wiiich he completed in the office of the 
late 1^-. G. W. Garland, at Meredith 
Bridge, N. H. (now Laconia). He at- 
tended lectures and graduated at the Al- 
bany Medical College in the class of 185 1, 
and began the practice of medicine in 
Hampstead, N. H., where he remained for 
four years, removing to Haverhill, Mass., 
in 1855, where, until 1878, he combined 
the professions of medicine and dentLstry 
in active practice, since which time he has 
added the care of a farm to his profession. 



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STEVENS. 



STEVENS. 



Dr. -Stevens has been twice married: 
first in Gilford, N. H., January i, 1852, 
to Susan Elizabeth, daughter of Zebedee 
and Lucy (Potter) Morrill, who died in 
1873. April 16, 1874, he was married, in 
Boxford, Mass., to Lydia Helen, daughter 
of Daniel and Lydia (Batchelder) Gould. 
He has no children. 

He is a member of Mutual Relief Lodge 
of Odd Fellows No. 83, of Haverhill, and 
has filled almost every office, both in the 
lodge and encampment branch of the order. 
For several years he was president of the 
Haverhill Odd Fellows' Hall Associa- 
tion. He became a member of Merrimac 
Masonic Lodge in 1855, and in that, too, 
has filled almost every office, from steward 
to master. He was a charter member of 
the Pentucket Chapter, Haverhill Council, 
and Haverhill Commandery ; he was first 
master of Haverhill Council, and an of- 
ficer in all of them almost continuously 
from their organization in 1878. For 
eight years he was recording officer of the 
four botlies and received the degrees of 
the A. &: A. Rite to the 32d degree in PJos- 
ton in 1864. 

He is president of the Bo.xford Natural 
History Society, and was for three years 
a member of the school committee in 
Hampstead, N. H., also for the same 
length of time in Haverhill, and for eight 
years in Boxford, which is his present 
residence. 

For two years, 1864 and '67, Dr. Stevens 
was a representative from Haverhill to 
the General Court, and was appointed 
coroner by Governor Claflin, which office 
he held till the same was abolished. For 
two years he was chairman of the Haver- 
hill Republican town committee. For a 
year he had charge of the " Haverhill 
Gazette," establishing the " Daily," when 
the ill health of his aged father obliged 
him to abandon further interest in the 
undertaking, and his own health at present 
prohibits him from taking such active parts 
in his profession as he is well adapted to fill. 

STEVENS, HOMER BEMIS, son of 
Washington and Ruth Simons (PJemis) 
Stevens, was born in Norwich (now^Hunt- 
ington), Hampshire county, September 9, 

1835- 

He was educated in the public schools, 
at Williston Seminary, where he fitted for 
college, 1852 and '53, and at Williams 
College, from which he was graduated 
with high honors in the class of 1857. 

Choosing the profession of law, he pur- 
sued his legal studies in AVestfield, and 
began law practice in Boston, in 1859. 



He subsequently removed to Westfield, 
and from 1S60 to '85 was associated in 
practice with the Hon. E. B. Gillett, one 
of the leading lights of the profession in 
western Massachusetts. 

In 1886 he was appointed judge of the 
district court of western Hampden, which 
position he still holds. 

Mr. Stevens was married in Huntington, 
-April 10, 1861, to Mariette, daughter of 
Moses and Juvenelia (Curtis) Hannum. 
'Phey have an adopted child : Bella Horton 
Stevens. 

STEVENS, James Trimble, son of 

Benjamin and Elizabeth A. Stevens, was 
born in Braintree, Norfolk county, June 
20, 1835. His education was principally 
gained from the district schools of Brain- 
tree and the Hollis Institute, an academy 
of high standing at that time. He began 
life as a practical workman with the old 
firm of Randall & Co., tack manufacturers. 




JAMES T STEVENS 

He continued steadily at this employment 
for ten years, when the civil war turned 
aside for a time the current of his life. 
He went to the front as ist lieutenant, 
company C, 4th regiment, Massachusetts 
militia. The company having served out its 
term, he returned to Braintree, and again 
left for the seat of war, captain of company 
I, 42d regiment, Massachusetts volunteers. 



STEVENS. 



STEVENSON. 



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.\t the close of the war he renewed liis 
connection with the tack business as an 
employee, and in 1868 associated himself 
with G. D. \\'illis, forming the firm of 
Stevens & Willis, tack manufacturers. His 
business now includes the manufacture of 
nails. 

Mr. Stevens was married in Braintree, 
December 12, i860, to Myra F., daughter 
of George W. and Myra A. Willis. Of this 
union are two children : Idella F. and 
George W. Stevens. 

Mr. Stevens was a representative to the 
General Court, 1876, from Braintree, and 
senator from the ist Norfolk district, 1888 
and '89. 

He was the first commander of Post 87, 
G. A. R., of Braintree. He is treasurer of 
the trustees of South Braintree M. E. church, 
a trustee of the Braintree Savings Bank, 
has been chief engineer of the fire depart- 
ment, and is president of the Braintree 
Rural Improvement Association. He is 
a member of Delta Lodge, F. & A. M., 
Weymouth, antl of South Shore Com- 
mandery. 

Mr. Stevens has always been interested 
in music, having been jsresident of two or- 
ganizations in his native town, and was 
president of the Braintree Musical Society, 
which contributed its share to the great 
success attending the wonderful " Peace 
Jubilee" held in Boston in 1872. 

STEVENS, Moses Tyler, son of Na- 
thaniel and Harriet (Hale) Stevens, was 
born in North Andover, Essex county, Oc- 
tober 10, 1825. 

He prepared for college in the Franklin 
Academy, North Andover, and Phillips 
."Academy, Andover, from which latter 
institution he was graduated in 1842. He 
entered Dartmouth College in 1842, but 
left his collegiate course the next year to 
learn the business of manufacturing flan- 
nels, in which his father had been engaged 
since 181 3. 

He became a partner in 1850, the firm 
being Nathaniel Stevens & Son. These 
relations continued until 1876, when the 
firm was dissolved. He now began the 
manufacture of ladies' dress-goods, and 
continued on his own account until 1886, 
when his sons, Nathaniel and Samuel D., 
were admitted as partners, and the house 
took the name of M. T. Stevens & Sons, 
operating mills at North Andover, Ando- 
ver, and Haverhill, and Franklin, N. H. 

Mr. Stevens was married in North An- 
dover, May 5, 1853, to Charlotte Emeline, 
daughter of Lsaac and Charlotte (.\dams) 
Osgood. Six children are the issue of 



this marriage : Mary O., Nathaniel, Samuel 
D., ^'irginia, Helen, and Moses T. Stev- 
ens, Jr. 

Mr. Stevens was a member of the House 
of Representatives in 1861, and of the state 
Senate in 1S68 ; is a director of the Ando- 
ver National Bank ; a trustee of the An- 
dover Savings Bank ; a director of the 




MOSES T STEVENS 

Merrimac Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 
and jiresident of the Stevens Linen Works, 
Webster. He continues to reside in his 
native place. North Andover. 

STEVENSON, JOHN LINDSAY, son. of 
Joseph and Judith (True) Stevenson, was 
born in Fremont, Rockingham county, 
N. H., December 27, 1833. 

His youth was spent on a farm in his 
native town, and his school opportunities 
were such as country towns then afforded. 
At the age of fourteen years he left his 
home and went to South Hampton, N. H., 
and served an apprenticeship in carriage 
building. In 1852 he removed to Law- 
rence, and was employed in the construc- 
tion of locomotive engines. While thus 
engaged an accident happened to him, Oc- 
tober 2, 1852, which, resulting in perma- 
nent injury to one of his limbs, completely 
changed his plans of life and caused him 
to relinquish his mechanical taste and pur- 
suit. 



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STEVENSON. 



STOCKBRIUGE. 



After a severe illness and long confine- 
ment, he came to Boston, entered a com- 
mercial college, and fitted himself for an 
accountant. Subsequently, and for nearly 
ten years, he was employed as book-keeper, 
at the expiration of which time, January i, 
1862, he established himself in business at 
Faneuil Hall Square, Boston, under the 
firm name of John L. Stevenson & Co., 
importers and dealers in wine, spirits, and 
lic|uors, where he has continued in business 
until the present time. 

Mr. Stevenson began his iNIasonic career 
in 1856, and has ever since been identified 
with that fraternity. He has passed through 
the chairs in various Masonic bodies, bring- 




■"^ 



JOHN L. STEVENSON. 

ing to his duties an intelligent and work- 
ful spirit, infusing earnestness of purpose 
and securing unusual prosperity. He was 
created a sovereign grand inspector-gen- 
eral for the thirty-third and last degree, 
and an honorary member of the supreme 
council, N. M. J., September 18, 1878. The 
honorary memberships conferred upon him 
best indicate the esteem in which he is held 
by his brethren. He is an honorary mem- 
ber of Mt. Lebanon Lodge, ISoston; Ami- 
cable Lodge, Cambridge ; St. John's Lodge, 
Conception, Chili ; Boston Commanderv, 
Boston ; St. John's Commanderv, Phila- 
delphia ; Boston Lodge of Perfection, Bos- 



ton ; Mt. Calvary Chapter of Rose Croix, 
Lowell, and of the consistories of \'erinont 
and Massachusetts. 

He was president of the Athenian Clul) 
in i88i-'82, and of the Boston Club in 
i882-'83; is a member of the New England 
and New Hampshire clubs, and one of the 
board of directors of the Society of Sons 
of the American Revolution. He also is 
a member of the Ancient and Honorable 
Artillery Company, and was its commander 
in i877-'78. 

Mr. Stevenson is a man of large frame, 
robust health, active brain, and generous 
disposition, best appreciated by those who 
are honored with his intimate friendship. 
His ability as an organizer apjiears in all 
matters to which he devotes his energies. 
His good judgment, indomitable will, and 
executive skill were especially conspicuous 
in conceiving and executing with absolute 
success the unparalleled pilgrimage of 
Boston Commandery to San Francisco, 
Cal, in 1883. 

In September, 1853, he married Pollen 
liridge Hawkins, of Dover, N. H. His 
maternal grandfather was Captain Benja- 
min True, a soldier in the revolutionary 
\\,ir; his father served, in the war of 
i8i2-'i4; his brother, William Stevenson, 
served during the war of the rebellion, in 
the 2d N. H. regiment. Other members 
of the family also served the country in 
various New England organizations during 
the rebellion, and only for the disability 
incurred in 1852, he would also have been 
early in the contest. 

He has four children living : two sons 
and two daughters. His eldest son was 
four years at West Point Military Academy, 
and subsequently served on the staff of 
Governor Benjamin F. Butler of Massa- 
chusetts. 

STOCKBRIDGE, LHVI, was bom in 
North Hadley, Hampshire county, March 
13, 1820. 

He was educated in the public schools 
and academies of his native town. His 
tastes led him early to agricultural pur- 
suits, into which he threw the weight of 
his energies, and it was not very long be- 
fore the advantages of a scientific knowl- 
edge and the diligent application of scien- 
tific principles brought their legitimate 
reward to the faithful student. 

His researches in the line of plant life 
and growth, and his experiments prior to 
the establishment of experiment stations, 
brought him into notice as the scientist in 
agriculture, and led to his appointment on 
the state board of agriculture, where he 



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served twelve year.s, and on the boartl of 
cattle commissioners, of which he has been 
chairman since 1868. 

He was called to a professorshi]) in 
the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 
Amherst, in 1867. From 1876 to '79 he 
was acting president, and president from 
1880 to the present time. 

Some of Professor Stockbridge's most 
interesting e.xperiments were made in 
measuring the force that plants e.xert in 
their growth ; especially worthy of men- 
tion, also, are his experiments, unique and 
original, made on the effects of moisture. 
His e.xperiments on percolation, evapora- 
tion and dew, were made with instruments 
of his own invention. 

But of his investigations and experi- 
ments, those which resulted in the most 
practical results to agriculturists were 
made in 1868, '69 and '70, on the chemical 
composition of farm crops, and the effect 
of supplying the constituent elements 
needed. These led to the use of special, 
instead of general, or random, fertilizers. 

He has been called to serve various 
agricultural societies, and has delivered 
many lectures on his specialties in New 
York as well as the New England states. 
In addition to his contributions to the an- 
nual reports of the Massachusetts Agricul- 
tural College, he has published numerous 
other articles of weight and merit, espe- 
cially illustrating the results of his experi- 
ments and discourses in his chosen life 
work. 

Professor Stockbridge resides in ."Xm- 
herst. 

STODDARD, ELIJAH BRIGHAM, son 
of Elijah and Zilpah (Nelson) Stoddard, 
was born in Upton, Worcester county, June 
5, 1826. 

.Vfter passing through the public schools 
of his native place, he fitted for college at 
Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., and was 
graduated from Brown University, Provi- 
dence, R. I., in the class of 1847. 

After graduation he studied law in Wor- 
cester, with John C. B. Davis, and was ad- 
mitted to the Worcester county bar in June, 
1849, and began the practice of law in 
partnership with Mr. Davis, under the name 
of Davis & Stoddard, which continued 
until 1852 ; then with Hon. Isaac Davis 
until 1S57. 

Mr. Stoddard was elected to the House 
of Representatives in 1856: district attor- 
ney in 1857 ; a member of the Senate, 
1863 and '64, and a member of the govern- 
or's council, 1871 and '72, He was mayor 
of Worcester, 1S82, and his administration 



was marked, as has been his management 
of all public affairs, with ability and con- 
scientious adherence to duty. 

.Mr. Stoddard was married in Worcester. 
June 16, 1852, to Mary K., daughter of 
Isaac and Mary H. (P^stabrook) Davis. Of 
this union were three children : Edward 
D., Mary G., and Amy L. Stoddard. 

For nearly twenty years he was engaged 
in the full practice of his profession, and 
withdrew from court practice in 1866 to 
accept the secretaryship of the Merchants' 
& Farmers' Insurance Company. 

Mr. Stoddard was elected president of 
the Quinsigamond Bank in 1884, which 
position he still holds. He is also presi- 
dent of the Worcester Five Cents Savings 
Bank. He has been a member of the Wor- 
cester public school board nine years, and 
for the past ten years has been a member 
of the state board of education, where he 
has rendered zealous and lasting service. 
His native tact and business discretion 
have been recognized by thirty years' con- 
tinuous service as a director of the Provi- 
dence iS: Worcester R. R. ; as a solicitor 
and trustee of the State Mutual Life Assur- 
ance Company, and as a trusted counselor 
of various public and private enterprises. 
In politics he is well known as a consistent 
and influential Republican. 

STONE, Andrew C, son of Aaron 
and Mary (Ward) Stone, was born in Marl- 
borough, Cheshire county, N. H., Mav 16, 

He received his early education in the 
public schools, and in the higher branches 
at the Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., 
from which he graduated in t86o. He 
afterwards commenced the study of law 
with the Hon. Daniel Saunders. 

In 1862 he enlisted as a private in the 
33d Massachusetts regiment, and served 
three years. 

On being mustered out he went to Ohio 
and resumed the study of law, and was ad- 
mitted to the Ohio bar in 1867. He re- 
turned to Lawrence, where, having been 
admitted to the Massachusetts bar, he com- 
menced practice. 

He took an active interest in politics ; 
was president of Lawrence common coun- 
cil for one year ; was chairman of the Re- 
publican city committee ; member of the 
Republican state central committee, and 
delegate to the national Republican con- 
vention at Chicago, in 1884. He was 
elected state senator for :88o and '82, dur- 
ing which time he was a member of the 
judiciary and railroad committees. In 1885 
he was appointed city solicitor, and in 1887, 



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STOWELl.. 



received the appointment of justice of the 
poUce court of Lawrence. 

He is past coniinander of Post 39, G. A. 
R., and was judge advocate on the staff of 
the commander of the department of Mas- 
sachusetts for 1888. 

He is an active member of the order 
of F. & A M., is a past master of Phoe- 
nician Lodge, and is now senior grand 
warden of the Grand Lodge of Massachu- 
setts. 

He was married at Ashtabula, O., Janu- 
ary 19, 1S69, to Mary F., daughter of 
Joseph D. and Lucinda (Hall) Hulbert, of 
that place. 

STORER, David Humphreys, son of 

Hon. Woodbury and Margaret (Boyd) 
Storer, was born in Portland, Cumberland 
county. Me., March 26, 1804. 

He was graduated from Bowdoin College 
in the class of 1822, and from his alma 
tnater he received the honorarv degree of 
LL. D. in 1876. 

Choosing the medical profession, soon 
after his graduation, he entered the Har- 
vard medical school, from which he was 
graduated in 1825. 

Settling in Boston, he soon acquired an 
honorable position in the ranks of the 
medical fraternitv, together with an exten- 
sive and lucrative practice. He is to-day 
the oldest physician in Boston. 

From 1839 to '58 Dr. Storer filled the 
chair of obstetrics and medical jurispru- 
dence in the Harvard medical school, and 
for nine years of that period — from 1849 
to '58 — served as physician to the Massa- 
chusetts General Hospital. 

Dr. Storer is a member of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Ameri- 
can Philosophic Society, the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, the Boston Society for 
Medical Improvement, and the Boston 
Society of Natural History. He is also a 
member of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, and is an 
honorary member of the New York and 
Rhode Island State Medical societies. 

Dr. Storer has frequently delivered 
lectures and addresses on various scientific 
subjects, in which he has incorporated his 
own researches and discoveries, as well as 
those of previous and contemporaneous 
scientists. His fame as a scientist rests 
mainly on the important additions he has 
made to the department of ichthyology. 
In his " Report on the Fishes of Massa- 
chusetts," published in 1839, and in the 
" Memoirs of the American Academy," 
published in i855-'6o, and also in his 
" Synopsis of the Fishes of North .\merica," 



he follows the arrangement of Cuvier. 
These works are of great value to the 
student of North American ichthyology. 

His latest publication (1867) is a quarto 
of 287 pages, with 174 illustrations, descrip- 
tive of the " Fishes of Massachusetts," and 
contains all the additions made to ichthvo- 
logic knowledge since the date of the re- 
port on the same subject in 1839. 

Dr. Storer was married in Roxbury, 
April 30, 1829, to Abbie J., daughter of 
Thomas and Abigail (Stone) Brewer. Of 
this union were five children : Horatio 
Robinson, Francis Humphreys, Abby Ma- 
tilda, Mary Goddard, and Robert Wood- 
bury Storer. 

STOWELL, Sidney Sherwood, sec- 
ond son of Austin and Hyla Cleopatra 
(Watkins) Stowell, was born in Peru, Berk- 
shire county, July 12, 1858, his ancestors 
being the founders of the town. 

His early education was obtained in the 
"little old red school-house," where his 




SIDNEY S STOWELL. 

father and grandfather were educated. He 
very early evinced a love for mechanics 
and manipulation of tools, and his grand- 
father being a carpenter, he had free access 
to tools and their use, which to him were 
mental food and recreation. At the age 
of fourteen he attended a select school in 
Middlefield. 



STOWKLL. 



STRAHAN. 



585 



Soon after this he left the farm, and with 
less than ten dollars as an outfit, earned by 
himself, he started for a neighboring town, 
where he found employment for three hun- 
dred and sixty-five days in the year, from 
three o'clock in the morning till late at 
night, at twenty dollars jier month, remitting 
one-half of this to his father, as he was not 
of age. This he did for several years. He 
now became acquainted with the local den- 
tist, determined to learn the mysteries of 
dentistry, and to that end apprenticed him- 
self for three years, his compensation being 
the knowledge gained, theoretical and prac- 
tical, and what money he might earn in 
the absence of his employer. Fees were not 
plentiful, and they were his only support, 
but he struggled on, working and studying, 
fitting himself for college until his appren- 
ticeship had nearly expired, when a very 
severe illness brought him nigh unto death. 
Upon his recovery he returned to his home 
in Peru, and there did some local practice 
with the few tools in his possession. He 
invented an automatic mallet, and a ma- 
chine for running an emery-wheel, out of 
the meagre stock of machinery within 
reach, which did him good service for a 
long time, and with which he earned money 
to defray his first year's expense in college. 
He afterwards studied in the University 
of Pennsylvania, and was graduated in 
1884, one of the best operators of his class. 
He then took a special private course in 
Washington, D. C, on "crown and bridge 
work." 

He practiced two years in Dalton, and 
then settled in Pittsfield, where he is now 
enjoying a very large and successful prac- 
tice, giving special attention to the higher 
branches of dentistry — crown and bridge 
work. 

Dr. Stowell is a member of the Connec- 
ticut Valley Dental Society, and his contri- 
butions to their proceedings are frequent. 
He has given clinics in Boston, Montreal, 
and New York. In September, 1887, he 
gave a clinic in Washington, D. C, before 
the dental section of the 9th international 
medical congress, introducing a new 
method of crown setting, since generally 
adopted. He was at this time made a 
member of the congress. He is also a con- 
tributor to dental journals and magazines. 

Dr. Stowell was married in Pittsfield, 
August 19, 1885, to Mary Adeline, second 
daughter of Andrew Jackson and Martha 
Pelmyra (Barnum) Porter. They have no 
children. He is an officer and member of 
the Masonic order, being a companion in 
Berkshire Royal .\rch Chapter. 



STRAHAN, THOMAS, son of Thomas 
and Jean (Gordon) Strahan, was born in 
Scotland, May 10, 1847. 

His early education was obtained in the 
schools of Arlington. He is a graduate (jf 
Cotting Academy, Arlington, and Phillips 
Academy, Exeter, N. H. 

His first connection in business was as a 
dealer in wall-paper, on Cornhill, Boston, 
1866. He removed to Horticultural Hall 
building, afterwards to the corner of 
\\ashington and Franklin streets. His 
salesrooms are now on Park Street, Bos- 
ton, and his extensive factory in Chelsea. 
He is at present a manufacturer of, and 
dealer in, wall-paper. 




THOMAS STRAHAN. 

Mr. Strahan was married in Chelsea, 
November 28, 1867, to Esther, daughter 
of John T. and Esther Reed Lawrence. 
Of this union were six children : two liv- 
ing — Florence Esther and Alice Pauline, 
and four deceased — Harry Lawrence, 
Maude Louise, Madeleine Gordon, and 
Thomas Pklwin Strahan. 

Mr. Strahan, although carrying on a 
large and successful business, has found 
time to engage in social and political mat- 
ters. He has been at the head of the va- 
rious organizations with which he has been 
connected in the city of Chelsea, where he 
resides. He was for two years president 



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SUGDEN. 



SULLIVAN. 



of the common council, and was elected 
mayor of that city in 1883, and re-elected 
in 1 884. He also represented his district 
in the Legislature in 1885. 

During his official relation as mayor of 
the city he had the pleasure of entertain- 
ing many distinguished guests at his hos- 
pitable and artistic home. 

SUGDEN, Richard, was born in an 
obscure village near Bradford, England, 
March 26, 1815. 

His parents were of humble origin and 
circumstances, and he struggled hard 
from boyhood to early manhood to over- 
come these embarrassing conditions of 
birth. He gave his daily labor for his 
board alone, while his scanty clothing was 
obtained from hours of over-work. Al- 
though he was deprived of the privilege 
of an. ordinary education, yet m a small 
way he was able to gratify a longing for 
books and the current literature of the 
day. There were but two libraries in the 
neighborhood in which he lived — one 
containing three volumes, viz.: the Bible, 
" Ba.xter's Saints' Rest," and "Bunyan's 
Pilgrim's Progress." The other was the 
treasure of an old Welsh cobbler, consist- 
ing of about sixty volumes, carefully 
secured in a box beside his bench. He 
became a confidant of this man, and in 
consequence was privileged to take once a 
week a book for perusal from this jirinii- 
tive library. His method of procuring a 
newspaper was novel and business-like ; 
fourteen pence per copy were required to 
purchase one paper each week, and he, 
with six comrades, formed a club, at a 
cost of two pence each per week, he in 
this way obtaining the coveted prize. 
This ardent love for literature followed 
him to manhood. Works of history and 
autobiographies of self-made men were 
his favorite reading. Blessed with a re- 
tentive memory, and being an intelligent 
reader, he to-day possesses a fund of 
knowledge which renders him an enter- 
taining companion and a man of authority 
on a multitude of topics. 

At twenty-eight years of age he em- 
barked in an emigrant ship to America, 
and after a voyage of twenty-seven days, 
landed in New York, March 29, 1845. 
Durnig the passage he formed the acquaint- 
ance of a young Scotchman, whose brother 
in America had sent him a small hand- 
book, descriptive of the manufacturing 
towns in Massachusetts. -From this Mr. 
Sugden learned that wire was manufac- 
tured in Spencer, and card clothing in 
Leicester. Wire-working being his partic- 



ular trade, he decided to make one of these 
two points his first stopping place. Reach- 
ing the latter, he applied for and obtained 
work of H. A. Denny in a small wire-draw- 
ing mill in Cherry Valley, Leicester. Two 
years later he and a fellow-workman, Na- 
thaniel Myrick, came to Spencer and pur- 
chased the small wire- works owned by 
Roswell Bisco. In 1850 they purchased 
the machinery of a mill in Cherry Valley, 




RICHARD SUGDEN. 

in which H. G. Henshaw was interested, 
and moving it to Spencer, admitted Mr. 
Henshaw to the firm. The business was 
expanding quite rapidly, but the feeble 
health of Mr. Henshaw made this a part- 
nership of short duration. The firm again 
became Myrick &: Sugden, and so con- 
tinued until Mr. Myrick retired, in 1870. 
Harry H., son of Mr. Sugden, was now 
admitted, but in a few years the firm was 
dissolved by his death. In 1876 Mr. Sug- 
den purchased the large works of J. R. & 
J. E. Prouty, in the Lower Wire Village, 
and converted the combined business into 
a new corporation called the Spencer Wire 
Company, of which he is president and 
general manager. 

SULLIVAN, Jeremiah F., son of Mor- 
timer and Mary Sullivan, was born in 
Dursey Island, county Cork, Ireland, Feb- 
ruary 14, 1840. 



SULLIVAX. 



SULLIVAN. 



587 



His early education was secured iu the 
common schools of his native place and 
Holyoke. 

He came to this country when nine years 
of age, and at the age of fourteen years, 
worked in the mills of the city of which 
he is now ciiief executive. In 1856 he en- 
gaged in the meat business, and has since 
continued in the same line. 

Mr. .Sullivan was married in Holyoke, 
November 25, 1863, to Kate E., daughter 
of John and Helen (P'itzgerald) Dower. 
Of this union were seven children : Frank 
J., Claire E., Grace A., \\'illiam 1)., Kate, 
Mary (deceased), and Abliie Sullivan (de- 
ceased). 




JEREMIAH F bULLlVAN. 



Mr. Sullivan's career has been that of a 
successful business man, and it was only to 
the most earnest demands of his party that 
he yielded and accepted office. In 1873 
and '74 he was a member of the board of 
overseers of the poor ; he was assessor in 
1875, serving continuously upon that board 
from 1875 to '89, and was chairman of the 
board nine years, from 1880 to '89. He 
was elected mayor of Holyoke in 1889. 

SULLIVAN, JOHN Clarke, is a native 
of Ireland, where he was born July 13, 1843. 

He came to this country when a child, 
and w-as educated in the public schools at 
Middleborough and Pierce Academy, where 



he fitted for college, and was graduated 
from Brown University in the class of 
1867. After fitting for college, however, 
he entered the army and served in com- 
pany C, 4th regiment, Massachusetts vol- 
unteers, in the department of the Gulf, 
under General Banks, until 1864. 

After graduating from college he taught 
school and studied law with Judge W. H. 
Wood, judge of probate and insolvency for 
the county of Plymouth. In 1869 Mr. 
Sullivan was admitted to the bar of Plym- 
outh county, and began the practice of 
law in Middleborough, where he at present 
has a large legal business. 

On the 24th of November, 1881, he was 
married to Myra E. Stacy, of Waterville, 
Me. They have one child : Olive W. 
Sullivan. 

Mr. Sullivan has been a member of the 
school committee, commissioner of insol- 
vency of Plymouth county, a member of 
the House of Representatives in 1881 and 
'82, serving on the committee of probate 
and chancery. He was also a member of 
the Republican state central committee for 
three years. He has been commander 
of Post 8, department of Massachusetts, 
G. A. R., and is now one of the trustees 
of the Middleborough Savings Bank, and 
a notary public. 

His recent election to the office of 
register of probate and insolvency for 
Plymouth county adds another marked 
and merited recognition of his energy, 
industry and ability. 

SULLIVAN, John Henry, son of 

Michael and Mary (Kelly) Sullivan, was 
liorn at Bere Haven, county Cork, Ireland, 
April 27, 1848, receiving his early educa- 
tion in the national schools of his native 
land. 

When a young man he left Ireland and 
came to Boston, where he pursued a course 
at Comer's Commercial College. After 
mastering the science of navigation, while 
for a time following the sea, he located in 
Boston, and became engaged in the survey 
of cargoes brought to this port by East 
India merchants, and developed such re- 
markable proficiency in clerical work that 
he was made inspector of East India mer- 
chandise. After four years of this work, 
Mr. Sullivan secured the position of chief 
clerk and superintendent of the National 
Line of steamers, and on the withdrawal 
of the National Line, which was succeeded 
by the Dominion Line, he was engaged by 
the new company in the same capacity. 
He also superintended the docks of the 
Warren and Leyland lines, resigning after 



588 



SULLIVAN. 



SUMNER. 



six years of service to accept the position 
of master stevedore of tlie Warren Line, 
whicli position he still holds. 

Mr. Sullivan was married at Providence, 
R. I., September ii, 1870,10 Katie ¥., 
daughter of Peter and Margaret Sulli- 
van. Their children are : George H., 
John F., Mary Louisa, Annie, Arthur, and 
Margaret Frances Sullivan. 

Mr. Sullivan was a member of the Bos- 
ton common council for the two terms of 
1884 and '85, a member of the board of 
aldermen for the two terms of 1886 and 
'87. In 1888 he represented the 4th Suf- 
folk district in the state Senate, serving 
with honor and success. He has displayed 
energy and zeal in all public improvements 
and his influence has been given for the 
maintenance of our cherished institutions. 
He is a member of the Sachem and Put- 
nam clubs of East Boston, Knights of St. 
Rose, Montgomery Guards Veteran Asso- 
ciation, Knights of St. Patrick, Charitable 
Irish Society, and of the Royal Society 
of Good Fellows and Foresters. 

SULLIVAN, Michael Francis, son 

of Richard and Elizabeth (O'Connor) 
Sullivan, was born in Lawrence, Essex 
county, September 22, 1858. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in the common and high schools of Law- 
rence, and subsequently took the medical 
course in Boston College of Physicians and 
Surgeons. In 1874 he worked as clerk in 
a drug store. Since 1878 he has been in 
business for himself as a pharmacist. 

Mr. Sullivan has been commander of the 
American Legion of Honor ; deputy high 
chief, Ancient (Jrder of Foresters ; a mem- 
ber of nearly all the benevolent orders in 
the city of Lawrence ; a trustee of the 
public library ; a member of the Lawrence 
common council, 1885 and '86, serving as 
president of the council the latter year, 
and was a member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives in 1888 and '89. 

Mr. Sullivan has closely identified him- 
self with the labor movement, and his 
efforts in behalf of the wage-workers have 
resulted in much good to the working 
classes. His stand on the labor question 
in the Legislature has made his name 
prominent in the Commonwealth. 

Mr. Sullivan is unmarried. 

SUMNER, Charles Warren, son of 

Charles C. antl Clarissa L. (Lane) Sumner, 
was born in l''()xb(}rough, Norfolk county, 
December 3, 1S48. 

His primary education was drawn from 
the district schools until the age of ten. 



when he was put into the Foxborough 
English and classical school, a private 
school maintained by James L. Stowe. In 
1865 he entered Tufts College, and was 
graduated in 1S69. After graduation, he 
was one year instructor in science in Dean 
Academy. 

In 1871 he entered the office of Moor- 
field Storey to pursue the study of law, 
and was admitted to practice at Ded- 
ham, Norfolk county, at the April term 
of the superior court, 1872. He then 
entered the office of Knapp & Bowman, 
at that time in Barristers' Hall, Boston, 
remaining with them until August, 1873, 
when he opened an office in Brockton, 
and formed a partnership with Hon. Jona- 
than White, the firm name being White 
& Sumner. In August, 1881, this part- 
nership was dissolved, and he has since 
continued the business alone. Septem- 
ber II, 1875, he was admitted to practice 
in the United States circuit court, at Bos- 
ton. 

In Brockton, September i, 1874, Mr. 
Sumner married Clara G., daughter of El- 
lis and Abby (Heard) Packard. Mrs. 
Sumner died from consumption, February, 
1875. Mr. Sumner was again married. 
May 21, 1876, to Lora Standish, daugh- 
ter of Sumner A. and Cynthia B. (Wash- 
burn) Hayward. Of this union is one 
child : Warren Ellis Sumner. 

Mr. Sumner is a justice of the peace and 
notary public ; June 16, 1874, he was com- 
missioned special justice of the ist district 
court of Plymouth, and retained this posi- 
tion until the dissolution of the court. He 
has been twice elected commissioner of 
insolvency. May 20, 1885, he was com- 
missioned justice of the police court for 
the city of Brockton, under Governor 
Robinson, which office he held until his 
appointment by (Governor Ames, as district 
attorney for Plymouth county, in August, 
1889. 

He was for several years a member of 
the school committee ; for four years presi- 
dent of the Commercial Club ; is a mem- 
ber of the Massasoit Lodge, I. O. O. F., 
Paul Revere Lodge, F. & A. M., Satucket 
Royal Arch Chapter, and Bay State Com- 
mandery. 

He was one of the incorporators of the 
Brockton National Bank, and has long 
served as one of its directors. He has 
been a trustee, also, of the Brockton 
Savings Bank since its incorporation, 
and for the past three years he has served 
as director of the Brockton Street Rail- 
way Co. 



SWAN. 



SWEETSER. 



5 89 



SWAN, James Caleb, son of Caleb 
and Ruth (Barrell) Swan, was born in Eas- 
ton, Bristol county, June 2, 1828. 

He attended the public schools until he 
was fourteen years of age, and then went 
to the academy at North Attleborough for 
three years, after which he began to study 
medicine under his father, when he was 
seventeen years old, and was with him for 
five years, attending two courses of lec- 
tures at the medical department of Har- 
vard University, and two courses at the 
Jefferson Medical School in Philadelijhia. 
He then settled in West Bridgewater, 
where he is practicing medicine at the 
present time. He is president of the Plym- 
outh Agricultural Society. 

In Easton, on the 7th of June, 1850, Dr. 
Swan married Harriet Allen, daughter of 
Hiram and Lurana Copeland. Their chil- 
dren are : Caleb, Justice S., and Ruth B. 
Swan. His wife died December 7, 1880 ; 
and February 6, 1883, he married Ada E., 
daughter of Calvin E. and Elizabeth Her- 
vey, of Belfast, Maine. 

SWEET, Andrew H., son of Joseph 
D. and Abby A. (Hodges) Sweet, was born 
in Norton, Bristol county, October 2, 1845. 

He received a common school education, 
supplemented by a short attendance in 
private schools. His business career began 
as that of a retail grocer under the firm 
name of Sweet & Carpenter. He after- 
wards went into the manufacture of fric- 
tion matches, at Norton, under the firm 
name of Messinger & Sweet. This busi- 
ness was sold to the Diamond Match Com- 
pany, and he started alone in the manufac- 
ture of wood and paper boxes, and snow 
shovels. After selling out to the Diamond 
Match Company, he was manager of their 
Boston store and card mill at Damariscotta 
Mills, Me., for three years. 

Mr. Sweet was married in Norton, June 
8, 1870, to Mary E., daughter of Austin 
and Salina A. F. (Alden) Messinger. Of 
this union is one child : Austin M. Sweet. 

Mr. Sweet was a representative to the 
General Court from Norton in 1873. He 
has been selectman, assessor, and overseer 
of the poor. 

Mr Sweet is a self-made man, and his 
success in life can readily be attributed to 
his habits of industry, frugal economy, and 
a strict adherence to temperance principles. 

SWEETSER, Moses Foster, son of 

Moses and Elizabeth Dean (Foster) Sweet- 
ser, was born in Newburypf)rt, E,ssex county, 
September 22, 1848. He is descended 
from the Sweetsers of Hertfordshire, Eng- 



land, whose records run back to the Ref- 
ormation. In 1637 Seth Sweetser crossed 
the ocean and settled in Charlestown (now 
Boston), and his posterity included many 
true Puritan soldiers. During the war of 
the rebellion several members of the family 
held military commands. Moses Sweetser, 
a friend of Sumner and Wilson, has dwelt 
for twenty-five years in West Virginia, and 
is one well-known and respected through- 
out the Ohio ^'alley. 

In i86i-'64 Mr. Sweetser dwelt at Fair- 
fax Court House, in northern Virginia, 
where he witnessed many exciting scenes 
of the war, and was finally sent North to the 
Highland .Militarv School. He also studied 




MOSES F. SWEETSER. 

at Dummer Academy, and in 1867 gradu- 
ated from the Putnam Free School, at New- 
buryport. His classical studies were car- 
ried on at Beloit College, Wisconsin, and 
Columbian College, Washington. In 1870 
he crossed the ocean, and spent nearly two 
years in Great Britain, France, Germany, 
Holland, Italy, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, 
and Greece, observing the Franco-Prussian 
war, the Commune, and the Italian siege of 
Rome. Returning, he |")repared four guide- 
books, on the Baedeker plan : " New Eng- 
land " (1873), " The Mitldle States " (1874), 
" The White .Mountains " (1875), and "The 
Maritime Provinces " (1876). Hehasalso 



590 



TAFT. 



TAFT. 



written the following : " Chisholm's White- 
Mountain Guide" (1880), "Picturesque 
Maine" (1880), " Pocket CUiide to Europe " 
(1882), " King's Handbook of Boston Har- 
bor" (1882), "Summer Days Down East" 
(1883), the American sections of Cassell's 
" Great Cities of the World " (1884), " How 
to Know New York" (1886), "Chisholm's 
Mount-Desert Guide" (1888), "King's 
Handbook of Newton" (1889), "Here and 
There in New England" (1889), and a 
score of others, besides magazine articles, 
stories, etc. Another standard work of this 
author was the fifteen-volume series of 



"Artist Biographies" (i877-'78), devoted 
to Raphael, Ang&lo, Leonardo, Claude, 
Titian, Guido, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, 
Durer, Reynolds, Turner, Landseer, Murillo, 
Angelico, and Allston. 

Mr. Sweetser's pleasant little rural estate 
of " Sunset Rock " is in Dorchester, near 
Boston, and looks out across the Neponset 
Valley to the "Blue Hills" of Milton. 
October 17, 1877, he was married, at Trin- 
ity church, Boston, to Edith Ashton, daugh- 
ter of ^\'illiam Charles and Elizabeth Ann 
(Hamilton) Balch. Their children are: 
Harold and Arthur Sweetser. 



TAFT, Edgar Sidney, son of Bezaieei 

and Lucy M. (Bragg) Taft, was born at 
Keene, Cheshire county. New Hampshire, 
June 30, 1853. 

His early education was obtained at the 
public schools in Keene, Swanzey, Acworth, 
and Alstead. He worked in the summer, 
attending school in the winter, while pre- 
paring for a liberal education. During this 
time he met with a serious accident which 
prevented his going to college, and after 
recovering he learned telegraphy and found 
employment with the Eastern Railroad, as 
operator at Greenland, where he remained 
until he moved to Portsmouth. During 
the latter part of this employment he began 
reading law with the Hon. Albert R. 
Hatch, of Portsmouth, and was admitted 
to the New Hampshire bar on the ist of 
September, 1882, to the United States 
circuit court on the 9th of October, and 
to the supreme judicial court of Massa- 
chusetts on the 30th of October of the 
same year. 

After practicing law in Boston for a short 
time, he was obliged to give up on account 
of ill health, and went into the employ of 
the Pullman Car Company, where he re- 
mained for about two years ; then, moving 
to Gloucester, he opened a law office, 
June I, 1885, where he still practices and 
resides. ^ 

Mr. Taft is a popular and prominent 
Mason, having received the lower degrees 
ir. St. Paul's I^odge, No. 30, of Alstead, 
N. H.; was demitted and became a charter 
member of Winnicut Lodge, No. 92, of 
Greenland, N. H., being the ist senior 
warden and 2d master of the same ; he 
was the youngest past master in the state 
of New Hampshire, having served one 
year as senior warden, and two years as 



master of a lodge before he was twenty-five 
)-ears of age ; in 1881 he was demitted from 
Winnicut Lodge, and joined St. Andrew's 




EDGAR S TAFT. 

Lodge, of Portsmouth, of which he is now 
a member, and is also a member of Wash- 
ington Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of 
Portsmouth, and of Winslow Lewis Com- 
mandery of Knights Templar, at Salem, 
Mass. He is a charter member of Win- 
gaersheek Tribe, No. 12, Improved Order 
of Red Men, having held various offices in 
that order, and now being one of the great 



TAFT. 



TALBOT. 



591 



representatives to tlie great council of the 
United States. He is a member of tlie 
Royal Society of Good Fellows, being 
grand counselor of the grand assembly of 
Massachusetts at the present time. He is 
also a member of the New Hampshire Club. 

Mr. Taft is a Republican in politics, and 
in 1889, by the largest majority ever given 
a representative from the loth Essex dis- 
trict, he was sent" as a rejjresentative to the 
state Legislature. There he served as clerk 
upon the committee on railroads, of which 
he was an active working member, and at the 
close of the session was spoken of by the 
press as one of the leaders of the Ht)use. 

Mr. Taft is distinctively a self-made man, 
having worked his own way from the begin- 
ning through school and while reading law. 
He has now a large law practice, and has 
been successful in his business enterprises. 

TAFT, Moses, was born in Uxbridge, 
Worcester countv, January 26, 1812. 

The ilistrict schools and academy of Ux- 
bridge gave him his early mental training, 
as he attended no other, save the Friends' 
school, in Bolton, taught by Thomas Fry. 




MOSES TAFT. 



Using the opportunities for such im- 
provement in the way of busine.ss educa- 
tion as we have named, he fitted himself 
for the business followed by his father, the 
manufacture of satinet. He has almost 



constantly been engaged in the same kind 
of manufacturing business, first on his 
own account, secondly with Samuel W. 
Scott, in BurrillviUe, R. 1.; then return- 
ing, he was engaged with James \V. Day, 
as Taft, Day & Co.; and later, upon 
the withdrawal of Mr. Day, the firm be- 
came Taft & Capron. He has also been 
interested in manufacturing in Caryville, 
Northborough and Southborough in this 
State, and at Proctorsville, Vt. 

Mr. Taft is president of the Blackstone 
Bank, and of the Uxbridge Savings Bank. 

April 27, 1834, he married Sylvia Ann 
Wheelock. Of this union were : Sarah W. 
(now Mrs. Lewis T. Murdock), Susan H. 
(now Mrs. William E. Hayward), and Luke 
H. Taft. Mr. Taft's second marriage was 
with Mrs. Emeline (Taft) ^^'ing. He has 
no children by the second marriage. 

Mr. Taft represented his town in the 
Legislature in 1847, and has frequently 
been called to serve on the board of select- 
men. He is a member and officer of the 
First Congregational society of Uxbridge, 
and of the Uxbridge Lodge of L O. O. F. 
He is widely known as a successful manu- 
facturer and financier, and has been closely 
allied to the prosperity of his town. 

TALBOT, ZEPHANIAH, was horn in 
South Hanover, Plymouth county, June 

His early education was obtained in the 
l)ublic schools of those days, and at Han- 
over Academy, he then serving a full 
apprenticeship with the Corliss Steam En- 
gine Company, Providence, R. L 

His first connection in business was with 
1 >. K. Stetson, Woodville, a village of 
Hopkinton, in the manufacture of shoe- 
nails and tacks, under the firm name of 
Stetson & Talbot. In 1866 they moved 
to Holliston, where Mr. Talbot continued 
an active member of the firm twenty-one 
years. In February, 1887, he purchased the 
interests of his partner, and continued the 
business as sole owner. In 1882 he became 
treasurer of the Holliston Mills, which 
position he still holds. 

He married in Boston, May 21, 1863, Eliza 
F.Paul, They have four children : Henry 
P., Minnie E., James, and John E. Talbot. 

Mr. Talbot was elected to the board of 
selectmen, Holliston, in 1886 ; was chair- 
man of the board of assessors from 1876 
to '79 inclusive ; a member of the school 
board nine years ; was for several years a 
director in the Holliston National Bank, 
and Holliston Savings Bank. 

He was a staff officer in the regular ser- 
vice of the L^nited States navy during the 



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civil war, having entered the service in iS6o 
as third assistant engineer in the United 
States steam sloop-of-war " Wyoming, " 
imder the command of John K. Mitchell. 
He made a two years' cruise in this vessel, 
touching at the principal ports on the At- 
lantic and Pacific coast of South America, 
the Sandwich Islands, and San Francisco. 
He was attached to Minister Clay's lega- 
tion, minister plenipotentiary and envoy 
extraordinary to Peru for five months dur- 
ing this time, remaining in the harbor of 
Callao. At Panama the commander and 
seven officers resigned to enter the South- 
ern Confederacy. Mr. Talbot applied to 
the navy department for active duty at the 
seat of war ; was ordered home from San 
Francisco, returning via the Isthmus of 
Panama. He received two promotions. 
He served as chief engineer on the United 
States gunboats " Chocura " and " Iosco," 
being government superintendent while 
the engines were being put into these ves- 
sels at the Charlestown navy-yard, and 
was appointed chief engineer on their first 
going into commission. He was on block- 
ade duty in these vessels in the North At- 
lantic squadron under rear admirals Lee 
and Porter until the close of the civil war. 
He participated in both bombardments 
and the capture of Fort Fisher. He was 
appointed first assistant professor of steam 
engineering at the Naval Academy, An- 
napolis, Md., in the fall of 18S5, steam en- 
gineering being first introduced into the 
curriculum of study at that time. 

He resigned from the United States 
navy in 1866 to enter business. His eldest 
son, Henry, was graduated from the Ma.ssa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology, chemical 
course, in 18S5. He remained there as 
instructor three years, and is now taking a 
two years' course in Leipzig, Germany. 

TAYLOR, Charles Henry, son of 

John I. and Abigail R. (Hapgood) Taylor, 
was born July 14, 1846, in Charlestown, 
Middlesex county, and was educated in 
the public schools of Charlestown. 

When si.xteen years old he enlisted in 
the Union army, and served until wounded 
and sent hoine. When twenty-one he 
made a successful excursion into the field 
of politics and was appointed private and 
military secretary, with the rank of colo 
nel, by Gov. William Claflin. While hold- 
ing this office he acquired the intimate 
knowledge of the internal working of the 
state government which has been of ines- 
timable value to him through later years. 

In journalism he has climbed the ladder 
from the first round, beginning in the com- 



posing room and occupying the reporter's 
desk, the correspondent's position, the 
etlitorial sanctum, and the controlling 
manager's chair, in orderly, though rapid 
succession. When connected with the 
" Boston Traveller," and later, while Gov- 
ernor Claflin's private secretary, he was 
correspondent for the " New York Trib- 
une " and the " Cincinnati Times." In 
Somerville, in 1872, he was elected by a 
unanimous vote of all parties, to the state 
Legislature, and the following year was 
chosen clerk of the House, succeeding the 
famous "Warrington." 




CHARLES H, TAYLOR. 

On the 7th of February, 1S66, Colonel 
Taylor was married in Charlestown, to 
Georgianna O., daughter of George W. 
and L. F. Davis. 

In 1873 Colonel Taylor formed his first 
connection with the " Boston Daily Globe." 
At that time the paper was losing money 
steadily, and seemed a hopeless and help- 
less journalistic experiment. The fact that 
under his administration the "tilobe" has 
attained the largest circulation of any paper 
in New England, speaks volumes for the 
pluck, sagacity, and ability of its manager 
and editor-in-chief. No American jour- 
nalist ever accomplished a more complete 
success in so short a time, and very few 
have been able to achieve even so much. 



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The "Globe," it should be remembered, 
was outside the charmed circle of the 
" Associated Press " combination, and 
every other newspaper's hand was against 
it. Discredited by a long and disastrous 
record of failure, loaded with financial em- 
barrassments, and harassed by the united 
hostility of its rivals, it was indeed a very 
hazardous undertaking to attempt its 
resuscitation. Colonel Taylor practically 
created a new " Globe," and what was at 
first an " e.xperiment " is now a positive 
and lively reality. It has a sparkle and 
an individuality that commends itself to 
many readers not of its own chosen politi- 
cal faith. While in its columns the Demo- 
cratic doctrine is in all essentials practi- 
cally maintained, the " Globe " is often 
found criticising its party managers and 
reproving its leaders in a tone that clearly 
indicates its consciousness of entire inde- 
pendence. 

TAYLOR, George Sylvester, son of 

Sylvester and Sarah (Eaton) Taylor, was 
born in South Hadley, Hampshire county, 
March 2, 1822. He received his education- 
al training in the public schools of South 
Hadley, Chicopee Falls, and Springfield. 

His first entrance into business life was 
with Col. D. M. Bryant, in a country 
store at Chicopee Falls, at the age of si.\- 
teen, where he remained two years. Pre- 
vious to this he had worked in his father's 
market, and on the home farm. In 1840 
he became a partner with S. A. Shackford, 
under the firm name of Shackford &: 
Taylor, which relation continued twenty- 
three years. In 1863 he went into com- 
pany with B. B. Belcher, under the firm 
name of Belcher & Taylor, manufacturers 
of agricultural tools. The next year the 
business was transferred to the Belcher &: 
Taylor .\gricultural Tool Company, which 
has since that time carried on the manu- 
facture. Mr. Taylor is agent and treas- 
urer of said company, having held the 
positions of agent twenty-one years and 
treasurer twenty-five years. 

He was married in Chicopee, November 
25, 1845, to Asenath B., daughter of Elias 
H. and Rebecca (Boylston) Cobb. Of 
this union were seven children. The four 
surviving children are : EUaS. (Mrs. Lyon), 
F".dward Sylvester, William Cobb, and 
.\lbert Eaton Taylor. 

Mr. Taylor has been repeatedly called 
by his fellow-citizens to positions of public 
trust. He was assessor two years, select- 
man three years, has been a representative 
to the Legislature, and was one year in 
the state Senate. 



He was superintendent of the Congre- 
gational Sunday-school twenty-five years, 
and has been a deacon of the Congrega- 
tional church since 1859. He was presi- 
dent of the Hampden County Agricultural 
Society three years, and is at present a 
member of the state board of agriculture. 
He is president of the Chicopee Falls 
Savings Bank, and president and general 
manager of the Chicopee Falls Building 
Company. He has held the commission 
of justice of the peace since he was 
twenty-two years of age. 

When the police court of the town was 
established, he was appointed special jus- 
tice, and held the office until his election 
to the Legislature. Mr. Taylor was one 
of a family of nine children, two sisters 
and seven brothers, all of whom lived to 
mature years, and married. His father 
reached the age of eighty-eight, and his 
mother, seventy-seven. They celebrated 
their golden wedding, September 12, 1865, 
and lived together five years thereafter. 

TAYLOR, James Brainerd, son of 

Cyrus W. and Margaret M. (Armstrong) 
Taylor, was born in Boston, on Fort Hill, 
August 22, 1845. His ancestor, Abraham 
Taylor, was one of the first settlers of 
Concord, 1640, and a later ancestor was 
one of the leading settlers of Dunstable, 
about 1690. His mother was of Scotch 
and English parentage, her paternal grand- 
father being a preacher in Perth, Scotland. 

Mr. Taylor entered the primary depart- 
ment of Chauncy Hall school in the fall 
of 1855, the late Susan N. Nickerson be- 
ing his teacher, was fitted for college, and 
graduated at Harvard in the class of 1867. 

After a year at the Harvard law school, 
under Professors Washburn, Parsons, and 
Holmes, he studied Hebrew in the Newton 
Baptist Seminary, and theology in .-Xudover 
Theological Seminary, graduating from the 
latter institution in 187 1. He declined a 
call to the chair of rhetoric in Iowa State 
College, and accepted the chair of oratory 
in Bowdoin College, offered -by President 
Chamberlain. He remained there two 
years, giving occasional instruction also in 
elocution in the state normal .schools of 
Maine, and Bangor I'heological Seminary. 

In 1873 Mr. Taylor returned to ISoston. 
He was shortly called to his okl school 
(Chauncy Hall) to teach literature, elocu- 
tion, Latin, and history. 

In the summer of 1883 he visited Europe 
for the second time, and shortly after his 
return invited the heads of the classical 
and mathematical departments at Chauncy 
Hall to form with him the educatitMial firm 



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TAYLOR. 



of Taylor, De Meritte & Hagnr. In the 
fall of 1884 this firm founded the Berkeley 
school in the new Y. i\I. C. A. fniildinj^, 
corner of Boylston and Berkeley streets. 
The school numbered one hundred and 
fifty pupils the first \'ear, and employed a 
dozen teachers. It has continued to in- 
crease in numbers, and is now easily recoo- 
nized as one of the most prominent private 
schools in Boston. 




JAMES B TAYLOR 

Mr. Taylor is connected with various 
literary, social, and charitable societies ; 
was first annual regent of Mystic Side 
Council, R. A.; is superintendent of the 
Central church Sunday-school at Newton- 
ville, where he resides ; president of the 
" Every Saturday Club," a literary organi- 
zation of seventeen )'ears' standing, lim- 
ited to forty members, and including among 
them several prominent educators ; he is a 
member of the Congregational clubs of 
Newton and Boston, and of the famous 
Schoolmasters' Club of Boston and vicinity. 

Mr. Taylor was married in Boston, Jan- 
uary I, 1872, to Julie S., daughter of Rev. 
William C. Jackson, formerly a missionary 
in Asiatic Turkey, where Mrs. Taylor was 
born, and Mary (Sawyer) Jackson. From 
this union there are three children : Brain- 
erd, ^^'illiam Harold, and Harriet May 
Taylor. Mr. Taylor's children enjoy the 



somewhat unusiial distinction of having 
their fciur grandparents living, two of them 
over eight)' years of age. 

TAYLOR, William, was born of Irish 
parents in St. John's, Xewfoundland, .\|)ril 
15. iSji- 

He ran away from home at the age of 
fourteen, and began his sailor's life as a 
stowaway. During the next fourteen years 
he sailed in every sea, and rose by pluck, 
honesty, and self-education from cabin-boy 
to captain. 

In 1859 he settled in Boston, and en- 
gaged in various lines of business with 
success. In 1870 and '71 he was a member 
of the city council ; in 1872 and '73 he 
was in the House of Representatives, serv- 
ing on several important committees. As 
one of the minority of the committee on 
federal relations, he opposed the vote of 
censure that was i)assed on Charles Sum- 




WILLIAM TAYLOR. 

ner. He was the originator of the bill for 
the better protection of seamen. In 1876 
he was again in the common council, and 
three years later, in 1879, he was elected 
to the state Senate, where he served with 
credit on several committees, including 
fisheries and harbors. He carried through, 
against strenuous opposition, the bill for 
manhood suffrage, which was, however, 
defeated in the House, ahd still awaits 



TAYLOR. 



TEMPLE. 



595 



legislative action. He made the first 
attack since "Know-nothing" times upon 
the obstructive laws regarding naturaliza- 
tion, and was successful in changing some 
of their most restrictive features. At the 
close of the session he was appointed on a 
special committee on contract convict 
labor, which sat during the recess, and 
made a lengthy report, which was ac- 
cepted and published by the ne.xt Legis- 
lature. 

.Mr. Taylor was re-elected in 1880, and 
served as chairman of the committees on 
fisheries and leave of absence ; he served 
also on the committee on prisons. He 
originated and carried through the bill for 
the regulation of private detectives, and 
made a lasting and valuable record on 
prison reform. On the liquor question he 
was decided and conservative. He was a 
straightforward, concise, and able debater, 
and has left his impress on the legislation 
of the State. 

In 1883 he was appointed health com- 
missioner by Mayor Palmer, and re-ap- 
pointed in 1886 by Mayor O'Brien. Dur- 
ing these six years his energy and execu- 
tive ability won recognition from business 
men and politicians alike, and when he 
left this office he was offered the position 
of manager of the docks, warehouses, and 
elevators for the New York & New Eng- 
land Railroad Company, a responsible and 
important post wiiich he now fills to the 
.satisfaction of all concerned. 

TAYLOR, William P., son of Luther 
and .\bigail ( Kendall ) Taylor, was born 
in Milford, Hillsborough county, N. H., 
October 17, 1826. 

His early education was obtained in the 
public schools. He began business life in 
Lunenburg, Mass., in 1848, as a black- 
smith. This he continued until 1859, 
when he went into trade, in which he re- 
mained until 1876. In the latter year he 
began the manufacture of furniture, and 
also engaged in the drug business. 

He was first married in Lunenburg, 
May 29, 185 1, to Mary E., daughter of 
William and Eliza (Mclntire) Robinson. 
Of this union were three children : Mary 
E., Helen E., and William O. Taylor. His 
second marriage was in Townsend, Janu- 
ary 25, 1870, with .\nna, daughter of 
Jonathan P. and Harriet N. (McLitire) 
Clement. 

Mr. Taylor has been postmaster twenty- 
three years, town clerk five years, and 
assessor and treasurer one year. He was 
a representative to the Legislature in 1887, 
.serving on the committee on elections. 



TEELE, Albert Kendall, son of Ben- 
jamin and Miriam (Savels) 'I'eele, was born 
in Charlestown, now .Somerville, Middlesex 
county, February 10, 1821. 

His early education was obtained in the 
public schools of Medford, where he resided 
until fifteen years of age. In 1836 he en- 
tered Phillips .\cademy, Andover, where he 
fitted for college, and entered Yale College 
in 1838, graduating in 1842. Li 1845 he 
received the degree of A. M. from his a/ma 
mater. He pursued the theological course 
at the Yale Seminary, and was ordained 
and installed over the Congregational 
church in Naugatuck, Conn., in 1845. This 
pastorate continued till 1849, when he 
preached in the First church in Medvvay 
for part of a year. He received a call to 
settle as pastor, but being at the same time 
called to the First Evangelical church in 
Milton, he accepted the latter and contin- 
ued its active pastor for twenty-five years. 
Since then he has been pastor emeritus. 
In 1874 he received the degree of D. D. 
from ISIiddlebury College, Vt. 

In Stratford, Conn., August 21, 1845, 
Mr, Teele was married to Cornelia, daugh- 
ter of Lucius and Harriet (Curtis) Curtis. 
Their children are : Cornelia Fannie and 
Flattie Curtis Teele. 

In 1877 Dr. Teele was appointed on the 
board of trustees of the Liversidge Institu- 
tion of Industry — a home for destitute 
boys. In this position he still continues, 
finding in the supervision and care of these 
homeless boys a fitting supplement to his 
ministerial life. For twenty-five years he 
was a member of the Milton school com- 
mittee, much of the time its chairman. He 
is chairman of the Milton public library 
trustees, and chairman of the trustees of tlie 
Milton cemetery. Under authority of the 
town, as chairman of the committee ap- 
pointed for that purpose, he wrote a most ex- 
cellent history of Milton, which was pub- 
lished in 1887 and received with great favor, 
not only by the citizen.s, but by all interested 
in the preparation of local histories through- 
out the State. He still resides in Milton, 
beloved and esteemed by his fellow-citi- 
zens, in full sympathy witli a friendly com- 
munity, and in the serene enjoyment of 
the delights of the beautiful town he has 
loved and served so well. 

TEMPLE, R. DE.XTER, son of William 
and Mary (Coggin) Temple, was born in 
Reading, .Middlesex county, April 8, 1838. 

The common schor)ls furnished his edu- 
cational training. After leaving school, at 
the age of seventeen, he learned the trade 
of shoemaker, and worked at this business 



596 



TENNEV. 



TENNEY. 



until the year 1879, when he entered the 
business of real estate agent and general 
auctioneer. 

In September, 1SS6, he accepted from 
the board of health the appointment of 
undertaker, which is his present occupa- 
tion. 

Mr. Temple was married in Winchester, 
July 31, 1838, to Florence W., daughter of 
(leorge and Harriet M. (Leathe) Richard- 
son. Of this union are three children : 
Ida M., Nellie C, and Annie J. Temijle. 

He served as collector of taxes for the 
town of Reading from 1880 to '84 inclu- 
sive. He was chairman of the board of 
selectmen of Reading in 1885, '86 and '87, 
and was re-elected on the iDoard in 1888 
and "89. He has been a member of the 
board of directors of the Reading Co-op- 
erative Bank from the date of its incorpo- 
ration. 

He has always been a Republican in 
politics ; is a member of the Congrega- 
tional church, and is ever active in promot- 
ing the interests of his native town, as 
well as prominent in every effort calculated 
to advance the morals of the community. 

TENNEY, Samuel Parcher, son of 

Samuel Newell and Sarah (Parcher) Ten- 
ney, was born in Barre, Worcester county, 
Deceinber 6, 1838. He is a lineal descend- 
ant in the eighth generation of Thomas 
Tenney, who, with his wife Ann, came 
from Rowley, Yorkshire, England, and set- 
tled in Rowley, Mass., in 1638. He was 
the first American ancestor of all in the 
United States bearing this name. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in the public schools, finishing with 
the Eliot school, Boston. He began his 
commercial career in 1853, with Henry 
Rice, stock, note, and real estate broker, 
Boston, with whom he remained until 1855. 
when he entered the employ of P^dmund 
Munroe, stock and real estate broker. Oc- 
tober I, 1856, he accepted a position with 
Lawrence, Stone & Co., selling agents for 
several manufacturing companies, includ- 
ing the New England Worsted Company, 
afterwards succeeded by the present Sa.xon- 
ville Mills and Roxbury Carpet Company, 
with which he is at present connected in 
the capacity of book-keeper. 

Mr. Tenney was married in Chelsea, July 
23, 1S62, to Hannah Jane, daughter of 
Edward B. and Hannah J. Stickney, of 
.\ndover. Of this union are two children : 
Florence Dean and Gertrude Miller Ten- 
ney. 

Mr. Tenney has always been active in 
civic interests, and has been repeatedly 



called by his fellow-citizens to positions of 
honor and trust. He has always enjoyed 
their confidence, as one upon whom they 
could safelv relv. He has been a member 
of the Chelsea common council five years ; 
alderman, four years ; mayor of Chelsea in 
1 88 1 and '82, and ex-officio chairman of the 
Chelsea school board ; a member of the 
board of water commissioners from 1882 to 
'85, and re-elected in 1888 for another term 
of three years. He has been an efficient 
member of the working committees of the 
city in fire, sewage, and other departments. 
As a public-spirited man, always ready to 
co-operate in any work for the improve- 
ment and prosperity of the city, he has 



'A'tmMM 



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■ «V', 




SAMUEL P TENNEY 

always stood in the front, never allowing 
himself to be confined by the bounds of 
any narrow policy. 

His church affiliations are with the soci- 
ety of the Central Congregational church, 
of which he has been clerk, and both chair- 
man and treasurer of its prudential com- 
mittee. He is a justice of the peace and 
notary public, having received his first 
commission from Governor Washburn. 

Mr. Tenney is prominent in many of the 
secret orders. He js a member of Star of 
Bethlehem Lodge, F. & A. M., Shekinah 
Chapter, Naphthali Council, and Palestine 
Commandery ; Crescent Council No. 71, 



TETLUW. 



THAVEK 



597 



R. A.; Bellingham Assembly. R. S. G. F.; 
trustee of Powhatan Tribe, I. O. R. M.; a 
member of Bay State Lodge, No. 3, A. O. U. 
\\'.; trustee of ^[ystic Lodge, No. 51, L O. 
O. F.; trustee of Samaritan Eneampment, 
No. 23, L O. O. F., and member of Ridgely 
Canton ; member of Faith Lodge, 1). of R., 
No. 28, L O. O. F.; trustee of Alpha Lodge 
No. I., N. K. O. P.; supreme warden, N. 
K. ( ). P.; member of Lincohi Council No. 
17. Home Circle; Athenian Council No. 
247, O. U. F., and has been president of 
the Chelsea Mutual Benefit Association 
since its organization. 

TETLOW, JOHN, son of John and 
Mary A. Tetlow, was born in Providence, 
R. L, April I, 1843. 

He was educated in the public schools 
of Providence, and fitted for college, 
graduating from Brown LIniversity as 
valedictorian in the class of 1864. He 
then became principal of the Maple Street 
grammar school in Fall River, where he 
remained a year. In 1865 he became 
classical assistant in the Friends' Academy 
at New Bedford, where he remained three 
years. After spending the year i868-'69 
abroad, studying German and French, on 
his return he was made principal of the 
Friends' Academy, a position which he 
held for ten years. 

In New Bedford, in 1S70, Mr. Tetlow 
was married to his first wife, Elizabeth J., 
<laughter of Rev. Henry F. and Elizabeth 
I). Harrington. She died in 1877, leaving 
him two daughters : Elizabeth H. and 
Helen I. Tetlow. In 1880 Mr. Tetlow was 
again married, to Elizabeth P., daughter 
of George and Ardelia L. Howard. Their 
only child is a daughter ; Frances H. 
Tetlow. 

In 1878 the girls' Latin school was or- 
ganized in Boston, and Mr.. Tetlow was 
elected to the mastership, which position 
he still holds. It started in a modest 
way, with an enrollment of only twenty- 
eight pu]:iils ; but it has since reached a 
membership of two hundred, and is honor- 
ably represented by its graduates in all the 
New England colleges to which women are 
admitted. 

In 1884 Mr. Tetlow pul)lished his " In- 
ductive Latin Lessons." In 1885 the girls' 
high school and the girls' Latin school, 
which occupied the same building, were 
united under one management, and Mr. 
Tetlow was elected head-master. He was 
appointed, in conjunction with William 
C. Collar and R. G. Huling, by the Mas- 
sachusetts High School and Classical 
Teachers' Association, to take steps look- 



ing toward greater co-operation between 
colleges and preparatory schools, and the 
New England Association of Colleges and 
Preparatory Schools was the result, as also 
indirectly the Commission of Colleges in 
New England. In 1886 and '87 Mr. Tet- 
low served as president of the Massachu- 
setts High School and Classical Teachers' 
Association. 

TH.4YER, Eli, son of Cushman and 
Miranda (Pond) Thayer, was born in Men- 
don, Worcester county, June 11, 1819. 

His preparatory educational training was 
secured in the district school, Bellingham 
Academy, Amherst Academy, anil Worces- 
ter County Manual Labor high school. 
He was graduated at Brown University in 
the class of 1845, with the honor of salu- 
tatory. He then became assistant teacher 
in the Worcester Academy, then principal 
of the same, and in 1848 founded Oread 
Institute, of which he is now the treasurer. 

Mr. Thayer was married in Blackstone, 
August 6, 1845, to Caroline M., daughter 
of Collins and Caroline (Silsby) Capron. 
Of this union were seven children : Clara 
Capron, Ida M., Eva Alden, Anna C, Cora 
P., John Alden, and George Capron Thayer. 

Mr. Thayer has been a member of the 
W'orcester school board, and of the board of 
aldermen. He was a member of the House 
of Representatives in 1853 and '54, where he 
originated the Bank of Mutual Redemp- 
tion and the Emigrant Aid Company ; was 
elected to Congress in 1856, and again in 
1858 ; was chairman of the committee on 
public lands ; spent three years in coloniz- 
ing Kansas ; began the colonizing of A'ir- 
ginia in 1857, and continued the work to 
the beginning of the civil war. 

Mr. Thayer's great work was during the 
years 1854, '55, and '56, in organizing 
emigration throughout the northern states 
for the purpose of making Kansas a free 
state. His work in this direction was one 
of the most powerful factors in the final 
extinction of slavery in this country. Hon. 
Charles Robinson, the first governor of the 
state of Kansas, said in a letter dated Law- 
rence, Kansas, September 25, 1887 : " Kan- 
sas can never too highly honor her early 
friends, without whose exertions freedom 
would have been driven from our borders. 
Of all the long list of names that Kansas 
will ever delight to honor, that of the Hon. 
Eli Thayer stands at the head." Charles 
Sumner said he would rather have the 
credit due Eli Thayer for his Kansas work 
than be the hero of the battle of New 
Orleans. In the United States Senate, in 
1856, Mr. Sumner said, speaking of the 



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Kansas conflict : " It far surpasses in moral 
grandeur the whole war of the revolution." 
Later he said : " Kansas was made free by 
Eli Thayer's new science of emigration, 
in which capital precedes the emigrant," 
and he declared " the state of Kansas 
should be named 'Thaj'cr'." Mr. Thayer 
has just published '' The Kansas Crusade," 
giving a full account of his Kansas work 
(Harper & Brothers, New York, 1889). 
Edward Everett Hale, who wrote the intro- 
duction, says: "This emigration at that 
time would have been impossible but for 
Eli Thayer. The first result was civil war 
in Kansas ; the second was the success 
of the free state settlers ; the third was 
the election of Abraham Lincoln." 

Mr. Thayer is a lineal descendant in the 
sixth generation from John Alden, of the 
" Mayflower," and also in the sixth genera- 
tion from Thomas Thayer, of Braintree 
(1640). 

THAYER, JOHN R., son of Mowry R. 
and Harriet (Morse) Thayer, was born in 
Douglass, Worcester countv, March 9, 

1845.- 

His early school days were passed in the 
common schools of Douglass. He attended 
Nichols Academy, Dudley, where he fitted 
for Yale, graduating therefrom in the class 
of 1869. He afterward studied law in the 
office of Judge Henrv Chapin, Worcester, 
and was atlmitted to the bar in 187 1. 

He then formed a co-partnership in the 
practice of law with S. A. Tingier in Weli- 
ster, 1873, and the next year entered into 
co-partnership with ^V. A. Williams, Wor- 
cester. The latter partnership existed 
until 1882, since which time he has been 
alone in business. 

Mr. Thayer was married in Worcester, 
January 30, 1873, 'o Charlotte H., daugh- 
ter of Pitt and Diana (Perrin) Holmes. 
Of this union are five children : Henrv 
Holmes, John Mowry, Charlotte Diana, 
Marguerite Elizabeth, and Mary Perrin 
Thayer. 

Mr. Thayer has been a member of the 
common council, Worcester, four years ; a 
member of the board of aldermen four 
years ; a trustee of Worcester city hos- 
pital six years ; trustee of Nichols Acad- 
emy twelve years, and a member of its 
examining committee eight vears. He was 
a representative to the General Court two 
years (1880 and '82), serving on the judi- 
ciary committee. 

He was a candidate for district attorney, 
and also for mayor of Worcester, polling 
the largest vote ever cast for a defeated 
candidate for this office. The district and 



the city, however, are overwhelmingly 
Republican in their political majorities, 
which even the unquestioned integrity, 
ability, and popularity of Mr. Thayer were 
insufficient to overcome. He has long 
been a prominent and active leader of his 
party, and his services are continuously 
called into requisition, not only in his own 
county, but throughout the State. 

Mr. Thayer has acquired an enviable 
reputation as counsel and advocate in 
criminal causes, his talents being peculiarly 
adapted to the trial of cases before juries. 

THAYER, William Makepeace, son 

of Davis and Betsey Thayer, was born in 
Franklin, Norfolk county, February 23, 
1820. 

His early education was received in the 
district schools. He also avers, "A good 
mother led, taught, and fashioned me." 
At fifteen years of age he entered Frank- 
lin Academy, and there fitted for college. 




WILLIAM M. THAVEl; 

He entered Brown I'niversity, Provi- 
dence, R. I., 1839, and was graduated in 
the class of 1843. He afterward studied 
theology, with Rev.. Jacob Ide, D. D., 
West Medway, and was licensed to preach 
in the spring of 1845. Li June, 1848, he 
was ordained pastor of the Orthodox Con- 
gregational church, Ashland. He re- 
mainetl there eight vears, and was then 



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THOMPSON. 



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compelled to resign on account of bron- 
chial troubles. 

He immediately devoted himself to 
authorship and editorial work. He edited 
the " Home Monthly " several years, then 
the "Nation," a temperance paper, while 
he was secretary of the Tem]3erance 
Alliance. He wrote much, also, for the 
religious antl secular press. Mr. Thayer 
was secretary of the Temperance .Alliance 
fourteen years, usually visiting the various 
churches on Sunday to speak in behalf of 
the temperance cause. In 1876 he returned 
to authorship, his present vocation. 

He was married in Franklin, October ig, 
1845, to Rebecca W., daughter of Calvin 
and Lucinda Richards, of Dover. Of this 
union were five children : two died in 
infancy, and one at five years of age. The 
living children are : Eugene R. antl .Addi- 
son ^Ionroe Thayer. 

Mr. Thayer has published in all thirty- 
live volumes. His jirincipal works are : 
"The Poor lioy and Merchant Prince," 
"The Ciood (iirl and True \\'oman," 
" From Poor House to Pulpit," " The 
Pioneer l!oy," " Youth's History of the 
Rebellion," " Life at the Fireside," " The 
Bobbin Boy," "The Printer Boy," " Life 
of Charles Jewett," " F'rom Log Cabin to 
White House," " From Pioneer Home to 
White House," " From Tannery to White 
House," and " Marvels of the New West." 

His books were wi'itten mostly for the 
young, he being one of the few whose 
books of this nature are of the style and 
matter to interest both youth and age. 

Mr. Thayer was a representative to the 
General Court from Ashland in 1S56, and 
from Franklin in 1863. 

THOMAS, REUEN, .son of William 
and .\nn Cotton (Wilkins) Thomas, was 
born in Walmly, Warwickshire, England, 
June 14, 1840. His ancestors were repre- 
sentatives of old Warwickshire families. 
He was first in educational training in the 
grammar school, Sutton, Coldfield, War- 
wickshire ; then in I'niversity College, 
London, 1862, .M. A. and Ph.D., by exami- 
nation (Rostock U.), 1865. He received 
in 1887 the honorary degree of D. D. from 
Bowdoin College, Maine. 

Dr. Thomas began the ministry as as- 
sistant to Rev. Newman Hall, LI.. P.., of 
Christ church, London, afterwards was 
pastor of Berkley Street church (Cong.) 
Liverpool, whence he was called to suc- 
ceed Rev. Dr. .Andrew Reed, the great phil- 
anthropist, at Wycliffe chapel, London. He 
was called to the Harvard church, Brook- 
line, in 1875, where he has since ministered. 



I )r. Thomas married Elizabeth, daughter 
of John and F^lizabeth (James) Cotton, but 
is without children. 

He is the author of " Through Death to 
Life," " Divine Sovereignty," " (Irafen- 
burg People," and several pamphlets. 

Dr. 'Phomas was for several years a gov- 
ernor of the London Hospital, and is a 
life-member of several literary and benev- 
olent .societies in Europe and America. 
He is a frequent contributor to leading 
religious newspapers and reviews on both 
sides of the .Atlantic. 

THOMPSON, Charles P., son of 

Frederick M. and Susannah (Cheeseman) 
'Phompson, was born in Braintree, Norfolk 
county, July 30, 1827. He is a lineal de- 
scendant of John Thompson, who came 
from F^nglancl and landetl in Plymouth in 
162 1 or 1623, and married Mary Cook, 
tlaughter of Francis Cook, who was one of 
the original settlers of Plymouth in 1620. 
His father was born in Middleborough, but 
resided for the greater part of his life in 
Firaintree. FLs mother also was of Brain- 
tree. 

He received his early education in the 
public schools and in the HoUis Listitute, 
located in his native town. He studied in 
the office of Hon. Benjamin F. Hallett, 
Boston, a prominent lawyer at that time, 
and United States district attorney. Mr. 
Thompson was admitted to the bar in Suf- 
folk county in 1854, remaineil in Mr. Hal- 
lett's office until 1857, and during that 
time served as second assistant to the 
United States district attorney. In 1857 he 
located in (Gloucester, where he has since 
resided. Until his appointment in 1885, 
by Governor Robinson, as a justice of the 
superior court, he devoted himself to the 
practice of his profession, having offices in 
both Gloucester and Salem. 

Politically Mr. Thomjison is a Democrat. 
He was elected from Gloucester to the 
General Court, and served in the House of 
Representatives in 187 1 and '72, the latter 
year performing conspicuous service on the 
judiciary committee. In 1874 he was 
elected to Congress from the 6th district, 
comprising Gloucester, Haverhill, New- 
buryport, Salem, and twenty-three towns 
in FjSse.K county. His opponent was Gen- 
eral Benjamin F. Butler, who received 
7,731 votes as against 8,703. In Congress 
he was upon the committee on elections, 
and was chairman of the " select committee 
(Ml the recent elections in Florida." In the 
fall of 1876 he was candidate for re-elec- 
tion to Congress. His opponent, Dr. 
George B. Loring, had about 1,200 plural- 



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THOMPSON. 



ity, while the plurality given the Republican 
presidential ticket in the district was be- 
tween four and five thousand. He was the 
Democratic candidate for governor in the 
years 1880 and '81. 

In 1877 Amherst College cf)nferred the 
honorary degree of A. M. on Mr. Thomp- 
son. 

In 1861 he married Abbie Herrick, of 
Gloucester. They have two children : a 
son and daughter. 

THOMPSON, Francis M., the son of 
John and Elvira (Adams) Thompson, of 
Greenfield, was born at Colrain, Franklin 
county, October 16, 1833. His paternal 
ancestors were of the Scotch-Irish race, 
who settled Colrain, his great grandfather 
being an officer in the revolutionary army. 
His ancestors on the mother's side were the 
( hiincv-.Vdams stock. 




FRANCIS M. THOMPSON, 

Mr. Thompson received his earlv educa- 
tion at the common and select schools of 
Greenfield and at Williston Seminarv. He 
studied law under the direction of fudge 
Chester C. Conant, and was admitted to the 
Franklin bar in .August, 1876. 

Mr. Thompson became a book-keeper in 
a banking house in Cincinnati in 1856, and 
in 1862 emigrated to what is now Montana, 
then a portion of Dakota. He was sent 
to Washington with others, and worked for 



the division of Dakota and the erection of 
Montana as a territory. He was a member 
of the first legislative council of Montana, 
and assisted in the organization of the ter- 
ritory. He returned to Massachusetts in 
1865, and has since resided in Greenfield. 
He has held the offices of trial justice, as- 
sessor, town clerk, town treasurer, and 
selectman, and is now, and has been since 
1870, register of probate and insolvency 
for Franklin county. 

He was for many years a trustee and 
member of the finance committee in the 
(ireenfield Savings Bank, and is now man- 
ager of the Interstate JMortgage Trust Com- 
]5any, a corporation organized by him. He 
is a member of the board of directors of the 
(ireenfield Librar}' Association, and a mem- 
ber of the Connecticut Valley Congrega- 
tional Club. 

Mr. Thompson married October 25, 1865, 
Mary, daughter of the late Hon. Lucius 
Nims, of Greenfield, and of Susan C, daugh- 
ter of Eliel G. Amadon, late of Springfield. 
They have one son : Francis Xims, born 
.August 26, 1872. 

THOMPSON, LEONARD, son of Leon- 
ard and Hannah \\riglit (Wyman) 
Thompson, was born in \\'obin"n, Aliddle- 
se.\ county, November 21, 181 7. 

Intelligent parents gave him his first 
knowledge of books, which was sujaple- 
mented by private school tuition, until he 
was old enough to attend the district 
school one mile away. In the " red school- 
house," he learned successfully the " three 
R's," and Morse's Geographv furnishetl the 
incentive for future travel. 

The \\'arren Academy was opened in 
1829, and there a thorough course of study 
better fitted him for the activities of life. 

In 1837 he was clerk in an auction store 
in Boston ; later in a shoe store in Hal- 
lowell. Me., and Hartford, Conn. In 1842 
he returned to Woburn and opened a store 
for the sale of shoemaker's tools, liats, boots 
and shoes. This was carried on success- 
fully until 1850, when he sold out his in- 
terest, and in company with another, 
started a general country store, in which 
he continued only a year. He was then 
out of business a year, and in 1852 pur- 
chased a hardware and stove store, and 
has continued in this business to the |:)res- 
ent time, assisted b}- his son, L. Waldo. 

Mr. Thompson was married in Lincoln, 
May 26, 1847, to Maria Laurens, daughter 
of Cyrus and Tryphena (Brooks) Smith. 
Of this union were four children : Jenny 
Lind (deceased), Louis Waldo, Nellie 
Smith, and Edgar Bradford Thompson. 



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Mr. Thompson became a member i if tlie 
I. (_). O. F. in 1841, and has identified him- 
self with the order as a loyal member and 
an efficient officer. 

His connection.s are with the Orthodo.x 
church, which he joined in 1835. His lib- 
eral and generous views, however, confine 
him to no one particular creed, and he 
lends a helping hand to the support of all 
religious societies. He takes a lively in- 
terest in literary associations, and has long 
been an active member of the town library 
committee. 




LEONARD THOMPSON, 

He is a life-member of the New England 
Historic (ienealogical Society. He has 
served many years on the .school board ; 
was selectman four years ; town treasurer 
two years, representative to the (ieneral 
Court 1 87 7 and '78, where his record was 
that of a tliligent and useful legislator. He 
is a justice of the peace by many re-ap- 
pointments. 

Mr. Thompson's early life was that of a 
quiet, thinking, ingeniou.s, fast-growing, 
weakly boy, patient in habit, a lover of 
nature in all its phases, skillful with rod 
and gun. He was a natural mechanic, and 
built the first portable iron boat in sections 
in this countrv, now much used in the \\'est. 

His health failing, he sought relief in 
travel, and visited the West Indies and 



Russia in 1836. Later he made other sea 
voyages along our New England coast ; 
spent some months in a trip to the Pacific 
coast. Edgar, his son, is chief mechanical 
architect in the motive-power office of the 
Chicago & Northwestern Railway. Father 
and son visited the Paris e.xposition of 
1889 to study advances made in motors, 
machinery, etc. 

To Mr. Thompson, in a marked degree, 
is due the purchase of the birthjilace of 
Count Rumford in Woburn, and its incor- 
poration as the .\ntique Museum of the 
Rumford Historical .Society, and a branch 
of the Woburn Centre library. 

THOMSON, ORRIN, son of Samuel and 
Sally (Heald) Thomson, was born in Hub- 
bardston, Worcester countv, October 24, 
1S21. 

His education was obtained in the com- 
mon schools, and by a year's attendance 
at Leicester .\cademy. 

He has been a resident of Holliston 
since February, 1843. He taught school 
a portion of each of the next eight years. 

In 1 85 I he formed a co-partnership with 
r. E. .\ndrews, under the firm name of 
.\ndrews & Thomson, and bought out the 
variety store of Pond & 'J'hayer, This 
connection continued for seven years, when 
he formed a co-partnership with E. F. 
\\ hiting, under the firm name of Thomson 
& Whiting, dealers in dry-goods, clothing, 
boots, shoes, etc. Nine years from this 
time he retired from active business. 

He is now treasurer of the Holliston 
Savings ISank, having held the position 
since its organization, 1872. 

He was married October 28, 1846, in 
Holliston, to Lizzie C, daughter of Joseph 
and Hannah (Heald) Stone. Of this union 
were seven children, onl\- two of whom 
are living : Silas O. and Charles S. Thom- 
son. 

Mr. Thomson has been a member of the 
school board, serving as chairman a greater 
part of the time, for twenty-five years ; 
selectman, town treasurer, assessor and 
overseer of the poor, trustee and treasurer 
of the public library, etc. 

He was a representative to the Legisla- 
ture in i860 and '66, serving as chairman 
of the committee on pay-roll in the latter 
year. He is a justice of the peace and 
notary public, having received the former 
appointment in 1858 and the latter in 1876. 
He held the position of trial justice six 
years from 1858. He was appointed a com- 
missioner for the state industrial school for 
girls in November, 1861. For several 
vears he was actinir coroner. He has done 



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TIRRELL. 



much probate business — settling estates, 
etc. ; has always been an active temper- 
ance man and liberally aided all temper- 
ance organizations. He is noted for his 
generositv in the active promotion of all 
good \viii'l<s, and enjoys the nnqualified 




ORRIN THOMSON. 

respect and confidence of the entire com- 
munity. 

TINKER, Francis, son of John and 
Philena Tinker, was born in Worthington, 
Hampshire county, January 3, 1816. 

His early education was such as the 
country schools of the time afforded. 

When eighteen years of age he was 
employed as book-keeper in a wholesale 
and retail grocery store, in Hartford, 
Conn. During this period he gave all his 
.spare time to study. He remained there 
about two years, when failing health com- 
pelled him to return to Worthington for 
rest. After a brief time he accepted the 
invitation of a brother, the Rev. O. Tinker, 
of Ashby, to attend the academy in that 
place, where he studied tw^o terms, and 
one term in a like institution at Worthing- 
ton, which closed his school life. 

In 1840 he was again employed in a 
grocery store at Westfield, but in the in- 
tervals of a dull business season he taught 
school in that place, and also at \\'orth- 
ineton and Ashbv. 



In 1S42 he removed to .\shby, and was 
employed in various ways : kept a stock of 
drugs, medicines, fancy- goods, and station- 
ery in connection with the post-office. 
Afterward he purchased the drug store in 
Leominster, where he remained eleven 
years, when he disposed of his business, 
ant! in the autumn of 1868 removed to 
South Dedham (now Norwood), and opened 
the first apothecary store in that place, liis 
present home. Here he also manufactured 
"the imperial fly-paper." 

June 16, 1S41, he married Jane .Amelia, 
only daughter of Isaac Patch, of Ashby. 
who died of consumption, .\ugust 22, 1842. 
-May II, 1848, he married R. Elizabeth, 
third daughter of Ebenezer Hutchinsiin, 
Jr.. of Fitchburg. Of the three children 
1)1 irn to them, but one remains : Dr. C. F. O. 
Tinker, of .St. Johnsbury, Vt. 

Mr. 'Tinker was town clerk of Ashby, 
and a member of the school board some 
si.\ years or more, resigning when he left 
that place. In i860 he was a representa- 
tive in the Legislature from the 6th Wor- 
cester district. He was commissioned a 
justice of the peace in 1863, by (uivernor 
.Andrew. On the organization of the town 
of Norwood, in 1872, he was chosen town 
clerk, which office he still holds. 

He was the clerk of the Second Congrega- 
tional parish in Ashby, of the Evangelical 
church in Leominster, and is now clerk 
and deacon of the First Congregational 
parish and church in Norwood. He was 
the first librarian of the public library in 
Leominster, and a member of its board of 
trustees. He has also devoted much time 
and labor towards establishing a good free 
public library for the town of Norwood, 
and has been one of the trustees since its 
organization. 

Mr. Tinker is the author of the " History 
of the Town of Ashby," in the Middlesex 
collection, published by Estes & Lauriat ; 
also the history of the Second or South 
Parish in Dedham, now the town of Nor- 
wood, in the " History of Norfolk county." 

TIRRELL, Charles Quincy, son of 

Norton Q. anil Susan J. 'I'irrell, was born 
in Sharon, Norfolk county, December 10, 

His earlv education was received in the 
common schools of Weymouth, where his 
parents removed when he was seven years 
of age — his father's native place, and that 
of his ancestors for two hundred years. 
His father was a physician and practiced 
medicine in Weymouth until his decease. 

Mr. Tirrell entered Dartmouth College 
in 1862, and was graduated in the class of 



TITCOMll. 



TirCOMl!. 



603 



1S66. During; his coUese coui'se, he taught 
school each winter. After graduation he 
was one year in charge or Peacham Acad- 
emy, Vermont, a famous school in its day. 
He was subsequently principal of the St. 
Johnsbury high school, \'ermont. 

In 1869 he entered the law office of the 
late Richard H. Dana, Boston, under whose 
care he was fitted for the bar, being admit- 
ted in August, 1870. He immediately 
opened a law office in Boston, where he has 
since been engaged in the practice of his 
profession. 

Mr. Tirrell was married in Natick, I''eb- 
ruary 13, 1873, to Marv K., daughter of 
Elisha P. and Eliza A. Hollis. Of this 
union is one child : Arthur H. Tirrell. 

In 1869 Mr. Tirrell was a candidate of 
the Republican party in W'eymouth for 
representative to the Legislature, but the 
candidates of the party in that town failed 
of an election that year. In 1871 he was 
again a candidate, and elected by an un- 
usual majority. In 1873 he removetl U> 
Natick, where he has since resided. 

He was a member of the state Senate 
from the 4th Middlesex district, 18S1 and 
'82. In 1872, his first year in the House, 
he served on the probate and insolvency 
committee, and in 1881 on the senate com- 
mittees on public health, prisons, and bills 
in the third reading ; in 1882 on the com- 
mittees on public health and judiciary, 
and was chairman of the joint committee 
on the litpujr law. 

Mr. Tirrell is one of the wardens of St. 
Paul's Episcopal church, Xatick. While a 
resident of Weymouth, he served four years 
on the school board of that town. 

He received a large complimentary vote 
in the Republican congressional conven- 
tion, 9th district, in 1884, as its candidate 
for Congress, and in 1888 was the leadint; 
competitor for the same position of the 
Hon. John W. Candler, who was subse- 
quently nominated. He was elected presi- 
dential elector from this district the same 
year. 

Mr. Tirrell is especially active in tem- 
perance work, and is a prominent official 
in temperance societies. He has also been 
an active worker in the Inilependent Order 
of Odd Fellows and other societies, anti his 
services are in active demand in the various 
lines of work undertaken by them. 

TITCOMB, Albert Gushing, .son of 

Francis and Sally D. (Dodd) Titcomb, was 
born in Newburyport, F^sse.x county, July 
16, 1S31. He is a lineal descendant of 
William Titcomb, who came from Newbury, 
Englaml, on the ship " Hercules" in 1634, 



and became an original land-holder. He 
is a grandson of Hon. Enoch Titcomb, a 
member of the Constitutional Convention, 
representative and senator for a long time, 
and town treasurer for twentv-eight years 
in succession. 

Mr. Titcomb obtained the rudiments of 
a common school education in his native 
town. He began business life at the age 
of fourteen, in the dry-goods store of Jo- 
seph F. Toppan. He then clerked in Bos- 
ton two years, but being excited by the 
gold-fever in 1849, he sailed from Newbury- 
port for San F'rancisco in the brig "Char- 
lotte," arriving July 23d of that year, and. 




as was the usual case in those days, with- 
out money or frienils He remained in 
California two years, mining and clerking, 
then sailed for Relejo, Central America, 
where he engaged in the hotel business, 
and also in purchasing coffee and shipping 
it to San Francisco. In 1852 he returned 
to Newburyport and entered the machine 
shop of the Barttett Mills, to learn the 
trade of machinist. He subsequently ob- 
tained employment in a machine shop in 
Roxbury for one year, then in the shop of 
the Old Colony & Fall River Railroad, 
where he remained until 1855. He was 
next engaged as a traveling salesman for 
Robinson, Potter iS; Co., manufacturing 



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TULMAN". 



jewelers, Providence, wliere he remained 
two years. In 1868 he established the firm 
of Titcomb & Williams, wholesale dealers 
in watches, diamonds, and jewelry in San 
Francisco. This firm carried on business 
for several years, when Mr. Titcomb as- 
sumed the proprietorship and carried it 
on alone for twelve 3'ears, the business in- 
creasing in volume until the annual sales 
reached two hundred and fifty thousand 
dollars. 

Since 1849 Mr. Titcomb has traveled to 
California forty times, and visited nearly 
all the states of the Union. He is ncnv 
retired from active business and resides in 
Newburyport. 

He was elected alderman from ward 4 of 
that city, and on the death of the mayor, 
Hon. William H. Huse, was unanimously 
chosen to fill the unexpired term. In De- 
cember, 1888, he was elected mayor, re- 
ceiving the largest vote of any mayor who 
had an opposition candidate, and now holds 
the office, his administration being csj^e- 
cially acceptable to his fellow-citizens. 

TOLMAN, John Broad, son of John 

and Lucy (Broad) Tolman, was born in 
Barre, Worcester county, December 30, 
1806. He is a lineal descendant of Thomas 
Tolman, who was born in England, in 
1608 or 1609, and came over in the " Mary 
and John " in 1630, becoming a settler of 
Dorchester. 

At an early periiid of his life his parents 
removed to Needham, it being the native 
place of his paternal grandfather, who was 
severely wounded at the battle of Le.\ing- 
ton, but on his recovery enlisted and 
served through the revolutionary war, ris- 
ing from the ranks to a field officer. 

In the latter town most of Mr. Tolman 's 
early life was passed, and his education was 
chiefly obtained at the public schools there. 
He had manual duties to perform about 
the farm, even at the tender age of eight 
years. At the usual age for apprentice- 
ship he was placed in the office of H. lV 
W. H. Mann, of 1 )edham, to learn the print- 
ing business. He served his full time and 
then went to Boston to follow his trade, 
obtaining employment as a journeyman in 
the book ofiice of Isaac R. Butts. 

In Februar\-, 1S30, he became a resident 
of Lynn, where he at once engaged as a 
printer of the " Lynn Record." After 
several years as manager and editor, he 
purchased the office, introduced the first 
cylinder press used in the city, and printed 
several papers at different times, besides 
building up a good business of job and 
commercial printing. 



By middle life he was enabled to sell out 
his printing materials and business, and 
occupy himself with less wearying pursuits. 
He then engaged in real estate and kin- 
dred operations, with good success. 

Mr. Tolman is a strict disciplinarian and 
an abstainer from both rum and tobacco. 
In 1881, on the occasion of the celebra- 
tion of his golden wedding, he made a do- 
nation to the Lynn Hospital of twenty-five 
hundred dollars, devoted in part to the 
benefit of members of the printing frater- 
nity in Lynn. In 1S84 he conveyed to the 
Young Men's Christian .Association of 
Lynn an estate valued at thirty thousand 
dollars, in trust for the suppression of in- 
temperance and the use of intoxicating 
liquors in Lynn. One of the latest of his 
public donations was the sum of one thou- 
sand dollars to the Home for Aged Women. 
He has made extensive tours in the west- 
ern and southern states and California, and 
has likewise visited Europe. 




^■laiMBiiiiSfifr' 



JOHN B. TOLMAN. 

In March, 1831, Mr. Tolman was mar- 
ried to Lydia S., daughter of Herman and 
Sarah Ames (Haynes) Mann, by whom he 
has had two sons and a daughter, of whom 
the latter onlv is living, being the wife of 
Charles J. Pic'kford, of Lynn. At the death 
of his two sons he erected to their memory 
the first marble monument in Lvnn. 



Td.Ml'KIXS. 



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TOMPKINS William Ripley, son of 

Rev. William Brownell Toniplcins, was 
born in Madison, Madison county, N. Y., 
JMariii ig, 1826. 

His ijrandfather, ( Gilbert Tompkins, was 
one of the early settlers of this part of the 
state, having organized and led a colony 
from southeastern Massachusetts to a tract 
of land in the town of Madison, previously 
located by him. 

The early education of Mr. Tompkins 
was derived from the public schools of his 
native state. His studies in preparation 
for a collegiate course were pursued at 
first in an academy at Munnsville, N. Y., 
and afterwards under a private instructor 
at Oneida. He entered the sophomore 
class in the University of the City of New 
York in 1847. In 1848 he transferred his 
relation to Williams College, Ma.ss., from 
which institution he graduateil with honor 
in the class of 1850. 

The next three years were spent in teach- 
ing in Schoharie and at Temple Hill, 
Geneseo, N. Y. 

In the autumn of 1853 Mr. Tompkins 
entered the theological seminary at An- 
dover, Mass., graduating in 1856. Having 
been licensed to preach by the Suffolk 
(South) Association of Boston (Orthodox 
Congregational), he received an invitation 
to become pastor of the New England 
church in Brooklyn, N. Y., which invitation 
he acceptetl, and was ordained and installed 
October 15, 1856. This office he retained 
eight years, the church in the meantime 
increasing about four-fold. 

At the end of eight years an obstinate 
affection of the throat, and health generally 
impaired, demanding a period of rest, he 
resigned his charge and remained without 
a pastorate for two years. 

In 1866 he took charge as acting pastor 
of the Congregational church in Wrentham, 
Mass., which position he has now held for 
more than twenty-two years. 

While in Brooklyn, Mr. Tompkins was 
on tile committee of agencies of the Ameri- 
can Bible Society, a trustee of the Ameri- 
can Congregational Union, and a member 
of the executive committee of the Ameri- 
can Home Missionary Society. 

During his long pastorate in Wrentham, 
Mr. Tompkins has taken a specially active 
interest in all matters involving the social 
and industrial prosperity of the town, in 
addition to his labors for the promotion of 
religion ; and during that period few public 
enterprises have been undertaken, or im- 
provements made in which he has not borne 
an active part. 



He was twice elected to represent his 
district in the state Legislature, — in 1877, 
when he was chairman, on the part of the 
House, of the committee on religious socie- 
ties, and in 1880, when he was chairman 
of the committee on public charitable 
institutions. 

Mr. 'I'ompkins was never married. 




WILLIAM R. TOMPKINS. 

An ardent love of natin'e is one of his 
|3rominent characteristics, and the natural 
sciences have consequently received a large 
share of his attention; and from the laws 
of nature in all her departments it has been 
his custom and delight to draw parallels 
and analogies to illustrate and enforce the 
moral laws he is accustomed to preach. 

One of the members of the Mendon 
conference — Rev. Jacob Ide — says of 
him: "An intimate ministerial association 
with Rev. W. R. Tompkins for nearly 
thirty years confirms my estimate of him 
as a ripe scholar, a profound thinker, and 
an exceedingly close reasoner." 

TOWER, William Augustus, son of 

Oren and Harriet (Oleason) Tower, was 
born in Petersham, Worcester county, Feb- 
ruary 26, 1825. Mr. Tower comes of An- 
glo-Saxon stock, the common ancestor of 
the Tower family in America having emi- 
grated from Hingham, England, in 1637, 
antl settled in Hingham, Mass. 



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TOWER. 



TOWNSEND. 



He received his early education in tiie 
public schools. The eldest of four chil- 
dren, himself and three sisters, he was 
thrown entirely upon his own resources at 
the age of fifteen, when he removed to 
Lancaster and entered the employment of 
a country merchant doing business in that 
town. There he served as clerk until 1845, 
when he was admitted to partnership with 
his empU)yer. 

This co-partnership continued until 1848. 
In 1850 he entered the flour and grain busi- 
ness, Haymarket Square, Boston, as a mem- 
ber of the firm of Rice, Tower & Co., the 
first house in the Boston market to estab- 
lish direct connection w'ith the West in the 
sale of cereal products. In 1852 the firm 
of Tower, Davis & Co. succeeded the par- 
ent house. Unremitting attention to busi- 
ness so impaired the health of Mr. Tower 
that in 1855, the same year in which he 
had changed his residence to Lexington, 
he found it necessary to retire from active 
business for a time, and seek recuperation 
in rest and travel. 

During a trip South and West, while 
stopping in Chicago, he formed the ac- 
quaintance of Ceorge Watson, a native of 
Scotland, with whom Mr. Tower organized, 
in Chicago, the banking house of Watson, 
Tower & Co., which did an active and 
prosperous business until i860. During 
this time Mr. Tower still retained his posi- 
tion as head of the firm of Tower, Davis 
& Co., Boston. 

In i860 he returned to Le.\ington, hav- 
ing closed his banking business in Chi- 
cago. He retained his interest as a silent 
partner in the house succeeding Tower, 
Davis iV Co., until 1867. In that year he 
organized the banking house of Tower, 
Giddings & Co., which still e.xists as a 
leading representative house, most honor- 
ably known in business circles. 

Railroad and banking affairs being so 
closely connected, naturally attracted Mr. 
Tower, and in many of them he is equally 
prominent and efificient. He has been a 
director of the National Bank of the Com- 
monwealth since its establishment in 187 1, 
and was elected president in February, 
1881. From 1870 to '73 inclusive he was 
president of the Concord Railroad in New 
Hampshire ; and in 1877 and '78 president 
of tlie Nashua & Lowell Railroad, and is 
director and trustee of other institutions 
and corporations. 

Mr. Tower was an old-time Whig, and 
since the organization of the Republican 
party has been identified with it, having 
entered with zeal and purpose into all the 



measures of the national government for 
the preservation of the Union. 

In 1863 he was a member of the House 
of Representatives, and a member of 
Governor Rice's personal staff, with the 
rank of colonel. In 1882 he was elected 
to the governor's council from the 3d dis- 
trict. 

Mr. Tower was married in Lancaster, 
April 29, 1S47, to Julia, daughter of Aus- 
tin and Sally (Wellington) Davis, and 
grand-daughter of John Davis, a revolu- 
tionary soldier. Four children were born 
of this union : Ellen M., Charlotte G., 
Augustus C, and Richard G. Tower. 

TOWNSEND, LUTHER TRACY, son of 
Luther K. and Mary T. (Call) Townsend, 
was born in Orono, Penobscot county, 
Maine, September 27, 1838. 

His early education was received in the 
public schools of Bristol, Manchester, 
Franklin, and Lake Village, N. H., and fit- 
ting for college at the New Hampshire 
Conference Seminary, Tilton, N. H., he 
entered Dartmouth, and was graduated 
therefrom in the class of 1859. He was a 
member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. 

He then studied theology in .\ndover 
Theological Seminary, and was graduated 
therefrom in 1862, and ordained to the 
ministry in 1864. In 1866 the Wesleyan 
Lhiiversity conferred the degree of A. M., 
and in 187 1 Dartmouth honored him with 
that of D. I). 

During 1862 and '63 he served in the 
war of the rebellion as adjutant of the i6th 
regiment of New Hampshire volunteers. 
Returning from the war with an honorable 
discharge, he was called to the pastorate 
of the Methodist church, and served most 
acceptably in the following appointments : 
Watertown, 1864 to '66 ; Maiden, 1866 to 
'67 ; supplied Auburndale, 1867 to '68 ; 
Bromfield Street, Boston, 1868 to '70 ; 
Tremont Street, Boston, 1873 to '74, again 
1880 to "Si ; County Street, New Bedford, 
1882 ; was professor of exegetical theol- 
ogy, Boston University, 1867 to '69 ; pro- 
fessor of historical theology 1869 to '72; 
and has been professor of practical the- 
ology since 1872. He has also supjilied 
some of the larger Congregational churches 
in Boston and vicinity for terms varying 
from six months to two years. 

He was appointed delegate to the Ecu- 
menical i\L E. Confei'ence, London, Eng- 
land, 1 88 1, and was dean of the Chautau- 
qua School of Theology, 1882 to '85. 

He is the author of " True and Pre- 
tended Christianity," " Credo," " Sword 
and Clarment," "God-Man," "The Arena 



niWNSEND. 



TKACV. 



607 



and tlie 'riiroiic,' " Lost Forever," " Ele- 
ments ot TheoloiJy," "Outlines of Chris- 
tian 'I'lieology," ' Chinese Problem," 
" Saveil Forever," " liible 'l'heolo,t;v and 
Modern 'I'liought," "The Supernatural 
Factor in Religious Revivals," "The Inter- 
mediate U'orld," "The Fate of Republics," 
"What Noted Men Think of the Bible," 
" Art of Speech," " Mosaic Record and 
Modern Science," " What Noted Men 
Think of Christ," " Bible in the Nineteenth 
Centur)-." " Manual on Church Trials," 
" Faith Work, Christian Science, and other 
Cures," and " Pulpit Rhetoric." Eleven 
addresses on various occasions have been 
published. He is associate editor of " Our 
Day," one of the proprietors and editors of 
the " British-American Citizen," a regular 
and occasional contributor to nine news- 
papers and periodicals, and one of the 
prominent workers in the anti-Roman 
Catholic movement of iSSS-'Sq, 

Dr. Townsend was married in Water- 
town, September 27, 1866, to Laura C, 
daughter of Davitl T. and Sarah F. (White) 
Huckins. Of this union were three chil- 
dren : Agnes Rich (born July 10, 1869), 
Helen Nfaud (born July 15, 1873). and 
Fannie Fletcher (born June 29, 1880). 

TOWNSEND, Milton Badger, son 

of Charles J. and Mary C. (Cochrane) 
Townsend, was born in Andover, Essex 
county, August 25, 1838. 

His education was received in the public 
schools of his native place. At twelve 
years of age he entered the mills of 
Andover, then worked in the shoe fac- 
tories for a number of years, and subse- 
quently formed a partnership with William 
Corse, and engaged in the shoe business 
at Andover. In process of time he removed 
to Merrimac, where he remained until 1873, 
when he settled in Lawrence and started 
the laundry business, which has since grown 
to such proportions that it has become one 
of the ncjted industries of that city. 

In 1 86 1 he enlisted in the 14th regi- 
ment, Massachusetts volunteers, which 
was afterwards made the ist heavy 
artillery. He was present during the 
engagements at Cold Harbor, Petersburg, 
and the Wilderness, and particijxited in 
most of the battles in which the army of 
the Potomac was engaged. 

Mr. Townsend is a member of the I. O. 
O. F. ; Grecian Lodge, F. & A. M.; Roval 
(iood Fellows ; B. P. O. E. and U. O. P. F.; 
past commander E. R. Mudge Post, 
G. A. R.; president New England Laun- 
drymen's Association, and past president 
of the national bodv of this association ; 



was a member of the Lawrence common 
council in iiS84: member of the House 
of Representatives in 1885 and '86, and 
chairman of the Republican city conmiit- 
tee in iSS^. 




MILTON B TOWNSEND. 

Mr. Townsend was marrieil in Andover, 
October 14, 1858, to Isabella, daughter 
of Hugh and Jane (Nichol) Smart. Of 
this union were nine children : Louis, 
Edward M., (leorge W., Walter S., Ger- 
trude, Hugh, Bertha, Clarence, and James 
A. Townsend (deceased 1S67). 

TRACY, Cyrus Mason, fourth son of 

Cyrus and Hannah Mason (Snow) Tracy, 
was born in Norwich, New London county. 
Conn., May 7, 1824. 

Being but a feeble child, his elementary 
education was all obtained at home, and not 
until his ninth year dk\ he enter the public 
schools In October, 1838, he removed 
from Norwich to Lynn, Mass., where, after 
a brief stay in school, he worked for a time 
in a cordage walk, and then entered the 
factory of Theophilus N. Breed, maker of 
hardware and shoe-tools, where his father 
was already employed. Here he remained 
seven years, and learned the business of 
machinery and wood and iron finishing. 

Having had some months' opportunity 
for practical study in the Essex registry of 
deeds, he finallv left his factory work in 



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TRACY. 



TRASK. 



1S49, and entered the office nf William 
Bassett, city clerk of Lynn, from whence, 
retiring in 1855, he engaged in surveying 
and engineering, and followed this with 
success for ten years, leaving it in 1865. 

In i848-'49 he became connected with 
the Essex Institute of Salem, under whose 
auspices he taught and lectured somewhat 
extensively in the department of botany. 
This led, in 1868, to his being called to the 
chair of botany and materia medica, Mas- 
sachusetts College of Pharmacy, which ])o- 
sition he held six years, retiring in 1873. 
During this period he also did business as 
a florist in Lynn, from 1859 to '69. In 






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CYRUS M. TRACY. 

1 87 1 he opened a large music school in 
Lynn, which he continued for four years, 
and then for a while followed a trade in 
minerals and curios. In 1869 he likewise 
accepted the place of leading editor on the 
" Lynn Transcript," where he continued till 

In public and official life he has spent 
much time. From 1856 to '69 he was 
clerk of the common council of Lynn. 
From 1853 to '73 he was one of the com- 
missioners for Pine Grove Cemetery in 
that city, being secretary of the board 
fifteen years. The ordinances of the city 
were twice codified under his supervision ; 
and he also compiled and edited the 



memorial book of the city hall, after the 
erection of that edifice. The free public 
library of Lynn had its early beginning 
under his care ; and he was an active par- 
ticipant in the work of supplying the city 
of Lynn with pure water. 

As a prolific writer and ready pulilic 
speaker, his services have been much in 
demand. When the city of Lynn com- 
memorated its two hundred and fiftieth 
anniversary, June 17, 1879, Mr. Tracy was 
called to deliver the oration for the day ; 
and he also appeared as poet of the occa- 
sion at the dedication of the new city hall, 
November 30, 1S67. 

.V natural taste has impelled liim always 
toward the arts and sciences, with a 
marked leaning to the study of botany. 
His "Studies of Essex Flora," issued in 
I'^SS, proved very popular with botanists ; 
and his contributed writings in the " His- 
tory of Essex County" and the "History 
of Worcester County," liave met with gen- 
eral approval. 

As a musician, he was the pupil of the 
late Dr. Louis H. Southard, of Boston, 
anil his operatic work has several times 
been put upon the stage with acceptance. 
His poetical efforts have often appeared 
with credit. 

.Mr. Tracy's present activity is mostly 
official. Originally commissioned by Gov- 
ernor Gardner in 1855 as a notary public 
and justice of the peace, he has held both 
offices ever since, and is now engaged in 
(■onve) ancing, and in matters relating to 
probate, pensions, etc. 

In 1 88 1 Mr. Tracy began his, perhaps, 
greatest work, and inaugurated the move- 
ment for the establishment of the " Free 
Public Forest of Lynn," — a public park 
for the perpetual use of the people. By this 
he has become quite generally known, the 
work promising to be of the highest bene- 
fit in future time. 

Mr. Tracy married in Lynn, March 20, 
1848, Caroline Mary, daughter of George 
W. and Caroline (Rhodes) Needham, of 
that city. Of this union are four children, 
all living : Laura Caroline (Mrs. George 
F. Hosmer, Woburn), George Gilbert Low- 
ell, Julia Mason (Mrs. William J. Nutting, 
Lynn), and Susan Edith Tracy. 

The son has become a musician of much 
eminence. 

TRASK, William Blake, .son of Wil- 
liam and Patience (Pierce) Trask, a lineal 
descendant of Captain William Trask, one 
of the "old planters" of Salem, was born 
in Dorchester, Norfolk county, November 
25, 1812. 



TRASK. 



TRAVIS. 



609 



He received a common school education 
in his native town, and served an appren- 
ticeship there at the cabinet-mai<ing busi- 
ness, which he followed about a score of 
years, including a short residence in Lock- 
port, N. Y., in 1835 ; subsequently in Johns- 
town, Pa., and Philadelphia, working at his 
trade in those places until the spring of 
1837, when he returned home. He was after- 
wards for a short time a member of the 
school committee in Dorchester, and one 
year an assistant assessor. 

On account of ill health he was obliged 
to relinquish mechanical labors, when his 
attention was drawn to historical and 
genealogical pursuits, in which he has been 
much engaged for the past forty years, 
materially assisting others by his studies 
and investigations. He copied the ancient 
town records of Boston, furnishing thereby, 
with fac-similes of autographs made also 
by him, a large quantity of matter for 
Samuel G. Drake's valuable history of that 
citv, and was a great aid to General U'il- 
liam H. Sumner in preparing a "History 
of East Boston " (1858). 

He has been a prolific and valuable 
contributor to the " New England Histori- 
cal and Genealogical Register," most of 
the volumes containing articles from his 
pgn ; was editor of the work in 1S65, 
having previously, from the year 1852, 
edited several volumes in part ; has made 
copies of entire documents from the " Mas- 
sachusetts x\rchives " for this publication, 
and prepared indexes of names and many 
of the general indexes for the nineteen 
volumes, from 1851 to '69 ; to each of the 
four " Memorial Biographies of the New 
England Historic Genealogical .Society " 
(t88o-'85) he has furnished a memoir, 
the first being that of the late Rev. John 
Pierce, D. D., of Brookline. 

The "History of Dorchester" (1859) 
owed much to his researches, the chapters 
on schools and school-masters, nearly a fifth 
of the work, being written by him. Several 
articles contributed to the " Register " have 
been published in pamphlet form, among 
them, " Memoir of Andrew H. \\'ard " 
(1863): "Early Records of the Town of 
Dorchester, with Notes " (1867); " Memoir 
of Calvin Fletcher" (1869); "The Bird 
Family" (187 1); " Early Matters Relating 
to the Town and First Church of Dorches- 
ter " (1886); "Memoir of Rev. Elias 
Nason " (1888). His separate published 
books are: " Seaver Genealogy " (1872) 
and "Jones Family" (1878). 

He transcribed and edited volumes 
!., ii., iii., of Suffolk deeds (1880-85), and 



corrected and carried through the press 
volume iv. (1887). He was historiogra|)her 
of the New England Historic Genealogi- 
cal Society from 1861 to '68, and a mem- 
ber of the society from 1851 ; has been 
one of the publishing committee, librarian, 
and one of the board of directors. 

He is a corresponding member of vari- 
ous historical societies in the United 
States, and one of the vice-presidents of 
the Prince Society, Boston. He received 
the honorary degree of A. M. from Dart- 
mouth College, June 28, 1888. 

Mr. Trask was married in Dorchester, 
November 25, 1844, to Rebecca, daughter 
of Richard and Mary (Blake) Clapp. They 
have no children. 

TRAVIS, George Clark, son of 

George Clark and Rachel Parker (Currier) 
Travis, was born in Holliston, Middlesex 
county, August 19, 1847. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in the public schools of Holliston, at- 
tended Phillips Academy, E.xeter, N. H., 




LiEORGE 



TRAVIS, 



three years, where he fitted for Harvard 
College. He was graduated from Har- 
vard in the class of 1S69 

Previous to his graduation he had taught 
one term of school in North Berwick, Me., 
in the winter of 1864 and '65. After grad- 
uating he taught Greek and Latin in the 



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TROWBRIDGE. 



TKUELL. 



Medford lii.tjh srhodl three years, reading 
law at the same time with the Hon. Daniel 
A. (jleason and Hon. iienjamin ¥. Haves. 

He was admitted to the bar in Middle- 
se.x county, in February, 1872. He prac- 
ticed law in Holliston from April 1, 1872, 
to April I, 1874; th^n removed to South 
Framingham and lived, practicing law 
there imtil the spring of 1886, when he re- 
moved to Newton, where he now resides. 
He is in active practice of the law, with 
offices in South F'ramingham and in lioston. 

Mr. Travis was married in Holliston, 
April 5, 1 87 1, to Harriet March, the daugh- 
ter of Austin ("r. and .Mary Charlotte 
(March) Fitch. ( )f this union are two 
children living : Harokl I'itch and Howard 
Currier Travis. 

In politics Mr. Travis is a Republican. 
He was trial justice two years at Holliston ; 
clerk and treasurer of the South Framing- 
ham FJaptist church ; clerk and treasurer of 
the Baptist church, Newton ; director of 
the South Framingham National Bank, and 
a trustee of the F'ramingham Savings Bank. 

TROWBRIDGE, JOHN TOWNSEND, 
son of W'inilsor S. and Rebecca (Willey) 
Trowbridge, was born in Ogden, Monroe 
county, N. Y., September 18, 1827. 

Like Whittier and Charles Dudley War- 
ner, Trowbridge was a farmer's boy, his 
childhood days being passed in a log cabin 
at his birthplace, eight miles west of Roch- 
ester. A voracious appetite for books 
possessed him from his earliest years. He 
with great difficulty, and without a master, 
obtained a sufficient knowledge of French 
and Latin to read works written in those 
languages. .\t fourteen we find him a ver- 
itable poet, contributing to the "Rochester 
Republican " some verses on the " Tomb 
of Napoleon." His farm labors liecame 
distasteful to him, and after his father's 
death he availed himself of the opportu- 
nity of attending a classical school in Lock- 
port, N. Y., for a short time, when he set 
about improving himself in the languages. 
Here, too, he received the first money that 
he ever earned with his pen. The " Niag- 
ara Courier " offered a copy of Griswolds 
" Poets of America " for the best written 
" New Year's Address of the ' Courier ' to 
its Patrons," and Mr. Trowbridge took the 
prize. He spent one year in farming and 
teaching in Illinois, and when cjnly nine- 
teen years of age wended his v/ay to New 
York, and became a journalist and writer 
for the magazines in that city. After years 
of penury and drudgery he rose to eminence. 

in 1848 he removed to Boston. In 1850 
he took Ben: Perley Poore's place on the 



"Sentinel," during Mi-, l^oore's absence in 
\\'ashington, D. C. He has since been en- 
gaged in magazine and newsi)aper work, 
and has acquired a national reputation in 
the editorial and general literary field of 
labor. He has been managing editor of the 
"Young Folks," and a contributor to the 
" .\tlantic Monthly ;" among the contribu- 
tions appearing the poems, " The Vaga- 
bonils," "At Sea," and the " Pewee," also 
a short story, "Coupon Bonds." 

Among his books, his " Neighbor Jack- 
wood " will be especially remembered as 
one of the early New F2ngland novels, and 
his " Yagabonds " was a pioneer in the 
l:)ret Harte style of poetry. His pen has 
been fertile in the production of books of 
travel, adventure, and fiction. Among 
them we mention " Father Brighthopes, or 
an Old Clergyman's Vacation," " Burr- 
cliff," "Hearts and Faces," "Home Life 
Unveiled," "Martin Merrivale, his X. 
Mark," " Ironthorpe," "The Old Battle- 
ground," "The Drummer Boy," " Cudjo's 
Cave," " The Three Scouts," " Lucy Arlyn," 
" The South, a Tour of its Battlefields and 
Ruined Cities," " Neighbors' Wives," " The 
Story of Columbus," " The Jack Hazard 
Series " (five volumes), " The Emigrant's 
Story and Other Poems," " The Silver Medal 
Series " (six volumes), " The Book of 
Cold antl Other Poems," " A Home Idyl 
and Other Poems," and "The Tide Mill 
Series" (si.x volumes). His work has been 
Llivided between prose and poetry, and he 
is acknowledged as one of the most popu- 
lar authors for boys in America. 

He married. May 9, i860, Cornelia War- 
ren, of Lowell, who died March 23, 1864, 
and by whom he had two children : Alice, 
born in i86i,and who died in infancy, and 
Windsor Warren Trowbridge, born Febru- 
ary 1 1, 1864. 

TRUELL, Byron, son of Ceorge ^\'. 
and Fanny (Whitcoml)) Truell, was born 
in St. Johnsbury, Caledonia county, Ver- 
mont, November 23, 1834. 

He received his early education in the 
common schools of his native town and at 
Stanstead Academy, P. Q. At the age of 
nineteen he entered the employ of A. W. 
Stearns (dry- goods), Lawrence, as clerk, 
where he remained until 1858, when he 
entered into partnership with Cieorge H. 
Bailey, under the firm name of Bailey & 
Truell, which was changed in 1863 to By- 
ron Truell & Company, the present style 
of the firm. 

In 1859, at Lawrence, Mr. Truell married 
INFary E., daughter of William and Mary 
(Hannaford) Armstrong. Their children 



TUCKER. 



TUCKER. 



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are : Clertrude E. (Mrs. A. E. Rutler) and 
Grace L. (Mrs. George H. Eaton). 

Mr. Truell is a member of Grecian 
Lodge of Masons, Royal Arch Chapter, 
Royal Arcanum, Home Club, and of the 
Lawrence board of trade. He is a director 
of the Merrimack \'alley Horse Railroad 
and the Pacific National Bank. He has 
held a commission as justice of the peace 
for many years, in 1865 was a member of 
the Lawrence common council, a member 
of the lower branch of the Legislature in 
1875 and '76, .serving upon the committees 
on labor, statistics, and mercantile affairs. 
In 1877 and '78 he was a member of the 
Senate, serving each year on the commit- 
tees on mercantile affairs (chairman 1878) 
and prisons (chairman both years). In 
1888 he was alternate delegate to the 
national Republican convention at Chi- 
cago. In 1889 he was elected to serve as 
a member of the executive council of Gov- 
ernor Brackett. 

TUCKER, Enos Houghton, son of 

Enos Houghton and Sally (Harris) Tucker, 
was born in Needham, Norfolk county, 
July 5, 1 814. 




ENOS H TUCKER 



He received a common school education, 
and in 1837 came to Boston and fountl 
employment with Benjamin Converse in 
the Bovlston market. He remained in the 



provision business till 1849. and then went 
into the employ of the Norfolk County 
and the Boston & Providence railroads, 
and has since been engaged in the railroatl 
business. In 1867 he returned to Need- 
ham to take charge of the Woonsocket 
division of the Boston, Hartford & Erie 
Railroad, now the New York & New Eng- 
land road, and is at present division super- 
intendent of the same. 

He has been chairman of the selectmen 
and of the board of a.ssessors, and is clerk 
and treasurer of the Eirst parish of Need- 
ham. He is a prominent Alason and Odd 
Fellow, and has been a director in the 
Odd Fellows' Hall Association, of Boston, 
since its organization in 1S70. 

In 1885 he represented the 9th Norfolk 
district in the House of Representatives, 
where he served upon several important 
committees. He was a member of the 
state Senate in 1888 and '89, both years 
being chairman of the committee on the 
State-house, and a member of the commit- 
tee on street railways. 

In Dedham, on the 25th of February, 
1852, Mr. Tucker was married to Frances, 
daughter of Stephen and Mary L. (Paul) 
Fales. Their only living child is Frederic 
Houghton Tucker ; Charles Francis and 
Stephen Henry having deceased. 

TUCKER, William Jewett, son of 

Henry and Sarah (Lester) Tucker, was 
born in Griswold, New London county, 
Conn., July 13, 1839. 

He was educated in the common schools, 
Meriden Academy, Meriden, N. H., and 
Dartmouth College, graduating from the 
latter in the class of 1861. Choosing the 
church as his field of labor, he studied for 
the ministry in Andover Theological Semi- 
narv, and was graduated therefrom in 
1866. 

He was pastor of the Franklin Street 
Congregational church, Manchester, N. H., 
1867 to '75 ; Madison Square Presbyterian 
church. New York City, 1875 to '80, and 
has been professor of homiletics, Andover 
Theological Seminary, from t88o to the 
present time. 

Professor Tucker was first married in 
1870, to Charlotte H., daughter of John 
Rogers, Plymouth, N. H. His second 
marriage was in 1887, with Charlotte B., 
daughter of Rev. Henry T. Cheever, of 
Worcester. He has three children : Alice 
Lester, Margaret, and Elizabeth Washburn 
Tucker. 

Professor Tucker is one of the editors of 
the " Andover Review," established in 
1884 ; also of " Hvmns of the Faith," pub- 



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TUFTS. 



TURNER. 



lished in 1888. He is associated with fmir 
otlier professors in Andover Theolosjical 
Seminary in what is known as the "Andover 
Case." 

He is also a trustee of Dartmouth Col- 
lege, having been elected in 1878. 

TUFTS, ARTHUR WEBSTER, son of (;il- 
bert and Mary (Chickering) Tufts, was 
born in Charlestown, Middlesex county, 
February 20, 1828. 

He received his early education at the 
public schools of Charlestown, and in 
Chauncy Hall school, Boston. 

At an early age he was employed in 
mercantile business on City Wharf, Boston, 
and was in some branch of that business 
until his retirement from its responsibilities 
later in life. He was for some time a mem- 
ber of the firm of Flint & Tufts, wholesale 
lumber dealers, Boston. 




ARTHUR W. TUFTS. 

While a resident of Charlestown, he 
served three years in the common council, 
and three years on the school board. 

He was a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives in 1879, '80 and '81, and of 
the Senate in 1882 and '83. I'he first year 
he was a member of the committee on 
banks and banking, and in the second and 
third years a member of the finance com- 
mittee. In the Senate he served on the 
committees on claims, military affairs, 



cities, and the treasury, of which last two 
he was chairman. His business training 
and experience well fitted him for serving 
on these committees, and rendered him a 
practical legislator. 

Mr. Tufts is a director in various cor- 
porations, is president of the Ro.xbury 
Institution for Savings, and is one of the 
corporate members of the American Board 
of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 
and one of the auditors of the board. He 
is also a member of the executive com- 
mittee of the Massachusetts Home Mission- 
ary Society, and president of the City 
Missionary Society of Boston. He was 
also at one time president of the Boston 
Congregational Club. 

He was presidential elector in 1884, and 
delegate to the national Republican con- 
vention in Chicago in 1888. 

Although retired from active business, 
much of his time is occupied as trustee of 
various estates. In politics, he was a 
Whig while that party lasted, but joined 
the Republican party when Abraham Lin- 
coln was nominated. 

His ancestors came to this country from 
England early in the seventeenth century; 
his paternal ancestor settling in Medford, 
and his maternal ancestor (Henry Chick- 
ering) in Dedham, where he was prominent 
in the early history of the town. 

He married, November 9, :853, Annie, 
daughter of Rev. Henry B. and Martha 
N'inal Hooker. 

TURNER, Henry Edward, Jr., son of 

Henry Ktlward and Ann (Burns) Turner, 
uas born in Boston, May 4, 1842. 

His parents removed to Maiden in 1845. 
His early education was obtained in the 
iniblic schools of iMalden, Pierce Academy, 
.Middleborough, and private schools of 
Medford and Norwich, Conn. 

In 1858 he began his commercial career 
in the house of Wellington, Winter & 
Gross, wholesale dry-goods, subsequently 
with \V'ellington, Gross & Co.; Wellington, 
Bros. & Co.; Gross, Daniels & Co., and 
Daniels & Co. He "was afterwards with 
Clark, Adams & Clark, crockery importers, 
from 1870 to '87, as confidential clerk and 
partner. He is at present treasurer of the 
Commonwealth Shoe Nailer Co. 

In Maiden, July 29, 1863, Mr. Turner 
was married to Lucinda H., daughter of 
Aaron and Lucinda W. (Bean) Barrett. 
His second marriage occurred December, 
1867, with Hulda S., daughter of Josejih 
D. and Hulda S. (Lewis) Crowell. The 
children by his first marriage are: Anabel 
and Harry H. Turner. 



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613 



Mr. Turner is an active member of Con- 
verse Lodge, and a past officer of Mt. 
Vernon Lodge, F. & A. ^L; a member of 
the Royal Arcanum and A. O. U. W. ; ex- 
second lieutenant 3d Massachusetts bat- 
tery (militia); vice-president of the .Nhdden 
Club, and one of its founders ; has been 
twice president of the Republican city com- 
mittee, and its treasurer during the Butler- 
Robinson campaign ; a member of Maiden 



for himself, January, 1844, in South Boston, 
publishing a paper called "TheCalaxy." He 
has since been owner or part owner of sev- 
eral newspapers — one in New York City, 
one in Maine, and five in Massachusetts. 
He is at present publisher and editor of the 
" Reading Chronicle " 

Mr. Twombly was married in Lowell. 
March 25, 1858, to Ellen A. Townsend 
(deceased). Of this union are three chil- 
dren : Willie E., James Franklin, and 
Gracie S. Twombly. 

Mr. Twombly has generally held aloof 
from political life. He is a member of the 
Sons of Temperance, and has always been 
an active temperance worker. One of the 
most flourishing lodges of (Jood Templars 
in ^L^ine was named after him — the 
I'wumblv Lodge, Camden, Me. 




common council the first two years after its 
incorporation as a city ; a member of the 
Boston Club ; commodore and vice-commo- 
dore of Great Head Yacht Club for four 
years ; and a member of the Hull and Corin- 
thian Yacht clulis. He represented the city 
of Maiden, where he now resides, in the 
House of Representatives of 1889, serv- 
ing as clerk on the joint committee on drain- 
age, and was re-elected at the last election 
to serve his constituents for another year. 

TWOMBLY, WILLIAM H., son of Wil- 
liam and L\dia (Horn) Twombly, was born 
in Dover, .Strafford county, N. H., Febru- 
ary 28, 1822. 

After his early tuition in the puljlic 
schools, he finished his educational train- 
ing in the seminaries at Parsonsfield, Me., 
and Gilmanton, N. H. 

He began to learn the printing business 
in March, 1835, and was first in business 



WILLIAM H, TWOMBLY. 

During a period of more than fifty-fcnir 
vears he has worked at his chosen vocation 
of printer and general newspaper man, 
with but few weeks of interruption. 

TYLER, William Seymour, son of 

Joab Tyler, a farmer in northern Penn- 
sylvania, and Nabby (Seymour) Tyler, ui 
Otsego county, N. Y., v.'as born in Har- 
ford, Susquehanna county. Pa., September 
2, I 8to. 

He began the study of Latin at seven 
years of age in his native place, and fitted 



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UPHAM. 



UPHAM. 



for college in Preston Richardson's private 
school, which afterwards became Harford 
Academy, and later, Harford University. 
He entered the junior class, Amherst, from 
which college he was graduated in the 
class of 1830 with honors. 

He spent the first year after his gradua- 
tion in teaching in .\mherst Academy, and 
the next year in studying theology at An- 
dover. He was tutor in Amherst College 
the ne.xt two years (i832-'34), and during 
the next two (i834-'36) he finished his 
theological studies, partly at Andover and 
partly at New York, under Dr. Skinner, in 
the class out of which the Union Theolog- 
ical Seminary was developed. 

He was licensed to preach February 29, 
1836, by the Third Presbytery of New 
York, and was ordained at North Amherst 
in 1854. He has been professor in Amherst 
College, first of Latin and Greek, then of 
Greek only, from 1836 until the present 
time. 

Professor Tyler was married in Bing- 
hamton, N. Y., September 4, 1839, to 
Amelia Ogden, daughter of Mason and I 



Mary (Edwards) AVhiting (grand-daughter 
of President Edwards). Of this union 
were four sons : Mason Whiting, William 
Wellington, Henry Mather, and John Ma- 
son Tyler — all graduates of Amherst. 
Two are professors, in Smith College and 
Amherst, one a lawyer in New York City, 
and one a mechanical engineer. 

Professor Tyler is a trustee of Williston 
Seminary, Easthampton ; Smith C(.)llege, 
Northampton; and Mt. Holyoke Seminary 
and College, South Hadley. He gave the 
address at the quarter-century celebration, 
Williston Seminary, and the semi-centen- 
nial address at Amherst College and at Mt. 
Holyoke Seminary. 

He has published the following works : 
" Memoirs of Rev. Henry Lobdell, M. 1)., 
Missionary at Mosul ; " " Plato's Apology 
and Crito ; " " The Theology of the Greek 
Poets;" "The History of Amherst Col- 
lege," etc. The degree of D. D. was con- 
ferred upon him by Harvard University in 
1857, and LL. D. by Amherst in 1871, and 
again by Harvard at its two hundred and 
iftieth anniversary in 1886. 



UPHAM, Samuel O., was born in 
Waltham, Middlesex county, [anuary 21, 
1824. 

His was a common school education. 
He was an operative in cotton mills in his 
youthful days, but upon finally leaving 
school he was apprenticed to a hatter, and 
served four years, then followed the busi- 
ness until i860. 

His first entry into political life was in 
1855, when he was elected to the lower 
branch of the Legislature. In 1858, when 
General Banks was elected governor, Mr. 
LIpham was elected messenger to the 
governor and council, and held the position 
three years. 

From 1 86 1 to '65 he was inspector in the 
Boston custom house, retiring to go into 
business in that city. From 1867 to '71 
he was a member of the board of select- 
men of Waltham, and in July, 1869, he 
was appointed postmaster under President 
Grant's administration. This office he 
held until March, 1886, and his faithful, 
efificient, and conservative administration 
is a part of Waltham's local history. 

Released from his office, he was solicited 
as a leader in the political contest of 1886, 
and was nominated and again elected to 
the Legislature. .As the senior member of 
the House, he presided over its dclibera- 




SAMUEL O UPHAM. 



tions inilil the election of a speaker. He 
was re-elected in 18S7. In 1888 he was 



UTLEY. 



VAN NOSTRANL). 



615 



elected county commissioner for the 
county of Middlesex, for three years.- 
With the exception of about two years, 
Mr. Upham has always made Waltham his 
home, and has been prominently identified 
with its welfare and progress A staunch 
Republican, he was for several years chair- 
man of the town committee, and has been 
vice-president of the Middlesex Club. He 
is a member of Monitor Lodge, F. iV- .\. M.; 
a member of the Royal Arch Chapter, and 
of various secret societies. 

UTLEY, Samuel, son of Thomas 
Knowlton and Theodocia (Knox) Ltley, 
was born in Chesterfield, Hampshire county, 
September 29, 1843. 

He attended the common schools of his 
native town, Williston Sennnary, and 
Wesleyan Academy, at Wilbraham. iMt- 
ting at the latter institutions to take up 
the pursuit of his chosen profession, he 
studied with Senator Hoar, entered Har- 



vard law school, and was graduated there- 
from in the class of 1867. He was 
admitted to the bar September 13th of 
the same year, and immediately went into 
practice, «hich he continued for lifteen 
years. 

Mr. L'tley was appointed justice of the 
central district court of Worcester, Sep- 
tember 13, 1882, which position he still 
holds, having his residence at \\'orcester. 

He was married in Worcester, December 
8, 1875, to Julia jSL INLartin. He was one 
of the assessors of Plymouth parish, also 
treasurer of same, which office he held 
several years. For many years also he 
has been a master in chancery. Judge 
Lltley has not sought political preferment, 
but has been thoroughly loyal to his 
chosen profession, performing the duties 
(if his honorable and responsible position 
with marked ability and universal satis- 
faction. 



VAN DEUSEN, MERRITT, son of Alan- 
son and Julia (Seely) ^'an Deusen, was 
born in Becket, Berkshire county, Decem- 
ber 3, 1820. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in the common schools and Lee 
Academy. He began business life in a 
country store, and subsequently saw ser- 
vice as a Yankee-notion peddler. He was 
later on iii the flour business in .Ubany 
and New York City. 

In 1878 he became treasurer of the 
Hampden Whip Company, \\'estfiekl, antl 
afterwards treasurer of the American 
Whip Company, holding the latter posi- 
tion until 1889. LTpon resigning his posi- 
tion, he went into the hardware business in 
Westfield, in which he is now engaged. 

.Mr. Van Deusen was married in Great 
Harrington, March 31, 1842, to Mary, 
daughter of William and Mary (Lester) 
Root. Of this union is one child : Carrie 
Louisa Van Deusen (now Mrs. Williams). 

Mr. Van Deusen has been chairman of 
the Republican town committee ; a mem- 
ber of the House of Representatives in 
1879 and '80, and was town treasurer in 
1865. He is a director of the First Na- 
tional Bank, Westfield, and a trustee of 
the Westfield Savings Bank. He served 
as postmaster from 1882 to '86. 

Mr. \'an Deusen is a representative of 
the progressive business element of West- 
field, and has been long identified with the 
growth and prosperity of the town. 



VAN NOSTRAND, William Tread- 
well, son of Stephen and Elizabeth 
(Treadwell) Van Nostrand, was born in 
Hempstead, Queens county, N. Y., Octo- 
ber 7, 1 82 1. 

His early education was accomplished 
at the common schools of his native town, 
and when fourteen years of age the death 
of his father obliged liim to enter upon 
the active duties of life, as clerk in a gro- 
cery store in New York City. Here he 
remained for two years and was then ap- 
prenticed in the coach-making business at 
Jamaica, Long Island. At the end of five 
years he went to New Haven to acquaint 
himself with the higher branches of coach- 
making, but gave up the work to accept the 
position of assistant postmaster and clerk in 
a general merchandise store, where he re- 
mained for a year, and then formed a part- 
nership with W. H. I.udlam, under the firm 
nan\e of Van Nostrand i-V- Ludlam. and 
began the grocery business in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. Later he was a partner of Oeorge 
Stillwell in the same business, and two 
years afterward he sold out and removed 
to Albany, where he began ship chand- 
lery and the cordage manufacturing busi- 
ness. 

On account of ill health he shortlv gave 
up this business and bought a farm in Con- 
stantia, Oswego county, with timber land, 
saw-mill, and dock, and engaged exten- 
sively in the lumber business. After sev- 
eral changes he moved to Boston, in 



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VAN NX)STRAND. 



VINCENT. 



1858, and founded the business of dealer 
in malt, hops, and brewers' supplies, in 
which for twelve years he met with 
marked success. 

In 1862 he became interested in the 
brewing business in South Boston, and in 
1870 purchased the Crystal Lake Brewery 
and malt houses in Charlestown, where 
he still continues the business with his 
sons. 

In 1866 and '67 he was a representative 
in the Legislature from South Boston. In 
1868 he was elected to the citv common 
council, and in 1869 to the board of alder- 
men. In February, 1880, he was elected 
to the state Senate, to fill a vacancy in the 
2il Suffolk district, caused by the death of 
Hon. E. S. Norton. He was re-elected to 




WILLIAM T VAN NOSTRAND 

the same seat at the general election in 
November of the same year. He is a mem- 
ber of the 1, <). <). F. and F. & A. M., and 
of the .\ncient and Honorable .\rtillery 
Company. 

In Jamaica, Long Island, on the 22d of 
October, 1843, Mr. Van Nostrand was mar- 
ried to Mehitabel, daughter of Thomas and 
Ann (Howard) Bradlee. 

Starting in life without money or influ- 
ential frieniis, he has by energy and per- 
severance progressed successfully through 
many changes, steadily increasing his oper- 



ations, until now he is at the head of one 
•of the largest and best conducted estab- 
lishments of its kind in New England. He 
has attained an unquestioned reputation as 
a man of business, and by his genial and 
courteous aid to those less fortunate than 
himself, and his friendh* assistance in every 
ciiaritable undertaking, he has won an 
enviable social position, and is respected 
and loved by hosts of friends in all grades 
of society. 

VAN RENSSELAER, Henry R., son of 
.Vbram and Sarah A. (Howe) \'an Rens- 
selaer, was born December 12, 1855, at 
Moreau, Saratoga county, N. Y. 

His early education was received at pri- 
vate schools in NViltonville, N. Y. Later, 
he attended the ^Viltonville Academy and 
the Albany Medical College, then for five 
years he taught school, subsequently con- 
tinuing the study of medicine in 1877, and 
graduated from the Albany Medical Col- 
lege, March 3, :88i ; on the ist of April 
he received an appointment in the Albany 
hospital as assistant resident physician and 
surgeon. 

His present home is Lanesborough. where 
he has establishetl an extensive practice in 
medicine and surgery during his eight years 
of residence in tiiat town. He is vice-presi- 
dent of the Lanesborough Library .Associ- 
ation, and chairman of the Republican 
town committee. 

Dr. Van Rensselaer was married in Wil- 
tonville, .April 20, 1 881, to Sarah C, daugh- 
ter of William O. and Minnie (Van Schaick) 
Peterson. Their only son, Wallace A. 
Van Rensselaer, is four years old. 

VINCENT, Hebron, son of Samuel and 
Betsey (Pease) \'incent, was born in Ed- 
gartown, Dukes county, August 21, 1805. 

He was educated in the common schools, 
at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kent's 
Hill, Maine, and at the Wesleyan Acad- 
emy, Wilbraham. His first employment 
in active life was in the shoe business. He 
was afterwards some years a teacher in the 
public schools. 

His later efforts for an education having 
been with a view to the Christian ministry, 
he was licensed to preach in the M. E. 
church in 1829 ; was admitted on proba- 
tion to the New England conference in 
1832, and in full connection in 1834. His 
health failing in 1835, '""^ discontinued his 
regular labors for a few years, then being 
somewhat improved in health, he entered 
the Providence conference, which had been 
set off from the New England conference ; 
but in a verv few vears he was obliged to 



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617 



retire from full service, since which time, 
although never giving up his relation to 
the church as an ordained minister, he has 
in the main become allied to the life of a 
layman, and a citizen. In the former he 
has been active in Sabbath-school and 
other Christian work ; and in the latter he 
has taken a share of civil burdens, and has 
held various public offices, always taking a 
lively interest in the great moral questions 
of the hour. 

In 1843 he was a delegate of the Edgar- 
town Anti-Slavery Society, to a meeting 
of some twenty or thirty gentlemen at 
the office of a Mr. Channing, in Boston, 
whence, with the mammoth Latimer peti- 
tion, signed by George Latimer (who had 
been arrested as a fugitive slave, and 
whose freedom had been purchased by 
citizens of Boston) and 62,791 others, they 
threaded several streets, under a light 
snow, to the state-house, where, being ad- 
mitted in a body to the House of Repre- 
sentatives, the petition was presented by 
Charles Francis Adams, then a member. 
This resulted in the passage of the fa- 
mous " personal liberty bill " of the same 
year. 

He still resides in Edgartown, where he 
has been active in the cause of education, 
having been a member of the school board 
and president of the county educational 
association for many years ; and also, 
though not a farmer technically, yet a pro- 
moter and co-operator of agricultural in- 
terests, - having been president of the 
county agricultural society, and six years 
its delegate to the state board of agricul- 
ture. He was the originator of the idea 
of " farmers' institutes," which are now 
held so extensively, and with such marked 
results, by the agricultural societies in the 
different counties of the Commonwealth. 

From its inception he was connected 
with the camp-meeting at Wesleyan Grove 
— many of the years officially — which re- 
ligious gathering was the germ, and be- 
came the nucleus, of Cottage City. His 
written reports for a long series of years 
had much to do in spreading its fame and 
attracting people to the place, all tend- 
ing to the building up of Cottage City 
as a great summer resort ; and he is now 
the only survivor of the company of men 
who fixed upon this place for that meet- 
ing. 

He has held the office of register of pro- 
bate for Dukes county since 1852, with the 
exception of about two years, at first as an 
appointee of the governor, and then, un- 
der a change of the law, by successive 



elections (in all thirty-five years) ; and also 
that of register of the insolvency court 
since its organization in 1858. Outside of 
official work his pen has also been a busy 
one. 

Mr. Vincent was married in Edgartown, 
October 14, 1832, to Lydia Russell, daugh- 
ter of Holmes and Lydia (Russell) Coffin. 
Of this union were two children : Rebecca 
Coffin and Fannie Allen Vincent. 

VINTON, Frederic Porter, son of 

^Villiam Henry and Sarah Ward (Croodhue) 
Vinton, was born in Bangor, Penobscot 
county, Maine, in 1846. 

He was educated in the public schools 
of Bangor and of Chicago, 111 , subse- 
quently taking a course of instruction in a 
commercial college in Boston. 

He began his city life with Gardner 
Brewer & Co., 1861. From 1862 to '65 he 
was with C. F. Hovey & Co. ; from 1865 
to '70 he was in the National Bank of Re- 
demption, and from 1870 to '75 he was 
book-keeper of the Massachusetts National 
Bank. He began the study of art in Paris, 
in October, 1875, under the guidance and 
in the school of Bonnat. Since 1879 up to 
the jjresent time Mr. Vinton has given his 
attention to portraiture, and has his studio 
in the city of Boston. 

He was married June 27, 1883, to Annie 
Mary, daughter of George and Mary Pres- 
ton (Bates) Peirce of Newport, R. 1. 

Mr Vinton was made an associate of the 
National Academy of Design, New York, 

1880, and has been a member of the So- 
ciety of American Artists, New York, since 

1 88 1. He is a member of the Tavern, 
Papyrus, and St. Botolph clubs, being 
one of the executive committee of the 
latter. 

Mr. Vinton was for one year a pupil un- 
der M. Jean Paul Laurens, Paris, i877-'78, 
and was an exhibiter in the Paris Salon, 
1878. A few of his best-known portraits 
are those of Wendell Phillips — from life 
— 1881, the last portrait for which he sat ; 
Judge Otis P. Lord, now in Salem ; Judge 
George F. Choate, Salem ; Prof. A. P. Pea- 
body, D. D., Cambridge ; General Charles 
Devens, in the department of justice, Wash- 
ington, D. C. ; Hon. (leorge F. Hoar, in the 
Worcester law library ; William Warren, 
actor, in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts ; 
Francis Parkman, in the St. Botolph Club ; 
Hon. Charles Francis Adams (senior) ; Sir 
Lyon Playfair and Dr. Henry J. Bigelow. 
A copy of the portrait of Wendell Phillips 
was ordered by the city authorities of Bos- 
ton, and now hangs in the historic gallery 
of Faneuil Hall. 



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WADE. 



WADE. 



WADE, ALBERT Richmond, son of 

Oren and Jane (Richmond) Wade, was 
born in Broclcton, Plymouth county, Octo- 
ber 26, 1844. 

He was educated in the pubhc schools 
and at a private boarding-school. 

He chose industrial and mechanical pur- 
suits, learned the trades of blacksmith and 
carriage builder, and in 1864 began the 
business which he has carried on up to the 
present time. 

Mr. Wade was married in North Bridge- 
water, now Brockton, October 31, 1865, to 
Susan, daughter of Cyrus and Abi (Edson) 
Howard. Of this union are two children : 
Carrie Agnes and Helen Everett Wade. 

Mr. Wade has been repeatedly called to 
serve his native city in various official 
capacities, and his record, as well as the 
verdict of his political opponents, estab- 
lishes the fact of his having served the city 
intelligently, faithfully, and honestlv. He 
was a member of the common council in 
1883 ; an alderman in 1884 ; president of 
the board of aldermen 18S6, and again in 
'87 ; mayor of Brockton in 1888, and re- 
elected by a unanimous vote in 1889. 

Mr. Wade is a Democrat in politics, but 
his aim has been, as councilman, alderman, 
and mayor, to see that the law should be 
enforced, regardless of party. 

WADE, LEVI Clifford, son of Levi 

and .\bbie .\. (Rogers) Wade, was born in 
Allegheny City, .Allegheny county. Pa., 
January 16, 1843. His parents were of 
New England birth. 

He was educated at home and in the 
public schools until he was thirteen years 
of age. From thirteen to sixteen he was 
under private tutors ; from si.xteen to nine- 
teen he studied law in Lewisburg Univer- 
,sity; entered Vale College at nineteen, and 
was graduated in the class of 1866, with 
special honors. While in college he was 
one of the editors of the " Yale Literary 
Magazine," and took several prizes in de- 
bate, declamation, and composition. 

He studied (ireek and Hebrew exegesis 
one year under Dr. H. B. Hackett, and 
theology one year under Dr. Alvah Hovey ; 
taught school in Newton, from 1868 to '73 
— studying law at the same time. He was 
admitted to practice in 1873, and was em- 
ployed by L W'. Richardson, m his law 
practice, until 1875, when he opened an 
office on his own account in the city oi 
Boston, where he continued until May i, 
1S80. During the last three vears he was 



in partnership with Hon. J. Q. .\. Bracket!, 
governor-elect of the Commonwealth, under 
the firm name of Wade iS: Brackett. 

Since 1S80 Mr. Wade has confined him- 
.self exclusively to railway law and man- 
agement, and has been counsel for the 
.Vtchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Atlantic 
iV' Pacific, Sonora, and the Mexican Cen- 
tral Railway companies. He is one of the 
four original projectors and owners of 
what is now the property of the Mex- 
ican Central Railway Company, of which 
he is president and general counsel, hav- 
ing held these positions for the past five 
years. 

Mr. Wade was married in Bath, Me., 
November 16, 1S69, to Margaret, daughter 
of Hon. William and Lydia H. (Elliott) 
Rogers. Of this union are four living 
children : Arthur C, William R., Levi C, 
Jr., and Robert N. Wade. Two daughters 
died in infancv. 

Mr, Wade represented Newton, his pres- 
ent residence, in the Legislature four suc- 
cessive years, i876-'79. Li the latter year 
he was elected speaker of the House. 

He is one of the directors of the general 
theological library ; of the Mexican Cen- 
tral Railway Company, Sonora Railway 
C(jmpany, .\tlantic & Pacific Railway Com- 
pany, and Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleve- 
land Railroad Company. He is a member 
of the Newton water board. 

WADE, RUFUS R., son of Abraham 
and Johanna (Robbins) Wade, was born in 
Boston, July 10, 1828, 

He was educated in the public schools 
of Boston. 

His first entrance into business life was 
as a manufacturer of blank books. Sub- 
sequently he was for eleven years officially 
engaged in the various penal institutions 
of the State, including the Cambridge 
house of correction and Charlest()wn state 
prison. He was next appointed special 
agent of the post-office department at 
W^ashington, and afterwards chief of the 
secret service department for the New- 
England states. 

In 1879 he was commissioned by Gov- 
ernor Talbot as chief of the state district 
police ; upon the new organization of that 
department was re-appointed by Covernor 
Long ; again by Governor Robinson, and 
lastly by Governor Ames. 

-Mr. Wade has brought the inspection 
service of his department to a thorough 
and svstematic efficiencv. 



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He was married in Charlestown, Octo- 
ber 10, 1849, to Mary A., daughter of 
Jacob B. and Mary A. (Sprague) Marsh. 
They have no children. 

Mr. Wade is president of the National 
Association of Factory Inspectors of 
North .\nierica ; was secretary and treas- 




RUFUS R. WADE. 

urer of the Middlesex county Republican 
committee for ten years ; was one of the 
founders, and the first secretary of the 
Middlesex t'lub. His residence is Somer- 
ville. 

WADE, William Henry, .son of Mar- 
shall Sumner and Elizabeth (Hunt) \\'a(lc, 
was born in \\'rentham, Norfolk county. 
February 21, 1840. 

He was educated in the common schools 
of Wrentham and at Day's .Vcademy, with 
a term at Comer's Commercial College, 
Boston. His first connection in business 
was in the counting-room of the " Boston 
Traveller ; ' he then obtained a situation 
as clerk in the store of W. I). Cotton \: 
Co., North Attleborough, which position 
he held until April i, 1859. He was then 
book-keeper for Freeman & Brother till the 
spring of 1 86 1, when he enlisted in company 
I, 7th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, 
being promoted through various offices till 
he was mustered out in June, 1864, as ist 
lieutenant. He returned tn the armv a few 



months later as commissary clerk, and after 
the war began the grocery business in Bur- 
lington, Iowa. He was in Te.xas for nearly 
three years, and tried farming in Minnesota 
from 1868 to '70, when he again came East 
and entered the employ of Hayward & 
Briggs, .\ttleborough, as book-keeper. He 
resigned in 1876 to start the firm of Wade, 
Davis cV- Co., who began in August of that 
year the manufacture of jewelry at Plain- 
ville Mr. \\'ade still continues at the head 
of that firm. 

On the 15th of June, 1881, at Plainville, 
.Mr. Wade married Elizabeth Nichols, 
daughter of Oeorge B. and Sarah J. (Gif- 
ford) Sherman. 

He has held many town offices in Wren- 
thanx He is a prominent and popular 
Mason, a member of the C. A. R., and of 
the Ancient Order of United W'orkmen ; 
has been a charter member, commander, 
and prominent officer of two G. A. R. Posts ; 
an active member of the Universalist so- 
ciety of .\ttleborough, a trustee and secre- 




WILLIAM H WADE 

tary of the Attleborough Farmers' & Me- 
chanics' Association, and is now a director 
of the Attleborough .Agricultural Associ- 
ation, the North Attleborough National 
Bank, a director and trustee of the Plain- 
ville Savings & Loan .Association, a di- 
rector and treasurer of the Higli Rock 



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WADLIN. 



WADLIN. 



Granite Co. He was a lieutenant in the 
7th regiment, Massachusetts veteran volun- 
teer infantry, and president of the associa- 
tion. He has always been a staunch Re- 
publican, has served as chairman of the 
town committee, and has been an active 
member of the district committee. He 
was a member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives, 1885, having been elected from 
the 8th Norfolk representative district. 

WADLIN, HORACE G., son of Daniel 
H. and Lucy E. (Brown) Wadlin, was born 
in South Reading (now Wakefield), Mid- 
dlese.x county, October 2, 185 1. He was 
educated in the public schools, and by pri- 
vate instruction. 

After leaving school he entered the office 
of Lord & Fuller, of Salem, as a student of 
architecture ; subsequently he became first 
assistant in their Boston office, and in 1874 
was associated with them in practice. In 
1875 he began practice independently in 
Boston, devoting his attention principally 
to school and municipal buildings, and do- 
mestic work. 

In 1879 he became an attache of the 
Massachusetts bureau of statistics of la- 
bor, first as special agent, and afterward 
in charge of special lines of statistical 
work. In this capacity he was connected 
with many of the more important investi- 
gations undertaken by the bureau, and ac- 
quired a thorough knowledge of the indus- 
trial resources and economic condition of 
the Commonwealth. He was engaged in 
the preliminary work of the decennial cen- 
sus of 1885, and was chief of the census 
division of libraries and schools. 

He has been closely connected with the 
activities of his town. In March, 1875, he 
was elected to the school board ; has 
served as secretary and for several years 
as chairman, and is still a member of the 
board. He has for many years been one 
of the trustees of the public library ; was 
one of the incorporators of the Read- 
ing Co-operative Bank, and its first vice- 
president ; and for nine years has been 
reporter of the Reading Lodge, Knights of 
Honor. 

He is a Republican in politics, and in 
1884 was elected to the House of Repre- 
sentatives from the 12th Middlesex dis- 
trict, and re-elected the following year. In 
1886, a new district having been formed, 
he was again elected, and in 1888 re- 
elected, this being his fourth term. He 
served upon the committees on the census, 
woman suffrage, education, railroads, and 
expediting public business. He was House 
chairman of the committee on woman suf- 



frage and on education in 18S5, on educa- 
tion in 1887, and on railroads in 1888. 

In 1888, upon the resignation of Colonel 
Carroll 1). Wright, he was appointed chief 
of the bureau of statistics of labor, which 
position he still holds, relinquishing the 
practice of his profession to devote himself 
entirely to the duties of the office. 

Mr. Wadlin is an eloquent and convinc- 
ing speaker, and he has performed consid- 
erable literary work, chiefly in connection 
with economic and historical subjects, both 
for publication and upon the lecture plat- 
form ; he was joint author with Colonel 
Wright of the monograph on the industries 




HORACE G WADLIN 

of Boston during the past century, con- 
tained in the " Memorial History of Bos- 
ton," published by Ticknor & Co. He is 
a recognized authority on the subject of 
co-operative banking. 

He is a member of the American Statis- 
tical Association, and also of the American 
Social Science Association, and for the 
present year secretary of its department 
of education, and one of the council of 
the association. He is also president of 
the South Middlesex LTnitarian Conference. 

Mr. Wadlin was married September 8, 
1875, to Ella Frances, daughter of E. Av- 
erill and S. Esther (Libby) Butterfield. 
Thev have no children. 



WAUSWORTH. 



WALKER. 



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WADSWORTH, EDWIN DEXTER, son 
of Thomas Thatcher and Mary (Bradlee) 
Wadsworth, was born in Milton, Norfolk 
county, December 3, 1S32. 

He obtained his educational trainina; in 
the public schools of Milton and Milton 
Academy. 

In 1849 he joined the exodus to the gold- 
fields of California. He afterwards followed 
the sea, commanding sailing vessels and 
steamships in the China, European, South 
American, and coastwise trade. Later on 
he was in conmiand of a steamship in the 
transport service during the rebellion. He 
finally retired from the sea, and engagetl 
in the retail coal trade. He is now 
treasurer of the Boston Marine Society. 

Captain Wadsworth was married in Mil- 
ton, November 5, 1862, to Ellen Maria, 
daughter of Joshua and Ann Clulliver 
(Babcock) Emerson. Of this union are 
two children ; Dexter Emer.son and Annie 
Mary Wadsworth. 

Captain Wadsworth is of the eighth 
generation from Christopher ^Vadsworth, 
who settled at Duxbury, in 1632, and of 
the seventh from Captain Samuel Wads- 
worth, who was killed at Sudbury, in King 
Pliilip's war, in 1676. The place on which 
he now resides was a part of the home- 
stead of Captain Samuel, and has re- 
mained in the family more than two hun- 
dred and thirty years. 

Ca])tain Wadsworth was chief officer of 
the first American merchant ship that 
traded in a Japanese port. 

He has been selectman, assessor, and 
overseer of the poor ; a member of the 
school board six years ; a trustee of the 
public library eighteen years ; he is presi- 
dent of the Milton Water Compan)-, and 
a director in the Society of California 
Pioneers of New England. 

The life of Captain Wadsworth has been 
an eventful one, and his family history is 
interwoven with the chronicles of New 
England from colonial days. 

WALDRON, Daniel WiNGATE, son of 

Daniel and Susan (Wingate) W'aldron, was 
born in Augusta, Kennebec county, Maine, 
November 1 1, 1840. He received his early 
educational training in his native city. He 
entered Bowdoin College in 1S58, and was 
graduated in the class of 1862. 

He studied theology two years in Bangor 
Theological Seminary, and one year at An- 
dover, and was graduated from the theo- 
logical school at the latter place in 1866. 

He was ordained and installed as a Con- 
gregational minister at East Weymoutii, 
April 3, 1867, from which pastorate he was 



dismissed May 14, 1871, to become acting 
pastor of the Maverick Congregational 
church, East Boston. This position he 
held until December, 1872, when he closed 
his labors at East Boston to accept the po- 
sition of clerical missionary of the City 
Missionary Society of Boston. He has 
continued in the work of this society to the 
present tune. 




DANIEL W. WALDRON, 

In addition to his visits among the poor, 
preaching in chapels and presenting the 
claims of cit)- missions to the churches, he 
has established the " F,aster card mission,'" 
the " fresh-air fund," the " Thanksgiving- 
dinner charity," and the " Christmas letter 
and card mission." 

He was elected chaplain of the House 
of Representatives in 1879, and each year 
since has been re-elected, having served in 
all, eleven years. He preached the annual 
sermon before the executive and legislative 
departments of the government, fanuarv 
7, 1880. 

WALKER, Benjamin, son of Benjamin 
and -Abigail (Tweed) Walker, was born in 
Wilmington, Middlesex county, June 24, 
1822. He is a lineal descendant, through 
a family long settled in that county and 
distinguished in public service, from Cap- 
tain Richard Walker, who came from 
England and settled in Lynn about 1630; 



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WALKER. 



WALKER. 



also on the maternal side a descendant of 
Elder William Brewster of Plymouth. 

His early education was received in the 
district school. He afterwards attended 
private institutions in Weymouth and Low- 
ell, Pinkerton Academy, Derry, N. H.,and 
the Lowell high school. Having gradu- 
ated from the last-named school, he matric- 
ulated at the law .school of Cincinnati, 
Ohio, hut in consequence of the death of 
his father in 1840, he abandoned his legal 
studies, and returned to Lowell. 

His business career began in Philadel- 
phia, as a member of the Ixjok-publishing 
house of Walker cV- (iillis. In 1847 he be- 
came a teacher in the public schools of 
Lowell, and in 1850 was made paymaster 
of the Hamilton Print Works in that city. 
.•\fter twelve years' service he resigned the 
position and entered the employ of T)r. J. 





BENJAMIN WALKER. 

C. Ayer & Co., as a correspondence clerk. 
He remained with that firm until the organ- 
ization of the J. C. Ayer Company, in 
October, 1877, with which company he' still 
remains, in charge of an e.xtensive depart- 
ment of their business. 

Mr. Walker entered political life as a 
member of the Whig party, with which and 
its successors he has constantly acted. In 
i860 and '61 he was a member of the 
school board ; a member of the common 



council iS65,'66, and '71 ; alderman 1872, 
'74, and '75, serving on the committee 
which drafted and reported the present 
city charter ; has been a justice of the 
peace since 1861, and a commissioner for 
Michigan since 1879 ; was chairman of the 
Republican city ccmimittee for 1871, '72, 
'73, and '74 ; has been a director, clerk, 
and treasurer of the Lowell & Andover 
Railroad since 1876 ; vice-president of the 
Central Savings Bank ; and a director in 
the Lowell Mutual Fire hisurance Com- 
pany. 

Li local organizations, outside of business 
or politics, Mr. Walker has been a useful 
and prominent citizen : president of the 
Middlesex Mechanics' Association, and for 
several years chairman of its lecture com- 
mittee ; ten years president of the Choral 
Society, and member of the executive com- 
mittee of the Old Residents' .Association 
since its formation in 1868. He has been 
conspicuous and influential in musical cir- 
cles, and has been thirtv-seven years a 
church organist — twenty-six of these with 
St. .Anne's Episcopal church — the oldest 
church in the cit_v. 

Mr. Walker has also been a constant 
writer anti critic for the local press. He 
was married in 1S42 to Catharine Kimball, 
daughter of Josiahand Mary (Stark) Gillis, 
of Wilmington. Mrs. Walker died in 1874, 
leaving one daughter : ]\Lary Catharine. 
His second marriage occurred in 1876, with 
Mrs. Mary E. Rix, daughter of William and 
Mary (Cline) Bryant, of Stoneham. Of 
this union were no children. 

WALKER, Elijah, son of Amos and 
Judith (Bailey) Walker, was born in Union, 
Lincoln count}-, Maine, July 2, 1818. 

The district schools furnished what edu- 
cation he received until fourteen years 
of age. Then, until his twentieth year, 
he was either at work on a farm, or en- 
gaged in learning the trade of carpenter 
and builder. About this time he availed 
himself of the opportunity presented for 
a few months' schooling of a higher grade. 
At twenty-five he began business for him- 
self as carpenter and builder, continuing in 
the same until 1857, when he connected 
himself with the late Gen. Hiram G. Berry, 
Rockland, Maine, in the handling of lum- 
ber, doors, windows, and the general wood 
and coal business. At the breaking out 
of the rebellion he entered the service 
with (leneral Berry, colonel at that time 
of the 4th Maine volunteers. April 24, 
1 86 1, under the order of Major-General 
William H. Titcomb of Rockland, ^Lune, 
he enlisted a compan_v for that regiment. 



WAI.KEK 



WALKER 



62- 



the first company letjally enlisted in the 
state of Maine. He was elected captain, 
received his commission June 25th of that 
year, obtained that of major, November 
30, same year, and that of colonel, March 
17, 1862, and served as colonel until mus- 
tered out at the expiration of his term of 
service, July 19, 1864. 

Colonel Walker and the regiment he 
commanded were many times selected by 
Generals Hancock, Sickles, and Kearney 
for delicate and dangerous services. He 
was always in the entire confidence of his 
superior officers, and many times assigned 
to the command of brigades. He was in 
all the battles of the army of the Poto- 
mac, from Bull Run to the time of his 
retirement from service, e.xcept the battle 
of Antietam ; in the latter his division was 
not engaged. He had three horses shot 
under him in different actions, was wounded 
three times, once seriously at Gettysburg, 
where his regiment held a very important 
position. His last wound laid him oft" duty 
ninety-si.x days, the only time lost during 
his term of service, and he returned to his 
command, able to walk onlj- with the help 
of a cane. 

Since the war he has been engaged in the 
business of carpenter and builder, save 
one year spent in the oil-fields of Pennsyl- 
vania. His residence is Somerville, where 
he has been in business nineteen years. 
Mr. Walker was president of the first com- 
mon council of the city of Rockland, Maine, 
in 1854, and was re-elected. He was com- 
mon councilman of Somerville in 1877. 

Mr. ^\'alker was married, November 3, 
1844, in East Thomaston (now Rockland), 
Maine, to Susan E. Brown. From this 
union there were seven children : William 
H., Narcissa R., Irason B., Winfield S., 
John F , Annie 11 , and Elijah (.'. Walker. 

WALKER, Francis Amasa, son of 

Amasa and Hannah (.Ambrose) Walker, 
was born in Boston, July 2, 1840. 

He entered Amherst College in 1855, 
graduating in i860. 

While studying law in the office of Dev- 
ens & Hoar, in 1861, he joined the army, 
where he held the jiositions of sergeant- 
major, 15th .Massachusetts infantry ; cap- 
tain and assistant adjutant-general ; major 
and assistant adjutant-general ; lieutenant- 
colonel and assistant adjutant-general ; 
brevet colonel and brevet brigadier-general 
of volunteers, i86i-'65. 

From 1865 to '68 (leneral Walker was a 
teacher at the Williston Seminary, East- 
hampton ; on the editorial staff of tlie 
" Springfield Republican," in 1868 and '69 ; 



deputy special commissioner of United 
States revenue, 1869 and '70 ; superin- 
tendent of the United States census of 
1870 and that of 1S80 ; commissioner of 
Indian affairs, i87i-'72. 

General Walker was married August 16, 
1865, to E.xene, daughter of Timothy I\L 
and Maria (Richardson) Stoughton, of 
Greenfield. 

He was professor of ]5oIitical economy 
and history in the Sheffield scientific school 
of Yale College from 1873 to '81 ; lecturer 
in Johns Hopkins University in 1877 and 
'78 ; university lecturer in political econ- 
omy. Harvard College, in 1883 and '84 ; 
and has had the degree of LL. D. con- 
ferred upon him by Amherst and Colum- 
bia colleges, and the universities of Vale, 
Harvard, and St. Andrew's. 

General Walker has been president of 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Boston, since 1S81 ; president of the 
American Statistical Association since 
1882, and president of the Aiperican Eco- 
nomic Association since 1886. He was 
chief of the bureau of awards at the Cen- 
tennial Exhibition, in Philadelphia, in 1876, 
and commissioner from the United States 
to the International Monetary Conference, 
Paris, 1878. 

Among the publications of tleneral 
Walker may be mentioned: "The Indian 
Question ; " " Statistical Atlas of the United 
States ; " " The Wages Question ; " " Mon- 
ey ; " " Money, Trade and Industry ; " " Po- 
litical Economy ; " " Land and Its Rent," 
besides numerous addresses and articles in 
magazines. He compiled various reports 
of the bureau of statistics, and directed the 
publication of the L^nited States census, 
iS7o-'73, and i88o-'8i. 

WALKER, George Willis, son of 

John and Abigail Co.x (Walker) Walker, 
was born in Exeter, Penobscot county, 
Maine, August 27, 1827 

He was educated in the local schools. 
When twenty years of age he went to 
Boston, and was employed in various 
business houses. In the spring of 1853 
he made an engagement with Johnson, 
Cox & Fuller, of Troy, N. Y., extensive 
manufacturers of stoves. With this firm 
and its successors he remained five years, 
acquiring a thorough knowledge of the 
business. He then returned to Boston 
and established himself in this line on his 
own account, doing a successful business. 

Six years afterward, Horace E. Walker 
was admitted to partnership, under the 
firm name of George W. Walker & Co. 
In 1874 the firm of Walker, Pratt & Co. 



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WALKER. 



WALKER. 



was formed, George \V. Walker & Co. and 
Miles Pratt & Co. uniting, from which, in 
1877, came the Walker & Pratt Manufac- 
turing Co., a corporation with a capital of 
three hundred thousand dollars, organized 
under the laws of Massachusetts. Of this 
company Mr. Walker is president. The 
works of the company are at Watertown, 
and their ware-rooms are in the city of 
Boston. 

For the past twenty years Mr. Walker 
has been a resident of Maiden, taking an 
active interest in local affairs, and has been 
repeateillv called to public office. He was 
the chairman of the board of selectmen 




GEORGE W WALKER 

during the last two years of Maiden's 
corporate existence as a town, and has 
been on the board of sinking fund com- 
missioners and trustees of the public 
library since they were established. 

He was one of the representatives from 
the 8th Middlesex district (Maiden and 
Everett) in the Legislature of i8S5-'86, 
and served on the committees on finance 
and expenditures. Mr. Walker's business 
career has been conspicuously successful, 
and in public office he has served with 
credit to himself and satisfaction to his 
constituents. He is a member of Con- 
verse Lodge F. & A. M., Royal .Arch 
Chapter of the Tabernacle, Beauseant 



Commandery of Knights Templar, all of 
Maiden. His church relations are with the 
First (Congregational church of that city. 

In Albany, N. Y., on September 2, 1857, 
he married Elizabeth Mary, daughter of 
John Wesley and Crertrude (Van Schaick) 
Kinnicutt. Mrs. Walker died June 3, 1879. 
Of this union were five children : George 
Kinnicutt, Arthur Willis, (Jertrude .\nnie, 
Bessie Louise, and Mary Lena Walker. 
For his second wife he married in Port- 
land, Maine, on December 14, 1880, Mrs. 
Dorcas Elizabeth Hagar, daughter of 
Abiel and Elizabeth (Philbrick) Shaw. 

Mr. Walker is one of the six owners of 
Big Five Island, located in Sheepscot Bay, 
off the coast of Maine, where they usually 
reside with their families during the 
months of July and August. Mr. W'alker 
is one of the two members of this com- 
munity who own steam yachts, which 
furnish additional recreation to their com- 
rades. 

WALKER, HENRY, son of Ezra and 
Maria A. Walker, was born in the city of 
Boston, his present residence. 

His early education he obtained at the 
public schools of Boston, receiving the 
Franklin medal and other prizes at the 
Boston Latin school, where he fitted for 
Harvard College. He was graduated from 
Harvard in 1855, in the class with Alex-- 
ander Agassiz, Phillips Brooks, Theodore 
Lyman, F. B. Sanborn, and others, and 
commenced the study of law in the office 
of Hutchins & Wheeler. 

Three days after the first gun was fired 
at Fort Sumter, as adjutant of the 4th 
re,giment, Massachusetts volunteer militia, 
he patriotically answered the call of Presi- 
dent Lincoln for troops, being the first 
Harvard graduate to take up arms for 
his country. The 4th regiment was the 
first to leave Massachusetts, and the first 
to land at Fortress Monroe, ensuring the 
safety of that most important military posi- 
tion. After serving there, at Newport 
News and at Hampton, he returned home 
with the regiment, and actively engaged in 
the rallying of troops, and in other duties 
pertaining to the war. In the fall of 1861 
he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of 
the 4th regiment, and in the following year, 
as its colonel, was ordered with it to the 
department of the Gulf. There he took 
part in the campaign up the Teche and the 
siege of Port Hudson, holding several im- 
portant positions. Honorably discharged 
at the expiration of his term of service, he 
returned to Boston early in 1865 and re- 
sumed the practice of law. 



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WALKER. 



625 



la 1877 he was license commissioner, 
and from 1879 to '82 he served as police 
commissioner of the city of Boston. He 
was commander of the Ancient and Hon- 
orable .Artillery Company during the years 
i887-'88, including its two hundred and 
fiftieth anniversary, June 4, 1888. As com- 
mander of the company, he visited England 
to take part in the celebration of the three 
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the 
Honourable .Artillery C'ompany of London 




HENRY WALKER. 

Colonel Walker has traveled extensively, 
and is a man of varied accomplishments. 
He was in official life prompt and capable 
in the performance of his duties, and in 
private life is highly esteemed and re- 
spected by a large circle of friends. 

WALKER, JOSEPH Henry, son of Jo- 
seph and Hannah 'i'hayer (Chapin) Walker, 
was born in Boston, December 21, 1829. 
In February, 1830, the family removed to 
Hopkinton, their former residence, and in 
1843 removed to Worcester, where they 
now reside. 

Mr. Walker was educated in the district 
and high schools of Hopkinton and \\'()r- 
cester, leaving school when he was si.xteen 
years old. 

In May, 1852, he was united in marriage 
with Sarah Ellen, daughter of Jubal and 
Lucretia (Keyes) Harrington, of Worcester. 



She died .August 5, 1859, leaving a daugh- 
ter, now the wife of Milton Shirk, a banker 
of Peru, Ind. His second wife, Hannah 
M. (Kelly) Spear, of New Hampton, N. H., 
he married April 3, 1862. Of this union 
were three children : Joseph, now in Har- 
vard law school ; Oeorge, now in lirown 
LTniversity, and Agnes, the wife of Adams 
Davenport Claflin, the son of Ex-Governor 
Claflin. 

.\t the age of twenty-three Mr. Walker 
was elected to the common council of \\'or- 
cester, of which body he was president in 
1869 ; was a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives in 1879, '80, and '87, serving on 
the retrenchment committee in 1879 ; was 
chairman of the public service committee 
in 1880, and in the latter year was a strong 
though unsuccessful candidate for speaker. 
He was chairman of the committee on 
labor in 1887, and served on the commit- 
tees on finance and expenditures. 

He was for several years president of 
the \\'orcester board of trade, and chair- 
man of the committee on forei.gn trade and 
exports of the National Hide and Leather 
.Association for several years, and also vice- 
president of the New England Shoe and 
Leather Association. 

Mr. Walker has written and spoken con- 
siderably upon questions of trade, banking 
and coinage, publishing in i88i, through 
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., of Boston, a mono- 
graph, entitled " Money, Trade and Bank- 
ing," which attracted general attention. 
He was one of the leading boot and shoe 
manufacturers in the country from 1851 
to '87, at which time he retired from that 
business. He is still the senior member of 
the large leather house of Ualker, Oakley 
& Co., of Chicago, 111., which he estab- 
lished in that city in 1868. 

Mr. Walker was elected representative 
to Congress from the loth congressional 
district, November 6, 1888. 

He has great energy and an uncommon 
talent for organizing and administering 
business affairs, to which may be attributed 
his pronounced success as a manufacturer. 
His jjublic spirit and liberality have been 
conspicuously shown in his relations with 
U'orcester .\cademy, whose present pvos- 
|)erity is due in a great measure to his gen- 
erous gifts, and his valuable service as 
president of the board of trustees. 

WALKER, Myron PHILO, the son of 
Asa Morse and Fanny (Pease) Walker, 
was born in Belchertown, Hampshire 
county, February 18, 1847. 

He obtained his education in the com- 
mon and high schools of his native town. 



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WALKER. 



WALL. 



At the breaking out of the war, when only 
fourteen years of age, he left school and 
entered the service as a drummer-boy. He 
joined the Belchertown militia company, 
which was being recruited, with the expec- 
tation of entering the United States serv- 
ice in the loth Massachusetts volunteers. 
Before the company could be filled, how- 
ever, this regiment was completed, and the 
Belchertown company was disbanded. 
With seven others, young Walker went to 
Springfield, where the loth regiment was 
encamped, and offered his services to the 
Northampton company. On account of 
his age and size, the officers declined to 




MYRON P. WALKER. 



enlist him, but he was afterwards accepted 
as a drummer-boy in this regiment, with 
which he remained, frequently at the front 
and under fire, until the return of his regi- 
ment in June, 1864. 

During his absence his father had died, 
and being obliged to abandon his hopes of 
a collegiate education, he began life in a 
country store in Belchertown, where he 
spent a year and a half, and then accepted 
a clerkship in Springfield. In 1868 he de- 
termined to seek his fortune on the Pacific 
coast, where for a time he was again be- 
hind the counter. 

In 1870 he accepted a situation with the 
general agency of the Pacific Mutual Life 



Insurance Company, of Sacramento, C"al. 
He afterwards went to San Francisco as 
secretary of the Trust Fund Insurance 
Association, and with his associates held 
the general agency of the New York ],ife 
Insurance Company, for the Pacific states. 
Here his reputation as a successful insur- 
ance man was firmly established. 

In 1878 he returned to his native town, 
and purchased the property which he now 
owns. In 1886 he was appointed assistant 
adjutant-general, with the rank of colonel, 
on the military staff of Governor Robin- 
son. 

Col. Walker is a member of Post 97, 
G. A. R., and has served on the staff of 
the national commander of the Grand 
Army. He has been president of the loth, 
and is an honorary member of the 37th, 
Massachusetts regiment associations, also 
of the armed guard of Wilccx Post, 
G. A. R., a member of Springfield Com- 
mandery. Knights Templar, and an Odd 
Fellow. He is also a member of the .Vn- 
cient and Honorable Artillery Companv. 

In 1888 he was made commander of the 
Grand .\rmy for the department of Massa- 
chusetts. Col. Walker represented his 
senatorial district in the Senate, i885-'86, 
serving on the insurance (chairman), mili- 
tary, and treasury committees, and was a 
member of the Republican state central 
committee, 1887, '88, and '89. 

Col. Walker was married in London, 
iMigland, 1878, to Mary N., daughter of 
Hon. E. B. Crocker, judge of the supreme 
court of California. 

WALL, James T., son of p. Henry 
and Mary J. (Burker) Wall, was born in 
.Middlefield, Hampshire county, August 
19, 1855. 

He received his early educational train- 
ing in the common and high schools of his 
native town, supplemented by a business 
course at Carter's commercial college at 
Pittsfield. 

His first entrance into business life was 
as book-keeper for a grocery firm in Me- 
thuen. Subsequently he became manager 
for J. A. Magee & Co., manufacturing 
chemists, Lawrence, where he remained 
three years. He is at present postmaster 
of the town of Methuen, which position 
he has held since his appointment on 
March 31, 1886, by President Cleveland. 

On the 6th of July, 1879, at Methuen, 
Mr. Wall was married to \Iary F., daugh- 
ter of Joel Foster, 2d, and P'lizabeth Foster. 

Mr. Wall has been a justice of the peace 
for three years, having received his ap- 
pointment from Governor Robinson ; a 



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WALLACE. 



627 



member of the school board since 1885, at 
present holding the position of secretary 
of the board. He was at one time a mem- 
ber of the board of selectmen of Methuen 
for two years. 

He is treasurer of Methuen Council No. 
41, R. A.; honorary member of Colonel 
William B. Creene Post No. 100, G. A. R. 
(Methuen); pa.st grand of Hope Lodge, 
No. 34, I. C). O. F., and president of the 
Methuen Gas Light Company at the pres- 
ent time. He is a Democrat in politics, and 
in 1884 was a delegate to the national 
Democratic convention, where he sup- 
ported President Cleveland. 

WALLACE, Andrew B., son of David 
and Christine (IJrabner) \Vallace, is a na- 
tive of Scotland, and came to America 
twenty-one )'ears ago. He was born March 
27, 1S42, in Newburgh-on-Tay, and after 
attending the grammar school until he was 
fifteen, he served a four years' apprentice- 
ship in the dry-goods business in his native 




ANDREW B, WALLACE. 

town. For a time he held a clerkship in 
.Sterling and Glasgow, and came to Boston 
in 1867. 

For three years he was in the employ of 
Hogg, Brown & Taylor ; then, moving to 
Pittsfield, he opened a dry-goods business 
for himself, which he continued until 1874, 
when he went to Springfield, and formed the 



partnership which has since done business 
under the firm name of Forbes & Wallace. 
The business of the firm has rapidly grown 
to its present important and influential 
position. 

Mr. Wallace has refused to accept any 
political office, but is a director in the 
Springfield Safe Deposit & Trust Company, 
and in the Springfield Electric Light Com- 
pany. He is a member of the prudential 
committee of the First Congregational 
church of Springfield, director in the 
Young Men's Christian Association, and is 
a very public-spirited man. 

Mr. AVallace was first married in (Glas- 
gow, in 1867, to Janet Miller, who died, 
leaving one son, Robert. In 1883 he was 
again married, in Springfield, to Madora, 
daughter of Dr. Henry R. and Sarah 
(Lewis) Vaille. They have three children: 
Andrew B., Douglas V., and ALidora Wal- 
lace. 

A man of decided business ability and 
unquestioned integrity and energy, his 
success has been honestly earned and well 
deserved. 

WALLACE, Rodney, son of David 

and Roxanna (Gowing) A\'allace, was born 
at New Ipswich, Hillsborough county, 
N. H., December 21, 1823. 

Necessity compelled him to earn his own 
living at a very early age, but he succeeded 
in the meantime, by attending school in 
the winter, in obtaining a good education. 

When he was thirty years of age he 
became a resident of Fitchburg, and began 
as a wholesale dealer in books, stationery, 
and paper stock, in the well-known firm 
of Shepley & Wallace. After twelve years 
he retired from this firm, and has since 
been successfully engaged in the manu- 
facture of paper. 

For many years he has been a director 
in the Fitchburg National Bank, the Fitch- 
burg .Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and 
the Fitchburg Railroad Company. Since 
1864 Mr. U'allace has held the position of 
president and director of the Fitchburg 
Gas Light Company, and is a trustee of 
the Fitchburg Savings Bank, and a member 
of the board of trustees of the Smith Col- 
lege at Northampton. He was for four 
years the president of the Fitchburg board 
of trade. 

On the ist of December, 1853, Mr. Wal- 
lace was married to Sophia, daughter of 
Thomas and Sophia (Sliurtleft') Ingalls of 
Rindge, N. H. Their children were : Her- 
bert I. and George R. Wallace. Mr. Wal- 
lace married for his second wife Sophia F., 
daughter of Oel and Sophia (Wetherbee) 



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WALTOX. 



WALTON. 



Billings, of Woodstock, Vt., and witiow of 
G. p/BaileV, of Fitchburg, Mass. 

Politically Mr. Wallace is an earnest 
Republican. For three years, 1864, '65, 
and '67, he was one of the selectmen of 
Fitchburg, and in 1873 was sent as a rep- 
resentative to the Legislature, where he 
served on the committee on manufactures. 
Ill health forced him to decline a renomina- 
tion, but in 1880 he accepted a nomination, 
and was elected to the executive council 
of Governor Long, where he served on the 
committees on pardons, harbors and pub- 
lic lands, prisons and warrants, and in other 
important positions, being re-appointed the 
following year. In 1888 he was elected a 
member of the 51st Congress from the nth 
congressional district. 

Mr. Wallace stands deservedly high in 
the estimation of his fellow-citizens of 
Fitchburg as a man of rare integrity, saga- 
cious in business, and generous in the sup- 
port of praiseworthy enterprises. 

WALTON, George Augustus, son 

of James and Elizabeth (Bryant) Walton, 
was born at South Reading (now Wake- 
field), Middlese-x county, February 18, 1822. 

He received his early education at the 
common schools and academies in his na- 
tive town and vicinit}-, and at the normal 
school in Bridgewater. He entered the 
normal school in March, 1S43, and gradu- 
ated in November, 1845, under the dis- 
tinguished normal instructor, Nicholas Til- 
linghast. Mr. Walton was subsequently a 
critical observer and devoted student of 
the pedagogical methods of the Hon. John 
W. Dickinson, at that time principal of the 
West field normal school. 

Immediately on graduating at Bridge- 
water he commenced teaching in the public 
schools — -first at Duxbury during the win- 
ters of i845-'6, and subsequently at Ed- 
gartown and Barnstable. Meeting with 
marked success as a teacher of public 
schools, Mr. Walton was selected in 1847 
principal of the Model school at West New- 
ton, an institution for observation and prac- 
tice connected with the state normal school 
at that place. In 1848 he received the ap- 
pointment of principal of the Oliver gram- 
mar school of Lawrence. The marvelous 
increase of efficiency of this school at- 
tracted the attention of the state board 
of education, and he was employed as 
institute instructor in 1861, and ap- 
pointed one of its agents in 1871, which 
office he now holds. The duties of this 
office consist in inspecting and examining 
the schools in various parts of the State, 
in instructing teachers how to teach, and 



in addressing the public on educational 
topics. 

One of the most noteworthy services ren- 
dered by Mr. Walton for the public schools 
is his examinations in Norfolk county. The 
published report of these examinations is 
a most interesting document, giving the 
details of methods and results of the work, 
which occupied in its accomplishment a 
long time of patient labor. 

As earl}- as his first teaching in the 
Model school at West Newton, Mr. ^\'alton 
employed the method of teaching numbers 
since known as the Grube method. In 
1850 he became joint author with Dana P. 




Colburn of an elementary arithmetic, en- 
titled " The First Steps in Numbers." It 
was the initial step to the introduction into 
the schools of this country of the Grube 
method. Upon this little book as a basis, 
Mr. Walton published two <:)ther books, one 
ii primary, the other a mental, arithmetic ; 
he also wrote and published with these a 
book of higher grade, thus completing 
" Walton's Series." 

Previous to this he prepared " A Table 
for Practice in the Fundamental Operations 
of Arithmetic." He also prepared a "Key" 
to this table, containing dictation exercises, 
with several thousand answers. This form 
of dictation had its origin in the Oliver 



WARD. 



WARD. 



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grammar school, with Mr. ^\'altou as the 
origuiator. A second series of arithmetics 
by (leorge A. Walton and Mrs. E. N. L. 
Walton was published in 1870 — this was 
called "The Normal Series." It finally 
gave way to the " Franklin Mathematical 
Series," prepared by Mr. Walton and Mr. 
Seaver, the present superintendent of the 
Boston schools. 

Mr. Walton has won an enviable repu- 
tation as an instructor in teachers' insti- 
tutes, and as inspector of public schools. 
The honorary degree of A. M. was con- 
ferred upon him by Williams College, in 
recognition of his successful services in the 
cause of education. Mr. Walton was for 
many years treasurer of the .American In- 
stitute of Instruction, and subsequently 
held the office of president. He served as 
alderman in the city of Lawrence, and on 
the school committee in the city of Newton. 

He was married August 27, 1850, to 
Electa Noble, daughter of Martin and .Su- 
san (White) Lincoln. There were born to 
them five children, of whom two (bovs) 
died in infanc\', and three are living : Har- 
riet Peirce, wife of J. R. Dunbar, judge of 
the superior court, (leorge Lincoln, prac- 
ticing physician (neurologist), of Boston, 
and Mary Alice Walton. 

WARD, Julius Hammond, the son of 

Hammond and Laurinda (Lathe) Ward, 
was born on the 12th of October, 1837, 
in Charlton, Worcester county, the birth- 
place also of both of his parents. 

His earlier education was obtained under 
the old district school system in that town, 
but his eagerness for books, which he 
mainly secured through the district school 
libraries then introduced throughout the 
State by Horace Mann, while superinten- 
dent of state education, was so great, that 
his parents determined to give him all the 
educational advantages within their reach. 

He was prepared for college at Monson 
Academy, under the Rev. James Tufts, and 
entered Vale College in the fall of 1856, 
where he was graduated in the summer of 
i860. Two events were prominent during 
this period of his education. One was 
the jiassing through a period of religious 
doubt, in which he gave up the evangelical 
teachings of the Congregational body, with 
which he was first associated, and became 
an agnostic. Before he was graduated he 
had returned to a settled belief, and became 
a communicant in St. Paul's Episcopal 
church in New Haven. This determined 
the religious direction of his life. The 
other event which dominated his college 
career was the training for the work of a 



writer, for which he showed an aptitude, 
and before he was graduated he had al- 
ready undertaken to write a biography of 
the Connecticut poet, James dates Perci- 
val. This he completed in 1866, and the 
work was published in the fall of that year 
by Ticknor & Fields, Boston. 

Mr. Ward was in doubt during his col- 
lege life whether to follow the career of an 
editor, for which he had a strong natural 
inclination, or to enter upon the clerical 
profession. His choice of the Epi.scopal 
church as his religious home, and the as- 
cendency of religious purpose which fol- 
lowed that step, led to his study of theology 
at the Berkeley Divinity School at Middle- 
town, Conn., where he remained two years, 
being admitted to deacon's orders by Bishop 
Williams in June, 1862. He passed his 
diaconate in charge of Grace chapel in 
Yantic, in the same state, and was advanced 
to the order of priest by the same bishop, 
in Trinity church, Norwich, in 1 863. 

He removed from Vantic to take charge 
of Christ church, Ansonia, in February, 
1864, where he soon built up a thriving 
parish. In the summer of 1865 he was in- 
duced to change from Ansonia to Cheshire, 
where he had charge of St. Peter's parish 
until December, 1867, and where he wrote 
the greater part of his " Life and Letters 
of J. G. Percival." 

During this period and earlier, his con- 
nection with the press was e.xtensive. His 
earliest writing was a paper on Percival in 
the "Christian Examiner," for September, 
1859, which was followed by a critical arti- 
cle on his poetry in the " North American 
Review," for July, i860. He was after- 
wards a frequent contributor to both of 
these periodicals, one of his essays 'oringing 
him the friendship of the late Sir Henry 
Taylor. He was also a writer in the " Na- 
tion " and the " Round Table," and had 
constant editorial connection with the 
church press. 

In December, 1867, he removed to Maine, 
where, under Bishop Neel}', for seven 
years he had charge of an extensive mis- 
sionary field at Thomaston and Rockland. 
In the early part of 1875, having been 
greatly over-worked in the discharge of 
the duties of his young parishes, he re- 
turned to his native state, and took charge 
of St. Michael's parish, Marblehead, where 
he remained until his health was fully 
restored. 

During this interval of waiting his 
thought broadened into new channels, 
and as health returned to him he began 
to write leaders for the " New York 



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WARD. 



WARE. 



Times," " The Boston Herald," and other 
influential daily and weekly papers, on the 
religious, social, and educational questions 
of the day. In this field he found an in- 
creasing demand for his work, and though 
he removed to Boston in the winter of 
1878 to organize and build up a people's 
Episcopal church in that cit\-, and for 
three seasons had .Sunday afternoon lec- 
tures in Union Hall, which were intended 
to lead the way to this kind of parish, he 
gradually found that in the field of editorial 
writing there was an unorganized parish 
which awaited him, and in which his suc- 
cess was such, that, on taking advice with 
those best able to counsel him, he relin- 




JULIUS H, WARD. 

quished the special work for which he 
came to Boston. He henceforth gave his 
time entirely to the thorough and compre- 
hensive studies which prepare one to 
discuss the questions in religion, social 
movement, and the direction of education, 
that require treatment in the daily and 
weekly press, and in other places where 
public discussion is carried on. Mr. Ward 
has been connected in this service, mainly 
with the " Boston Herald," since Septem- 
ber, 1877, but it is also known that he is 
a constant leader writer on the subjects 
which he has specially studied, for the New 
York daily and weeklv press. 



In addition to his special work in the 
"Herald," he has also had charge of its 
literary department, and its important re- 
view articles are nearly always from his 
pen. He also writes frequently for the 
monthly magazines, on literary, social, and 
religious subjects. He resides in Brook- 
line, and though not connected with any 
parish, is an active and influential church- 
man, and combines what is strongest and 
best in the high and broad schools of 
religious thought. 

He was married to Olive Elizabeth, 
daughter of John and Mary (Bradford) 
^^'itter, of Brooklyn, Conn., at Trinity 
church, in that town, September 2, 1862, 
and has two children : Mary Olive, born 
April 6, 1867, and Grace Witter, born June 
12, 1876. 

Mr. Ward's constant labors as a clergy- 
man-journalist have interfered with his 
intended contributions to literature, but 
during the present year he has completed 
a constructive study of the relations of 
the Christian church to our own time, 
which has recently been published by 
Houghton, Mifflin iS: Co., under the title 
of "The Church in Modern Society," and 
he is understood to have two other books 
on hand, one of which will be devoted to 
the New England develo|5ment of the 
century, while the other will be a short- 
ened history of the origin and growth of 
the Episcopal church in America. 

WARE, Moses Everett, is the son of 

Leonaril and Sarah .Anna (Minns) Ware, 
and was born in Boston, August 4, 1841. 

After graduating from the Ro.xbury 
high school in 1858, he went into the 
counting-room of Wyman & Arklay, im- 
porters of Dundee linens. 

In i860 he became a member of the 4th 
battalion infantry — went to the war as ist 
sergeant of company G, 45th regiment, 
Massachusetts volunteers ; and in 1862 
he returned as 2d lieutenant of the same 
company ; raised a companv in twenty- 
four hours to answer the call from Presi- 
dent Lincoln for troops for the defense of 
Washington, in 1864, and went as captain 
of company H, in the 6th regiment, Mas- 
sachusetts volunteer militia. 

He is a member of the Unitarian, the 
Massachusetts, and the Ro.xbury clubs, the 
Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the 
Association of Officers of the 45 th Regi- 
ment, and a director in the Roxbury Char- 
itable Society. 

In 1887 he was elected a member of the 
House of Representatives, and in 1888 was 
honored with a re-election, serving each 



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WARREN. 



631 



year on the committee on finance — the 
latter year acting as its chairman. 

He is a partner in business with his 
brother, under the firm name of Leonard 
Ware & Sons, oil merchants. 

His father, Leonard Ware, lately ile- 
ceased, was a native of Wrentham, and in 
his youth came to Boston, where he has 
passed a long and successful business life. 
His mother, Sarah Anna Minns, was the 
daughter of Thomas and Susannah Minns. 
His grandfather, Thomas Minns, was the 
editor and one of the proprietors of the 
" New England Palladium " (Young & 
Minns) from 1794-to 1828, and a corner- 
stone of the old Whig party in its early 
years. He was a member of the Boston 
common council for four years, from 1S29 
to '32, a representative of Boston in the 
Legislature for seven years, from 1829 to 
'35, and his mantle seems to have fallen 
on worthy shoulders in the person of his 
grandson. 

.Mr. Ware's grandmother, Susannah 
.\Lnns, was descended from the well-known 
Boylston and Cunningham families, distin- 
guished alike in the city and state for great 
public spirit, and large and far-sighted 
benefactions. Mrs. Minus's direct ances- 
tor, Peter Boylston, was the grandfather 
of John Adams, the second president of 
the Llnited States. 

Mr. Ware was married, October 29, 1867, 
at Roxbury, to Agnes Maria, daughter of 
James P. and Maria H. (Storer) Wheeler, 
of Eastport, Maine. Their children are : 
Bertha Agnes, Leonard Everett, and Storer 
Preble Ware. 

WARNER, LEWIS, son of Thomas and 
Sarah Warner, was born in Springfield, 
Hampden county, September 21, 1839. 

He was educated in the schools of that 
city, graduating from the high school in 
the class of 1856. He entered what is 
now the Agawam National Bank of Spring- 
field, as clerk, February 4, 1857, and con- 
tinued in that position until March 4, i860, 
when he entered the Chicopee National 
Bank of Springfield, as teller, where he re- 
mained until December 26, 1865. He then 
assumed the duties of cashier in the Hamp- 
shire County National Bank of Northamp- 
ton, which he continued to discharge until 
he was made president of the bank, Sep- 
tember 6, 1887, which position he now 
holds. 

He was elected treasurer of Hampshire 
county in 1879 by a liberal vote from both 
parties, though the nominee of the Demo- 
crats. He has since been continuously re- 
elected to the office, which he now holds. 



\n 188C he was the Democratic nominee 
for state treasurer and receiver-general, 
and was nominated by his party for mem- 
bership in the governor's council in 1887. 

Mr. Warner is widely and justly known 
as a liberal, enterprising, public-spirited 
citizen, whose energy, integrity, and faith- 
fulness in the performance of every public 
and private trust make his an honored 
name in the city of his adoption. 




%..- 




LEWIS WARNER. 

He is an Odd Fellow, and Free Mason, 
and takes an active interest in each of these 
fraternities. 

Mr. Warner was married in Springfield, 
November 22, 1866, to Lusanna P., daugh- 
ter of Luke and Harriet E. Pratt. He has 
two children now living : Mabel A. and 
Lewis E. Warner. He lost a son, Freder- 
ick P., who died in 1883. 

WARREN, JOSEPH HUCKINS, son of 
Joseph and Caroline E. (Huckins) Warren, 
was born in Effingham, Carroll county, 
N. H., October 2, 1831. His father was 
the seventh son of General James Warren, 
distinguished in the revolutionary war and 
in that of 181 2. His great grandfather 
was Captain John Warren, of French and 
Indian war fame. His maternal ancestors 
were in the line of descent from the Duch- 
ess of ISLarlborough. His maternal grand- 
father, Joseph Huckins, was a very promi- 



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WARREN. 



WARREN. 



nent man in New Hampshire, and was high 
sheriff of that state, and grand master of 
!■'. & A. M. in New England, holding the 
jewels and archives of the order, when the 
Morgan excitement against Masonry was 
so bitter. 

Mr. Warren began his school life at a 
private kindergarten, one of the first in this 
country organized for object-teaching. At 
the age of twelve he was placed under the 
tuition of his sister in Newton. At six- 
teen he entered West Lebanon .\cademy, 
Maine. 

In 1849 he began the study of medicine 
at the medical school, Castleton, Vt. Sub- 
sequently he attended lectures at Harvard 
medical school. He was graduated from 
the medical school, Bowdoin College, 
Maine, in 1853, and subsequently received 
from Bowdoin the degree of A. M. After 
a time spent in special study, with Dr. 
Valentine Molt, of New York, he began 




JOSEPH H. WARREN, 

practice in 1853 at Newton, having previ- 
ously jomed the Massachusetts Medical 
Society. Here he practiced three years ; 
was a member of the school board, and 
held other otifices of trust and honor. His 
health failed him from over-work, and he 
removed to Dorchester, where his field of 
labor was more easily attended, and where 
he regained his health. 



.\t the breaking out of the rebellion. Dr. 
Warren was among the first to volunteer, 
and he was in Baltimore with the Massa- 
chusetts troops when the first volunteers 
were mobbed in the streets of that city. 
He was afterward commissioned by Presi- 
dent Lincoln medical director and surgeon 
in General Casey's division, and of provis- 
ional troops ; and he was President Lin- 
coln's private medical attendant and con- 
sulting phy.^ician. His labors were espec- 
ially arduous, and he did much to alleviate 
the suffering of the soldiers by the erection 
of barrack hospitals, and brought order out 
of chaos by the proper systematizing of the 
service. He saw active service in the field 
before Yorktown, and soon after was dis- 
abled while bearing special dispatches to 
Washington, and was obliged to resign. 

He has indulged quite extensively in 
foreign travel, for health and pleasure, and 
officially, as delegate from the American 
Medical Association, of which he is vice- 
president. He read papers before the 
British Medical Association at Cambridge 
and the .Vcademy of Medicine at Paris. 
In the same year he published in London 
a " Practical Treatise on Hernia," a second 
edition being published in 1SS2 in America. 
He operated in Guy's Hospital in London 
and elsewhere to demonstrate the method. 
He later published a "Plea for the Cure 
of Rupture," and has written many mono- 
graphs and medical papers, as well as ar- 
ticles relating to general literature. He 
was among the first, if not the first, to aspi- 
rate the pericardium (April, 1855), and to 
jjerform the operation of paracentesis tho- 
racis (.\ugust, 1856). He engaged in 
medical journalism in Florida, while travel- 
ing there for his health, publishing " Tech- 
nics," and establishing the " Southern Sun," 
a newspaper of independent character. The 
publication of " Technics " and also of 
" Modern Life " was continued in Boston 
after his return, and they are now merged 
in " Notes Current." 

Dr. Warren is a member of the British 
Medical Association; a permanent member 
and now vice-president of the .American 
JNIedical Association, fellow of the Mas- 
sachusetts Medical, and Suffolk District 
Medical societies ; an honorary member 
of the Vermont State Medical Society and 
Otsego Medical Society of New York, and 
past member and president of Putnam 
County Medical Society aiid State Medical 
Society, Florida. He is a trustee of the 
Boston Penny Savings Bank, and is a mem- 
ber of a number of literary, historical, sci- 
entific, and social societies. 



WARREN. 



WARREN. 



63: 



The Norwich I'niversity, of Northfield, 
Vt., conferred upon bun in 1S89 the hon- 
orary degree of LL. D. 

Dr. Warren was married September 24, 
1854, to Carohne Ehzabetb, daua;hter of 
Joseph Caswell and Mary (Warren) Everett. 
Of this union were two children : a daugh- 
ter, deceased, and a son, Charles Everett 
Warren, physician and author, who is as- 
sociated with his father. 

WARREN, Nathan, son of Nehemiah 
and Sally (Wyman) Warren, was born in 
Waltham, Middlesex county, February 11, 
183S. 

He received a common school and aca- 
demic education in the schools of ^\'altham, 
where he fitted for college, but changing 
his plans, he sought a business career, and 
in pursuance of this, entered a wholesale 
dry-goods house in Boston. Upon the 
failure of this house he was in New York 
for a short time in a commission house, 
just previous to the breaking out of the 
civil war. 

In 1862 he enlisted in the 45th regiment, 
Massachusetts volunteers, and served with 
that regiment in North Carolina during 
its period of enlistment. Subsequently in 
the war he was in the department of the 
Gulf, where he acted as provost-marshal 
of one of the parishes of Louisiana, and 
later, at its close, was in the war depart- 
ment in Washington. 

After the war he was interested in the 
shipping business in Boston, and in this 
connection visited the Cape Verd Islands 
and several points on the coast of Africa. 
He has also traveled quite extensively 
through Europe, and before the advent of 
railroads in that section of the country, 
crossed the. great plains of the Northwest 
and Yellowstone region on a horseback 
trip with an exploring party. 

He has been connected with life insur- 
ance business for some years, and has 
given considerable study and attention to 
its theory and practice. He is the cashier 
of the Equitable Life Assurance Society 
of New York, and its representative in 
Boston. 

Mr. Warren was married in .Springfield, 
January 18, 1883, to Charlotte E., daugh- 
ter of Francis B. and Charlotte (Hare) 
Bacon. Of this union is one child : Rich- 
ard Warren. 

Mr. Warren represented Waltham in the 
Legislature in 1880 and '81, and served as 
chairman of the insurance committee on 
the part of the House, and as a member of 
the special joint committee ffir the compi- 
lation of the jiresent code of the public stat- 



utes. He was chairman of the board of 
trustees of the public library of Waltham, 
for several years, master of Monitor Lodge 
of Free Masons two years, and has always 
been active as a public-spirited citizen in 
whatever has related to the welfare of the 
community in which he has lived. He has 
been quite prominent in political matters ; 
has been a member of the Republican 
state central committee : and in 1888 was 
]5resident of the Republican Club of Wal- 
tham. 

Mr. Warren has been considerably inter- 
ested in historical research, local and gen- 
eral, and has been a frequent contributor 
editorially and otherwise to the Boston 
press on questions of public interest. 

WARREN, William Fairfield, son of 

Mather and Anne M. Warren, was born at 
Williamsburgh, Hampshire county, March 

13- i«33- 

He was graduated from \\ esleyan LTni- 

versity in 1853. In 1855 and '56 he was 

in charge of a church in Andover, and 

from 1856 to '58 studied in Berlin, Halle, 

and Rome. He traveled in Greece, Egypt, 

Palestine, etc., residing in all, over seven 

years abroad. 

In i859-'6o he was pastor of the Brom- 
field Street M. E. church, Boston ; from 
1 86 1 to '66 professor of systematic theology 
in the Mtssioiis-anstalf, Bremen, Germany ; 
from 1866 to '73 professor of systematic 
theology in the Boston Theological Semi- 
nary, and acting president of the same. 
From 1873, the year of its foundation, to 
the present time, he has been president of 
Boston LTniversity, professor of compara- 
tive history of religion, comparative theol- 
ogy, and the philosophy of religion. He 
received the degree of D. I), from the Ohio 
Wesleyan University in 1862, and that of 
LL. D. from the Wesleyan University, 
Middletown, Conn., in 1874. 

Among the more significant features of 
Pr. Warren's life-work thus far may be 
named : a new presentation of theology 
to the theologians of Germany ; the re-or- 
ganization of the oldest theological semi- 
nary of the Metiiodist Episcopal church ; 
the organization of the Boston LTniversity; 
the reconstruction of ancient cosmology 
and mytliical geography, particularly the 
Homeric ; the discovery — as many believe 
— of the cradle of the human race; and 
the promotion of international university 
co-operation in advancing the highest as 
well as broadest educational ideals. 

President Warren has been a copious 
writer, the titles of a part of his publica- 
tions filling nearly four octavo pages of the 



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WARREN. 



WASHBURN. 



" Alumni Record " of his alimi iiia/er. In 
his earher years he pubHshed miscellane- 
ous translations from the Spanish, German, 
Dutch, and Latin languages. The last 
twenty-two years he has annually published 
one or more educational reports in which 
the living issues of the day are more or 
less fully discussed. 




WILLIAM F WARREN, 

In the successive volumes of the " Bos- 
ton University Year Book " he has also 
printed not a few educational, scientific, 
and professional essays. At the same time 
he has contributed annually more or less 
freely to the scholarly periodical press. 
Six of his publications were written and 
printed in the German language ; of these 
the more important were: '■' Anfangsgruende 
der Logik" (1863); '■'■ Einleitung in die 
systetnaiische TJieologie" (1865); and "Vcr- 
such einer netten encyklopaedischen Einricli- 
tuiig und Darstelliing der tlieologischen Wis- 
senschaften " (1867). 

The following are some of his essays 
and addresses with the year of their issue; 
'■^ De Reprobatioue" (1867); "Systems of 
Ministerial Education" (1872); "The 
Christian Consciousness" (1872) ; "Ameri- 
can Infidelity" (1874) ; "The Taxation of 
Colleges, Churches, and Hospitals. Tax- 
exemption the Road to Tax Abolition " 
(1876); "The Gateways to the Learned 



Professions "(1877) ; "Review of Twenty 
Arguments employed in Opposition to the 
Opening of the Boston Latin School to 
(lirls" (1877) ; "The Liberation of Learn- 
ing in England" (1878) ; "Joint and Dis- 
joint Education in the Public Schools " 
(1879); "Hopeful Symptoms in Medical 
Education" (1880) ; " New England The- 
ology" (1881); "True Key to Ancient Cos- 
mology and Mythical Geography" (1882): 
" Homer's Abode of the Dead " (1883) ; 
"All Roads lead to Thule " (1886) ; "The 
(^uest of the Perfect Religion" (1887); 
"The True Celebration of the Four-hun- 
dredth Anniversary of the Discovery of 
America by Columbus " (1888) ; " The Cry 
of the Soul. A Baccalaureate Address " 
(1888) ; "The Gates of Sunrise in Baby- 
lonian and Egyptian Mythology" (1889). 

In 1885 he published an elaborate study 
(if the pre-historic world, entitled " Para- 
ilise Found. The Cradle of the Human 
Race at the North Pole." This work 
quickly reached the eighth edition. A 
smaller book entitled " In the Footste]5s of 
Arminius — A Delightsome Pilgrimage" 
was issued in 1888. 

President Warren married Harriet M., 
daughter of John M. and Mary J. Merrick, 
April 14, i86i. Their children are four: 
Mary Christine, William Marshall, Annie 
.Merrick, and Winifred Warren. 

WASHBURN, JOHN Davis, was born 
in Boston, March 27, 1833, being the eld- 
est son of John Marshall Washburn, who 
married, in 1832, Hariiet Webster, daughter 
of Rev. Daniel Kimball (Harvard, 1800). 

His parents moved to the town of Lan- 
caster, in Worcester county, when he was 
five years of age. At the age of twenty 
he was graduated from Harvard Univer- 
sity in the class of 1853, and entered the 
profession of law, stutlying first with Hon. 
Emory Washburn and George F. Hoar in 
1S54, and later receiving a diploma from 
the Harvard law school in 1856. 

He practiced law in Worcester in part- 
nership with Hon. H. C. Rice, taking a 
prominent place, first as an insurance attor- 
ney, and lastly succeeding the late Hon. 
Alexander H. Bullock as general agent 
and attorney of the insurance companies 
(1866). From 1866 to '69 he was Gov- 
ernor Bullock's chief-of-staff, with the rank 
of colonel. From 1871 to '81 he was 
trustee of the Worcester lunatic hospital, 
and from 1875 to '85 filled the same rela- 
tion to the Massachu.setts school for the 
feeble-minded. 

He was a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives from 1876 to '79, and state 



WATERHOUSE. 



WATERHOUSE. 



635 



senator from the city of Worcester in 1884, 
rendering excellent public service. 

His association has always been sought 
in corporate and financial affairs. From 
1866 to '80 he was a director of the Citi- 
zens' National Bank. He has been a 
meinber of the board of investment of the 
Worcester County Institution for Savings 
since 187 1, and trustee and treasurer of 
the Memorial Hospital since 1S72. He 
has been a director of the Merchants' and 
Farmers' Insurance Company since 1862, 
and succeeded the Hon. Isaac Davis as 
president in 1883. 

His native kindly instincts and tastes 
have brought him into intimate connection 
with all matters that have to do with 
educational and intellectual advancement. 
Since 1871 he has been a councilor and 
secretary of the American Antiquarian 
Society, and is a councilor of the Massa- 
chusetts Historical Society. He is also 
an original member of the American His- 
torical Association, and since 1884 has 
been a corresponding member of the ( leor- 
gia Historical Society. He is a member 
of the overseers' committee on the gov- 
ernment of Harvard University, and one 
of the directors of the Alumni .Association 
of the same institution. He is one of the 
board of trustees, and secretary of the new 
Clark University of Worcester. In 1889 
he was appointed minister resident and con- 
sul to Switzerland by President Harrison. 

Colonel Washburn was married in i860, 
to Mary F., daughter of Charles F. Put- 
nam (Dartmouth, 1830), and has one 
daughter : Edith, who married, in 1884, 
Richard Ward Greene, of Worcester. 

WATERHOUSE, FRANCIS ASBURY, 
son of Francis Asbury and Emelinc 
(Newman) Waterhouse, was born in Scar- 
borough, Cumberland county, Me., Janu- 
ary 27, 1835. 

He attended the public schools in Hallo- 
well, Me., passing at an early age through 
the primary, grammar and high .school 
grades ; was fitted for college at the Hal- 
lowell Academy; entered Bowdoin College 
in 1853, and was graduated in the class of 
1857. Three years later he received the 
degree of A. M. 

Shortly after graduation he went South 
to teach in a boarding-school near 
Natchez, Miss. This position he held one 
year, when he resigned to take the position 
of tutor in a planter's family. He returned 
to Hallowell in the spring of 1859, and 
was elected principal of the Hallowell 
Academy. In the spring of 1861 he was 
elected to the position of principal of the 



Augusta high school. He remained here 
until 1868, when he resigned to accept the 
principalship of the high school in New- 
ton. He continued in charge of this 
school till December, 1880, when he re- 
signed, to become head-master of the 
English high school, Boston, a position he 
now holds. 

Mr. Waterhouse was married in Win- 
chester, August 23, 1881, to Mary Isabel, 
daughter of Joel Fernald and Martha 
(Swan) Hanson. Of this union are three 
children : Francis Asbury, .\nnie Isabel, 
and Paul Waterhouse (deceased). 

When about fourteen years of age, 
young Waterhouse went on a sea-voyage 
for his health. This having been com- 
pletely restored, and having become, after 
the manner of boys, bewitched with the 
sea, he shipped for a second voyage as a 
forecastle sailor. From this voyage he 




FRANCIS A WATERHOUSE. 

returned an able seaman, thus putting un- 
wittingly in practice an idea which he 
afterwards entertained, — that one should 
learn some trade or craft, though intend- 
ing to engage in a profession, in order to 
have in reserve a means of gaining a 
livelihood in case of failure in the chosen 
calling. 

But nature did not intenil Mr. Water- 
house for a sailor. His career as a teacher 



636 



WATERMAN, 



WEBB. 



has, from the beginning, been a success. 
He has a rare power of stimulating his 
chisses to earnest and sustained effort in 
tiie pursuit of any study that interests 
him. This power, when at his best, he no 
doubt e.xerts unconsciously, but in accord- 
ance with his theory of mental training — 
that the faculties of the mind are deter- 
mined to their most improving exercise by 
the desire for knowledge, and that the 
ideal teacher is one who has for his chief 
qualifications an inextinguishable thirst 
for knowledge and the power of exciting 
a like thirst in the mind of the pupil. 

Mr. Waterhouse has, from time to time, 
contributed papers on various topics to 
literary and educational societies. 

WATERMAN, ANDREW J., son of Wil- 
liam and Sarah (Bucklin) Waterman, was 
born in North Adams, Berkshire county, 
June 23, 1825, and was reared on a farm in 
Williamstown. 

The public schools, Williams Academy, 
Williamstown, and Greylock Institute, 
South Williamstown, furnished him with 
his early educational training. He held 
several town offices in \Villiamstown, and 
in June, 185 i, after several years' service 
as clerk in a store, he commenced the 
study of law in the office of Keyes Dan- 
forth, and completed his legal studies in 
the office of Hon. Daniel N. Dewey, in 
Williamstown, and was admitted to the bar 
of Pjcrkshire county, March 18, 1854. 

He began practice in Williamstown in 
partnership wLth Mr. Danforth ; in Febru- 
ary, 1855, was appointed to the oifice of 
register of probate, which he held till 1S5S 
when he was elected register of pro- 
bate and insolvency, and held that office 
till April, iSSi, when he resigned. In 
November, 1S80, he was appointed district 
attorney for the western criminal district, 
comprising Berkshire and Hampden coun- 
ties, to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- 
nation of Hon. N. A. Leonard. He was 
elected to the same office in 1880, '83 and 
'86, resigning October i, 1887, to accept 
the office of attorney-general of Massa- 
chusetts, to which he was elected in No- 
vember, 1S87, for the ensuing poHtical 
year. The following year he was again 
elected, and still retains the office. 

In 1855 he changed his residence to 
Lenox, then the shire town of Berkshire 
county, where he remained until February, 
1872, when he removed to Pittsfield to dis- 
charge the duties of his office and to prac- 
tice law, — Pittsfield having become the 
shire town of the county. He still resides 
in the latter town. 



Mr. Waterman was a delegate to the 
national Republican convention at Balti- 
more in 1864, which nominated Abraham 
Lincoln for a second election, and was 
alternate delegate to the national Republi- 
can convention in Chicago, in 1880. He 
has never been a candidate for election to 
either branch of the Legislature, having 
always been constitutionally ineligible by 
holding the above offices. 

Mr. Waterman was married in East Bos- 
ton, January 7, 1858, to Ellen Douglas, 
daughter of Hon. Henry H. and Nancy 
(Comstock) Cooke. They have no chil- 
dren. 

Mr. Waterman was reared politically in 
the Democratic faith, but left the party 
before attaining his majority ; cast his first 
vote for Stephen C. Phillips, for governor ; 
joined and acted with the Free Soil party, 
and later on, the Republican party, of 
which he has ever been a staunch member. 

He has held many offices of trust, and 
has dispensed a generous charity in an un- 
ostentatious way. In religious sentiment 
he is a liberal. 

WEBB., Edwin B., son of Ebenezer 
and Sophia (Lancaster) Webb, was born 
in New Castle, Lincoln county, Maine, 
1820. 

'i"he district schools furnished his early 
educational training until he entered Lin- 
coln Academy, New Castle, and prepared 
for Bowdoin College. He graduated at 
Bowdoin College in 1846, and then spent 
something over a year in teaching in an 
academy. Meantime the choice of a pro- 
fession — a choice between the bar and 
the pulpit — was determined, and in the 
autumn of 1847 he entered the Bangor 
Theological Seminary, enjoving for three 
years the instruction of Professors Shepard, 
Pond, and Smith. 

He was called to the pastorate before 
graduation, but he insisted on a further 
course of study, at Princeton, N. J., and 
there spent several months under the dis- 
tinguished professors Hodge and Alexan- 
der. 

Returning from Princeton, he com- 
menced his pastoral work in Augusta, 
Maine, where he spent ten hajjpy and suc- 
cessful years as the minister of an appre- 
ciative church and people. In i860 he 
settled with the Shawmut Congregational 
church, Boston, and remained with this 
church as pastor for twenty-five years. 
With the name of Dr. Webb the best for- 
tunes, and the almost uninterrupted pros- 
perity of the Shawmut church are rightly 
associated. 



WEBB. 



WEBBER 



-'J/ 



During his pastorate tiie present com- 
modious house of worship was erected — 
begun February lo, 1863, and dedicated 
February 11, 1864. The war at this time 
was the one exacting, absorbing thing, ex- 
hausting the sympathies and resources of 
loyal men. Though not legally liable to 
the draft, Dr. Webb placed a substitute in 
the field, and spent some time with others 
amid the armed camps, studying the sani- 
tary and moral conditions of the soldiers, 
perceiving and reporting necessities which 
were afterwards met, as far as possible, by 
the sanitary and Christian commissions. 
Dr. \Vebb spoke often for the soldiers, in 
addition to his great pastoral and pulpit 
labors. In 1864 Williams College con- 
ferred upon him the degree of D. D,, an 
honor repeated by his alma mater a few- 
years later. 

Soon after comina; to Boston, he was 
chosen a member of the executive commit- 
tee of the Massachusetts Home Missionary 
Society, a position which, with slight inter- 
ruption, he has held ever since. He traveled 
extensively through the West, and from 
southern California to the British Provin- 
ces, with the cause of home missions on 
his heart. He also felt the necessity for 
the education of the freedmen, and fre- 
quently and earnestly pleaded for their 
moral and spiritual elevation. 

In 1876 he was elected a member of the 
prudential committee of the .\merican 
Board of Commissioners of Foreign Mis- 
sions, having previously visited many of 
the missionary stations in Egypt, Palestine, 
Syria, Asia Minor, Constantinople, Athens, 
etc. As a preacher, he loved to dwell upon 
the distinguishing doctrines of Christianity. 
Decidedly evangelical, he threw the warmth 
and magnetism of his own heart into the 
teachings of the jnilpit and the prayer- 
meeting. 

Dr. Webb retired from his charge on the 
twenty-fifth anniversary of his settlement 
with Shawmut church, October 4, 1885. 
At a meeting of the church and society, 
November 10, he was declared pastor emer- 
itus. In parting. Dr. Webb presented the 
church with his valuable theological library. 

His present residence is Wellesley. En- 
gaged in special pastoral service, he still 
labors in the various departments of his 
life work — preaching nearly every Sabbath, 
an active member of missionary boards and 
councils, full of zeal and gifts. 

1 )r. Webb was married in Augusta, Maine, 
in 1852, to Elizabeth Temple, daughter of 
Rev. l^enjamin Tapjian, D. D., and Eliza- 
beth Huwdoin Temple (Winthrop) Tappan. 



Of this union were three children : .\nna 
Winthrop, Elizabeth Temple, and .Mary 
Bowdoin. 

WEBBER, Wallace Gleason, son of 
Marcus B. and Elizabeth F. Gleason Web- 
ber, was born in Bedford, Middlesex 
county, August 13, 1856. 

His early education was received in the 
public schools of his native town, and in a 
commercial college in Boston. In 1874 he 
entered the Blackstone National Bank of 
Boston, as messenger. His promotion 
through the various positions to that of 
assistant teller was rapid. 

In the fall of 1880 he left the bank to 
engage in business for himself under the 




WALLACE G. WEBBER. 

firm name of Paine, Webber &: Co., banking 
and brokerage — first located at 48 Con- 
gress Street, then at 53 Devonshire Street, 
lastly at 52 Devonshire Street, where they 
still remain. 

In the fall of 1888 Mr. Webber was 
elected a member of the governing com- 
mittee of the Boston Stock Exchange As- 
sociation, being at the time the youngest 
man upon the committee. 

Mr. Webber was married in 1882, to 
Mary .A., daughter of William A. and Mary 
A. Smith Putnam, of Bedford. Of this 
nnion are three children : Carrie P., Paul 
B., and Marcus B. A\'ebber. 



63S 



WEEKS. 



WEIL. 



Mr. Webber has done much to develop 
his native place. Largely to his energy 
are due the ampie railroad accommodations 
enjoyed by his town. He has devoted 
much time and means to various benevo- 
lent and religious objects — the Village 
Improvement Society, public library, etc. 
He is treasurer of the Congregational 
church, and superintendent of the Sunday- 
school. He has always declined any politi- 
cal office, his business calling being more 
to his taste. 

WEEKS, ANDREW GRAY, son of Ezra 
and Hannah (Merrill) \\'eel<s, was born in 
North Yarmouth, Cumberland county, 
Maine, June 1 1, 1823. 

He obtained his early education in the 
public schools of Portland, Maine. 

In 1839 he went to Boston for employ- 
ment, and entered the apothecar}' store of 
Frederick Brown. He left this place in 




ANDREW G. WEEKS. 

1841, engaging immediately with Smith & 
Fowle, remaining with them ten years, 
when he left and formed a co-partnership 
with his present partner, W. B, Potter, in 
the wholesale drug business. 

In 1847 Mr. Weeks was married in New 
York City to Harriet Pitt, daughter of 
Charles and Harriet (Pitt) Pierce. Of this 
union were four children : Harriet Emma 
(died in infancy), W, B. Potter, Andrew G., 



Jr., and Hattie P. Weeks (now Mrs. S. R. 
Anthony). 

Mr. Weeks is a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter. He 
has frequently been offered various posi- 
tions of honor and trust, his qualifications 
being well known and eagerly sought by 
those interested in securing his active co- 
operation. But his time and energies he 
wisely dedicates to his chosen work, and it 
is rarely he is found absent from the daily 
management of his own business. He is, 
however, a director in the Equitable Fire 
& Marine Insurance Com|3any of Provi- 
dence, R. I., and also of the Theological 
Library of Boston. He is a warden of 
Emmanuel church, and a member of sev- 
eral social clubs in the city of Boston, 
where he resides. 

WEIL, Charles, the son of Jacob and 
Theresa (Bruell) Weil, was born in Merz- 
bach, Bavaria, July 5, 1845. His parents 
emigrated to the United States when he 
was twelve years of age, and up to that 
time he had the advantage of the foreign 
schools. Circumstances were such that he 
could reap but little benefit from the edu- 
cational opportunities of this country. At 
the age of fourteen he left the English 
high school at Ann Arbor, Mich., in order 
to commence active business in a wholesale 
house in New York. 

.\t the age of seventeen became to Bos- 
ton, and at nineteen, in connection with 
his present partner, Mr. Dreyfus, estab- 
lished the wholesale furnishing house, then 
as now known by the firm name of Weil, 
Dreyfus &: Company. During the great fire 
of 1S72 in the city of Boston, they were en- 
tirely burned out. Mr. Weil, however, was 
the first of the Boston merchants who re- 
paired to New York after the fire to re- 
place his stock, which fact called forth at 
the time a very flattering article in the 
" New York Herald " on the courage and 
energy of a firm whose loss was very large, 
and who were so little disheartened by 
such a calamity. 

Mr. 'Weil early became identified with the 
best interests of his adopted country, and 
has ever shown a keen interest in her cher- 
ished institutions. He is a thorough Ameri- 
can, and a staunch supporter of the princi- 
ples of the Republican party, and though 
in no sense a politician, his active interest 
in public affairs has often been recognized 
and his counsel sought by public men. 

The title of " Colonel " by which he is 
familiarly known, was derived from his 
holding that rank in the military staff of 
Gov. Ames. 



WEISSBEIN. 



WELLINCnOX. 



639 



He has steadfastly refused political pre- 
ferment, owing to the fact that his increas- 
ing business requires his constant energy 
and care. His leisure hours he prefers to 
devote to his family, and to the active 
work incidental to many of the benevolent 
associations of the city, which ever find in 
him a ready and generous supporter. 




CHARLES WEIL. 

Mr. Weil was married in New York in 
February, 1874, to Carrie, daughter of 
Samuel and Helen Sykes. Two sons and 
three daughters gladden their pleasant 
home. 

WEISSBEIN, LOUIS, son of M. A. and 
Johanna Weissbein, was born in Krotoschin, 
Germany, July 19, 1831. 

He was educated in the grammar and 
Latin schools of his native city. After 
graduating from the latter, he studied with 
a government architect in Bromberg, and 
afterwards two years at the Royal College 
of Architects in Herlin. 

In 1853 he arrived in Boston, where he 
has since resided. He was for one year 
employed as draughtsman by Charles K. 
Kirby, afterwards by the late Nathaniel J. 
Bradlee, and for a time was connected with 
Richard Bond and J. H. Rand. 

In 1857 he opened an office on his own 
account, and from that time, to the pres- 
ent, he has pursued the profession of 



an architect, and is to-day a representative 
man of the State in this branch of con- 
structive science. Twice he has had the op- 
portunity of filling the chair of city archi- 
tect for Boston, and on both occasions 
refused the proffered honor. 

Standing as monuments to his skill, 
among the many buildings of his designing 
are the Dudley Street public school, the 
Dudley, Comfort, and Adelphi apartment 
hotels, the great brewing establishments of 
Roessle and of McCormick, Prang's Art 
^Vorks and Mr. Prang's beautiful home — 
all at Ro.xbury ; the court-house, jail, opera 
house and the Berkshire insurance building 
at I'ittsficid ; Hecht Brothers' wool house 
on Fetleral Street, Boston Jewish Temiileon 
Columbus Avenue, Hon. Leopold Morse's 
dwelling on Commonwealth Avenue, and 
his business block on South Street, and 
the Copenhagen building on ^Vashington 
Street, occupied by Oliver Ditson & Co. 

Mr. ^^'eissbein has been president of the 
Orpheus Musical Society for twenty years ; 
president of the German Aid Society twelve 
years ; president of the German-English 
.school, and secretarj' of the German Rifle 
Ckib. He has been for some years trustee 
of the Home Savings Bank. He is a mem- 
ber of the Masonic order, also of the 
American Institute of .Architects and of 
the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic 
Association, and was appointed by Presi- 
dent Grant one of the honorary commis- 
sioners to the Vienna exposition. 

He has been intimately identified with 
all German society and philanthropic move- 
ments in Boston for over thirty years, and 
though unmarried and of a modest, retiring- 
disposition, Mr. Weissbein is one of the 
social leaders among the German-.Vmerican 
element of Boston. 

WELLINGTON, AUSTIN Clark, son 
of Jonas Clark and Harriet E. (Bosworth) 
Wellington, was born in Lexington, Middle- 
sex county, July 17, 1840 

His school life was confined to the 
common and high schools of Lexington. 

He began his business career in 1856 as 
book-keeper for the firm of S. G. Bowdlear 
& Co., flour merchants, Boston, continuing 
with them until his enlistment for the war 
in 1862, in the 38th regiment, Massachu- 
setts volunteers. He returned at the close 
of the rebellion as adjutant of his regiment. 

He then engaged in the coal business, 
which he carried on till his death, which 
occurred at Cambridge, September 23, 
1888. The company of which he was the 
principal is the well-known Austin C. Wel- 
lington Coal Company, Boston. 



640 



WELLINGTON. 



WELLINGTON. 



Colonel WellingLon was married in 
Cambridge, June 30, i86g, to Caroline L. 
Fisher, whose death occurred ten years 
later. November 29, 1887, he married her 
sister, Sarah C. Fisher. They were the 
daughters of George and Hannah C. 
(Teele) Fisher, of Cambridge. 

Colonel Wellington was made secretary 
of the Irving Literary Association, Cam- 
bridge, 1 86 1 He was a director in the 
Mercantile Library Association in 1871 — 
afterwards president. He was a member of 
the House of Representatives in 1875 and 
'76, where he served on the committee on 
militarv affairs. 




AUSTIN C. WELUINGTOM. 



He was commander of Post 30, G. A. R., 
Cambridge, and later of Post 113, Boston ; 
trustee of the Massachusetts Soldiers' 
Home ; captain of the Boston Light In- 
fantry, 1870 ; afterwards major of the 4th 
battahon ; colonel of the ist regiment Mas- 
sachusetts militia ; inspector-general G. A. 
R., department of Massachusetts; treasurer 
and general manager of the Austin C 
Wellington Coal Company ; chairman of 
the Boston Coal Exchange ; president of 
the Charles River Towing Company, and 
vice-president of the Central Club, Boston. 
He was a member of the .Art Club and 
Cecilia Society of Boston, and the Shake- 
speare Club of Cambridge. 



The announcement of the death of Col- 
onel Wellington, one of the most popular 
of the members of the Massachusetts 
militia, was universally received with the 
deepest and most sincere expressions of 
sorrow. Every member of the ist regi- 
ment of Massachusetts volunteers felt he 
had sustained a personal loss in the sudden 
decease of one who had brought that 
famous command into such a state of pro- 
ficienc)' as to elicit the unstinted praise of 
every military man who had witnessed 
their marching, soldierly bearing, and gen- 
tlemanly behavior. Notably on two occa- 
sions, at the funeral of General Grant in 
New York in 1885, and at Philadelphia in 
1887 at the Constitutional celebration, did 
Massachusetts receive great credit by the 
brilliant record of this same regiment 
under the leadership of its talented and 
idolized colonel. 

Colonel Austin C. Wellington's militarv 
instinct was a family inheritance, dating 
back to his great grandfather. Captain Tim- 
othy Wellington, who, with his brother, Ben- 
jamin, was a member of Captain Parker's 
company at the battle of Lexington ; Ben- 
jamin being the first prisoner of the revo- 
lution, having been captured by the King's 
troops early on that eventful morning, but 
later rejoining his company. 

WELLINGTON, FRED Williams, son 
of the late Timothy W. Wellington, of 
Worcester, and the great grandson of Cap- 
tain Timothy Wellington of Lexington and 
revolutionary fame, is the only representa- 
tive of this once large family now living in 
Worcester, and was born in Shirley, Mid- 
dlesex county. May 31, 1851. 

He began his education in the public 
schools of Worcester, to which place his 
father had removed in 1855, and with the 
exception of two years spent in the schools 
of Germany and France, and one year's 
absence in California, his life has been 
spent in that city. 

He began his business life at the age of 
seventeen years, as book-keeper in the First 
National Bank of Worcester, remaining 
from June, 1868, to October, 1869, when 
he entered his father's coal office. He 
went to California in 187 1, but returned 
the next year to enter the firm of T. W. 
Wellington & Co. 

He withdrew from the firm in 1874, and 
became associated with J. S. Rogers & 
Co., in the retail coal trade for one year, 
and in 1875 formed a partnership with 
J. S. Rogers and A. A. Goodell, under the 
same firm name, conducting a strictly 
wholesale trade in coal. In 1876 the firm 



WELLMAN. 



WESTON. 



641 



was changed to A. A. Goodell & Co., J. S. 
Rogers retiring, and in 1878 Colonel \\'el- 
lington withdrew from this partnership and 
began the wholesale and retail coal business 
on his own account. The following year 
the two firms were merged in one under 
the name of Fred W. Wellington & Co. 
Colonel Wellington is now the sole owner 
of the present large and growing business. 

May 16, 1889, he was elected president 
of the .\ustin C. Wellington Coal Company 
(corporation), of Boston, and on the 24th 
of the followmg month was elected general 
manager. He retains his residence in 
Worcester, although the increasing cares 
of his growing interests in both cities nat- 
urally require a division of his time be- 
tween the two. 

He has been an active member of the 
state militia continuously since March 27, 
1882, when he was commissioned 2d lieu- 
tenant of battery B, light artillery, ist 
brigade Massachusetts volunteer militia. 
He .was promoted to be ist lieutenant, 
captain, and finally to be assistant inspec- 
tor-general on the staff of the commander- 
in-chief, Ciovernor Oliver Ames, with rank 
of colonel, which position he now holds. 
He comes naturally by his military taste. 
P'our of his brothers were in active service 
on the Union side during the civil war, two 
of whom gave their lives to the cause. 

Colonel Wellington was a member of the 
executive committee of the Republican 
state central committee 1887 and '88; chair- 
man of the 4th Republican senatorial dis- 
trict committee for the same years, and sec- 
retary of the loth Republican congressional 
district committee from September, 1886, 
to September, 1888. In the Masonic order 
he is a member of the 3 2d degree Massachu- 
setts Consistory, Scottish Rite, and Worces- 
ter County Commandery, Knights Templar. 

He was married September 4, 1883, to 
Lydia A., widow of General Arthur A. 
(ioodell, formerly colonel of the 36th regi- 
ment, Massachusetts volunteers. 

WELLMAN, JOSHUA Wyman, son of 
James Ripley and Phebe (Wvman) Well- 
man, was born in Cornish, Sullivan county, 
N. H., November 28, 1821. 

After attending the public schools in 
Cornish until he was fifteen years of age, 
he was fitted for college at the Kimball 
Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., from 
which he was graduated in 1842, entering 
Dartmouth College that year and graduat- 
ing hi 1846. Until 1849 he taught in the 
Kimball Union Academy a part of each 
year, and in 1847 was for two terms prin- 
cipal of the academy in Rochester, Mass. 



Entering the Andover Theological Semi- 
nary in 1847, he was graduated in 1850, 
and was then a resident licentiate in that 
seminary one year. 

He was ordained to the Christian min- 
istry and installed as pastor of the First 
church in Derry, N. H., on the i8th day 
of June, 1851, in which position he re- 
mained for five years, on June 11, 1856, 
becoming pastor of the Eliot church in 
Newton, ]\Iass. This pastorate closed in 
1873. He was installed pastor of the 
First church in Maiden, March 25, 1874, 
remaining in that position till May, 1S83, 
since which time he has not been settled 
over any church, but has continued preach- 
ing in various localities. 

On October 24, 1854, in East Randolph 
(now Holbrook), he married Ellen AL, 
daughter of Caleb Strong and Prudence 
(l)urfee) Holbrook. Their children are : 
Arthur Holbrook, Edward U'yman, Ellen 
Holbrook, and Annie Durfee Wellman. 

He was elected a corporate member of 
the American Board of Commissioners for 
Foreign Missions in 1867, and manager 
of the Congregational Sunday-school and 
publishing society in 1870 ; was trustee of 
Phillips Academy and Andover Theolog- 
ical Seminary in 1870 ; he is also a 
member of the New England Historic 
Genealogical Society, a corporate member 
of the General Theological Library of 
Boston, and for many years has been a 
director of the American College and 
Educational Society, of which he is now 
vice-president. Olivet College in 1868, 
and Dartmouth College in 1870, bestowed 
upon him the degree of doctor of divinity. 

WESTON, Byron, son of Isaiah and 
Caroline (Curtis) Weston, was born in Dal- 
ton, Berkshire county, April 19, 1832. 

His early life was one of frequent 
changes. When he was four years old he 
was taken by his parents to Tremont, 111. 
When he was twelve years old, his father 
having died, he went to Madison, Wis., to 
live with an uncle, and attended school at 
Beloit. Five years afterward he returned 
to Dalton and a little later entered the 
Williston Seminary, at Easthampton, giv- 
ing his chief attention to mathematics, en- 
gineering, and book-keeping. 

Shortly after graduating, he entered his 
uncle's paper mills on the Hudson, and to 
perfect himself in the art of manufacturing 
the finest grades of paper, he afterward 
entered the mills at Ballston Springs and 
Lee, where he soon became foreman for 
Platner & Smith, the largest manufacturers 
of fine paper in the ct)untry. In 1S56 Mr. 



642 



WETHERBEE. 



WHARTON. 



Weston formed a partnership with WilHam 
H. Inilay, a wealthy paper manufacturer, 
of Hartford, Conn. ; but Mr. Imlay's death, 
a year later, and the panic of 1857, neces- 
sitated its being closed, and Mr. Weston 
went to Texas for a few months. He re- 
turned, and once more entered the mills 
of Platner &: Smith, and when the civil war 
broke out, he enlisted as a private in the 
49th Massachusetts. Upon its organiza- 
tion he was elected captain. His regiment 
was sent to the department of the Gulf, 
and Captain Weston had his full share in 
the good service it rendered, especially at 
the siege of Port Hudson. Although en- 
listed for nine months, the 49th regiment 
served for about a year, and was mustered 
out of service August 24, 1863. 

On his return from the war he purchased 
the Chamberlain Mill, in his native town, 
and began the manufacture of the highest 
grades of paper. He greatly enlarged his 
own mill, and later purchased the Bartlett 
Cutt'ing mill property, near his own, pro- 
ducing upon an extensive scale a grade 
of linen record and ledger paper which has 
won a world-wide reputation. These pa- 
pers attracted great attention at the cen- 
tennial exposition at Philadelphia in 1876, 
and also at similar exhibitions in New 
York, Boston, Louisville and Atlanta. At 
the Australian exposition in 1882 thev re- 
ceived a gold medal. 

By request of the Berkshire Historical 
Society, Mr. Weston read before that body 
in 1881 an excellent history of paper-mak- 
ing in this country. 

In 1865 Mr. Weston was married, in 

' Dalton, to Julia Mitchell. They have four 

children, and their present residence is 

still in Dalton, one of the loveliest towns in 

the beautiful Housatonic valley. 

Mr. Weston is an ardent Republican, and 
early in life held positions of political 
trust and responsibility in his native town 
and county. In 1876 he was a member of 
the state Senate, and in 1879 was elected 
lieutenant-governor on the ticket with 
Governor John D. Long, to which position 
he was re-elected after a nomination by 
acclamation. 

WETHERBEE, AUGUSTUS WiNSLOW, 
son of John and L. S. B. (Brown) AN'ether- 
bee, was born in Boxborough, Middlesex 
county, September i, 1839. 

His early education was received in the 
public schools of his native town. He 
afterwards graduated from the Pepperell 
Academy in 1861. 

He worked with his father on the old 
ancestral estate until 1865. The two years 



succeeding he was in the produce and com- 
mission business in Boston. He then 
learned the business of carpenter and 
builder, in which he is at present engaged. 

i\Ir. \\'etherbee was married in Boxbor- 
ough, January i, 1870, to Hattie, daughter 
of Simon P. and Clarissa Gregg Lane, of 
A\'indham, N. H., who died June 15, 1884, 
without issue. 

Mr. Wetherbee served as a representa- 
tive to the General Court from the 33d 
Middlesex district in 1882, and was for 
ten years chairman of the Republican town 
committee. 

He was chaplain of G. A. R. Post 138, 
Acton, and clerk and treasurer of the Con- 
gregational church thirteen years ; three 
years superintendent of the Sunday-school, 
and eighteen years a member of the school 
board, four times its superintendent. He 
was fifteen years secretary of the Farmers' 
Club. 

Mr. Wetherbee was three years a soldier. 
He enlisted in company B, 32d regiment, 
Massachusetts volunteers, November 26, 
1861, and was discharged November 26, 
1864. He was with the army of the 
Potomac in the 2d brigade, ist division, 
5th army corps, from Harrison's Landing 
to Weldon R. R., Petersburg, Va. He 
served two years as commissary-sergeant 
of the ist division. 

WHARTON, William Fisher, son of 

William Craig and Nancy W. (Spring) 
AMiarton, was born at Jamaica Plain, Nor- 
folk county, June 28, 1847. 

When a boy he attended Epes Sargent 
Dixwell's school, Boston. He entered 
Harvard College in 1867, and was gradu- 
ated in the class of 1870 with honors in 
Latin, Greek, and ancient history. He 
studied law in the office of John C. Ropes 
& John C. Gray for a year, then attended 
Harvard law school two years, and was 
graduated in 1873, being admitted to the 
Suffolk bar the same year. 

He then traveled in Europe until the 
autumn of 1875, when he returned to Bos- 
ton and began the practice of the lav/ in 
that city, which he continued until April 2, 
1889, when he was appointed by President 
Harrison the assistant secretary of state of 
the LTnited States. 

Mr. Wharton was married in Boston, Oc- 
tober 31, 1877, to Fanny, daughter of Wil- 
liam Dudley and Caroline (Silsbee) Pick- 
man, who died in October, 1880. Of this 
union was one child : William Pickman 
Wharton. 

Mr. \V'harton was a member of the Bos- 
ton common council from 18S0 to '84, in- 



WHEELER. 



WHEELER 



<J43 



elusive, and a member of the House of 
Representatives from 1885 to '88, inclusive, 
serving in 1885 as House ciiainnan of tine 
committee on cities, and as a member of 
the committee on rules of the House ; in 
1886 and '87 as House chairman of the 




WILLIAM F. WHARTON. 

committee on railroads and of the joint 
committee on rules, and chairman of the 
committee on House rules ; and in 1888, 
chairman of the judiciary committee and 
the committee on House rules, and House 
chairman of the committee on joint rules. 

In 1883 Mr. Wharton was appointed by 
the mayor of Boston one of the commis- 
sioners to revise the ordinances of the 
city. 

He is the editor of the seventh edition 
of "Story on Partnership." 

WHEELER, JOHN WILSON, of Orange, 
Franklin county, is a native of that town, 
and has always resided there, with the ex- 
ception of two years spent in Fitchburg. 

He was born November 20, 1832, the 
second of nine children of Wilson and 
Catherine (Holmes) Wheeler, and the only 
facilities he had for education were found 
in the public schools. For a year or two 
after his majority he worked as a carpenter. 
From 1856 to '62 he was clerk in a general 
store in Orange, then for a year or more 
was in the claim agency business, and 



from 1863 to '67 was engaged in mercan- 
tile business on his own account. 

In 1867, at the age of thirty-five, Mr. 
Wheeler became associated with others in 
the manufacture of sewing machines, un- 
der the firm name of .A.. F. Johnson & Co. 
Two years later a corporation was formed, 
known as the Gold Medal Sewing Machine 
Company. In 1882 the corporate name 
was changed to The New Home Sewing 
Machine Company, and the concern has 
grown from its small beginnings till it now 
employsonan average fivehundredand fifty 
men, and turns out three hundred machines 
a day. From the start. Mr. Wheeler has 
been the financial manager, and one of the 
controlling spirits of this enterprise, as 
well as an active worker in the closely 
associated organization, the Orange Iron 
I'oundry Company, organized in 1871. 

In January, 1881, he was elected a trus- 
tee of the Orange Savings Bank, and five 
years later was made president, which 
position he now holds. He has been one 




JOHN W. WHEELER 

of the directors of the Orange National 
Bank since June, 1880, and in January, 
1888, was made its vice-president. He is 
likewise president of the Orange Power 
Company, and in January, 1889, was elec- 
ted one of the directors of the Gossard 
Investment Company, at Kansas City, Mo., 



644 



WHEELOCK. 



WHEILDUN. 



a corporation with five hundred tliousand 
dollars capital. 

In politics, Mr. Wheeler, while socially 
very democratic, is a Republican, and 
though b)' no means a politician, has often 
been called by his fellow-citizens to posi- 
tions of responsibility and honor. From 
1 86 1 to '67 he served as town clerk, and 
was appointed justice of the peace by 
Governor Andrew in 1864. In 1866 he 
was one of the selectmen of the town, ana 
in 1876 was elected a member of the lower 
branch of the Legislature, where he was 
appointed to the committee on finance. In 
1 888 he was one of the Massachusetts 
delegates to the national Republican con- 
vention at Chicago, which nominated 
President Harrison. 

Mr. Wheeler is a prominent Mason. He 
was one of the founders of Orange Lodge, 
organized in 1859, was its first secretary, 
and afterwards its treasurer. He was also 
a charter member and the first treasurer 
of Crescent R. A. Chapter, organized in 
1884. 

Mr. Wheeler was married in Orange, 
October 9, 1856, to Almira E., daughter of 
Daniel and Almira (Porter) Johnson. 
Three children have been born to them, 
but only one survives : Marion L., wife of 
John B. Welch. Mr. Wheeler resides 
about a mile northeast of Orange Village, 
on Grand View Farm, where, while still 
closely attending to business, he finds rec- 
reation in breeding fine horses and cattle, 
the fine bred young stallion, "Tyringham," 
son of the famous "Alcantara," being at 
the head of his stud. 

WHEELOCK, Charles Augustus, 

son of Jerry and Suky (Day) Wheelock, 
was born February 27, 181 2, in U.xbridge, 
Worcester county. 

His early education was received in the 
district schools and academy of his native 
town. 

His first connection in business was with 
his father, in the manufacture of woolen 
yarn, in 1834, under the firm name of J. 
Wheelock & Son. Silas Mandeville Whee- 
lock being admitted into the company in 
1840, the firm name became J. Wheelock 
& Sons, and the manufacture extended to 
that of plaid linseys. The father withdrew 
from the business in 1846. They continued 
and enlargetl the business under the firm 
name of C. \. Sz S. M. Wheelock, the same 
continuing until the present time. They 
added also the manufacture of satinets 
and fancy cassimeres. 

April 20, 1834, he married Nancy Sea- 
grave. Their children are : Marv Antoin- 



ette, Lucy Sephora, Sarah Elizabeth, Charles 
Edwin, and Alice Augusta Wheelock. 

Mr. Wheelock served in the state Senate 
from the 2d Worcester district for the ses- 
sions of 1869 and '70. He is a prominent 
member of the I. O. O. F., having been 
secretary of his lodge for twenty-five years. 
His church connections are with the First 
Congregational Society in U.xbridge, of 
which he is an officer and influential mem- 
ber. He has served fifteen years on the 
school board. He is always foremost in 
any work for the public good ; was active 
in the establishment of the Uxbridge free 
public library, of which he has been a trus- 
tee, and president of the board since its 
formation in 1874, being elected by a vote 
of the town. 

WHEILDON, WILLIAM WILLDER, son 

of William and Elizabeth (Corey) Wheil- 
don, was born October 17, 1805, in Boston. 
His father came to America from Birming- 
ham, England, in the year 1800, and his 
mother was a native of Groton, Mass. 

His early education was received in the 
Boston public schools. He entered the 
printing office of the " American States- 
man " as an apprentice, and as apprentice 
and foreman, and later as assistant in the 
editorial department, remained until 1827. 

In 1827 he established the "Bunker Hill 
Aurora" at Charlestown, of which he con- 
tinued editor and proprietor for nearly 
forty-four years, until 1870. Since that 
time his vocation has been that of journal- 
ist, historian, scientist and lecturer, fre- 
quently contributing to the daily and Sun- 
day papers of Boston. In 1828 and '29 
he was a student at law with Hon. William 
.Austin, of Charlestown. He did not seek 
admission to the bar, although he had a 
number of important cases outside the 
courts He was counsel for the city of 
Charlestown in the matter of making the 
Chelsea bridge free, and the care of the 
Warren bridge by the state commissioners; 
counsel also for the city and for the Fitch- 
burg, Boston iS: Maine, Eastern, and Low- 
ell railroad companies in the matter of the 
Maverick bridge, before the United States 
commissioners. He also represented dif- 
ferent parties in several important matters 
before the state Legislature. In 1846 he 
removed to Concord, where he now resides. 

Mr. Wheildon was married in East Cam- 
bridge, in May, 1S29, to Juliet Rebecca, 
daughter of Benjamin Gleason, A. M., 
author, lecturer, and teacher. Of this 
union were seven children : William Glea- 
son, Juliet Frances, Josephine Barton, Ella 
Gertrude (died in infancy), Caroline Victo- 



WHEILUOX. 



WllIPI'Lt;. 



645 



ria, Alice Walker, and Frederick Willder 
Wheildon, who died in 1874, aged twenty- 
two years. 

Mr. Wheildon was a member of the 
Charlestown city council, and of the school 
hoard for many years, until his removal to 
Concord. He was a member of the nrovern- 
ment of the Massachusetts Charitable .Me- 
chanic .\ssociation, a director of the Bunker 
Hill Monument Association since 1845, and 
is now vice-president, a trustee or director 
in two savings banks in Charlestown, in 
an insurance company, a horse railroad, a 
gas company, etc. He is also treasurer 




WILLIAM W. WHEILDON. 

of the Peterborough & Shirley R. R., and 
president of the Boston & Chelsea R. R. 

He is a fellow of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, a 
member of the American Historical Asso- 
ciation, American Forestry Congress, New 
England Historic (Genealogical Society, 
Essex Institute, Webster Historical Soci- 
ety, Bostonian Society, Concord Anti- 
quarian Society, and Massachusetts Horti- 
cultural Society, 

Mr. Wheildon is master of a fertile pen, 
and his pamphlets are numerous. Of the 
following works he himself set the type : 
•' Memoir of Solomon Willard," " Contri- 
butions to Thought," " Sentry or Beacon 
Hill," and "Signal Lanterns of Paul 



Revere." It was his frequent practice to 
compose editorials without the use of 
manuscript. 

The trend of this author's mind is his- 
torico-scientific. Among his best-known 
works, besides those mentioned, are : a 
series of papers on the Arctic Regions, 
" Xew History of the Battle of Bunker 
Hill;" " Evacuation of Boston and Charles- 
town ;"" Curiosities of Histor\- — Boston, 
i63o-r88o. " " The Xew Arctic Continent, 
or Wrangell's Land, with government map" 
(1868); "Scientific Excursion across the 
State of Iowa" (1872); "New Chapter 
in the History of the Concord Fight," 
" The Maverick Bridge," " The American 
Lobster," and " Letters from Nahant." 

WHIPPLE, JOHN Jay, son of Fer- 
dinand and Hannah (Sweet) Whipple, was 
born December 31, 1847, in the city of 
Worcester. 

At the common schools he obtained his 
education, and in 1866 went into the busi- 
ness of drugs and groceries, under the 
name of J- J- Whipple & Co., which firm 
has continued in the same business to the 
present time without change. 

In Brockton, on the 2 2d of June, 1869, 
Mr. Whipple was married to Helen Otis, 
daughter of Franklin Otis and Helen M. 
(Davis) Howard. Their children are: 
Mary Helen, Edith Bell and Howard V. 
Whipple. 

Mr. Whipple is president of the Brock- 
ton Savings Bank, a director in the Brock- 
ton National Bank, and one of the four 
proprietors of the Brockton City Theatre. 
In 1878 he was elected selectman, and has 
served nine years on the school com- 
mittee. For four years he was a water 
commissioner, and was mayor of the city 
in 1886 and '87, being elected the latter 
year by the largest plurality and majority 
ever given a candidate for that office in 
the city of Brockton. 

In 1885 he was a member of the state 
Legislature, and served as chairman of the 
House committee on water supply, and as 
clerk on the committee on insurance. 

In 1884 and '85 he was the efficient 
secretary of the Republican state central 
committee, and held the rank of colonel 
on the staff of Governor Robinson, in 
1884, '85, and '86. He was chairman on 
the first board of wage arbitration that 
ever existed in New England. 

He has served as brigadier-general on 
the staff of the lieutenant-general com- 
manding Patriarchs Militant, I. O. O. F., 
and in the same order has been past grand 
representative. Sovereign (Grand Lodge; 



646 



WIIITBECK. 



WHITCHER 



past grand patriarch, Grand Encampment 
of Massachusetts ; past chief patriarch, 
Newmarket Encampment, Canton New- 
market ; past grand of Massasoit Lodge 
69 ; past grand of Beatrice Lodge D. R. 
28, and a trustee of Odd Fellows' Home. 
He has also been a member of Paul Revere 
Lodge of Masons, Satucket Roval Arch 




JOHN J WHIPPLE, 

Chapter, Brockton Council, Royal and Se- 
lect Masters, Bay State Commandery K. S., 
Lafayette Lodge of Perfection, Giles F. 
Yates Council, Princes of Jerusalem ; grand 
warden of Grand Lodge, N. E. O. P., vice 
warden of the Supreme Lodge, N. E. O. P., 
Brockton Division Uniform Rank, K. P., 
past chancellor commander Damocles 
Lodge 16, K. of P., past chief justice of 
the Order of the Iron Hall, representative 
from Massachusetts to the supreme sitting 
of the same order, and post warden of 
Mayflower Lodge No. 4, N. E. O. P. 

Colonel Whipple holds in his local com- 
munity a reputation as wide as it is good, 
and his prominence in the larger circle of 
political life makes him a man well and 
honorably known to the people of the Com- 
monwealth. 

WHITBECK, ORRIN C, son of KiUian 
H. and Maria Whitbeck, was born on the 
second day of December, 1827, at Mt. 
Washington, Berkshire county. His edu- 



cation was received in the public schools 
of his native town, where he has always 
resided, and besides many public and pri- 
vate duties, he has followed the vocation 
of a practical farmer and surveyor, con- 
ducting the "summit farm," the family 
homestead, which he purchased in 1850. 

During his active career, Mr. Whitbeck 
has held all of the town offices. For twelve 
years he was town clerk, has been a justice 
of the peace for twenty-five years, and is 
chairman of the school committee. 

He represented his district in the Legis- 
lature in 1882, serving on the committee on 
agriculture, and is at present postmaster of 
the town. During 1883 and '84 he was en- 
gaged with Prof. H. F. Walling in the 
United States geological survey in south- 
ern Berkshire. 









1P^ 




ORRIN C, WHITBECK. 

On the 8th of June, 1S49, Mr. Whitbeck 
was married in Albany, N. Y., to Nancy 
M., daughter of Horace and Electa Kline. 
Their five children are : George S., Mrs. 
F. B. Schutt, Mrs. Ira O. Lamson, Angle 
11, and Arthur B. \\'hitbeck. 

WHITCHER, Bradley Child, the son 

of Miranda and Rosanna (Child) Whitcher, 
was born in Bath, Grafton county, N. H., 
September 5, 1834. 

His early education was received in the 
public schools of his native town. He was 



WIIITCIIER. 



WllITCUMB. 



647 



brdught up on a farm. His fatlier died 
when he was ten years old, leaving him the 
eldest of three children. At twenty-one 
years of age he came to Boston, where he 
found employment in the grain business 
with Tower, Davis & Co., w'ith which house 
he stayed until 1861, when he went into the 
.grocery business in company with John F. 
Sawtell, under the firm name of Whitcher 
1.V- Sawtell. In 1862 he bought out the 
business, in which he remained until 1867. 
He then went to Littleton, N. H., open- 
ing a general country store in company 
with Charles G. White, where he re- 




BRADLEY C. WHITCHER. 

niained one year, when he bt)ught out a 
grocery business in Lexington, where he 
has since resided. He is at present en- 
gaged in the grain ani.1 llour business in 
Lexington. 

He was married in Cambritlge, April 9, 
1861, to Sarah J., the tlaughter of Isaac 
and Klizabeth Hall, of Charlestown. Their 
children are : Eugene B. and Florence E. 
Whitcher. 

Mr. ^^'hitcher was a member of the com- 
mon council, Cambridge, in 1865 ; select- 
man of Lexington from 1872 to '76, and 
again from 1879 to '82, and was chairman 
of the board for four years ; is now chair- 
man of the board of registrars, having held 
the position since 1884. He is a public- 



spirited man, always prominent in matters 
that affect the welfare of his town. 

Mr. Whitcher was early identil'ieil with 
the Masonic fraternity in the city of Cam- 
bridge, where he at one time resided, and 
on his removal to Lexington became a 
charter member of the Simon W Robinson 
Lodge, F. & A. M. He served as treasurer 
of the A. O. U, ^V. for some two years. 

He has been treasurer of Lexington 
Savings Bank for six years. His church 
connections are with the Hancock Congre- 
gational church, Lexington, of which he 
has been an exemplary member and church 
officer for twenty years. 

WHITCHER, Ja.mes Edgar, son of 

.\mos and Polly U'hitcher, was born in 
Benton, Grafton county, N. H., November 
29, 1847. 

He received his early education in the 
public schools of Benton, after which he 
was a student at the Newbury (Vermont) 
Seminary, and at the New Hampton (New 
Hampshire) Literary Institution. 

When twenty-three years of age, he en- 
tered the employ of A. W. Arnold, and 
after an experience of seven years, formed 
a partnership with his brother, under the 
name of Whitcher Brothers, In the grocery 
and provision business. Ten years later 
he sold out to his brother, and went into 
the same business with A. F. Willey, with 
whom he still remains. 

Mr. Whitcher was married in Salem, on 
the 8th of September, 1875, to Susan R., 
daughter of Person C. Thompson, of Stone- 
ham. They have no children. 

In 1887 and '88 Mr. Whitcher was a 
representative to the General Court, and 
in 1888 hekl the office of selectman. 

In religious and social circles he has 
been active and prominent. Since 1869 he 
has been a steward or trustee of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal church of Stoneham, and 
for five years superintendent of the Sunday- 
school, and director of the musical service. 
He has also been secretary of the Law and 
Order League, first president of the board 
of trade, a prominent Odd Fellow, and for 
two years grand worthy templar of the 
Grand Temple of Honor of Massachusetts 
— in all departments taking an active 
position as a progressive man. 

WHITCOMB, Charles Wilbur, .son 

of Benjamin D. and Mary M. (Mclntire) 
Whitcomb, was born in Boston, Julv 31, 

1855- 

He received his early education in the 
public schools of Boston , entered Bowdoin 
College in 1872 ; joined the junior class of 



648 



WHITCOMII. 



WliriK. 



Dartmouth in 1S74, and was graduatetl in 
the class of 1876. 

He then attended law lectures at the 
University of Gottingen, and traveled 
abroad until the summer of 1878, in the 
autumn of which year he entered the Bos- 
ton law school, and was graduated in June, 
1880, having been admitted to the Suffolk 
bar just previous to graduation. 

While at Dartmouth Mr. \Miitcomb re- 
ceived several prizes in athletic contests, 
and wrote the class ode at graduation, and 
on graduating from the Boston law school 
received the first prize for the essay — 
thirtv members competing for the same. 

While attending the law school, and two 
years subsequently, he practiced law in the 
office of J. H. Benton, Jr., counsel for the 
Old Colony Railroad, after which he opened 
an office of his own in Boston. 




CHARLES W, WHITCOMB 

He is now in active practice, and also 
holds the position of fire marshal, it being 
a state office, judicial in character, and in- 
stituted for the purpose of holding inquests 
as to causes of fire, and the prosecution of 
incendiaries. He was appointed by Gov- 
ernor Robinson in November, 1886 — the 
first appointnicnt after the establishment 
of the office. 

Mr. Whitcomb was a member of the 
Boston common council in 1883 and '84 



from ward 1 S, in which body he was the 
recognized leader on the Republican side. 
He declined a third nomination in 1885, 
and in that year was the Republican can- 
didate for the governor's council. In 1883, 
'84, and '85, he was the secretary, and a 
leading spirit in the Republican citv com- 
mittee. 

He was quite active in the political cam- 
paign of 1884, made numerous speeches in 
different parts of the State, and was select- 
ed as a committee of one to escort Hon. 
James G. Blaine to Boston, on the occasion 
of his first public reception. 

Mr. Whitcomb was married in Boston, 
June 26, 1884, to Marie M. daughter of 
James and Dora (Rowell) Woodsum, by 
whom he has two sons : Beniamin H. and 
Charles Wilbur, Jr. 

WHITE, Edwin Leonard, .son of Bar- 
ney Leonard and Mercy (Reetl) White, 
was born at Newton L'pper Falls, Middle- 
se.x county, July 26, 1833. He comes of 
good old New England stock, his paternal 
great grandfather, Nathan ^\'hite, being a 
direct descendant of Peregrine White of 
'■ Mayflower" fame. His ancestors held a 
prominent place in their respective locali- 
ties of Mansfield, Newton, and Shirley. His 
grantlfather, Leonard White, was born in 
1770 and died in 1853. His grandmother, 
Lydia (Hodge) White, was born in 1775 
and tlied in i86g. His father was born in 
1795 and died in 1872. His mother was 
born in 1795 and died in 1858. His father 
was an earnest worker for the anti-slavery 
cause, and in the early temperance move- 
ment many recollect his good counsel and 
example. He was a prominent cotton man- 
ufacturer, and was for several years inter- 
ested in mills in Philadel|ihia, Pa , Ansonia, 
Conn., and at Newton, Walpole, and Hol- 
den in this State. He was for nearly fifty 
years an active Mason, and later in life 
was a Knight Templar many years. His 
maternal ancestors, who lived in Middle- 
borough, Grafton, N. H., and Newton 
Upper Falls, were remarkable for great 
longevity. His grandfather, Bailey Reed, 
died upwards of eightv vears of age. His 
grandmother, P^lizabeth (Valentine) Reed, 
died aged seventv-three. 

Mr. White attended the common schools 
in Newton L'pper Falls, and in Ro.xbury, 
where the family at one time resided. On 
their return to Newton, he attended, as a 
day scholar, when about twelve vears of 
age, the famous boarding school of Mar- 
shall S. Rice of Newton Centre. 

In the summer of 1846 he was assistant 
to an inspector of a line of P.oston water 



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works then being built from Nalick in 
Boston. He worked a year eacli in a dry- 
goods store at Saxonville and in a market 
at Newton Upper Falls. Several yeai's 
were then spent in the market business in 
Roxbury, North .\ttleborough antl Chico- 
pee, and in 1854 he ojiened a dry-goods 
and grocery store in Holden. 

Mr. White removed to Shirley in 1.S56, 
where he purchased a farm aiul saw- 
mill, and has manufactm'cd baskets, 
shingles, staves, and dealt in northern 
hard and soft hmihcr at that place ever 
since. 




EDWIN L. WHITE. 

.Mr. White was married in Holden, on 
November 30 (Thanksgiving Day), 1S54, to 
Martha E., daughter of William H. and 
Eliza B. (draves) White. Mrs. White died 
at Shirley, June 23, 1873, leaving no cliil- 
dieii. .\ second marriage was consum- 
mated at Mansfield, March 7, 1878, with 
Hattie E., daughter of Rufus P. and Sarah 
A. ((ioff) Hardon. They have one child : 
Mabel Reed White, born at Mansfield, 
.\ugust 6, 1 88 1. 

Mr. White had two younger brothers, 
(ieorge Reed and Henr\' Rirke, wlio en- 
listed in the late civil war — the first killed 
in battle June 30, 1862, and the latter 
dying .\pril 19, 1872, of disease contracted 
while in the armv. 



Ml. \\ liite was histclinsen selectman and 
o\erseer of the poor in Shirley, in 1865, 
and is now serving his nineteenth year in 
that capacity. He has been assessor of 
taxes, and held other town offices. He 
has been a Knight of Honor since 1S78, 
and is now treasurer of .Xyer Lodge, No. 
588. He is a justice of the peace and 
ipuirum. 

WHITE, FRANCIS HVERETT, son of 
(Ieorge W. and Betsey (liurrell) White, was 
born in South Weymouth, Norfolk county, 
■August 8, I .S37. 

He received his earl\' education in the 
common and high scIkmiI nl his native 
town. l''rom si.xteen years old until of 
age, he .served in a mercantile house in 
Boston, engaged in the South American 
and West India trade. In Noveml)er, 1858, 
he went to New York as clerk in a house 
engagetl in foreign trade, and remained 
until tile breaking out of the war. 

.Mr. White enlisted Septend>cr 21, 1861, 
as private in the 4th New Ndrk cavalry, 
and served in the army of the Potomac 
three years and three months. During 
his service he rose through the several 
grades to ist lieutenant and brevet-cap- 
tain. 

.\fter the close of the civil war Mr. 
White returned to South Weymouth, and 
very soon settled in North llridgewater 
(now the cit\- of Hrockton), where he 
engaged in the manufacture of boots 
,iiul siloes, and where he still carries on 
the business, amounting to $650,000 an- 
niialh'. 

Mr. White was married in North Bridge- 
water (now Brockton), May 2, 1866, to 
.■\daline F., daughter of Charles I., and 
Betsey B. Hauthaway. Of this union 
were three children : W'alter Hautha- 
way, Francis Burrell, and lienrv I'restim 
Whiti'. 

Mr. White has served his city as alder- 
man two years, and is a prominent factor 
in the Republican party, ever active in its 
interests, but uniformly declining to take 
any political prefcrnieiit. 

He is a member of Fletcher Webster 
I'ost, (1. .\. R., a director in the Brockton 
National liank, and a prominent memlier 
in the different Masonic bodies. He is a 
large holder of real estate in Brockton, 
and a successful manufacturer. 

Mr. \\'iiite is a direct desceiulant from 
Peregrine White of the " Maytlower" com- 
pany, and his church connections are with 
the Congregational branch of the orthodox 
faith — his family religion from time im- 
memorial. 



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WHITE, JaAIES L., son of John I). 
and Delight (Hutchins) White, was born 
in Peru, Berkshire county, October 18, 
1821. 

The common district school gave him 
his early educational training. He first 
began life for himself by tilling the soil. 
Successful in this, he extended his busi- 
ness by taking in the lumber trade. This 
was in 1855, and farming and lumbering 
have constituted his business up to the 
present time. He has always been active 
in town matters, and alive to the public 
questions of the hour. 

He has been town clerk of Windsor for 
eighteen years ; selectman and assessor 
many years ; was a member of the Legis- 
lature in 1855 and '73, and served his 
country during the war of the rebellion, 
as orderly-sergeant in company K, 49th 
regiment, Massachusetts volunteers. 

Mr. White was first married in Windsor, 
his present residence, June 8, 1843, to 
Ruby, daughter of Lyman and Betsey 
(Snow) Bird. His second marriage was 
in Dalton, February 22, 1870, with ^[aria 
T., daughter of Leonard and Elizabeth 
(Weir) Darby. He has by his first wife, 
two children : Ward D. and .Mary K. 
White (now Mrs. Ford), both living in 
Windsor. 

WHITE, LUTHER, son of .\ndrew and 
Philena (Stebbins) \\'hite, was born in ( Iran- 
bv, Hampshire countv, September 2, 1841. 

Common schools gave him his early edu- 
cation. Having prepared for college at 
Williston Seminary, he entered Brown Uni- 
versity in 1 86 1, and was graduated in the 
class of 1864. He then studied law with 
Judges Wells and Soule, at Springfield, also 
with the Hon. Charles Robinson at Boston. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1868, at 
Cambridge. He practiced law in Spring- 
field for a time, and in 1870 removed to 
Chicopee, where he has since resided and 
continued in the practice of his profes- 
sion. 

Mr. White was married in Chicopee, in 
1872, to Mary, daughter of Moses C. and 
Adaline (Wells) Hadlev. They have one 
child : i\hdiel .-V. White. 

The close application necessary to the 
duties of his profession and to the business 
enterprises in which he is engaged has de- 
terred Mr. White from entering much into 
public life, and with the exception of being 
for a number of years a member of the 
school board, he has never filled any office 
in the gift of the people 

He is interested in various corporations, 
and is a director of the .\mes Sword Com- 



pany, and the Overman Wheel Company, 
and was for seven years treasurer of the 
.\mes Manufacturing Company. 

WHITE, Ralph Huntington, son of 

Joseph and Sophia (Huntington) White, 
was born in Hinsdale, ISerkshire countv, 
January 11, 1841. 

His early education was accomplished 
at the public schools of his native place. 
The child was truly father of the man, for 
at the early age of eight years he began 
trading on his own account by peddling 
ajiples on the cars, and keeping a small 
stock of notions in his father's house. 

When eighteen years of age he came to 
Boston and became a salesman in the retail 
dry-goods store of S. L Wilcox & Co. 




RALPH H WHITE. 

When twenty-one, he bought an interest 
in the firm of Bunker 1.S: Tower, dry-goods, 
and continued the business under the name 
of Tower iV- White, selling out in 1863 to 
enter the firm of \\ilcox. White & Rora- 
back, which was then formed. Li iS64the 
name was changed to Wilcox, White & 
Co., and the ist of January, 1865, the busi- 
ness was sold out to Shepard, Norwell & 
Brown. A short time later Mr. White en- 
tered into partnership with his brother, 
under the firm name of R. H. White & Co., 
and Ahirch i, 1865, they opened a whole- 
sale and retail dry-goods store at Nos. 44 



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and 46 Winter Street. Here the new firm 
built up a lari^e and constantly increasing 
business, wliicli in a few years obliged them 
to enlarge their capacity by adding Nos. 
48 and 50 Winter Street to their store, and 
later, to secure the erection of the magnifi- 
cent building on Washington Street, which 
the firm now occupies, arranged with 
especial reference to its large retail business. 
The success of the new store was phenom- 
enal. In 1883 the building was found to 
be too small, and was enlarged by the erection 
of an e.xtensive adilition covering an area 
of sixteen thousand square feet, forming 
one of the largest and best arranged, and 
most substantial business edifices in the 
country. 

Besides the very large retail business 
which JSIr. White has built up, his house 
has for many years been one of the largest 
importers of dry-goods in the country, and 
this wholesale business has extended from 
Eastport, Me., to San Francisco, C"al. The 
house is one of Boston's best-known insti- 
tutions, and it rarely falls to the lot of 
any one man to become so successful a 
merchant in so short a space of time as has 
this energetic, shrewd, and enterprising 
man of affairs in his especial line of busi- 
ness. 

On the 25th of December, 1863, in Bos- 
ton, Mr. White married Ellen M., daughter 
of Samuel Hall and Eliza M. Tucker. Their 
four children are : Annie Huntington, 
Emilv Hall, Edith, and Ralph Herbert 
White. 

WHITING, Fred ERWIN, son of George 
Frederic and Harriet Louisa(Learned)Whit- 
ing, was born in Brookline, Norfolk county, 
December 21, 1S57. He is a lineal de- 
scendant from Nathaniel Whiting, of Ded- 
ham, who married Hannah White, daugh- 
ter of John \\'hite, March 4, 1643. They 
had twelve children, of whom the young- 
est, Jonatlian, born October 9, 1667, mar- 
ried Rachel Thorp, December 3, 1689. 
Jonathan and Rachel had ten children, of 
whom Ithamar, born April 12, 1741, mar- 
ried Mary Day, March 28, 1765. Ithamar 
and Mary had five children, of whom Esek, 
born February 10, 1769, married Lydia 
(ioodridge, December 3, 1797. Esek and 
Lydia had five children, of whom Charles 
Horace, born May 26, 1800, married 
Plooma S. Barnard, December 25, 1825. 
Charles and Plooma had seven children, 
one of whom was George F., the father of 
Mr. Whiting. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived in private schools, and the Cam- 
bridge high school. He was fitted for col- 



lege matriculation in the latter school, 
entered Harvard College, and was gradu- 
ated in the class of 1880. 

After graduation he was one year with 
the ]5oston Knob Company, of which his 
father was president. He then became 
connected with the business of the "Bos- 
ton Herald," acting as private secretary to 
R. M. I'ulsifer, its manager. N\'hile serv- 
ing in this capacity he w^as called to the 
oversight of many outside interests in 
which Mr. Pulsifer was interested, especi- 
ally when his patron was abroad, and though 
young in years, was (jften obliged to assume 
grave responsibilities. The results showed 
marked executive ability, and in March, 
1888, he was admitted as partner of the 
firm who owned and published the "Her- 
ald." In May of the same year, when the 
entire "Herald " property was turned over 
to the Boston Herald Company, he was 
one of the firm owners, and was made 




clerk of the corporation and assistant busi- 
ness manager, which position he now holds. 
He is also a director in the company, and 
one of the three executors of the will of 
Mr. Pulsifer. 

In 1879, '80, and '81 he was treasurer of 
tlie Cambridge ward and city committee. 
He is director and treasurer of the Hotel 
& Railroatl News Company ; treasurer of 



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WHITNEY. 



the Hotel Pemberton Company, tiie Boston 
Electric Time Conipany, and of the Tux- 
pan Oil Company ; a life-member of the 
Y. M. C. U., and a member of the order of 
F. &: A. M. 

Mr. Whiting is a young man of compre- 
hen.sive theory and grasp in business 
methods. To a natural executive ability 
lias been added an exceptionally varied ex- 
perience in business with Mr. i'ulsifer, ex- 
tended over a broad field of activities. 

Mr. Whiting was married in Cambridge, 
October 10, 1883, to Amy Estelle, daughter 
of Thomas T. and Clara Ophelia (Rolfe) 
Ferguson. .She is a lineal descendant from 
Captain Rolfe, who married Pocahontas. 
Of this union are two children : Royal 
Ooodridge and Philip Krwin Whiting. 

Mr. Whiting's residence is Auburndale. 

WHITMORE, WiLLiA.M Henry, son of 

Charles (). and Lovice (.Ayres) Whitmore, 
was born in Dorchester, September 6, 
1836. 

He was educated in the Boston schools, 
passing through the high and Latin schools. 
In 1859 he began his business relations in 
the firm of E. F. Jones & Whitmore, which 
was dissolved in i860. He was a partner 
in the firm of C. O. Whitmore &: Sons un- 
til 1865. His business at present is min- 
ing and smelting, and his residence Pjos- 
ton. 

Mr. Whitmore has been a conspicuous 
member of the Boston common council for 
eight years, and was president of that body 
in 1879. 

Mr. Whitmore was married in Boston, 
June II, 18S4, to Frances Therese Wallen 
Maynard, who was the daughter of Edward 
F. and Frances Maria Russell (Curow) 
Maynard. ( )f this union is one son : 
Charles lid ward Whitmore, born Septem- 
ber 26, 1887. 

Mr. Whitmore's temperament and train- 
ing alike forbid him to be a quiet member 
of any society with which he may be con- 
nected, and the political history of the 
I^emocratic party, of which he has so long 
been a notecl leader, could not be written 
without due prominence being given to his 
sagacious, bold, and successful moves in its 
interest. Nor has he confined his restless 
activity to the shifting scenes of politics. 
The more quiet walks of literature have 
found in him a patient worker and zealous 
student. Mr. A\'hitmore has achieved more 
than a local reputation for diligent research 
and accuracy in historical writing. He has 
been one of the commissioners of public 
records of the city of Boston, from 1S75 
to the present time. 



WHITNEY, George, son of Amos and 
Sophia (Harris) Whitney, was born in 
Royalston,Worcester county, Sept. 21, 1S17. 

His education was limited to the com- 
mon school. In 1839 he engaged in the 
chair business. 

In i860 Mr. Whitney became interested 
in the manufacture of fancy cassimeres. 
His business at present embraces both 
the manufacture of woolen goods and 
chairs. 

In 1840 he was married in Boston, to 
Eliza S., daughter of David and Elizabeth 
Simpson. They have one child : George 
Ellis Whitney. 

Mr. Whitney was a member of the 
executive council under Governors Wash- 
burn, Gaston, and Rice, from 1872 to '77. 

WHITNEY, HENRY MaRTYN, was born 
at \\'inchendon, Worcester county, August 
21, 1828. He is the son of Hananiah and 
Sarah (Beaman) Whitney. 

He received his early education in the 
public schools of Lowell, to which place 
his parents removed when he was two 
years old. 

His first connection with business life 
was in the counting-room of the Massa- 
chusetts Cotton Mills at Lowell, at fifteen 
years. He went in to fill a temporary 
vacancy for two weeks, and remained 
twenty months, during which he attended 
evening school. 

He then entered the drug store of Carle- 
ton i& Hovey, agreeing to remain with them 
five years. Not satisfied with the excellent 
common school education he had received, 
he took a course in the languages and 
mathematics bv private instruction. 

During his apprenticeship he received 
several excellent offers of partnership, 
which he refused, feeling in honor bound 
to stay the term agreed upon. One of 
these offers remained open to him, and at 
the expiration of that time (1849), 'h*^ fifi^ 
of Wilson & Whitney was organized at 
Lawrence in the location he has ever since 
occupied. In two years he bought out 
Mr. Wilson, and for several years carried 
on the business alone. 

During his mercantile life he has em- 
ployed a great many young men, and as he 
ever maintained and inculcated the same 
spirit of honor in business that he manifested 
during his apprenticeship, he has the proud 
satisfaction of knowing that every living 
past employee of his is now doing well ; 
and they are noted as honorable business 
men in almost every state from Maine to 
Texas. Several of these he admitted in 
partnership till they found opportunities of 



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bettering themselves, and many others he 
assisted in starting in business. 

In 1854 he married Harriet, daughter of 
George and Clarissa (Morrill) Bagley, of 
Nashua, N. H. She died in 1876. He 
subsequently married, in 1879, Mary Wheat- 
land, daughter of Robert E. and Martha 
(Wheatland) Bemis, of Salem. 

He was largely instrumental in securing 
the adoption of, and carrying into effect, 
the pharmacy law, and has from its organi- 
zation been president of the Massachusetts 
board of registration in pharmacy. 

He is one of the trustees of the Essex 
Savings Bank, and for many years has 
been warden and treasurer of Grace Epis- 
copal church. He was instrumental in 
introducing the electric light in Lawrence, 
and is treasurer of the Edison Electric 
Light Company of that city, which was the 
second electric light company organized 
on that system in the United States. 

WHITNEY, Henry Melville, son of 

James Scolly and Laurinda (Collins) Whit- 
ney, was born in Conway, Franklin county, 
October 22, 1841. 

The public schools furnished him with 
his early educational training, supple- 
mented by one year at Easthampton Semi- 
nary. 

His first entrance upon a business career 
was as a clerk in the Conway Bank, 
where he remained three years. He then 
went to the Bank of iN'Iutual Redemption, 
Boston ; was afterwards clerk in the navy 
agent's office for one year (i860), and was 
then engaged in New York City in the 
shipping business. 

h\ 1866 he became Boston agent, antl in 
1879 president, of the Metropolitan Steam- 
ship Company, Boston, which position he 
still holds. In 1887 he was elected presi- 
dent of the West End Street Railway Com- 
pany, the largest street railway in the 
world, and a corporation controlling all 
the horse-car lines now running in the city 
of Boston. He is also president of the 
Hancock Inspirator Company. 

Mr. Whitney was married in Brookline, 
October 3, 1878, in St. Paul's church, to 
Margaret Foster, daughter of Joseph F. 
and Ruth (Bowman) Green. Of this union 
are four children : Ruth Bowman, Elinor 
(ireen, Laura Collins, and James Scolly 
Whitney. 

Mr. \Vhitney has brought to the presi- 
dency of the West End Street Railway, 
thorough business experience, financial in- 
tegrity, and inventive genius. Before him 
and his associates lies the task of solving 
the problem of rapid transit in the city of 



Boston. The movements so far made to- 
ward bringing order out of chaos have 
been eminently successful. 

WHITNEY, LEVI LINCOLN, son of John 
and Eliza Ann (Watson) Whitney, was born 
in Princeton, Worcester county, January 
20, 1838. 

He attended the common schools of his 
native town, and subsequently studied in 
Worcester Academy. 

His first connection with business was in 
Chicago in 1859, as manufacturer of boots 
and shoes, under the firm name of Thomp- 
son, Whitney & Co. They were burned 
out in the great fire of 1871, wlien Mr. 



^ ^ 







LEVI L. WHITNEY. 

Whitney came to Millbury and associated 
himself with Crane & Waters, manufac- 
turers of hosiery, and remained-with them 
until 1885. He is now one of the firm of 
Whitney & Molt, manufacturers of indigo 
blue dye. He is also treasurer of the 
Stonem'etz Printers' Machinery Company. 

Mr. Whitney was married in Millbury, 
September 4, 1862, to Annie Rachel, daugh- 
ter of Hon. Hosea and Laura .\nn (Hub- 
bard) Crane. Of this union are three 
children : Walter Lincoln, Laura (irace, 
and Maud Eliza Whitney. 

Mr. Whitney was chosen a director in 
the Millbury National Bank in 1876, and 
has since continued in the position ; was 



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WHITNEY. 



elected a trustee of the Millbur)- .Savings 
Bank in 1873 ; chosen its president in 
1888, which position he still holds. He 
was selectman in 1877, '78, and '79, and 
again in 1881 and '87, serving as chairman 
of the board the last three years. 

He was a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives in 1881, serving upon the 
committee on banks and banking, and of 
the Senate in 1889, holding the onerous 
and responsible position of chairman of 
the committee on towns, performing good 
service also upon the committee on labor. 

He is an active member in the order of 
F. & A. M., and is a member of the Wor- 
cester County Commandery, Knights Tem- 
plar. 

WHITNEY, Milton Burrall, son of 

Samuel Hart and Marilla Lovisa (Dickin- 
son) Whitney, was born in Granville, 
Hampden county, October 6, 1825. 

He is of the eighth generation m direct 
descent from Henry Whitney, who emi- 
grated from Herefordshire, England, and 
settled near Huntington, upon the easterly 
end of Long Island, about 1649. 

He was educated in the public schools ; 
fitted for college in the private school of 
Rev. Timothy Cooley, of Granville, and 
was graduated from Williams College in 
the class of 1849, with the honor of clas- 
sical oration. 

He engaged in teaching for two years 
after graduating, then studied law with 
William G. Bates, a leading lawyer in 
western Massachusetts ; was admitted to 
the bar in 1853, and upon admission, 
formed a partnership with Mr. Bates, 
which lasted till 1865. He then practiced 
alone until 1S74, when he associated with 
himself James R. Dunbar, under the firm 
name of Whitney & Dunbar, which part- 
nership continued till 1886, when Mr. 
Dunbar was appointed associate justice of 
the superior court. Since that time he 
has been a member of the law firm of 
Whitney & Brigham. 

Mr. Whitney has been repeatedly called 
to serve his town and state in many posi- 
tions of honor and trust, and as trustee or 
director in many local corporations. He 
has been a trustee in the Westfield Savings 
Bank continuously since 1857 ; a director 
of the First National Bank of Westfield 
since its incorporation in 1865, and its 
president since 1881 ; prior to 1865, he was 
a director of the old Westfield Bank ; has 
been for years the attorney for the town 
and many of the leading business firms 
and corporations ; has practiced in all the 
counties of western Massachusetts ; was 



a member of the state Senate from the 
western Hampden district, in 1862 and 
'63. Although the Senate in 1862 con- 
tained thirteen lawyers, and he was one of 
the youngest members, he was made chair- 
man of the committee on public lands, 
and chairman of the joint special com- 
mittee on the important subject of the 
" Concord and Sudbury rivers." He also 
served on several other standing and 
special committees. 




MILTON B WHITNEY. 

In 1863 he was a member of the Senate 
committee on judiciary, and chairman of 
the joint committee on federal relations, 
and took an active and leading part in the 
legislation of that session. 

He was presidential elector in 1868, and 
a delegate to the national Republican 
convention which nominated President 
Garfield in 1880. He was appointed a 
member of the state board of education, 
in 1881, and was re-appointed in 1S89, at 
the expiration of the term. He has always 
taken a lively interest in educational mat- 
ters, and has been found in the ranks of 
those who have at heart the raising of the 
standard of good citizenship in the Com- 
monwealth. 

Pearly in life Mr. Whitney was a Whig 
in politics, and has acted with the Repul)- 
lican party since its formation, but from 



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tlie conservative rast of the man, he has 
never been an extreme partisan. 

He had the rugged experience in early 
life of one who worked on the farm in 
summer and taught school winters in order 
to secure the necessary funds to pay for 
educational advantages. 

Ever since he has been a member of the 
state board of education he has been 
chairman of the visitors of the state nor- 
mal school at Westfield, and of the board 
of visitors of institutions for the education 
of deaf mutes, and of the blind who re- 
ceive aid from the Commonwealth. 

But while Mr. Whitney has given much 
time to uninterrupted and honorable edu- 
cational work, it is his thirty-six years' legal 
practice that has earned for him the posi- 
tion of one of the leading lawyers in west- 
ern Massachusetts. 

WHITNEY, Samuel Brenton, son of 

Samuel and Amelia (Hyde) Whitney, was 
born in Woodstock, Wind.sor county, Vt., 
June 4, 1842. 

His early education was obtained in the 
public schools. He afterward attended 
the Vermont Episcopal Institute, Burling- 
ton ; studied music first with local teach- 
ers, afterwards with Carl Wels in New 
York, and later still with Professor John 
K. Paine, of Harvard University, taking 
lessons on the organ, pianoforte, compo- 
sition and instrumentation. 

Mr. Whitney has been organist and di- 
rector of music of Christ church, Montpelier, 
Vt.; St. Peter's, Albany, N. Y.; St. Paul's 
church, Burlington, Vt.; is at present, and 
has been for the past eighteen years, organ- 
ist of the Church of the Advent, Boston, 
the choir of which church has become 
quite celebrated under his direction. He 
has frequently been engaged as conductor 
of choir festival associations in Massachu- 
setts and Vermont ; is first vice-president 
and one of the organ examiners of the 
American College of Musicians ; has writ- 
ten church music quite extensively, also 
piano and miscellaneous music. He has 
been conductor of many choral societies in 
and around Boston, and has the reputation 
of being very successful in training and 
developing boys' voices. 

Mr. Whitney was for a time a teacher of 
the organ in the New England Conserva- 
tory of Music. He also established in this 
institution for the first time a church-music 
class, in which not only were the vocal 
pupils taught how to properly interpret 
sacred music, but the organ pupils as well, 
were instructed as to the management of 
the organ in church service. 



Among Mr. Whitney's compositions are 
a trio for pianoforte and strings, many 
solos and arrangements for both piano- 
forte and organ, as well as several church 
services, Te Deums, and miscellaneous 
anthems, songs, both sacred and secular. 

WHITNEY, Wilbur F., son of John 
and Kliza (Cushing) Whitney, was born 
in Westminster, Worcester county, Decem- 
ber 9, 1839. 

■ He was educated at the common and 
high schools of his native town, at the 
Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, and 
passed the freshman year at Dartmouth 
College. 

He began business as a chair manufac- 
turer, in 1865, with a capital of three hun- 
dred dollars, and has continued througliout 
his life in the same business, at the pres- 
ent time manufacturing four hundred thou- 
sand chairs a year, at a wholesale value of 
three hundred and twenty thousand dol- 
lars. The factory is situated at South 
Ashburnham, where two hundred hands 
are employed, and two hundred and fifty 
prisoners are constantly occupied in the 
same business. 

On the 17th of July, 1866, Mr. Whitney 
married Emeline S., daughter of Dexter 
and Sarah (Mower) Jewell, of Jaffrey, 
N. H. Their children are : Oscar J., 
born January 22, 187 i, Celena M., Luella 
C, Ethel E., and Edith L. Whitney. Their 
son, Oscar, died January 2, 1886. 

Mr. Whitney was elected a member of 
the House of Representatives in 1875. He 
is a director in the Ashburnham National 
Bank, trustee of the Cushing Academy, 
and member of the committee on educa- 
tion. In religious associations he has 
always been an active and earnest Meth- 
odist. 

His present residence is at Ashburnham, 
where he holds an enviable re|)utation as 
a man who has always been successful in 
business. Politically he has been a strong 
adherent of the (Greenback party, and is a 
vigorous and enthusiastic Prohibitionist. 

WHITON, STARKES, son of Moses and 
Ann (Stoddard) Whiton, was born in 
HiUj^diam, Plvmouth county, April 11, 1829, 
and is a direct descendant in the seventh 
generation of James Whiton, who settled 
in Hingham in 1647. His ancestors have 
always been referred to by historians as 
men of excellent character, upright and 
industrious, enjoying the confidence and 
respect of their townsmen. 

He attended the common schools of his 
native place, then Derby Academy from 



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WHITTIER. 



iS;g to '45, when his first connection in 
business was made by entering the whole- 
sale dry-goods business as a " boy " for 
Charles Arnold «& Co , Boston. 

In 1852 he took the position of clerk in 
the Boston office of Brown Brothers & Co., 
New York bankers. In 1870 he became 
the treasurer and agent of the Boston & 
Hingham Steamboat Company ; was state 
senator from the 2d Plymouth district in 
1880 and '81, and in 1885 was appointed 
chairman of the state board of gas com- 
missioners. He was afterwards appointed 
a commissioner of savings banks for the 
Commonwealth, which position he still 
holds. 

Mr. Whiton was married in Hingham, 
December 13, 1870, to Helen, daughter of 
David and Adeline (Sprague) Thomas. Of 
this union were three children : Chauncey 
(iilbert, David Thomas, and Herbert 
.Starkes Whiton. 

His church connections are with the 
P'irst parish, of which he is a working 
member. 

He was chairman of tlie board of audi- 
tors for the town of Hingham while the 
board existed, 1876 to '82, and at the last 
annual meeting was again elected to that 
position. He is clerk, treasurer, and direct- 
or of the Hingham Water Company, and 
was treasurer of the Hingham Agricul- 
tural and Horticultural Society for eight 
years. 

Mr. \\'liitou's grandfather served in the 
war of the rfevolution under Gen. Stark, 
and named one of his twin sons " Starkes," 
in mark of the esteem in which he held his 
commander, the other twin son being the 
father of the subject of this sketch. 

WHlTTltR, Charles, son of John 

Brodhead and Lucy (Graham) Whittier, 
was born November 26, 1829, in Vienna, 
Kennebec county, Me. His paternal an- 
cestor, Thomas Whittier, came to this 
country from England in 1638, at the age 
of si.xteen, in the ship " Confidence." 

Mr. Whittier's early education was 
drawn from the public schools of Roxbury, 
principally the Washington grammar 
school, which he entered when it was dedi- 
cated in 1841. 

In 1846, when seventeen years of age, 
he apprenticed himself for three years to 
the firm of Chubbuck & Campbell, machin- 
ists, Roxbury, the lineal successor of which 
is the Whittier Machine Compan)-. Dur- 
ing his apprenticeship he attended for two 
years the drawing school of the Lowell 
Institute. On the completion of his ap- 
prenticeship, he remained with the firm as 



a journeyman, and went throughout New 
England and elsewhere, erecting steam en- 
gines and machinery. In 1859 he was 
made superintendent and admitted as a 
partner to the firm, then changed to Camp- 
bell, Whittier & Co. (Mr. Chubbuck retir- 
ing). Mr. Whittier is now president of the 
well-known \\'hittier Machine Company, 
which was incorporated in 1874 as the suc- 
cessor to this large and important industry. 
The main works, partly in Roxbury, partly 
in South Boston, comprise very large and 
unusually fine plants in the line of foundry 
and machine work, especially adapted to 
the manufacture of passenger and freight 
elevators, the successful development of 
which is very greatly due to the \\'hittier 
Machine Company, who have introduced 
many improvements increasing the safety, 
speed, and the comfort realized in the use 
of elevators. 




CHARLES WHITTIER. 

Mr. Whittier is one of Boston's most 
prominent businessmen. He has been for 
many years an active member of the Mas- 
sachusetts Charitable Mechanic Associa- 
tion ; is an executive officer of the Rox- 
bury Charitable Society ; has been for 
over thirty-five years a member of the 
First Universalist society of Roxbury, and 
for many years a member of the board of 
trustees of Tufts College. 



WHITTIER 



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He was married in Roxbury. June 7. 
1855, to Eliza Isabel, eldest daujilUcr ot 
Benjamin F. and Eliza (Everett) C'amp- 
hell. He has no children. 

He was elected to the state Senate in 
1884, and served one term. 

WHITTIER, John Greenleaf, the 

son ol John and Abigail (Hussey) Whit- 
tier, was born at Haverhill in the valley of 
the Merrimack, Essex county, December 
17, 1807. He has passed nearly his entire 
life in the same region, first in the town of 
Haverhill, and then in .\mesbnry, some nine 
miles distant. 

He is descended on his father's side from 
Thomas Whittier, who in the year 163S 
came from Southampton, England, to New 
England, in the ship " Confidence," of 
London, John I )obson, master. The mother 
of the poet was a descendant of Christopher 
Hussey of Hampton, N. H., who marrieil 
a daughter of Rev. Stephen Uachelor, the 
first minister in the town. 

.\lr. Whittier received his early educa- 
tion at the district school at Haverhill, 
which he attended twelve weeks in the year. 
His first schoolmaster was Joshua Coffin, 
afterwards the historian of Newbury. An 
old friend and schoolmate of Whittier's 
.says that sometimes, instead of tioingsums 
on his slate at school, he was writing verses, 
even when a little lad. On leaving the 
district school, he attentletl Haverhill .Acad- 
emy for two terms. 

It is a well-known matter of record that 
the reading material that found its way to 
Farmer Whittier's house consisted of the 
almanac, the weekly paper, and scarce a 
score of books and pamphlets — among 
them " Lindley Murray's Reader." 

At the age of eighteen some verses of 
his were sent to the local weekly paper, 
" The Newburyport Free Press," of which 
William Lloyd Carrison was the editor. 
They were published, much to the delight 
of the author, being the first time anything 
of his had appeared in print. F^ncourageil 
by his success, this was followed by other 
poems which attracted the attention of 
(larrLson so stronglv that he decided to ride 
over a distance of fifteen miles, and see his 
contributor, which he did, telling him that 
he had power as a writer, and urging him 
to improve his talents. 

His first connection in business was as 
editor of the " American Manufacturer " 
in Boston. He was subsecjuently editor of 
the " New England Review " at Hartford, 
Conn.; the "Essex (Gazette," Haverhill ; 
the " Pennsylvania Freeman," Philadel- 
phia ; the " .Middlesex Standard," Lowell, 



ami the " Xational Era," Washington, 1). C. 
Mv. Whittier has been a member of the 
state Legislature, and was chosen as Re- 
publican presidential elector in i860 and 
'64. His religious connections are with the 
Friends. 

He has held the offices of secretary of 
the Anti-Slavery Society at its formation in 
1833 ; overseer of Harvard College, and 
trustee of Brown Lhiiversity. 

His writings are characterized by earn- 
estness of tone, high moral purpose, and 
energy of expression. His spirit is that 
of a sincere and fearless reformer ; and 
his fervid appeals are the true utterances 
of a brave and loving heart. He describes 




JOHN G WHITTIER. 

natural scenery correctly and beautifully, 
and a vein of genuine tenderness runs 
through his nature. He is a true son of 
New England, and beneath the calm, 
fraternal hearing of the (,)uaker, muses 
the imaginative ardor of a devotee, both 
of nature and humanity. 

.Mr. Whittier has been too prolific a 
writer to allow an enumeration of all the 
poems that have stirred the patriotic heart, 
touched the chords of sympathy, or 
awakened a holy purpose. His first volume 
was " Legends of New England," in prose 
and verse, published in Hartford, Conn., in 
I S3 I. This was followed in early years by 



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WIGGIN. 



WILDER 



occasional pieces, until 1S44, when the 
first English edition of his poetry, entitled 
" Ballads and Other Poems," was published 
in London, with an introduction by Elizur 
Wright. Subsequent editions followed 
from time to time, containing fresh and 
choice bits of song, inspired by a patriotic 
devotion to the Union cause, or born in 
the quiet repose of the poet's peaceful 
home. Possibly the most popular of the 
many poems which have rendered their 
author most famous, are : " Home Bal- 
lads," " Snow-Bound," " The Tent on the 
Beach," "Among the Hills," '' Ballads of 
New England," " Miriam," and the " Poems 
of Nature." The latest edition of his 
works, supervised by himself, including 
the poems of his sister, was published in 
Boston in 1889. 

WIGGIN, Joseph Furnald, son of 

Joshua and Dorotli)- (Furnald) Wiggin, 
was born in Exeter, Rockingham county, 
N. H., March 30, 1838. 

After passing the common schools in 
E.xeter, he spent three years in Phillips 




JOSEPH F. WIGGIN. 

Academy, Exeter, N. H., and fitted there 
for college, expecting to enter Harvard one 
year in advance. He did not, however, take 
up a connection with the college, but 
studied law in the Harvard law school, 
remaining there one year (1859). He read 



law in the office of Hon. William W. 
Stickney of Exeter, N. H., and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Rockingham county 
in 1862. 

He practiced law in Epping, N. H., one 
year ; removed to Exeter, and practiced 
there until 1880. He then removed to 
Maiden, where he now resides, practicing 
law in the city of Boston in connection 
with B. Marvin Fernald of Melrose. 

Mr. Wiggin was married in Milton, July 
6, 1868, to Ruth Hurd, daughter of Thomas 
and Deborah C. (Allen) Hollis. Of this 
union were ten children, of whom nine are 
now living : Ruth H., Joseph, Thomas H., 
Deborah A., Walter, Margaret E., Harry, 
John H., and Helen Wiggin. 

Mr. Wiggin was judge of probate for 
Rockingham county, N. H., from 187 1 to 
'76. He was appointed in 1877 one of the 
commissioners to compile and revise the 
public statutes of the state of New Hamp- 
shire. He was three years a member of 
the Maiden school board ; was elected 
mayor of Maiden in 1888, was re-elected 
and is now serving his second term. 

WILDER, Salem, son of Jones and 
Arethusa (Manning) Wilder, was born in 
Sterling, Worcester countv, January 28, 
1823. 

He obtained his early education at the 
common schools, and from 1843 to '45 was 
at New Ipswich and Hancock, N. H., fit- 
ting for college. From 1845 to '47 he at- 
tended the college at WaterviUe, Me., but 
did not graduate on account of long con- 
tinued illness. 

In 1S65 Mr. Wilder formed a partnership 
with W. H. Plummer, as general agents, in 
Boston, for the sale of sewing machines, 
and later added to the business the general 
agency for E. Butterick & Co.'s patterns 
of garments. In 1876 Mr. Wilder bought 
out his partner, and still continues the busi- 
ness, rejjresenting the Butterick Publishing 
Company (limited). 

At Nashua, N. H., February 18, 1851, 
Mr, Wilder married Betsey S., daughter of 
Edward and Betsey (Stanley) Shaw. Their 
children are: ],izzie S. (born in 1853, de- 
ceased in 1881), Clara Arethusa (born in 
1855, deceased in 1858), and Annie S. Wil- 
der (born in 1858, now living). 

In 1869 Mr. Wilder was sent to the state 
Legislature, where he was instrunvental in 
carrying through important measures af- 
fecting the fisheries, and took an important 
part in the temperance legislation of that 
year. 

From vouth Mr. Wilder has been fond 
of tlie rifle, and has made for himself a 



Wll.DKR. 



WILLARl). 



659 



wide reputation as one of the best shots in 
tlie country. His partiaHty for the rifle 
was early developed, he at the ,age of 
eighteen accomplishing more with the rifle 
than his companions could with the shot- 
gun. He has kept pace with the develop- 
ment of this fire-arm through all its changes 
from muzzle to breech-loader, adding in- 




SALEM WILDER, 



genious devices of his own to his favorite 
weapon, until now at the various matches 
in which he has carried off many a prize, 
he stands among the first of those who ex- 
cel in this fascinating recreation. 

In his leisure hours he has also accom- 
plished much in a literary line, writing sev- 
eral essays evincing careful research and 
great thought. These have been well re- 
ceived by both the press and the general 
public. His most ambitious work is •' Life ; 
its Nature, Origin ami I )evelopment." This 
is an able review and discussion of the 
much-mooted question respecting the origin 
of life. The author traverses the entire 
field of scientific hypothesis, theory, and 
speculation — ancient and modern — and 
tests each in turn at its crucial point, show- 
ing the fallacies of many of them, and their 
entire lack of facts to support them. His 
book is one of the very best which the an- 
tagonism of some modern scientists to a 
divine revelation has called forth. 



WILLARD, JOSEPH AUGUSTUS, son 
of Sidney and Elizabeth Anne (Andrews) 
WiUard, was born September 29, 1816, in 
Cambridge, Middlesex county. 

He was educated atWestford Academy, 
Cambridgeport Latin school, and fitted for 
college under the tuition at different times 
of James Freeman Clarke and Ralph Waldo 
Emerson. Instead of entering college, 
however, in 1830 he went to sea for eight 
years, when he returned and continued his 
studies under his father, who had resigned 
a professorship at Harvard College. 

In 1S46 he entered the office of the clerk 
of the court of common pleas, to assist in 
the office, and in 1848 was appointed dep- 
uty sheriff with his other duties. In 1854 
he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and in 
1855 was appointed assistant clerk of the 
superior court of the county of Suffolk. 
In 1859 he was appointed assistant clerk 
of the present superior court. In 1865 he 




JOSEPH A WILLARD 

was appointed by the court, clerk of the 
superior court, to fill a vacancy, and has 
been elected every term since. This office 
he still holds, his term e.xpiring in 1892. 

On the 5th of September, 1841, in Cam- 
bridge, Mr. WiUard was married to Penel- 
ope, daughter of Peter and Penelope 
Cochran. Their children are : Elizabeth 
Anne, Edward Augustus, Mary Mitchell, 



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WILLIAMS. 



WILUA.MS. 



Penelope Frances, Sidney Faneuil, and 
p:dith Gertrude Willard. ' Mrs. Willard's 
great grandmother was Mary Faneuil, the 
sister of Peter Faneuil. 

Mr. Willard is a prominent Mason and a 
member of the Ancient and Honorable 
Artillery Company. He is descended from 
a worthy line of ancestors, who have been 
prominent in the history of the State for 
generations. Among them, Joseph and 
Samuel Willard were each president of 
Harvard University, in which, also, his 
father, Sidney Willard, was librarian and 
l^rofessor of Oriental languages and Latin. 
On his mother's side, his grandmother twice 
removed was Anne Dudley, more famil- 
iarly known as Anne Bradstreet, the wife 
of Governor Simon Bradstreet. 

WILLIAMS, Franklin Hubbard, the 

son of Oliver and Marian Williams, was 
born in Sunderland, Franklin county, Feb- 
ruary 2, 1834. 

He received his early education at the 
district school of his native town, after 




FRANKLIN H, WILLIAMS 

which he attended three terms at the Wil- 
liston Seminary, Easthampton, leaving 
there in November, 1854. 

After traveling two winters in the South, 
he commenced farming with his father at 
Sunderland, in the spring of 1S56. At the 
age of twentv-three Mr. Williams took 



charge of his fatlier's farm, and upon his 
decease came into the possession of the 
property. 

He has always taken an active interest 
in all agricultural subjects, and is one of 
the most enterprising and progressive 
farmers of the district. He has been a 
member of the school board and has held 
other town offices. 

Mr. Williams was married in Sunderland, 
February 13, 1867, to Jane S. Sanderson, 
by whom he has four children : Frank O., 
Arthur Sanderson, Milton Hubbard, ancl 
Jennie Maud Williams. 

WILLIAMS, John J., s<m of Michael 
and Ann (Egan) Williams, was born in 
Boston, April 27, 1822, and when but a 
mere chilcl" began the foundation of his 
education in the primary department of 
Mrs. Newmarch's kindergarten school, 
afterwards becoming a pupil of F'ather 
F'ilton. 

In 1833, at the age of eleven years, he 
was sent to St. Sulpice College, Montreal, 
Canada, where he remained about eight 
years. He embarked for Paris in 1841, 
and on his arrival there entered the cele- 
brated seminary of St. Sulpice, being then 
about twenty years of age. He was or- 
dained a priest in 1845, being then twenty- 
three years of age. 

Returning to this country he officiated 
for many years in the old Cathedral of the 
Holy Cross on Franklin Street, Boston. 
In 1855 he was appointed rector of the 
cathedral, and after serving two years in 
that capacity, was made vicar-general in 
1857, and administered the diocese during 
the last years of Bishop F^itzpatrick's epis- 
copate. His direct connection with the 
old cathedral was severed in 1857, by his 
appointment as pastor of St. James church 
on Albany Street. 

On the 19th of January, 1866, in the forty- 
fourth year of his age, he was appointed 
bishop of Tripoli /// partibus infideliiim, 
ami coadjutor of the bishop of Boston, 
with the right of succession. He became, 
by Bishop Fitzpatrick's death, bishop of 
Boston, and was consecrated on the nth 
of March, 1866. After his promotion to 
the bishopric, he assisted at two very 
important councils, viz., the Plenary 
Council of Baltimore, held in 1866, and 
the Ecumenical Council, hekl in Rome 
i869-'7o. 

Bishop Williams was instrumental in the 
establishment of the House of the Good 
Shepherd, the Redemptorist and Oblate 
Fathers, Little Sisters of the Poor, and In- 
fant Asvlum. He also re-organized and 



WILLIAMS. 



WII.LISTON. 



66 1 



enlarged the Home for Destitute Children, 
and founded the Catholic Union. 

The chief labor of his life, however, has 
been the erection of the Cathedral of the 
Holy Cross, located at the junction of Wash- 
ington and Union Park streets, J^oston, 
one of the largest and most magnificent 
edifices of the kind in this country. The 
first sod of the cathedral lot was turned 
April 27-, 1866, on Bishop Williams's forty- 
fourth birthday. The corner-stone was 
laid Sunday, September 15, 1867. 




JOHN J. WILLIAMb 

On Mav 2, 1875, the ceremony of con- 
ferring the pallium of an archbishop on 
the Right Reverend John J. Williams took 
place, being one of the most notable 
events in the history of the Catholic 
church in lioston. The new cathedral, 
not then nuite finished, was temporarily 
fitted up for the occasion, Bishop McNeir- 
ney of Albany celebrating the solemn 
high mass. Bishop Goesbriand preached 
the sermon, and the pallium, which had 
been brought from Rome by an ablegate 
of the Pope, Mons. Caesar Roncetti, accom- 
panied by his secretary. Dr. Ubalbi, and 
l)y a nobleman of the Papal Guard, Count 
Marefoschi, was conferred on Archbishop 
Williams by Cardinal McCloskey, of New 
York, in the presence of all the bishops of 
the ecclesiastical province of New N'ork. and 



the clergvof this and the neighboring dio- 
ceses, and before an assembly of about si.\ 
thousand persons. 

WILLIAMS, Moses, son of Mo.ses B. 
and Mary I. (Penniman) \\'illiams, was 
born in Ro.xbury, Norfolk county, Decem- 
ber 4, 1846. 

He obtained his preparatory education 
in the Brooklme public schools ; entered 
Harvard College in 1864, and was gradu- 
ated in the class of 1868. 

He chose the profession of law, and 
after the usual course of training, was ad- 
mitted to the Massachusetts bar, Decem- 
ber 20, 1868. 

He immediately began the practice of 
law, in which he has since continuetl with 
honorable success, with offices in Boston 
and residence in Brookline. He is now 
president of the Third National Bank of 
Boston. 

Mr. Williams was married in Brookline, 
September 10, 1868, to Martha C, daugh- 
ter of Henry and Annie (Loder) Fininley. 
Of this union are five children : Moses, 
Mary Eleanor, Hugh, Constance Martha, 
and Gladys Williams. 

WILLISTON, A. LYMAN, son of J. Pay- 
son and Cecilia (Lyman) Williston, was 
born in Northampton, Hampshire county, 
December 13, 1834. 

The schools of the town gave him his early 
education, until fitted for Williston Semi- 
nary, where he pursued his academic cour.se 
to a finish. His tastes were in the line of 
a business career rather than professional, 
and he concluded not to pursue his studies 
through to a collegiate course, though he 
has since been made an honorary alumnus 
of Amherst College, with the degree of 
A. M. 

Mr. Williston successively held the posi- 
tion of clerk, superintendent, manager, 
president, and treasurer of the Greenville 
ALinufacturing Cotton Mills in Northamp- 
ton, from 1852 until their close in 1884. 
He is now president of the First National 
Bank of Northampton, and proprietor and 
manufacturer of Payson's Indelible Ink, 
established bv I. Pavson Williston in 

1834. 

He was a member of the board of alder- 
men of Northampton, in 1886 and '87. He 
has been a trustee of Mt. Holyoke Seminary 
and College twenty-two years, and its 
treasurer for sixteen years ; a trustee of 
Williston Seminary, Easthampton, its presi- 
dent four years, and treasurer ten years ; 
a trustee of Smith College, Northampton ; 
trustee of trust funds for Williston Semi- 



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WILSON. 



WIXSHII'. 



nary, under the will of S. '\^'illisto^ ; a mem- 
ber of the prudential committee of Amherst 
College ; a member of the trust funds com- 
mittee for the city of Northampton ; a 
member of the public library committee, 
and president of the sewer commission. 

Mr. Williston is a deacon of the First 
Congregational church, Northampton, and 
a corporate member of the A. B. C. F. M. 
He has also been president and treasurer 
of various benevolent and mercantile or- 
ganizations at sundry times. 

The paternal grandfather of Mr. \\'illis- 
ton was Rev. Payson Williston, the first 
minister of Easthampton, and for more 
than fifty years its active pastor. 

Mr. Williston was married June 12, 1861, 
to Sarah Tappan, daughter of Professor 
Solomon and Frances E. (Greenwood) 
Stoddard. Of this union were six chil- 
dren : May, John Pa3-son, Lucy, Robert 
Lyman, Elizabeth, and Harry Stoddard 
Williston. 

WILSON, Joseph W., son of Joseph 
and Mary Ann (Clark) Wilson, was born in 
Wells, York countv, Maine, .\ugust 26, 
1831. 

He was educated in public and private 
schools, LInion .\cademy, Kennebunk. Me., 
and the Biddeford high school. 

In July, 1847, he went to work to learn 
the machinist's trade in Biddeford. Hav- 
ing removed to Easthampton, he engaged 
with Samuel Williston & Co. in 1852, 
changed to the Nashawannuck Manufac- 
turing Company in 1862, and to the house 
of Williston & Knight in 1870, where he 
remained until 1881. He then became a 
partner in the merchant firm of Rust, Wil- 
son & Co., in which relation he still re- 
mains. 

Mr. Wilson was first married in Cum- 
mington, .\ugust 31, 1856, to Sophia L., 
daughter of Russell and Sally (Packard) 
Meekins. His second marriage occurred 
in Easthamjiton, January 12, 1864, with 
Laura, daughter of Daniel and Julia (Par- 
sons) Rust. The children by his first mar- 
riage were: Mary A. and'S. Elizabeth 
Wilson ; by the second marriage : Carrie 
A. and Rollin C. Wilson. 

Mr. Wilson is a deacon of the Payson 
Congregational church, and superintend- 
ent of the Sabbath-school ; has been se- 
lectman five years ; assessor three years ; 
is town treasurer (elected in 1888), and 
has been town clerk since 1882 ; he has 
al.so been a justice of the peace since 
the same year. He is a prominent .^[ason, 
and has held various offices in masonic 
bodies. 



WINSHIP, ALBERT Edward, son of 

Isaac and Drusilla A. (Lothrop) Winship, 
was born in West Bridgewater, Plymouth 
county, February 24, 1845. 

He received his education at the Provi- 
dence Conference Seminary, the Maine 
Wesleyan Seminary, Bridgewater state 
normal school, and at the Andover Theo- 
logical Seminary. 

He enlisted in the 60th Massachusetts 
volunteers in the year 1864. In 1865 he 
taught school in Maine, and from 1865 to 
'68 was principal of a grammar school at 
Newton. From 1869 to '72 he taught in 




ALBERT E WINSHIP. 

the Bridgewater state normal school, 
after which, for nine years, he was pas- 
tor of the Prospect Hill Congregational 
church of Somerville (where he now re- 
sides), and for three years was secretary 
of the New West Education Commis- 
sion, 

For the past four years Mr. Winship has 
occupied an influential position in the realm 
of literature as editor of the "Journal of 
Education." He is president of the New 
England Publishing Company of Boston. 
He is the author of " Methods and Prin- 
ciples," " Essentials of Psychology," " The 
Shop," etc., and is a well-known and po]5u- 
lar lecturer upon educational and philo- 
sophic themes and travels. 



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August 24, 1S70, he was married to Ella 
R., daughter of Stillman E. and J^avinia 
(Lathe) Parker, of Reading. Their chil- 
dren are: Cieorge Parker (born July 29, 
1871), Edith -Annette (born March 17, 
1875), Luella Parker (born May 31, 1880), 
and Edna Eliot (born February 8, 1882). 

WINSLOW, Frank Leslie, son of 

Charles and Elizabeth (Ciould) Winslow, 
was born in Topsfield, Essex county, Octo- 
ber 5, 1855. 

He received a common school education, 
such a.s could be gleaned between the ages 
of five and twelve years. 

In 1S76 he entered business life as book- 
keeper for Charles Herrick, shoe manufac- 
turer, Topsfield, where he has remained to 
the present time. 

Mr. Winslow was married in Charles- 
town, November 27, 18S0, to Carrie Little- 
field, daughter of .Albert and Violette 
(Littlefiekl) Simonds. Of this union is one 
son : Leslie Marmion Winslow. 

Mr. Winslow has been secretary of the 
Republican town committee since 1881, a 
member of the district committee (7th 
Essex), and chairman (i887-'8S), and sec- 
retary of the school board from 1881 
to '87. 

He was town auditor in 1886, '87, and 
'88. He is a member of the A. O. U. W. 
and L O. O. F., and has been a represent- 
ative to both grand lodges. He was 
treasurer of the trustees of the Methodist 
Episcopal church in i887-'88, and secre- 
tary of the Chautauqua literary society in 
1885. 

WINSLOW, Samuel, son of Eleazer 
R. and -Ann (Corbett) Winslow, was born 
in Newton, Middlesex county, Februarv 
28, 1827. 

He received his early education in the 
schools of that town. On leaving school 
he was employed in the manufacture ol 
cotton machinery, and in this occupation 
displayed great industry and inventive.' 
skill. So rapidly did he advance, that at 
the age of twenty he was made foreman 
in the shop, with fifty men under his 
charge. 

Mr. Winslow removed to Worcester in 
1855, and in .\pril of that year formed a 
co-partnership with his brother, Seth C. 
Winslow, and started a machine shop. 
In 1857 they began the manufacture of 
skates, and with this industry he is still 
identified. 

At the death of his brother in 1871, he 
assumed control of the business and con- 
tinued it alone until the formation of the 



Samuel Winslow Skate Manufacturing 
Company, in May, 1886, in which com- 
pany Mr. Winslow retained the major part 
of the stock, and has since served the cor- 
poration as president and treasurer. 

Mr. W'inslow began his public career in 
Newton Upper Falls, in 1848, as a mem- 
ber of the prudential committee for the 
employment of teachers, and the oversight 
of the schools of the village. He was 
clerk of the corporation which organized 
the Boston & Woonsocket division of 
what is now the New York & New Eng- 
land Railroad ; was a member of the 
Worcester common council in 1864 and 
'65 ; a representative from the loth Worces- 
ter district in the state Legislature in 1873 
and '74 ; was elected an alderman in 1S85, 
to fill a vacancy ; was elected mayor of 
Worcester in 1885, to serve the ensuing 
year, and has since been repeatedly called 
to the mayoralty, serving in thi.s position 
for the years 1887, '88, and 'Sg. 




He was a trustee for the Worcester 
County Mechanics' .Association for 1868, 
'69, '70, and '71; its vice-president from 
1884 to '86; president in 1886, and de- 
clined a re-election, on account of his 
duties as mayor. 

In 1888 he'was a director in the Citizens' 
National Bank, and in 1889 was elected 



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presidwit, which office he still holds. He is 
also a trustee of the Peoples Savings 
Bank. 

Mr. Winslow was married in Newton, 
November i, 1848, to Mary, daughter of 
I-)avid and Lydia Robbins. His family 
consists of two children : Frank Ellery 
and Samuel Ellsworth Winslow. 

WINSLOW, WILLIAM COPLEY, son of 
Rev. Hubbard Winslow, I). I)., and Susan 
Ward (Cutler) Winslow, was born in Bos- 
ton, January 13, 1840. His father was 
successor to Dr. Lyman Beecher, pastor of 
the Bowdoin Street church, and widely 
known as an author and educator. His 
mother was the daughter of Hon. Pliny 
Cutler and Phcebe Ward, daughter of Rev. 
Ephraim Ward'. 

Mr. Winslow prepared for college in the 
Latin school, and as his father removed to 
Geneva, N. Y., he entered Hamilton Col- 
lege, Clinton, N. Y., where he was gradu- 
ated in 1862, at the semi-centenary of that 
institution. While in college, he was in- 
strumental, with Joseph Cook and W. C. 
Sumner of Yale, in founding the " L'niver- 
sity Quarterly Review ; " he was also asso- 
ciate editor of the " Hamiltonian." In 
i862-'63 he was on the staff of the " New 
York World," and later, with Rev. Dr. 
Tyng, edited the "Christian Times." In 
1865 he was graduated from the (ieneral 
Theological Seminary, New York. He 
then spent four months of study in Italw 
particularly on Roman archajology and 
arts, and in preparing lectures, and articles 
for reviews. 

Mr. Winslow, from 1S67 to '70, while 
rector of St. Ceorge's church, Lee, Mass., 
was chairman of the school board ; vice- 
president of the county Bible society ; 
twice orator on Decoration Day, and was 
prominent in educational and diocesan 
matters in western Massachusetts. He 
utilized his summer vacations in exploring 
the Adirondacks, making maps of some 
then unknown waters. Of these he has 
contributed sketches to the press, and has 
frequently lectured on the " Adirondacks " 
before lyceum courses. 

In 1870 Dr. Winslow removed to Boston. 
For four years he ministered at St. Luke's 
Home for Convalescents, as its chaplain ; 
he has been executive secretary in the 
free-church movement ; has preached in 
more than one hundred Episcopal churches 
in the State ; and his lectures and ad- 
dresses have aggregated two hundred and 
twenty-five annually for the past ten vears. 
His contributions to the " Church Review " 
and the weekly journals of the Episcopal 



church are familiar to the members of that 
communion, and leading Congregational 
and Presbyterian journals frequently pub- 
lish his articles. He has written much for 
the ISoston press, notably the " Transcript," 
" Post," and " Advertiser." Connected 
with the New England Historic Genealog- 
ical, the American Oriental, Webster His- 
torical, Bostonian, and other societies of 
research, he has officially and otherwise 
delivered addresses and contributed papers 
that have been published in permanent 
form. He is a prominent Mason, and has 
been prelate of the St. Bernard Comman- 
dery the past decade. 




WILLIAM C WINSLOW. 

But it is in archreological research and in 
Oriental exploration that Dr. Winslow has 
won his wide reputation in Europe as well 
as America. In 1880 he spent four months 
of study in Egypt and Syria, and soon 
after the " Egypt Exploration Fund " was 
founded, he became its vice-president for 
the LInited States, and is now recognized 
as an advanced authority in Egyptological 
research. In 1886 St. Andrew's L^niver- 
sity, Scotland, conferred upon him the 
degree of LL. D., and Columbia College, 
at its centenarv in 1887, conferred the de- 
gree of L. H. b. In [889 St. John's Col- 
lege, Annapolis, at its centenary, conferred 
Sc. D. "in recognition of the learning and 



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ability- with which lie iiad conducteci vari- 
ous scientific investiLrations." 

Through Dr. Vv'inslow's efforts, various 
objects of great interest and value liave 
been i^resented to the Boston Museum of 
Fine Arts, notably the colossal statue of 
Ranieses 1 1., the Pharaoh of the Oppression, 
and the head of Hathor, the Egyptian Ve- 
nus. Dr. Winslow's services in research 
have been so valuable, that he has been 
declared by archceologists to have done 
more than any man, save Sir Erasmus 
Wilson, to advance the cause of explora- 
tion. King's College conferred upon him 
the degree of 1). C. I.., and the Royal 
Archaeological Institute elected him its 
only honorary fellow in this countrv. The 
(lerman Government presented him with 
the costly volumes of the great " Book of 
the Dead," and in iSS6 the University' of 
l.eyden invited him to contribute an article 
to the splendid album, commemorating the 
semi-centenary of Dr. Leeman's director- 
ship of the museum. He is a fellow of the 
Royal Society of Antiquaries, of Edin- 
burgh; honorary correspondent of the Phil- 
osophical Society of (ireat Britain ; corre- 
sponding member of the Societ)' of Natural 
History, Canada, besides being honorary 
or cor|iorate member of other historical and 
antiquarian bodies of England and the 
United States. His alma maiei- conferred 
upon him the honorary degree of Ph. 1).; 
Griswold College, Iowa, and Amherst Col- 
lege both conferred the degree D. D. In- 
deed, few Americans are connected with as 
many learned foreign societies, or have 
received as many honorary titles. Savants 
and universities have repeatedly recognized 
his services and literary labors. 

Dr. Winslow paternally descended from 
the Pilgrims, and is a lineal descendant on 
the maternal side from Dr. Colman, first 
jiastor of Brattle Street church, Boston, 
and Joseph Pemberton, from whom Pem- 
berton Square derived its name. He was 
married in Boston, June 20, 1867, to Har- 
riet S., daughter of Joseph Hayward, and 
niece of the eminent surgeon, Dr. George 
Hayward. He has one child : Mary Whit- 
ney Winslow, born November 14, 1873. 

WINSOR, Justin, son of Nathaniel 
and Ann T. H. Winsor, was born in Bos- 
ton, January 2, 1831. 

His early educational training was re- 
ceived at the 15oston Latin school, where 
he fitted for Harvard College, class of 1853, 
ami subsequently studied in Paris and in 
Heidelberg, Germany. In 1868 he became 
superintendent of the Boston public library, 
where he remained until 1877. He is now 



librarian of Harvard College, which posi- 
tion he has held since 1877. 

From 1876 to '86 he was president of 
the American Library Association ; has 
been president of the .-Kmerican Historical 
Association, and is now corres|:)onding sec- 
retary of the Massachusetts Historical So- 
ciety. In 1886 he received the degree of 
L.L, D. from the University of Michigan. 
Mr. Winsor is a voluminous writer ; his ad- 
dresses and magazine articles are chiefly on 
subjects connected with American history. 
He has written " History of Du.xbury" 
(1849) ; "Songs of the Unity" (1858),' in 
editing which he co-operated with the Rev. 
George H. Hepworth ; "Bibliography of 
the Original Quartos and Folios of Shake- 
speare " (1876) ; " Reader's Hand-Book of 
the American Revolution, 1761 to 1783," 
published in 1879; "Was Shakespeare 
Shapleigh ? A Correspondence in Two En- 
tanglements" (1886) ; several pamphlets, 
among which are " Governor Bradford's 
Manuscript History of Plymouth Plan- 
tation," "Arnold's Expedition against 
Quebec, 1775-76," "The Manuscript 
Sourcesof American History," and " Notes 
on the Spurious Letters of Montcalm." 
He edited the " Memorial History of Bos- 
ton " (i88o-'82); "Narrative and Criti- 
cal History of America" (1883 -'89) ; 
"Harvard University Bulletin" (since 
1S77), and "Library of Harvard Univer- 
sity;" "Bibliographical Contributions," 
beginning the latter work in 1877. To 
these he has contributed " Shakespeare's 
Poems," " Pietas et Gratulatio : Inquiry in- 
to the Authorship of the Several Pieces," 
" Halliwelliana," " Bibliography of Ptol- 
emy's Geography," "The Kohl Collection 
of Early Maps," and a "Calendar of the 
Sparks Manuscripts in Harvard College Li- 
brary." He also edited the "Record of 
the 250th Anniversary of the Founding of 
Harvard College" (1887). 

Mr. \\'insor was married in 1855 to Caro- 
line T., daughter of Ebenezer and Sally 
Fuller Barker. He has one daughter. 

WINTHROP, ROBERT Charles, son 

of Thomas Lindall and Elizabeth Bowdoin 
(Temple) Winthrop, was born in Boston, 
May 12, 1809. 

His father was lieutenant-governor of 
Massachusetts for seven years, and a lineal 
descendant of Governor John Winthrop, 
who was born near Groton, England, in 
1587, was chosen governor of the Massa- 
chusetts Company in 1629, and brought 
over the colony charter in the following 
year. Next to the first governor in the 
line of his ancestors stands the name of 



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WINTHROP. 



|i)lin W'intlirop, Jr., who was scarcely less 
conspicuous in the history of Connecticut, 
and who in 1662 obtained from Charles II. 
the grant of a charter for that colony. 

His mother was the daughter of Sir 
fohn Temple, Bart., and grand-daughter 
,of James Bowdoin, governor of Massachu- 
setts, 1785 and '86. 

Robert C. U'inthrop was prepared for 
college in the Boston public Latin school, 
and entered Harvard College at the age of 
fifteen. He was graduated one of the first 
three in the class of 1828. 




ROBERT C. WINTHROP, 

On leaving college he studied law tliree 
years in the office of Daniel Webster, and 
was admitted to the bar of Suffolk county 
in 1 83 1. In 1834 he was chosen one of 
the representatives of Boston in the Legis- 
lature, and after three years of distin- 
guished service en the floor, he was elect- 
ed speaker of the House. He retained 
the speakership for three years, acquiring 
a reputation as a graceful and dignified 
presiding officer. 

In 1840 he was elected the representative 
of Boston in the Congress of the United 
States, and was re-elected for four succes- 
sive terms. In 1847 he was speaker of the 
national House of Representatives, and 
occupied that eminent position until March 
4, 1849. In July, 1850, Mr. Winthrop was 



transferred to the United States Senate, to 
fill the vacancy occasioned by Mr. Web- 
ster's acceptance of the office of secretary 
of state under President Fillmore. 

In 185 1 Mr. Winthro]3 was the Whig 
candidate for governor of Massachusetts. 
He received 64,000 votes, while the two 
opposing candidates had 43,000 and 28,000 
respectively. The constitution of Massa- 
chusetts then required a majority to elect. 
The election was therefore thrown into 
the Legislature, where one of the minority 
candidates was chosen by the coalition of 
Democrats and Free Soilers. In 1852 Mr. 
Winthrop was placed at the head of the 
Whig electoral ticket in Massachusetts, 
and was made president of the electoral 
college which gave the vote of the State 
for (jeneral Winfield Scott. Since that 
time he has declined all nominations and 
appointments to political offices, both in 
the State and nation, and has withdrawn 
from political life. 

But he has not been unmindful of the 
duties which every citizen owes to the 
community, and has been largely interested 
in historical, literary, and philanthropic 
pursuits. In 1855 he was made president 
of the Massachusetts Historical Societv, 
which office he held for thirty years, and 
to its collections and proceedings he has 
made numerous and important contribu- 
tions. He has also been an efficient mem- 
ber of the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences ; for twenty-five years he was 
president of the Boston Provident Associ- 
ation, and was three years chairman of the 
overseers of the poor of Boston, taking a 
prominent part in the re-organizing of the 
system of public charities. From its or- 
ganization he has been president of the 
board of trustees of the Peabody Southern 
Education Fund. He has also been presi- 
dent of the trustees of the Episcopal The- 
ological School at Cambridge. These are 
only a few of the many positions of honor 
and trust to which Mr. Winthrop has been 
called by his appreciative countrymen. 

He is a ripe scholar and eloquent public 
speaker. On the two hundred and fiftieth 
anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims 
at Plymouth, he delivered in that town an 
address which must always hold a foremost 
place in American oratorical efforts. On 
the centennial celebration of the Declar- 
ation of American Independence he deliv- 
ered in Boston an address equally worthy 
of preservation. 

He delivered the centennial oration at 
Yorktown, Virginia, in 1881, by appoint- 
ment of Congress, after which a portrait of 



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liim was presented by citizens of Massa- 
chusetts to the speaker's gallery in the 
Capitol at Washington. C'ongress also 
appointed him, in 1S85, to deliver the ora- 
tion on the completion of the great Wash- 
ington Monument, in laying the corner- 
stone of which he had delivered the oration 
in 1847. 

In 1852 he published a volume of ad- 
dresses and speeches, followed in 1867 by 
a second, and in 1879 by a third, and 
in 1886 by a fourth volume. Taken as 
a whole, they are not surpassed by any 
similar collection in our literature. In 
1864 he published the first volume of 
'■ Life and Letters of John Winthrop." 
The second volume appeared in 1867. 

Mr. Winthrop has received the honorary 
degree of LL. D. from the University of 
Cambridge, England, from Harvard Uni- 
versity, and Howdoin College. 

Mr. Winthrop was married in Boston in 
March, 1832, to Eliza Cabot, daughter of 
Francis and Marianne (Cabot) Blanchard. 
Of this union were three children : Robert 
C, John, and Eliza C. Winthrop. 

His present wife is a daughter of the 
late Hon. Francis Granger, of Canandai- 
gua, N. Y. 

WITT, Charles T., son of Thomas 
and Rachel L. (Porter) Witt, was born July 
18, 1848, in Norway, O.xford county, Me. 

He received his educational training in 
the common schools and high school of 
Norway. He came to Boston in March, 
1868 ; worked two years in the milk 
business ; then went into the same busi- 
ness for himself, and has followed it ever 
since. 

Mr. Witt was married in Norway, Me., 
October 18, 1874, to Ella F., daughter of 
Hiram and Marantha (Pray) Hathaway. 
Of this union were four children : Althea 
E., Alice H., Charles H. (deceased), and 
Edith M. Witt. 

Mr. Witt served five years on the ward 
and city committee, Boston ; represented 
the ist Suffolk district in the Legislature 
in 1888 and '89, serving on the com- 
mittee on banks and banking in '88, and 
in '89 on the committee on street rail- 
ways. 

He has held various offices in Masonic 
bodies ; served as master of Baalbec 
Lodge, F. & A. M., two years ; thrice illus- 
trious master of East Boston Council, Royal 
and Select Masters, for three years, and is 
now holding offices in chapter and com- 
mandery. He is treasurer of the Masonic 
board of directors, and a director in the 
Union Masonic Relief Association of Mas- 



sachusetts. He is a member of the I O. 
O. F., and ])ast regent of Maverick Coun- 
cil, Royal Arcanum, and was the collector 




CHARLES T WITT. 

for six years. He is a member of various 
other benevolent orders. His residence is 
East Boston. 

WOOD, Henry, son of Elijah and 
Elizabeth Farmer Wood, was born in 
Concord, Middlesex countv, August 17, 
1825. 

The common schools of his native town 
furnished his early mental training. This 
was supplemented by a course of study in 
the Concord Academy. 

He began the manufacture of shoes in 
1848, in company with his father. In 1850 
he changed his business, in favor of agri- 
cultural pursuits, also the raising of stock, 
dealing in cattle, and the general business 
of a large stock farm owned by him in 
\\'est Bedford, where he still resides, a 
farmer. 

Mr Wood was married in Concord, No- 
vember 25, 1848, to Lydia .\ugusta, daugh- 
ter of Howard and Lydia Hatlley Willis. Of 
this union were two children : Lizzie F. 
and Charles H. Wood. 

Mr. Wood has been called to serve his 
town in nearly every office, and also rep- 
resented the 1 8th district in the House of 
Representatives in 1885. He was enroll- 



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WOODBRIDGE. 



ing officer during the civil war. He was 
a director in the Middlesex Central Rail- 
road Corporation, president of the free 
public librar\- of Bedford, and has been a 
trustee from the date of its incorporation. 
He has held the office of trustee of the 
Middlesex Agricultural Society for twenty- 
five years. 

WOOD, Nathan Montgomery, son 

of Colonel Haile and Mary Howard \\'ood, 
was born in Swansea, Bristol count}', Janu- 
ary 1 6, 1825. He is a descendant of Wil- 
liam Wood, who came from England, and 
after spending some time in the new colo- 
nies, returned to England, and in 1(1,^4 
published in London the famous work en- 
titled "New England's Prospect." 

His education was obtained at the com- 
mon schools of his native town. His father 
was a farmer and miller, and he was brought 
up to the same business, and with the ex- 
ception of about one year passed in Maine, 
has always resided at the homestead in 
Swansea, which has been in the family for 
so many generations. 

On November 7, 1848, he married Abby 
M., daughter of Elisha and Mary (Mason) 
Kingsley, of Swansea. She is descendetl 
on the maternal side from Samson Mason, 
who was an Englishman and an officer in 
the army of Oliver Cromwell until the lat- 
ter was made lord protector of England. 
He has had five children : Nathan Howard 
(who died in infancy), Abby Isabel, Mary 
R. P., Angeline H.,and Eloise K. ^^'ood. 

Mr. ^^'ood is a Republican in politics, and 
has held various official positions, inckuling 
nearly all the principal town offices, having 
held some of them for more than twenty 
years. He was a representative to the 
Legislature in 1875. He is a member of 
the Christian church, and is also a member 
of Washington Lodge No. 3, F. & A. M., 
and N\ebb Council, Warren, R. L ; Royal 
Arch Chapter, Fall River, and Calvary 
Commandery, Knights Templar, Provi- 
dence, R. L 

Mr. \\ Ood is one of Swansea's most prom- 
inent and prosperous men, and aside from 
his farming and milling business, is largely 
interested in a manufacturing business in 
I'all River. 

WOODBRIDGE, Samuel Francis, 

son t)f Samuel anil Nancy (Russell) Wt)od- 
bridge, was born in Reading, Middlesex 
county, August 13, 1S18. 

He i.s a lineal descendant in the eighth 
generation from Rev. John Woodbridge, of 
Wiltshire, F^ngland, who came to New 
England in 1634. Rev. John Woodbridge 



is the progenitor of all the American 
\\'oodl)ridges. His brother, Benjamin 
Woodbridge, a clergyman, came to New 
England in 1639, and entering Harvard, 
was the first graduate of that university, 
but returned to England, where he died 
November i, 1684. 

His education was obtained in the public 
schools of those days. When he was three 
years old his father removed to Andover. 
At twelve years of age he went to Med- 
ford, and found employment in a grain 
store, where he remained .seven years. He 
then left home, and walked to "the foot of 
the rocks," West Cambridge, where he 
hired out to work in a grain and spice 




SAMUEL F. WOODBRIDGE 



mill for one year. He then workeil five 
years for Charles Muzzey in a wholesale 
and retail grocery store, after which he 
started in business for himself, July i, 1842, 
in Medford, opening a market, and slaugh- 
tering his own stock. 

Li 1846 he sold out his retail business 
and confined himself to wholesale beet 
business in Boston. Later he went into 
business with Horatio Locke, adding a 
retail department. These relations con- 
tinued nine years, the business being ex- 
tended to trade in live cattle. 

Flaving sold out his interest to Mr. 
Locke, for two years he engaged in west- 



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ern live cattle trade, then bought a stall in 
Faneuil Hall market, and took his son into 
partnership. He moved to Cambridge in 
December, iiS6o. He is now selling agent 
for 1'. 1). Armour iv: Co., of Chicago, at 11 1 
Clinton Street, lioston, still retaining liis 
retail business in Faneuil Hall market. 

iMr. W'oodbridge was married in West 
Camlxidge (now Arlington), April 5, 1843, 
to Hannah Monroe, youngest daughter of 
William J.ocke. Of this union are three 
children : William Francis, Ellen Emeline, 
and Warren Samuel Woodbridge. 

The last named was graduated from 
Tufts College in 1S74, and from the divinity 
school in 1877. He was ordained the same 
year, and called to the First Universalist 
church, Orono, Me. In 1S80 he was settled 
in charge of the Universalist church in 
Adams, where he remained until i88g, 
when he accepted a call to the First Uni- 
versalist church in Medford, where he is 
now stationed. 

Mr. Woodbridge was five years select- 
man in West Cambridge, two years a 
member of the common council of Cam- 
bridge, and an alderman three years. He 
was one of the committee of three sent to 
C.'hicago with the money (eight thousanil 
dollars) raised in Faneuil Hall market to 
aid the sufferers in the great fire in that 
city. He was one of the trustees of the 
.\rlington Savings Bank during his resi- 
dence there ; was president of the Fourth 
National Bank, Boston, three years ; has 
been president of the North Avenue Sav- 
ings Bank, Cambridge, since its incorpora- 
tion in 1872, and is now one of the directors 
of the Faneuil Hall National Bank of 
Boston. 

His religious connections are with the 
Universalist church. He was chairman of 
the building committee of the Third Uni- 
versalist church, Cambridge. 

WOODBURY, Charles Levi, son of 

Levi and Elizabeth AVilliams (Clapp) 
Woodbury, was born in Portsmouth, Rock- 
ingham county, N. H., May 22, 1820, 
the family having descended from John 
Woodbury, one of the early pioneers 
who settled on Cape Ann in 1624, whose 
history has been traced and written up, 
and privately printed by C. Levi Woodbury. 
He removed with his father's family, in 
1831, to the city of Washington, in which 
vicinity he obtained his early educational 
training. He was admitted to the bar in 
the district of Columbia ; practiced after- 
ward in Alabama, and then returned to 
I>oston. His practice has been in the 
courts of the State, but chiefly in the cir- 



cuit courts of the L'nited States, and the 
supreme court at Washington. 

NL-. AN'ooilbury declinetl the mission to 
Bolivia in 1853. He was elected as a rep- 
resentative from Portsmouth to the New 
ILimpshire Legislature in 1857. He was 
appointed United States district attorney 
for Massachusetts in 1857 ; and elected to 
the Legislature of Massachusetts in 1870 
and '7 1. 

He is a member of the New England 
Historic (Jenealogical Society, and an hon- 
orary member of the historical societies of 
^huIlc and New Hampshire. Li the 
Masonic organizations he has held high 
offices in the York and Scottish Rites, antl 
is now an active member of the supreme 
council of the latter body, and its second 
officer. He is a member of the board of 
trustees for the Crand Lodge of Massa- 
chusetts, and also of the board for the 
supreme council. 




CHARLES LEVI WOODBURY. 



Though unwilling to let a political usurp 
the place of a professional life, yet he has 
been a frequent speaker in many States 
during presidential campaigns, and has 
often held prominent positions in the 
Democratic organizations, but has not as- 
pired to political offices. 

Mr. Woodbury was one of the compilers 
of " \\'oodbury & Minot's Reports," three 



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WOODS. 



WOODS. 



voliinies ; editor of the second and third 
voiumes of " Levi \\'oodbury's Writings," 
Nahum Capen having edited the first 
volume of the work. Mr. Woodbury has 
also contributed various papers on histori- 
cal, antiquarian, political, and Masonic sub- 
jects, and delivered numerous orations on 
these topics. He has also published 
several pamphlets on diplomatic relations 
with (Ireat Britain, notably those concern- 
ing the fisheries. 

Mr. Woodbury has long been a conspic- 
uous and familiar figure in the city of Bo.s- 
ton, his present residence. 

WOODS, Edwin Hutton, son of 

John and Abby Ann (Fessenden) Woods, 
was born in Boston, October 6, 1843. 

His early education was received in the 
public schools of Boston, supplemented by 
a course at Comer's Commercial College. 
He began business life as a clerk, in the 
hardware business, with Allen & Noble, 
ISoston, when he was but fourteen years 
of age. He remained until 1862, when he 
was made sergeant of company B, 40th 
regiment, Massachusetts volunteers. On 
September nth of that year, while march- 
ing to Miner's Hill, Virginia, he received 
a sun-stroke, causing a partial paralysis 
of the lower limbs, on account of which 
disability he was discharged from the army 
in the spring of 1863. 

On September 24th of that year he 
entered the employ of the " Boston 
Herald," under Edwin C. Bailey, as a 
book-keeper in the circulation depart- 
ment, where he at once devoted his ener- 
gies to the interests of the paper. The 
results showed that he had made no mis- 
take in his choice of vocation. It had 
been the custom of the " Herald " to sell 
its Sunday edition to three large wholesale 
houses in Boston, who in turn wholesaled 
them to the dealers. Mr. "Woods con- 
ceived the idea of selling directly to the 
dealers, and incidentally suggested to the 
proprietors of the " Herald " that they 
increase his salary, and allow him to sell 
the papers direct. This was done, and he 
followed this method for about three 
years, to the satisfaction of the publishers. 
Later on it was suggested, that instead of 
receiving cash over the counters, as had 
always been done in years past, a form of 
ticket be issued and sold to the dealers, 
these tickets representing so many papers. 
Mr. Woods was the first man in the news- 
paper business who adopted this method. 
A few years later he inaugurated the sys- 
tem of running special Sunday trains 
throughout New England to distribute 



the "Sunday Herald." This has proved 
a great success and accommodation to the 
patrons of that paper. Mr. Woods has 
had the entire management of the circula- 
tion of the " Boston Herald," and it is 
because of his quick, inventive genius 
and knowledge of the business that the 
" Herald " has succeeded in obtaining its 
immense area of distribution. It is due 
to him to say that his methods of distri- 
bution were original with him, though now 
quite generally adopted by metropolitan 
dailies. 

On March i, 1888, Mr. Woods was ad- 
mitted as partner in the firm of R. M. 
Pulsifer & Co., and on May 1st of the 
same year, when the firm was changed to 
a corporation, under the title of the " Bos- 
ton Herald Company," -Mi'. Woods was 




if 




EDWIN H WOODS, 

elected vice-president and business man- 
ager. In October of the same year he 
was elected president, and is now its presi- 
dent and business manager. 

Mr. Woods was a member of the Boston 
common council, from ward 8, in 1873, '74, 
and '75 ; was charter member of Post 
7, Cr. A. R., and has held all the offices in 
succession, to that of commander ; was 
lieutenant of company E, 7th regiment, 
Massachusetts volunteer militia, three 
years. He is also a member of Joseph 



WOODS. 



WOODS. 



6/1 



AVarren Lodge, F. X: A. M., and in 1889 
was appointed on the staff of (lovernor 
Ames, as assistant adjutant-general, with 
the rank of colonel. 

Mr. Woods was married m Boston, 
August 20, 1868, to Mary Frances, daugh- 
ter of Pardon and Mary (Parkinson) 
Smith. Of this union are two children : 
Walter Button and Fred Lester Woods 

WOODS, Solomon Adams, son of 

Colonel Nathaniel and Hannah (.\danis) 
Woods, was born in Farmington, Franklin 
county, Me., October 7, 1827. He is a 
descendant of Samuel Woods, an original 
landed proprietor of Groton, Mass , where 
the family dwelt till Mr. Woods's grand- 
father became a pioneer at Farmington. 

On his mother's side he is a descendant 
in the sixth generation from Captain Sam- 
uel Adams, magistrate and representative 
at Chelmsford, in its first half-century, a 
younger brother of Joseph, the ancestor of 
the presidential line. 

Mr. Woods's early advantages were those 
of a boy in the country where his father 
was a leading man in his town, on a good 
farm, within reach of a district school 
The education here received was supple- 
mented at the Farmington Academy, four 
miles distant, where the young man could 
just catch a glimpse of profounder study. 
All this was over before he was twenty 
years of age. 

In the spring of 1S47 he engaged with a 
local carpenter to learn the use of tools 
and the art of house-building. In 1851 he 
came to Massachusetts with the view of 
purchasing a steam-engine and boiler, 
together with machinery for the manufac- 
ture of doors, sashes, and blinds, and erect- 
ing a mill in his native town, contemplat- 
ingforming a co-partnership with his former 
employer. This trip resulted, however, in 
an abandonment of the factory enterprise, 
and his engagement in the same business, 
as journeyman with Solomon S. Gra)' in 
Boston. Within the first year Mr. Woods 
purchased the plant, went into the business 
on his own account January i, 1852, and 
so continued for thirteen years. 

In 1S54 the firm of Gray &: AVoods was 
formed for the manufacture and sale of a 
wood-planing machine, originally designed 
by Mr. Gray, but greatly improved and 
rendered more practical by Mr. Woods's 
inventions. This co-partnership lasted five 
years, during which valuable improvements 
were patented. In 1865 Mr. Woods added 
to his business the manufacture of the 
Woodworth Planer, with the Woodbury 
patented improvements, of which he was 



the sole licensee. To tneet the demands 
of this extensive business, he commenced 
the erection of manufacturing works at 
South Boston, and established branch 
houses at New York and Chicago. In 
1873 a corporation was formed with a 
paid-up capital of three hundred thousand 
dollars, — the S. A. Woods Machine Co., 
of which Mr. Woods became president, 
which position he still holds. 

To the successive firms of Gray cV- A\'oods, 
S .\. Woods, and the S. A. Woods Machine 




SOLOMON A WOODS 

Company, have been issued more than fifty 
patents for devices and improvements in 
machines for planing wood, and making 
mouldings. They have received nearly one 
hundred gold, silver, and bronze medals 
from the Massachusetts Charitable Me- 
chanic Association, and numerous other 
similar institutions. 

Mr. Woods was the organizer and leader 
in the successful defense of the manufact- 
urers of wood-working machinery in the 
celebrated suit brought in 1875, by the 
W^oodbury Patent Planing Machine Com- 
pany, vs. the users of planing and mould- 
ing machines, the expense of the litigation 
on both sides aggregating nearly one 
hundred thousand dollars. 

In 1869, '70, and '71, Mr. Woods was a 
member of the citv council of Boston ; in 



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WOODWARD. 



WOODWORTH. 



1S70 and '71, a director for the city of the 
East Boston ferries; since 1870, a trustee 
of the South Boston Savings Bank, and 
for many years a member of its board of 
investment, a position he still holds. In 
1878 he declined to accept a nomination 
tendered him by both the Republicans and 
Citizens, to represent his ward in the Bos- 
ton board of aldermen. 

Mr. Woods was married in Boston, Aug- 
ust 21, 1854, to Sarah Elizabeth, daughter 
of Benjamin F. and Lurana (Morrill) 
Weathern, of Vienna, Me., who died in 
1862. He was again married in October, 
1867, to Sarah Catharine, daughter of 
Charles S. and Sarah (Fishburn) Watts, of 
Boston. He has three children : Frank 
Forrest, Florence, and Frederick Adams 
Woods, and resides in Boston. 

WOODWARD, Charles F., son of 
James F. and Arvilla (Whitney) Wood- 
ward, was born in Wakefield, .Middlesex 
county, November 19, 1S52. 

His education was drawn from the pub- 
lic schools of ^^'akefield, and commercial 
colleges in Boston. His first connection 
in business was in 1872, with the firm of 
James F. Woodward & Son, tool and ma- 
chinery manufacturers, and this business 
still engages his attention. 

Mr. Woodward was married September 
4, 1878, to Susan D., the daughter of Alex- 
ander and Dorothy (Thompson) Turnbull. 
Of this union were two children ; Charles A. 
and Susie A. Woodward. 

He was assessor in Wakefield seven years, 
18S3 to '89, inclusive ; and also tax collect- 
or the same years. He was a representa- 
tive to the (ieneral Court from \\'akefield, 
in 1887, '88, and '89 ; 2d and ist lieutenant 
and captain of company A, 6th regiment 
Massachusetts volunteer militia ; elected 
major, February, 1882, and holds the same 
office at the present time. 

He is president of the Wakefield board 
of trade. 

WOODWORTH, DWIGHT SIDNEY, 
son of Sidney and Gratia L. (Reed) Wood- 
worth, was born in Greenfield, Franklin 
county, September 3, 185 1. 

He was educated in the public schools 
of Fremont, Ohio, where his parents 
moved when he was quite young. His 
father dying, and there not being suf- 
ficient to maintain all in the family, he 
hired out to a grocer, working noons and 
evenings for his board and clothes, and 
the privilege of attending school. He 
remained in the West until 1870, being 
engaged successively in the grocery, cloth- 



ing, and dry-goods trade. He then re- 
moved to Boston and entered the employ 
of C. F. Hovey & Company. Here also 
he began the study of medicine, and re- 
moving to Fitchburg in 1873, continued 
his studies with Dr. H. H. Brigham. He 
was graduated from the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons in New York City, in 
the class of 1876, and returning to Fitch- 
burg, at once entered upon the practice of 
his profession. 

Dr. Woodworth was married in Fitch- 
burg, September 25, 1875, to Emma L., 
an adopted daughter (jf Hubbard H. Brig- 
ham, M. D. They have two children : 
Laura A. and Ethel .\. Woodworth. 




DWIGHT b. WOODWORTH. 

He has always been actively identified 
with many of the social and benevolent 
orders of the city. He is past grand of 
Mt. Roulstone Lodge, L O. O. F.; is past 
chief patriarch. King David Encampment, 
L O. O. F. ; past master of C. W. Moore 
Lodge, F. & A. M ; past eminent com- 
mander of Jerusalem Commandery, Knights 
'I'emplar ; a 32d degree Mason in the 
Massachusetts Consistory ; past grand 
chancellor of Massachusetts, K. of P.; 
surgeon-general, division east, Patriarchs 
Militant, L O. O. F., and a member of 
numerous other local organizations. He 
is a member of the Massachusetts Medical 



WORCESTER. 



WORTH IXGTON. 



6/3 



Society, medical director of the Massachu- 
setts Mutual Aid Society, and medical 
examiner of numerous secret societies. 
He is surgeon of the board of examiners 
for pensions. He served as city physician 
for Fitchburg in 1879, '^°> '^'' '^4> '^5' ^"'^l 
'86 ; has been a member of the school 
board, and is now president of the common 
council, the school committee and the board 
of overseers of the poor of Fitchburg. 

Dr. Woodworth's father died when he 
was but fourteen years of age, which made 
it necessary for him to gain not only his 
own livelihood, but to lend a helping hand 
to the other members of the family. His 
has been an eminently successful career, 
characterized by hard work and energetic 
struggle, and he is now reaping a well- 
earned reward for his intelligent and con- 
scientious labor. 

WORCESTER, William E. C, son of 

James and Prudence (Blood) \\'orcester, 
was born February 24, 1826, in Damaris- 
cotta, Lincoln countv, Maine, where his 
family, who were residents of Charlestown, 
Mass., were at the time temporarily stop- 
ping. The)" soon returned to Charlestown, 
where Mr. Worcester lived until twenty- 
one years of age. His education was ol)- 
tained in the public schools of that town 
and in the academy at Reading. 

In 1849 he took up his residence in Hud- 
son (then Feltonville), where he has since 
lived, with the exception of a few years in 
Marlborough. As early as 1846 he chose 
the vocation of sign and fancy painting. 
He carried on the same business in Hudson 
until 1854, when he took the superintend- 
ence of the factory of F. Brigham & Co , 
until 1 86 1, when he took charge of Boyd 
& Corey's shoe factory in Marlborough. 

Early in the war of the rebellion he en- 
listed in company I, 5th regiment, Massa- 
chusetts volunteers, and was elected cap- 
tain and promoted to major before leaving 
the State. In 1864 he was commissioned 
lieutenant-colonel of the same regiment. 
He did service in North Carolina with the 
nine months' men, and again at Baltimore 
with the three months' troops. 

When he returned to Hudson he resumed 
his business of painting. He has been an 
active worker in the Republican ranks for 
many years. He was appointed postmaster 
of Hudson, October 14, 1884, by President 
Arthur, and still holds the office, being re- 
appointed by President Cleveland, Decem- 
ber 18, 1888. 

Mr. Worcester was married in Charles- 
town, June 17, 1847, to Harriette L. S., 
daughter of Gershom Teel, of Charlestown. 



Of this union were four children, of whom 
Edward Franklin Worcester is the only liv- 
ing child. 

WORTHINGTON, ERASTUS, the son 
of Erastus and Sally Ellis Worthington, 
and the youngest of a family of three .sons, 
was born in Dedham, Norfolk county, No- 
vember 25, 1828. His father was a native 
of Belchertown, and a graduate of Williams 
College in the class of 1804. He practiced 
law in Dedham for many years, and in 1825, 
having been active in the formation of the 
Norfolk Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 
he became its first secretary, which office 
he held until 1840. He was a member of 
the General Court in 1814 and '15. He 
was the author of " An Essay on the Estab- 
lishment of a Chancery Jurisdiction in 
Massachusetts," published in 1810, and of 
the "History of Dedham," published in 
1827. He died June 27, 1842. 

Mr. Worthington received his early edu- 
cation in the public schools of Dedham, 
and was prepared for college at an acad- 
emy in Attleliorough. He entered Brown 
University in i S46, where he was graduated 
in the class of 1850. 

Soon after his graduation he went to 
Milwaukee, Wis., and entered the office of 
his brother, P^llis Worthington, who was 
there established in practice as a lawyer. 
Mr. Worthington remained here for nearly 
one year, and returned in the autumn of 
185 1 to enter the Harvard law school at 
Cambridge. After remaining one term at 
the law school, he was employed during 
the winter of i85i-'52 as an assistant 
teacher of the Dedham high school, and at 
the same time pursued his legal studies in 
the office of Ezra Wilkinson, in Dedham. 
In September, 1852, he again returned to 
the Harvard law school, where he remained 
during the next two terms, and received 
the degree of LL. B. in 1853. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Dedham at the Feb- 
ruary term of the supreme judicial court 
in 1854 

Mr. Worthington began his professional 
practice in Boston, and after a few months 
formed a co-partnership with the Hon. 
David A. Simmons, of Roxbury. In 1856 he 
was offered the position of register of the 
court of insolvency, then first established, 
and he was elected to this office by the 
people of the county in that year. In 
1857, this court having been consolidated 
with the probate court, the office of regis- 
ter of insolvency was abolished, and Mr. 
Worthington then opened a law office in 
Dedham. He was commissioned by Gov- 
ernor Banks as a trial justice in 1858, which 



674 



\VORTllI.\GT(.)N. 



WOKTUI.NCrON. 



(iltice lio held ci,<;lit years. He continued 
the practice of law in Dediuun luitil i8()6, 
wiien lie was nominateil antl elected the 
clerk of courts for Norfolk county, and 
entered upon the duties of that office, which 
he still holds, in January, 1867. 

Besides attending to duties strictly per- 
taining to his office, Mr. Wortiiington has 
been frequently selected by members of 
the bar, and appointed by the court, as 
auditor and master to hear cases pend- 
ing in the courts. He also has been the 
public administrator of the coinUv since 
1882. 

Mr. Worthington was a member of the 
school conunittee of Dedham for eight 
years, and has taken an active part in town 
affairs. He was selected to deliver the 
address at the dedication of memorial hall, 
Dedham, September ig, i868, and he also 
ilelivered the historical address at the cele- 
bration of the two hundred and liftieth 
anniversary of the incorporation of Ded- 
ham, September 21, 1886, both of which 
addresses were ordered to be printed, lie 
also wrote a short historv of Deilham, ptd)- 
lished in the " History of Norfolk County " 
in 1SS4. 

Mr. Worthington is much interestetl in 
historical and anticjuarian researches, es- 
pecially such as refer to the local history 
of Detlham. He was one of the original 
corporators of the Dedham Historical 
Society, of which he has always been an 
active member, and for many years has 
been curator, and is now its vice-president. 

In politics Mr. Worthington has been a 
Republican since the formation of that 
party. He is now a warden of St. Taul's 
(Episcopal) church, Dedham. 

^Ir. Worthington married, November 25, 
1861, Klizabeth Foster, daughter of the 
late Robert Hriggs, of Boston. He has a 
family consisting of one daughter and live 
sous: Caroline Morton, Erastus, Jr.. Rob- 
ert Hriggs, Alvan Fisher, Arthur .Morton, 
and John Winthrop Worthington. 

WORTHINGTON, ROLAND, son ,,f 
Jonathan and I'"anny Worthington, was 
born in Agawam, Hampden rountv. Sep- 
tember 22. 1817. 

He received his earlv education at the 
district schools, aiul after the manner of 
the farmer's son of the ])eriod, began the 
real labors of life at the early age of 
twelve. From that time till he was twenty 
he supportetl himself, gathering an edu- 
cation as he could bv the wav. In 1837 
he removed to Boston and found employ- 
ment in the office of the " Daily .Adver- 
tiser." 



in iS4_^ impaired health obliged him to 
go abroad, and upon his return he sjient a 
winter at the South, returning to Boston in 
1S45 to take charge of the " Dailv Evening 
Traveller." The lirst number appeared 
April 1, 1845, and the history of the 
"Daily I'raveller " and Mr. Worthington 
have since been inseparable. 

Not only the " Traveller," but the entire 
newspaper life of Bostt)n, owes much to 
the courage, foresight, and energy of Mr. 
Worthington. When he introduced the 
innovation of newsboys crying the paper 
upon the streets, it was frowned upon by 
everyone, but he persisted until it be- 
came a feature of newspaper life, and 
the ilay of sales "by subscription only" 
disappeared. .\t this time was inaugur- 
ated also another feature common enough 
now. but a radical change from the older 
conservative custom — the use of bulletin 
boarils for the displav of the news of the 
day. 

Mr. Worthington was one of the tirst 
F"ree Soilers of Massachusetts, and upon 
the establishment of the Republican party 
he at once entered its ranks, and has made 
his paper a fearless and able supporter of 
its creed. 

Ml'. Marble, the distinguished editor of 
the •• New N'ork World," Mr. Bowles, well 
known as the founder of the " Springtield 
Republican," and m.inv other prominent 
writers have passed through the editorial 
rooms of the " Traveller " on their way to 
distinction, while .Mr. Worthington has 
gained for himself and his paper an en- 
viable reputation for political foresight and 
accuracy. 

In i860 his was the lirst paper to sug- 
gest as successor to Governor Banks the 
man who became the great " war gover- 
nor " of the Conmionwealth. In 1879 he 
brought forward the name of Hon. John 
I). Long as a standard-bearer against the 
formidable caiulidacy of Ceneral Butler. 
In 1883 he emphatically urged the nomina- 
tion of Ceorge D. Robinson for a like ser- 
vice. Mr. \\'orthington's prediction against 
the fears of many of his cotemporaries of 
the jiress of the conservative, capable and 
patriotic administration by President Ar- 
thur were abundantlv realized. In April, 
1882. President Arthur appointed Mr. 
Worthington collector of the port of Bos- 
ton, and while the appointment was op- 
posed by Senator Hoar and others on ])o- 
litical grounds, it is generally conceded 
that Mr. \\'ortliington proved a most efti- 
cient officer, and amply justified the selec- 
tion made bv the chief executive. 



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WKKill r. 



675 



WRIGHT, ANDREW J., son of Josiah 
and Sarali (Sliernian) \\'right, was born in 
Knfield, Hartford counly, Conn., June 8, 
1S42. At ei.!j;ht years of age he went to 
Springfield and received his early educa- 
tional training in the public schools of 
that city, graduating from the high school 
in 1.S60. 

He ininiediately took a clerkship in the 
Springfield post-office, where he remained 
until August 15, iiS62, when he enlisted in 
company A, 46th regiment, Massachusetts 
volunteers ; was mustered into service Sep- 
tember 25, 1862, and honorably discharged 
after one year's service. In 1865 he was 
captain in the Massachusetts volunteer 
militia. 

Early in 1864 he entered the office of 
the Springfield Fire & Marine Insurance 
('om])any, as book keeper, and Ajiril 9, 
1S72, was elected treasurer of the company. 
This office he has since held, and in adtli- 
tion to the duties of this position he takes 
an active part in the management of the 
company's fire busine.ss. 

Mr. \Vright was married in South Man- 
chester, Conn., May 22, 1867, to Mary J., 
daughter of C.'harles and Mary Ingalls 
(Clough) t'ase. Of this union are five 
children : Kred Case, Grace Sherman, Harry 
.Andrew, Royal Josiah, and Josephine Mary- 
Wright. 

Mr. Wright has been a member of the 
Kepublican city committee ; was a member 
of the Springfield common council in 1876 
and '77 — the latter year its president ; was 
nominated for alderman in 1879, but de- 
clined, and has since repeatedly not only 
ileclined that office, but also, in 1888, the 
nomination for mayor f the city. He was 
[jresident of the Republican club — over 
seven hundred members — during the last 
presidential campaign. In politics he 
is an enthusiastic and consistent Re])ub- 
lican. 

In 1877 he was one of the managers of 
the city hospital. He is a director in the 
Agawam National Bank, Springfield, and 
of the Franklin County National l?ank, 
(Jreenfield ; a trustee and member of the 
finance committee of Hampden Savings 
Hank ; a tlirector in the Sjiringfield Printing 
iS: Binding Company, and member of K. K. 
WiU().\ Post 16, ('.. A. R. 

WRIGHT, Carroll Davidson, son 

of Nathan R. and Eliza C. Wright, was 
born in Dunbarton, Merrimack county, 
N. H., July 25, 1840. 

The common schools of Washington, 
N. H , and Reading, Mass., were his first 
sources of education. He subsei|ueiitly 



attended the academies at Washington, Al- 
steatl, and Swanzey, N. H., and Chester 
Academy, Vt. After the preparatory stage 
that has fitted so many New England 
young men for a career of future useful- 
ness, as teacher, both in New Hampshire 
and \'ermont, he studied law, and was ad- 
mitted to the Cheshire county bar at Keene, 
N. H., in 1865, but did not begin practice 
till August, 1867, owing to ill iiealth — the 
interim being occupied by an unsuccessful 
venture in the furniture l)usiness in Lynn, 
Mass. 

From August, 18O7, until the spring of 
1876, Col. VVright was actively engaged in 
law practice in Boston, his specially being 
patent law. From June, 1873, till Septem- 
ber, 1888, he had charge of the Massachu- 
setts bureau of statistics of labor ; and 
since January, 1885, has been at the head 
of the United States bureau of labor, now 
the department of labor. 

He was elected to the state Senate in 
1872 and '73, and was a jiresidential elec- 
tor in 1876. He was supervisor for Mas- 
sachusetts of the United States census for 
1880, and special agent for the United 
States census for the factory system in 
1880 and 'Si. 

At twenty-two years of age he enlisted 
as a private in the 14th New Hampshire 
volunteers, in September, 18C2 ; was com- 
missioned 2d lieutenant in October of the 
same year, and was made adjutant in De- 
cember, 1863. December, 1864, he received 
his commi.ssion as colonel, and left the ser- 
vice by resignation in March, 1865, being 
compelled to this step by a protracted ill- 
ness. 

Colonel Wright's life has been a very 
busy one. He took the census of the 
State of Massachusetts in the years 1875, 
'80, and '85 ; was lecturer before the 
Lowell Institute, Boston, in 1879; and 
was elected university lecturer for llai- 
vard, on the factory system, in 1881. He 
is widely known as a iectiu'er on military, 
social, and scientific topics. In 1881 he 
made an extensive tour of study of the 
factory systems of Europe and America, 
and embodied the result in a " Report 
on the Factory System" to the United 
States Government. In 1883, Tufts Col- 
lege conferred upf)n him the honorary 
degree of A. M. He has compiled and 
published thirty volumes of statistical 
works, besides many pamphlets in the 
same line. 

He is president of the American Social 
Science Association ; a fellow, and was 
for many years secretary, of the American 



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WRIGHT. 



WRIUHT. 



Statistical Association ; a member of the 
International Institute of Statistics ; of 
the New England Historic Genealogical 
Society, of the American Economic Asso- 
ciation, and the American Historical Asso- 
ciation. He holds a commission under the 
governor of Massachusetts for compiling 




CARROLL D. WRIGHT. 

a report on the records of parishes, towns, 
and counties. 

The thorough work performed by Col. 
Wright when in charge of the Massachu- 
setts Bureau of Statistics of Labor did 
much to solve many a problem of social 
and political ethics. While his reports at 
first were deemed antagonistic to a large 
element of the community, yet the scrupu- 
lous fidelity and unquestioned impartiality 
which characterized their compilation, 
finally reconciled those who were deeply 
interested and affected by their publication. 

Colonel Wright and Caroline E., daugh- 
ter of Sylvester and Mary E. Harnden, 
were united in marriage January i, 1S67, 
in Reading. Their children are :' Cornelia 
Harnden and Grace Duncan Wright. 

WRIGHT, George Wellman, son 

of John Stratton and Mary Russell (Well- 
man) Wright, was born in Boston, August 
22, 1824. 

Having received the usual education at 
private schools, he decided to adopt a 



mercantile life, and about 1842 entered 
the office of his father, then Parks, Wright 
& Co., in Boston, largely engaged in 
the domestic commission business; here he 
remained till 1849, when he removed to 
New York, and pursued the same business, 
as Dale & Wright, until the death of his 
brother, of New Orleans, whom he suc- 
ceeded as purchaser of cotton for factory 
use and shipment, both at New Orleans 
and .Memphis, Tenn. 

He retired from active business earlv in 
life, and now enjoys his leisure in travel 
and care of the family estates. 

Mr. Wright was married in New York 
City, October 12, 185S, to Georgianna, 
daughter of George and Anna (Trapha- 
gen) Buckham. Of this union were four 
children : .\nna Buckham, John Stratton, 
George Buckham (deceased), and Florence 
Russell Wright. 

Mr. Wright's summer residence is in 
Du.xburv. 

_ WRIGHT, Luther Clark, son of Ozro 

C. and Emeline (Clark) Wright, was born 
in Northampton, Hampshire county, April 
21, 1844. 

He is in the eighth generation from 
Samuel \\right, one of the original settlers 
soon after the town was incorporated, who 
removed from Springfield, Mass., in 1655, 
and whose descendants have become quite 
numerous in this region — the family name 
appearing frequently in the records of the 
church and town. 

His early educational training was 
secured in the common schools of North- 
ampton. He afterwards attended Williston 
Seminary, Easthampton. 

.\fter leaving school, he was engaged in 
agricultural pursuits for a time. Upon 
the organization of the first city govern- 
ment of Northampton, in 1884, he was 
elected collector of ta.xes, which position 
he now holds, discharging the duties of 
the office with marked ability, and to the 
general acceptance of his fellow-citizens. 

Mr. Wright is unmarried. 

WRIGHT, Walter MELVIN, son of Asa 
and I'olly (Chase) Wright, was born in 
Hanover, Grafton county, N. H., May 22, 
1846, and was the youngest of four chil- 
dren — a daughter and three sons. 

He received his early mental training in 
the common schools. In 1862 he entered 
Perkins Academy, South Woodstock, Vt., 
and studied and taught in this institution 
until 1867. He was graduated A. M. at 
Dartmouth College in 1871, and M. D. in 
1S74. 



\vrk;iit. 



YOUNG. 



J/7 




WALTER M WRIGHT. 



He was associated in the practice of 
medicine with .M. C. Kdnnuuls. M. I)., 
Weston, \'t., from July, 1S74, till Jul\-, 
1876, when he removed to Massachusetts 
and opened an office in Cooleyville, 
practicing there until 1880, when he 
settled in Orange, where he has been 
engaged in active general practice in 
medicine and surgery to the present 
time. 

Dr. Wright was married in Weston, Yt., 
January 3, 1875, to Ella J., daughter of 
Nathan and Lavina (Webster) Holt. Of 
this union is one child : Aldine Louise 
^\■right, born February 28, 1878. 

He was commissioned by Governor 
Robinson, June 26, 1884, a medical exam- 
iner in Franklin county. He is president 
of the Franklin District Medical Society, 
and one of the vice-presidents of the Mas- 
sachusetts Medical Society. 

He is a prominent Odd Fellow, and an 
active and ardent member of various Ma- 
sonic bodies ; was master of Orange Lodge, 
F. & A. M., 1883, '84, and '85, and D. D. 
grand master of the 13th Masonic district, 
1886 and '87. 



YOUNG, James Harvey, son of Wil- 
liam and Hannah (Harvey) Young, was 
born in Salem, F^ssex county, June 14, 1830. 

His early education, until fourteen years 
of age, was obtained in private schools. 
In 1842 his family removed to Boston, and 
at this time he entered the studio of John 
Pope, portrait painter. In 1844, at four- 
teen years of age, he opened a studio of 
his own in Boston, painting portraits at 
five dollars each. 

In 1848 he entered the office of an able 
architect, as a draughtsman, at the same 
time using every spare moment in work 
that kept him in form for his portrait 
painting. At the end of four years he re- 
turned to the profession for which nature 
designed him, and has ever since given his 
entire time antl attention to portraiture. 
He has painted much, but seldom puts a 
picture on exhibition. 

He was one of the founders of the Bos- 
ton Art Club, and from 1861 to '71 was 
director of the fine arts department of the 
Boston Athenreum. 

Among his better works are portraits of 
Edward Everett (the original belonging to 
Mrs. E. B. Everett), William Warren, 
W. H. Prescott and Horace Mann (both 
in the Salem norma! school), Colonel Ells- 



worth and Lieutenant Brownell (belonging 
to the Salem Independent Cadets), Gen- 
eral Townsend (Soldiers' Home, Washing- 
ton, 1). C), Thatcher Magoun (for the 
town of Medford), Barnas Sears and Pro- 
fessor Whitney (Newton Theological Insti- 
tution), Rev. Dr. Peabody (for Exeter 
Academy), Rev. Dr. Hedge, Professor 
Mulford (Harvard), and John Ward Dean 
(in the New England Historic Genealogi- 
cal Society), and of many private individ- 
uals. Mrs. George I-ivermore, of Cam- 
bridge, owns a half-length cabinet size por- 
trait of Everett, and a copy of the original 
head is in the Boston public library. 

Mr. Young was married in Leominster, 
in 1853, to Francena M.. daughter of Luke 
and Clarissa Wilder. His only child by 
this marriage is Charles Harvey Young. He 
married again in 1884, Louise C, daughter 
of Joel and Susan C. Knight, of Boston. 

In 1S72 his studio was burned, and Mr. 
Young lost nearly all his earthly posses- 
sions. He soon set up his easel at West 
Street, where he is at present located. Mr. 
Young has attained to an enviable repu- 
tation as a portrait painter. He is a mem- 
ber of the Paint and Clay Club, and is 
personally one of the most esteemed 
artists of the metropolis of the State. 



INDEX 



BY TOWNS AND CITIES. 



ABINGTON. 

I'KIKCE, HkNKV B., 

I'katt, Hakvey H. 

ACUSHNET. 
Bkai.ev. Thomas E. 



(iREEN, William B., 
Holmes. Horace M. 

amesbury. 
Cate, George W. 

AMHERST. 

Paige, Frank E., 
I'ai.mer, DWIGHP \V., 
Seelye, Julius H., 
Stockbriuge, Levi, 
Tylek, William S. 

ANDQVER. 

Coy, Edward G., 
Morton, Marcus, 
Park, P:d\vards A., 

PlIELl'S, .\USTIN, 

Ryder, William H., 
Smyth, Egbert C, 
Tucker, William J. 

ARLINGTON. 

Bkackett, John Q. A., 
IIakdy, John H., 
Hodgdon, Richard L., 
Peck, William G., 
Peirce, Warren A., 
Squire, John P.. 
Trowbridge. John T. 

ashburnham. 

WiiiTNEv. Wilbur F. 

ASHBY. 
Carr, Alonzo a. 

ashfield. 

Ranney, Henky S. 

ASHLAND. 

o.M.EY, Frederick N. 

ATHOL. 

Harding, Alpheus, 
Smith. James G. 

attleborough. 

Adams, (George A., 
Hkady, Philip K.. 
Daggett, Homer M., 



Dean, George A., 
Horton, Everett S. 

AUBURN. 

E.ivTON, Thomas S. 
AVER. 

Fletcher, Daniel W., 
Hartwell, Benjamin H. 

barnstable. 

Goss, Franklin B., 
Phinney, Sylvanus B., 
Snow, Samuel. 

BARRE. 

Davis, James F.. 
Rice, John W. 

BECKET. 

Snow, Frederick. 

BEDFORD. 

Webber, Wallace G., 
Wood, Henry. 

belchertown. 

Lyman, Robert W., 
Walker, Myron P. 

BELMONT. 

HowELLS, William D. 

BERKLEY. 

Leach, Giles L. 

BEVERLY. 

Baker, John I., 
Clark, .\ugustus N., 
Ober, Frederick A., 
SoHiER, William D. 

blackstone. 

I'utnam, .-Vrthuk a. 
blandford. 
Hkkkick, Henry K. 

BOLTON. 

Barrett, Roswell. 

BOSTON. 

Abbott, Josiah G., 
Adams, Charles Follen, 
Adams, Charles R., 
Adams, George Z., 
Adams, Wili.lvm T., 
Alden, E. Kimball, 
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 



Alger, William R., 
Allen, Charles, 
Allen, Charles H., 
Allen, Horace G., 
Allen, Stili.man B., 
Allen, Thomas, 
Andrew, John F., 
Angell, (Ieorge T., 
Atwood, Harrison H., 
Babcock, James F.. 
Bacon, Edwin M., 
Baldwin, William H., 
Barrett, Lawrence, 
Bartlett, Sidney, 
Bartol, Cyrus A., 
B.\tes, Arlo, 
Beard, Alanson W., 
Bennett, Joseph, 
Bicknell, Thomas W., 
Bigelow, Henry J., 
Bliss, William D. P., 
Blodgett, Caleb, 
Boardman, Halsev J., 
Bond, George William, 
Booth, Edwin T., 
Bowditch, Henry L, 
B'lWKEK, Albert, 
Bradlee, Nathaniel J., 
Brooks, Phillips, 
Browne, Causten, 
Bryant, Napoleon B., 
Buchanan, J. Rodes, 
Burgess, Edward, 
Burt, George L., 
Butter WORTH, Hezekiah, 
Callahan, John F., 
Campbell, Benjamin,F., 
Campbell, Samuel S., 
Carrigan, Edward C, 
Carter, Solomon, 
Chandler, Henry H., 
Chandler, Peleg W., 
Chapin, Nahum, 
Cheney, Benjamin P., 
Choate, Charles F., 
Clapp, Charles M., 
Clapp, Henry A., 
Clapp, William W., 
Clark, Isaiah R., 
Clement, Edward H., 
CoDMAN, Charles R., 
Coffin, Charles C, 
Colby, John Freeman, 
Collins, P.aTRICK A., 
Cook, Joseph, 
Crocker, George G.. 
Cronin, Cornelius F., 
CuNNiFF, Michael M., 
Curtis, Edwin U., 
Curtis, George. 



6So 



INDEX. 



Cutter, Abram E., 

Cutter, Charles A., 

Cutter, Leonard R., 

Dai.ton, Samuel, 

Damrell, John S., 

Dana, Richard H., 

Dana, Thomas, 

Davis, Andrew J., 

Dean, Benjamin, 

Dewey, Henry S., 

Dickinson, Marquis F., Jr., 

Ditson, Oliver, 

Di.xey, Henry E., 

Doherty, Philip J., 

Donnelly, Charles F., 

DoNOHOE, Michael T., 

Dorchester, Daniel, 

Dudley, L. Edwin, 
Duryea, Joseph T., 
Dwight, John .S., 
Ellis, George E., 
Elson, Louis C, 
Endicott, Henry, 
Ernst, George A. O., 
Farmer, Moses G., 
Farnham, Luther, 
Field, Walbridge A., 
Fitch, Robert G., 
Flower, Richard C, 
Flvnn, Edward J., 
Ford, William E., 
Fottler, J.acob, 
Fries, Wulf C. J., 
Frost, Henry, 
Frothingham, Octavius B., 
Fuller, Henry Weld, 
Galvin, Owen A., 
Gannett, George, 
Gardner, Henry J., 
Gargan, Thomas ]., 
Gaston, William," 
Gaugengigl, Ignaz M., 

GlFKORD, ORRIN I'., 

Gordon, Adoniram J., 
Gordon, George A., 
Gove, Jesse M., 
Gove, Wesley A., 
Grant, Robert, 
Gray, Horace, 
Green, .Samuel A., 
Green, William A., 
Greenough, William W., 
Gregg, David, 
Griffis, William E., 
Guild, Curtis, 
Hadlock, Harvey D., 
Hale, Edward Everett, 
Hamilton, John W., 
Hart, Thomas N., 
Hayden, Lewis, 
Haynes, Emory J., 
Haynes, John C, 
Haynes, Tilly, 
Hill, Hamilton A., 
Hobbs, George M., 
HoDGKiNs, William E. . 
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 
HoMANs, John, 
HoRTON, Edward A., 

HUNNEWELL, JaMES F., 

Jenkins, Edward J., 
Jenks, Thomas L., 
Jones, Edward J., 
Jordan, Eben D., 



Jordan, Jediah P., 
Kendricken, Paul H., 
Kennedy, Donald, 
Kimball, William W., 
Kinsley, Edward W., 
L.aforme, Vincent, 
Lambert, Thomas R., 
Lane, Saurin E., 
Lang, Benjamin J., 
Lasker, Raphael, 
Lathrop, John, 
Lavai.lee, Cali.xa, 
Leach, George C, 
Leighton, John W., 
Leighton, "N. W. Scott, 
Lewis, John J., 
Lincoln, Frederic W., 
Listemann, Bernhard F. W. 
Little, Samuel, 
Lovell, Clarence P., 
Lowell, John, 
Maccabe," Joseph B., 
Martin, A'ugustus P., 
McDonough, John H., 
McEttrick, Michael (., 
M'Gi.enen, Henry A.," 
McPhekson, Ebenezer U., 
Mead, Edwin D., 
Merrill, Moody, 
Miner, Alonzo A., 
Miner, George A., 
Monroe, George H., 
Moore, Ira L., 
Morse, Godfrey, 
Morse, John T., 
Morse, Nathan, 
Mowry, William A., 
Mo.xoM, Philip S., 
Murphy, John R., 
Nichols, George B., 
Noble, John, 
Noyes, Charles J., 
O'Brien, Hugh, 
O'Neil, Joseph H., 
O'Reilly, John B(]Yle, 
Osborne, VVilliam M., 
Osgood, George L., 
Osgood, William N., 
Paddock, Benjamin H., 
Paine, Robert Treat, 
Parker, Charles W., 
Parker, George J., 
Parker, Henry G., 
Parkman, Francis, 
Parkman, Henry, 
Partridge, Horace, 
P.atterson, Adoniram J., 
Peirce, Silas, 
Perabo, j. Ernst, 
Peters, .\lvaii H., 
PiLLSBURY, Albert E., 
PiLLSBURY, John E., 
PiLSBURY, Edwin L., 
Potter. Warren B., 
Powers, Charles E., 
Prescott, Charles f.. 
Prince, Frederick O., 
Putnam, J. Pickering, 
Quint, Alonzo H., 
Rand, Arnold A., 
Ranney, Ambrose A., 
Reade, John, 
Rice, Alexander H,, 
Rich, Isaac B., 
Ricker, James W., 



Robinson, Marvin P., 
RowE, George H. M., 
RowELL,. Frank, 
Sanford, Alpheus, 
Sanger, tiEORGE P., 
Savage, Minot J., 
Sawyer, Joseph^ 
Sawyer, Timothy T., 
ScHiNDLER, Solomon, 
Shattuck. George O., 
Shepard, Edward O., 
Shepard, Harvey N., 
Shepard, John, 
Slade, Lucius, 
Sleeper, Jacob, 
Small, Cyrus, 
Smith, Nathan G., 
SoLEY, John C, 

SOUTHWORTH, ROBERT A., 

SowDON, Arthur J. C, 
Sprague, Henry H., 
Stearns, Richard H., 
Stevenson, [ohn L., 
Storer, David H., 
Sullivan, John H., 
Sweetser, 'Moses F., 
Taylor, Charles H., 
Taylor, William, 

TETLOW, fllHN, 

Trask, William B., 

Tufts, .Arthur W., 

Van Nostrand, William T., 

Vinton, Frederick P., 

Waldron, Daniel W., 

Walker, Francis A., 

Walker, Henry, 

Ward, Julius H., 

Ware, M. Everett, 

Warren, Joseph H., 
Weeks, Andrew G., 
Weil, Charles, 
Weissbein, Louis, 
Wharton, William F., 
WniTcoMB, Charles W., 
White, Ralph H., 
Whiting, Fred E., 
Whitmore, William H., 
Whitney, Samuel B., 
Whittier, Charles, 
WiLLARD, Joseph A., 
Williams.'John j., 

WiNSLOW, 'iViLLIAM C. , 

Winthrop, Robert C, 
Witt, Charles T.. 
Woodbury, Charles Levi, 
Woods, Edwin H., 
Woods, Solomon A., 

WoRTHINGTON, RoLAND, 

Young, J. Harvey, 

BOURNE. 

Chamberlain, N.athan H., 
Keith, Isaac N. 

boxborough. 
Wetherbee, .Augustus W. 

BOXFORD. 

Stevens, Francis J. 

bradford. 

Carter, Henry, 
Cogswell, William. 



INDEX. 



6Sl 



BRAINTREE. 

Beals, John M., 
HoBART, Francis A., 
Johnson, Henry A., 
Stevens, James T. 

brewster. 

Croshy, Tui.i.v, Jr. 

BRIDGEWATER. 

BoYDEN, Albert G., 
Crane, Joshua E., 
G.ates, Samuel P., 
Harris, Benjamin W., 
Hooter, George M., 
Keith, Laf.\yette, 
Kingman, Hosea, 
Leach, James C, 
Leonard, Spencer, 
Stetson, Nahum. 

BROCKTON. 

Gruver, Samuel J., 
Tones, Bradford £., 
Keith, George E., 
Keith, Preston B., 
Keith, Ziba C, 
Monk, Hiram A., 

P.ACKARU, DeWITT C, 

Sanford, Baalis, 
Sumner, Charles \V., 
Wade, Albert K., 
Whipi'LE, John J., 
White, Francis E. 

brookfield. 

Johnson, George W. 

BROOKLINE. 

AspiNWALL, William, 
Atkinson, Edward, 
Butler, William S., 
Cand.\ge, Rufus G. F., 
Candler, John W., 
Colburn, Jeremiah, 
Dodge, Theodore A., 
Estes, Dan.\, 
Hill, William H., 
Jones, Jerome, 
Mason,' Albert, 

PARKEIir?"jAMES C. D., 

Russell, Edward, 
Sears, William B., 
Thomas, Reuen, 
Whitney, Henry M., 
WiLLiAMJ. Moses. 

buckland. 

Crittenden, George D. 

cambridge. 

Abbot, Francis E., 
Agassiz, Alexander, 
Alger, Alpheus B., 
Allen, Alexander V. G., 
.\LLEN, Joseph H., 
Bancroft, William A., 
Bent, George C, 
Bradford, Isaac, 
Chamberlain, George D. 
Clarke, Augustus P., 
Cooke, Josiah P., 
Eliot, Charles W., 
Fiske, John., 



Fox, James A., 
Fuller, Robert O., 
GiLMORE, Henry H., 
Goodwin, William W., 
Hall, James M. W., 
Hammond, John W., 
Hannum, L'eander M., 
Haskins, David G., 
Hedge, Frederic H., 
Higginson, Thomas W., 
Hill, F. Stanhope, 
Hincks, Edward W., 
Holmes, N.vth.\niel, 
Kendall, Edward, 
Kingsley', Chester W., 
Lombard, N.vphan C, 
Lovering, Joseph, 
Low'ELL, James Russell, 
Marcy, Henry O., 
McIntire, Charles, 
McKenzie, Alexander, 
Montague, Samuel L., 
Morse, Asa P., 
Norton, Charles E., 
Pickering, Edward C, 
Roberts, James H., 
Rogers, Charles S.. 
RoLFE, William J., 
Russell, William E., 
Sanger, Chester F., 
Sharples, Stephen P., 
Warren, WMlliam F., 
Wellington, Austin C, 
WiNSOR, Justin, 
Woodbridge, Samuel F. 

CANTON. 

Ames, Frank M., 
Endicott, Charles, 
Morse, Elijah A. 

CARLISLE. 

Simons, Selak. 

CARVER. 

McFarlin, Peleg. 

CHATHAM. 

GiFFORD, Benjamin D. 
CHELSEA. 

Bassett, Samuel, 
Campbell, Charles A., 
Chamberlain, Mellen, 
Champlin, Arthur B., 
Cunningham, James A., 
Ela, Uavid H., 
Fay, Frank B., 
FiTZ, Eustace C, 
Fletcher, John W., 
Frost, Rufus S., 
Hart, William H., 
H.vsKELL, Andrew L., 
Hixon, William S., 

HoWLAND, WlLLARD, 

Hutchinson, Eben, 
Mason, Samuel W., 
Mitchell, George E., 
Richardson, Charles A., 
Shh.laber, Benjamin P., 
Strahan, Thomas, 
Tenney, Samuel P. 

chesterfield. 

Nichols, Albert. 



chicopee. 

Bellamy, Edward, 
Robinson, George D., 
Ste.\rns, George M., 
Taylor, George S., 
White, Luther. 

chilmark. 

HiLLMAN, BERIAH T. 
CLINTON. 

Bowers, Walter P., 
Corcoran, John W., 
Field, Lucius, 
Goodale, Warren, 
HoLMAN, Frank E., 
Ingai.ls, Daniel B. , 
Parkhurst, Wellington E. 
Smith, Jonathan, 
Stevens, Charles G. 

cohasset. 

Osgood, Joseph. 

COLRAIN. 

Smith, Ansel C. 

CONCORD. 

HoAK, E. Rockwood, 
Lothrop, D.vniel, 
Wheildon.William W. 

CONWAY. 

B.^tchelder, Carlos. 
DALTON. 

Weston, Byron. 

DANA. 

Johnson, N.\th.\niel L. 

DANVERS. 

Mudge, Augustus, 
Whittier, John G. 

dartmouth. 

Barker, William, Jr. 

DEDHAM. 

Burdakin, John H., 
Cleveland, Ira, 
Colburn, Howard, 
Ely, Frederick D., 
Endicott, Augustus B., 
Hill, Don Gle.\son, 
Southgate, George A., 
Worthington, Erastus. 

deerfield. 

Sheldon, George. 
DENNIS. 
Hall, Luther. 

DOUGLAS. 

Abbott, William. 
DOVER. 

Shumway, Amos W., 
Smith, Charles H., 
Smith, Frank. 

DRACUT. 

Sargent, Joseph L. 



682 



INDEX. 



DUXBURY. 

\VkIGl[ 1. C.KOKGK \V. 

EAST BRIDGEWATER. 

I'AiNE, Timothy O. 

EASTHAM. 

NiCKEKSON, Rei'ben. 

easthampton. 

Gallaghek, William, 
Knight. Horatio G., 
Sherman, David, 
Wilson, Joseph W. 

EASTON. 

Ames, Oliver, 
southarii. i.ouis c. 

edgartown. 

HoLLEV, Richard, 
Pease, Richard I,., 
Vincent, Hebron. 

EVERETT. 

Bailey, Dudley P., 
Evans, Alonzo H., 
Smith, George E. 

FAIRHAVEN. 

Howland, Weston. 
Hunt, Cyrus D. 

FALL RIVER. 

Aldrich, James M., 
Borden, Philip U., 
Braley, Henry K., 
Davis, Robert T., 
Davol, William C, 
Dubuque, Hugo .4., 
Dyer, David H., 
French, Job B., 
Greene, William S., 
Hathewav, Nicholas, 
Howard, Robert, 
Jackson, James F.. 
Jennings, Andrew J., 
Lambert, William H., 
Lincoln, Leontine, 
Milne, John C. 

FALMOUTH. 

Jones, Silas. 

FITCHBURG. 

Bond, Nelson F., 
Crocker, Charles T., 
Culley, Eli, 
Currier, Frederick .\., 
Hartwell, H.\rris C. 
Kellogg, John E., 
Wallace, Rodney, 

WOODWORTH, DWIGHT S. 
FOXBOROUGH. 

Carpenter, Erasius P. 

framingham. 

Bird, Samuel B., 
Clapp, George L., 
Clark, James W., 
Fuller, Luther F., 
Goodell, John H., 
Lewis, Charles D. 



FRANKLIN. 

Fletcher, Asa .\.. 
Gai.lison, J. Gushing, 
Jenks, Henry R., 
King, George, 
Ray, James I'., 
Ray, Joseph G., 
Ray, William F., 
Thayer, William M. 

freetown. 

H.\th.\w.\y, Guilford H., 
Rich.mond, Sil.4S P. 

GEORGETOWfN. 

Osgood, Stephen. 

GILL. 

Barton, Leonard. 

GLOUCESTER. 

Babson, Fitz J. . 
French, Jonas II.. 
French, William W., 
Nichols, William 1L, 
Procter, Francis, 
Robinson, David L, 
Shepherd, Joseph C, 
Smith, Syi.vanus, 
Taft, Edgar S., 
Thompson, Charles P. 

GOSHEN. 

Barkus, .\l\ an. 

GOSNOLD. 

Allen, Frederick S. 

GRANBY. 

Keith, Monroe. 

granville. 

Gibbons, John >L 

great harrington. 

Giddings. Theoiioke. 

greenfield. 

.\iken, d.a.vid, 
CoNANT, Chester C, 
Gunn, Levi J., 
Lyman, Edward E., 
Thompson, Francis >L 

GROTON. 

Boutwell, George S., 
Graves, George S., 
Lawrence, As.\ S., 
Needham, Daniel, 
Palmer, Moses P., 
Peabody, Endicott, 
Shumwav, Eliel. 

groveland. 
Ham.moni), Edward H. 

HANOVER. 

Perkv, F;nwAKi) Y. 

HANSON. 

Stetson, (Ieorge F. 

HARWICH. 

Small, Emulous. 



HATFIELD. 

Hubbard, Silas G. 

haverhill. 

Bakti.ett, Nathaniel C, 
Brickett, Benjamin F., 
Clement, G. Colburn, 
Crowell, John, 
Hill, .\rthur A., 
Hoyt, Warren, 
Johnson, Henrv H., 
Moody, William H., 
Morse, Charles W., 
Perkins, ILymilton L., 
Richards, Fred G., 
Sargent, Horace ^L, 
.Savage, Edward B. 

HINGHAM. 

Burdett, Joseph O., 
Jacobs, Joseph, Jr., 
Long, John D., 
Whiton, Starkes. 

HINSDALE. 
KiTTREPGE, Charles J. 

HOLBROOK. 

.\LDEN, Lewis. 

HoLBROOK, E. EVEREIT. 

holliston. 
Johnson, Peter R., 
Spring, Charles E., 
Talbot, Zephaniah, 
Thomson, Orrin. 

HOLYOKE. 

Brooks, William H., 
Chase, Henry A., 
Clark, Embury P., 
CoRSER, Charles A., 
DwiGHT, William G., 
Hemphill, .\shton E.,, 
Smith, George H., 
Sullivan. Jeremiah F". 

hopedale. 
Draper, William F. 

hopkinton. 
Phipps, Marcus C. 

HUDSON. 

JosLiN, James T. . 
Worcester, William E. C. 

huntington. 

Clark. Schuyler. 

hyde park. 

Bl.EAKIE, RoBEkl', 

Carrington, Henry' B., 
E.NNEKING, John J. 

LANCASTER. 

NouRSE, Henry S. 

LANESBOROUGH. 

Van Rensselaer, Henry R. 

lawrence. 

Bkeen, John, 

Bruce, Ai.ex.\nder B., 



INDEX. 



683 



Hasf.ltine, PhineasW.. 
Mack, .\lvin E.. 
RiissELi., William A.. 
Sherman, Edgar J., 
Stakford, John H., 
Stone, Anhrew C. 
Sullivan, Michael F.. 
TowNSEND, Milton li., 
Truell, Bykon, 
Whitney, Henry M., 
Mf.krill, George S. 

LEE. 

Smith. Wellington. 

leicester. 

Cogswell., John D., 
Kent, Daniel, 
Russell, John E. 

leominster. 

Greenwood, Morrill .\. 

LEXINGTON. 

Batcheller, Brooks T., 
Holmes, Howlanu, 
S.vviLLE, Leonard A., 
Tower, William A., 
Whitcher, Bradley C. 

LEYDEN. 

Budington, Jonathan. 

littleton. 

Conant, Nelson B., 
Harwood, Joseph A., 
Sanderson, George W. 

LOWELL. 

Allen, Charles H., 
Allen, Richard B., 
Baker, Smith, 
Bennett, James W., 
Butler, Benjamin F., 
Carter, Charles E., 
Chalifoux, Joseph L., 
Clark, Jeremiah, 
Cowley, Charles, 
Crowley, Jeremiah, 
Dexter, Solomon K., 
Donovan, John J.. 
Francis, James B., 
Greenhalge, Frederick T. 
Hanson, Charles H., 
Jewett, Francis, 
Kimball, John F., 
LiLi.EY, Charles S., 
Marden. George .\., 
Morrison, John H., 
Palmer, Charles D., 
Pollard, Arthur G., 
(jUA, Francis W., 
Rogers, Jacob, 
Shaw, Benjamin F.. 
Walker, Benjamin. 

.lunenburg. 

ESTABROOK, .\liIN C, 

Goodrich, Charles A., 
Un.DRF.Tii, James. 2I>. 

LYNN. 

.\dams, Jiihn G. B., 
.\i.LEN, Frank D., 

.\L1.EY, loHN B.. 



Lovering, Henry B., 
Neal, Petek M., 
Newhall, .\sa T., 
Newhall, Edward, 
Newhall. James R., 
Niles, William H., 
ToLMAN, John B., 
Tracy, Cyrus M. 

lynnfield. 

Nash, Stephen c;. 

MALDEN. 

Bicknell, Albion H., 
Coggan, Marcellus, 
Converse, Elisha S., 
DuTToN, Benjamin F., 
Fuller, Lorin L.. 
Mansfield, Joseph H., 
Millei-t, Joshua H., 
Odiorne, Frederick H., 
Pease, Theodore C, 
Sleeper, John K. C, 
Turner, Henry E., Jr., 
Walker, George W., 
Wellman, Joshua W., 
Wiggin, Joseph F. 

manchester. 

Lee, .\ndrew. 

mansfield. 

IDE, TaCOB, 

Reed, Er.\stus M. 

MARBLEHEAD. 

Roads, Samuel, Jr. 

MARLBOROUGH. 

Aldrich, Samuel N., 
C.vi'E, George N., 
CooLiDGE, Timothy A., 
Fay, John S., 
Morse, Charles F., 
Pr.\tt, Stillman B. 

MASHPEE. 

Hammond, Watson ¥. 

MAYNARD. 

Maynard, Lorenzo. 

medfield. 

Gould, J. Henry-, 
Hale, Jeremiah B., 
Mitchell, Edwin V. 

MEDFORD. 

Boynton, Eleazar, 
Brooks, Francis, 
Dean, John Ward, 
Gle.\son, Daniel A., 
Hallowell, Norwood P., 
Hallowell, Richard P., 
Lawrence, Samuel C, 
Norcross, J. Henry, 
Perry, Edward B. 

MEDWAY. 

Fisher, Milton M., 
Fuller, Asa M. B., 
Harlow, Rufus K., 
Partridge, David .\. 



MELROSE. 

Barrett, William E., 
GoocH, Daniel W., 
Goss, Elbridge H., 
Gould, Levi S.. 
Larrabee, John, 
Orcutt, Frank E., 
Russell, Daniel. 

merrimac. 

Pike, James D. 

methuen. 

Parker, James O., 
Wall, James T. 

middleborough. 

Ellis, George L.. 
Sullivan, John C. 

middlefield. 

Smith, Metcalf J. 

MIDDLETON. 

Merriam, Francis P. 

MILFORD. 

Billings, George M., 
Cooke, George P., 
Dewey, Charles A., 
Mann, Thomas H., 
Parker, George G. 

MILLBURY. 

Mallalieu, Willard F., 
Morse, Charles D., 
Whitney, Levi L. 

MILLIS. 
Collins, Michael H., 
FoLsoM, John S., 
Jameson," Ephraim O., 
"Millis, Henry L. 

MILTON. 

Bradlee, J. Walter, 
Breck, Charles, 
Fletcher, George A., 
Forbes, Robert B., 
Godfrey, Nathan, 
Pierce, Edward L., 
Pierce, Henry L., 
Safford, Nathaniel F., 
Teele, Albert K., 
Wadsworth. Edwin D. 

MONROE. 

Hinsdale, Henry. 

MONSON. 

CusHMAN, Solomon F., 
Flynt, William N., 
Reynolds, Rice M. 

MONTAGUE. 

GuNN, James A.. 
Oakman, Richard N.. 
Root, Joseph H. 

MONTEREY. 

Bidwell, Marshall S. 

MT. WASHINGTON. 
Whitbeck, ORRIN C. 



684 



INDEX. 



nahant. 
Lodge, Henky Cabot. 

nantucket. 

S.^NFORi), Frederick C. 

NATICK. 

Bird, Warren A., 
Clark, David U., 
Howard, Charles D., 
NuTT, William, 
TiRRELL, Charles Q. 

NEEDHAM. 

Carter, William, 
Eaton, Everett J., 
Foss, James H., 
Kingsbury, Albert D., 
Mackintosh, James, 
Miller, Albert E., 
Tucker, Enos H. 

new ashford, 
Ingraham, Elihu. 

NEW BEDFORD. 
Bourne, Jonathan, 
Clifford", Walter, 
Crapo, William W., 
<;raves, Henry C, ' 
Milliken, Eben C, 
Pierce, Andrew C;.', 
Randall, Charles S., 
Randall, William P., 
Richmond, George B., 
RoTCH, William J., 
Stetson, Thomas" M. 

new braintree. 
Gleason, Charles A. 

NEWBURY. 
Rolfe, Joseth X. 

newburyport. 
Dodge, Nathan D,, 
Fiske, Daniel T., 
Howe, Francis A., 
Parton, James, 
Shaw, Edward P., 
Titcomb, Albert C. 

new salem. 
Putnam, Willard. 

NEWTON. 

Allen, Nathaniel T., 
Bacon, Joseph N., 
Bishop, Robert R., 
Bragdon, Charles C, 
Burr, Heman M,, 
Claflin, William, 
Clark, William R., 
Converse, Edmund W., 
Dickinson, John W., 
Dunbar, James R., 
GiLMAN, Nicholas P., 
Haskell, Edward H., 
Haskell, Edwin B., 
IIovey, Alvah, 
Huntington, William E., 



Hyde, James F. C, 
Leland, I.uther E., 
Peirce, Bradford K., 
Pitman, Robert C, 
Robinson, Charles, 
Saltonstall, Leverett, 
Sheldon, Henry C. 
Smith, Samuel F"., 
Spaulding, Henry G., 
Speare, Alden, 
Taylor, James B., 
Travls, George C, 
Wade, Levi C, 
Walton, George A., 
Waterhouse, Francis A. 

NORTH ADAMS. 

Babbitt, Nathan S., 
Brown, Orland J., 
McMii.LiN, Edward A., 
Miller, George F., 
Robinson, James T. 

northampton. 

Allen, William, 
Arnold, William F., 
Bassett, William G., 
BoTTUM, John B., 
Brown, Jeremiah, 
Cable, George W., 
Clapp, Egbert L, 
Clark, Charles N., 
Crossley, Azro T., 
Dudley, Lewis J., 
Edwards, Oscar, 
Fay, James M., 
Hill, Arthur G., 
Lilly, Alfred T., 
Otis, Jcihn L., 
Pease, Alvin F., 
Pierce, Chauncey H., 
Seelye, L. Clark, 
Stevens, Charles E., 
Warner, Lewis, 
WiLLisroN, A. Lyman, 
Wright, Luther C. 

NORTH ANDOVER. 

Frye, Newton P., 
Stevens, Moses T. 

NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH. 

Burden, Frederick L., 
Daggett, Handel N. 

northborough. 

HiLDRETH, MlLO. 

NORTH BROOKFIELD. 

Bates, Theodore C. 

northfield. 

Moody, Dwight L., 
Pomeroy, Charles.' 

NORTON. 

Sweet, Andrew H. 

NORWELL. 

Fogg, Ebenezer T. 

NORWOOD. 

Locke, Warren E., 
Tinker, Francis. 



ORANGE. 

Chase, Rufus D., 
Wheeler, John W., 
Wright, Walter M. 

ORLEANS. 

Cummings, [oseph H., 
Kenrick, Jc"iHN. 

OXFORD. 

JosLiN, Allen L. 

PALMER. 

Gardner, Charles L. 

PAXTON. 

Bill, Ledyard. 

PEABODY. 

King, James P. 

PELHAM. 

Shores, David. 

pepperell. 

Saunders, .■^.mos |. 

petersham. 

Mudge, [oiin {',. 

pittsfield. 
Barker, James M., 
Dawes, Henry L., 
Mink, William, 
Newton, William W., 
Read, Franklin F., 
Rockwell, Francis W., 
SrowELL, Sidney .S., 
Waterman, Andrew J. 

PLAINFIELD, 

Clark, Seih W. 

plymouth. 

Avery, Winslow W., 
Davis, Charles G., ■' 
Doten, Charles C. 

plympton. 

Harrub, Fred .M. 

provincetown. 

Adams, Marshall L., 
Hopkins, James H., 
Johnson, Joseph P., 
Putnam, Adrian L. 

QUINCY. 

Adams, Charles Francis, 
Barker, Henry, 
Fa.kun, Henry H., 
Litchfield, George A., 
Porter, Charles H. 

randolph. 
Hu.xford, Daniel H., 
Prescott, Charles. • 

READING. 

Barrows, William, 
Pratt, Joseph L., 
Temple, R. De.xter, 
TwoMBLY, William H., 
Wadlin, Horace G., 
Wright, Carroll D. 



INDEX. 



685 



REHOBOTH. 

Makvel, John C. 

REVERE. 

Hai.i., William T., 
Staim.f.s, John A. 

rochester. 

Delano, Gei,>rge, 
Ellis, Thomas. 

rockland. 
(Jlkason, Juual C. 

ROWE. 

Henry, Benjamin T., 

POKTEK, VaNIAH M. 

ROWLEY. 

Pike, John. 

royalston. 

Whitney, George. 

RUSSELL. 

Parks, Eugene D., 
Parks, Roland. 



Batchelder, John H., 
Brigham, Lincoln F., 
Cogswell, William, 
Enihcott, William C, 
FooTE, Caleb, 
Hagar, Daniel B., 
Hill, William M., 
Horton, Nathaniel A., 
LoRiNG, George B., 
C)sGOOD, Joseph B. F., 
Palkray, Charles W., 
Rantoul, Robert S., 
R.wMOND, John M. 

SAVOY. 

Baker, Nathan B. 

scituate. 
Bmley. CIeokge W. 

SEEKONK. 

Meiibery, .\ndre\v N. 

SHARON. 

Billings, Sanfoki> W. 
.Morse, Bushrod. 

sheffield. 
Miller, John L. 

SHELBURNE. 

Baker, Edwin. 

SHERBORN, 

Douglas, Norman B.. 
Dowse, Edmund. 

SHIRLEY. 

Chandler, Seth, 
White, Edwin L. 

shrewsbury 

I loWE, Samuel I. 



shutesbury. 

Dudley, Samuel F. 

somerville. 

Baxter, George L., 
Brine, William H., 
Bruce, George A., 
Butler, John H., 
Cai'EN, Elmer H., 
Carvill, Ali'Honso H., 
Crosby, George H., 
Dolbear, Amos E., 
Glines, Edward, 
Haigh, John, 
Hayden, Joseph O., 
Hill, Herbert E., 
Men izek, Walter C, 
Moore, Henry M., 
Pope, Charles G., 
Sawyer, Thomas J., 
Wade, Rufus R., 
Walker, Elijah, 

WiNSHIP, .Vl.BERT E. 

SOUTHAMPTON. 

Edwards, Elisha A., 
JUDD, Frederick E., 
Sheldon, Henry S. 

southborough. 

Burnett, Edward, 
Newton, Dexter. 

southbridge. 

Paige, Calvin A. 

SPENCER. 

Bush, John L., 
Hill, Luther, 
Jones, Erastus, 
Prouty, David, 
Sugden, Richard. 

springfield. 

Balliet, Thomas M., 
Bowles, Samuel, 
Bradford, Edward S., 
Buckingham, Samuel G., 
Call, Charles A., 
Dewey, Justin, 
Edgerlv, Martin V. B., 
Fisk, George C, 
Haile, William H., 
H.\w-kins, Richard F., 
Hyde, Henry S., 
Knowlton, Marcus P., 
Ladd, Charles R., 
ALwnard, Elisha B., 
Metcalf, Edwin D., 
Phillips, Henry M., 
Rice, William, 
RuMRiLL, James A., 
Shipley, Joseph L., 
Wallace, .\ndrew B., 
Wright, .\ndkew J. 

sterling. 

Rugg, Arthur P. 

stockbridge. 

Dunham, Henry J. 

stoneham. 

Fowler, Be.njamin .\., 
Keene, Walter S., 
Whitcher, James E. 



STOW. 

Stevens, Francis IL 

SUDBURY. 

Gerry, Charles F. 

sunderland. 

Smith. N.vriiANiEi. A., 
Williams, Franklin H. 

SWANSEA. 

Wood, N.\than M. 

TAUNTON. 

Dean, Robert S., 
Fox, Willl\m H., 
Hall, Richard, 
Hayward, Joseph W., 
Presbrey, Silas D., 
Reed, William, Jr. 

templeton. 

Blodgett, Percival. 

tewksbury. 

Foster, Enoch. 

TOPSFIELD. 

WiNSLOw, Frank L. 
townsend. 

Fessenden, .Vnson D., 
Taylor, William P. 

TRURO. 

Dyer, Samuel. 

tyringham. 

Clark, Daniel. 

uxbridge. 

Sl.\ter, Area C, 
Taft, Moses, 
Wheelock, Charles A. 

wakefield. 

Eaton, Chester W., 
Hamilton, Samuel K., 
Richardson, Solon O., 
Woodward, Charles F. 

WALPOLE. 

Bird, Francis W. 

WALTHAM. 

B.\nks, Nathaniel P., 
Fisher, Henry N., 
Stearns, Ephkaim, 
Stearns, George A., 
Upham, Samuel O., 
Warren, Nathan. 

WARE. 

Blood, Charles E., 
D.^^vis, Henry C, 
Hitchcock, Calvin, 
Miner, David W., 
Robinson, Levi W., 
Sheldon, Wallace C, 
Stevens, Charles E. 

WAREHAM. 

Everett, Noble W. 



686 



INDEX. 



WASHINGTON. 
POMEKOY, Al. ANSI IN 11, 
WATERTOWN. 

Ingram AM, William H., 
TowNSENi). Luther T. 

■WAYLAND. 

Draper, James S. 

wellesley. 

FiSKE, Joseph E., 
Flagg, Solomon, 
Putney, Lyman K., 
Webb, Edwin B. 

wellfleet. 

ATWnon, Simeon. 

WENHAM. 

Dodge, Simeon, Jr- 

westborough. 

Forbes, William T.. 
Harvey, Edwin B. 

west boylston. 

Sawyer, IIenkv (). 

west bridgewater, 

Swan, James C. 

westfield, 

Gamwell, H.\rlow, 
GiLLETT, Edwin B., 
Hooker, Henry, 
Noble, Reuben, 
Stevens, Homer B., 
Van Deusen, Merritt, 
Whitney, Milton B. 

westford. 

Read, J. IIknkv. 

westhampton. 
Jewett, Albert G. 

^vestminster. 

Merriam, Artemas, 
Miles, Daniel C. 



WESTON. 
M \RsiL\i.i.. James F. B. 

west stockbridge. 
Spaulding. William C. 

WEYMOUTH. 

Beai.s, Ei.i.^s S., 
LovELL, Benjamin S,, 
Reed, Josiah. 

WHITMAN, 
COPELAND, HdRAllii F. 

wilbraham. 

Potter, Ira G., 

Steele, (.Ieorge M. 

willi amsburgh, 

James, Lyman D. 

williamstown. 

Carter, Franklin, 
Perry, Arthur L. 

wilmington. 

Clark, Chester W. 

winchendon. 

Rice, Chakles J. 

winchester. 

Corse, John M., 
Dwinell, James F., 
Elder, Samuel J., 
McCall, Samuel W., 
Wilder, Salem, 

WINDSOR. 

White, James L. 

winthrop. 

Belcher, Orlando F., 
Floyd, David, 2d, 

^VOBURN, 

Allen, Montressor T., 
H.4YDEN, Edward D., 



Johnson, Edward F., 
Makch, Daniel, 
TiiiiMi'SON, Leonard. 

WORCESTER. 

Aldrich, p. Emory, 

Baldwin, John S., 

Ball, Phinehas, 

Barn.\rii. Lewis, 

Brown, Edwin, 

Bullock, Augustus G., 

Chase, Charles A., 

Clark, Jonas G., 

Clarke, Josiah H., 

COES, LokiNG, 

Curtis, Albert, 

Devens, Charles, 

Gaskill, Francis A.. 

Goodnow, Edward A., 

Green, Samuel S., 
Hall, G. Stanley, 
Hoar, George F., 
JiLLSoN, Clark, 

Johnson, Ivek. 
Marble, Albert P., 
Marble, Jerome, 
Marble, John O., 
Moen, Philip, 
Nelson, Thomas L., 
Pinkerton, Alfred S., 
Rice, William W., 
Salisbury, Stephen, 
Sprague, .Augustus B. R., 
Staples, Hamilton B., 
Stoddard, Elijah B., 
Th.wer, Eli, 
Thayer, John R., 
Utley, Samuel, 
Walker, Joseph H., 
Washburn, John D., 
Wellington, Fred V/., 
WiNSLOw, Samuel. 

wrentham. 

Tompkins, William R., 
Wade, William H. 

yarmouth. 

Sears, Stephen. 



APPENDIX. 



Roster of the Commonwealth. 

1890. 



EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. 

GOl'EKNOR. 
John Q. A. Brackett Arlington. 

LI EC TEX A XT-cot 'ERXOK. 
\ViLLiAM H. Haile, Springfield. 

SECRETARY OF THE COMMOXIfEALTH. 

Hknky B. Peirce Abinglon. 

Isaac H. Eugett, First Clerk. 

TREASrRER AND RECEIVER-GEXERA L. 

George A. Marden, Lowell. 

John Q. Adams, First Clerk. 

A CD/TOR OF A CCOCNTS. 

Charles R. Ladd Springfield. 

William D. Hawlev, First Clerk. 

A TTORXEY-GEXERAL. 

Andrew J. Waterman, Pittsfield. 

Henry C. Bliss, Assistant Attorney-General. 

COUNCILORS. 

District No. i. — Isaac N. Keith Bourne. 

. Boston . 

Cambridge. 

. . Boston. 

Danvers. 

. Lawrence. 

Douglas. 

North Adams. 



2. — Arthur W. Tufts, 
3. — Robert O. Fuller, 
4.— Edward J. Flvnn, 
5. — Augustus Mudge, 
6. — Byron Truell, 
7. — William Abbott, . 
8. — Ashley B. Wright, 

SENATORS. 

— Benjamin F. Campbell, 
George H. Gammans, 
Edward J. Donovan, 
James Donovan, . . 
Henry H. Sprague, 
Michael J. Creed, . 
Charles Carleton Coffin, 
William H. Carberry 
William H. Goodwin, 

-Arthur B. Breed, 

Simeon Dodge, . 

Aaron Low, . . , 

Alden p. Jaques, . 

George D. Hart, . 



I St Suffolk- 

2d 

3d •■ 

4tll 

5'li " 

6th 

7th " 

8th 

gth 

1st Essex — 

2d " 

3d •' 

4th " 

5th '■ 

6th " Joseph M. Bradley 

ist Middlesex — James F. Dwinell, 



2d 
3d 
4th 

5th ■■ 
6th 

7ih " 
1st Worcester- 
ad 
3d 



Henry J. Hosmer, . 
Freeman Hunt, . . 
Wm. N. Davenport, 
Moses P. Palmer, 
Alonzo H. Evans, 
Edward M. Tucke, . 
-Henry L. Parker, . 
Lucius Field, . . 
Charles Haggerty, 



. Lynn. 

Marblehead. 

. E.ssex. 

Haverhill. 

. , Lynn. 

. Andover. 

Winchester. 

, Concord. 

Cambridge. 

Marlborough. 

Groton. 

Everett. 

Lowell. 

Worcester. 

Clinton. 

Southbridge. 

Worcester. 

. . Ware. 

Springfield. 



1st Norfolk— Willard F. Gleason, . Holbrook. 
2d " Geo. Makepeace TowLE, Brookline. 

ist Plymouth— Hiram A. Oakman, . . Marshfield. 
2d " James H. Harlow, Middleborough. 

ist Bristol— Cyrus Savage, Taunton. 

2d " Robert Howard, .... Fall River. 
3d " Thomas W. Cook, . . New Bedford. 
Cape — David Fiske, Dennis. 

Henry D. Coolidge, Clerk of the Senate. 

William H. Sanger, Assistant Clerk. 

Edmund Dowse, Chaplain. 

John Ci. B. .'Vdams, Sergeant-at-Arms. 
REPRESENTATIVES. 

Frederick B. Day. 
Joseph B. Maccabe. 



ist Suffolk — Boston, \\'"d i 
2d Suffolk- Boston, Wd 2 



3d Suffolk— Boston, W'd 3. 
4th Suffolk— Boston, W'd 4, 
5ih Suffolk — Boston, Wd 5, 
6th Suffolk— Boston, W'd 6, 
7th Suffolk— Boston, W'd 7. 
8th Suffolk— Boston, W'd 8, 
9th Suffolk -Boston, W'd 9, 



Boston. ! lotli Suffolk — Boston, W'd 10, 
" ! nth Suffolk— Boston, W'd II, 

" I2th Suffolk— Boston, W'd 12, 

'* 13th Suffolk — Boston, W'd 13, 

" 14th Suffolk — Boston 

15th Suffolk— Boston 
i6th Suffolk— Boston 



Patrick J. Kennedy. 

Thomas O. McEnaney. 

. J. Homer Edgerly. 

Michael J. Mitchell. 

. Wineield F. Prime. 

. . . Ira a. Worth. 

Edward W. Presho. 

George N. Swallow. 

. John F. Gillespie. 

. Richard M. Barry. 

. . Patrick Cannon. 

Daniel McLaughlin. 

. John H. Sullivan. 

Joseph P. Lomasney. 

. . Frank Morison. 

Andrew B. Lattimore. 

), Nathaniel W. Ladd. 

Edward Sullivan. 

Geo. p. Sanger, Jr. 

Frank E. Winslow. 

. James B. Hayes. 

James J. Burke. 

Michael J. Moore. 

Jeremiah J. JIcNamara. 

W'd 14, . Robert F. Means. 

George H. Bond 

William S. McNary. 

. . John B. Lynch. 

. Jeremiah Desmond. 



W'd 



■5. 



4th " Alfred S. Pinkerton, 

Wore, and Hamps. — Chas. E. Stevens. 
1st Hampden — Edwin D. Metcalf, 

2d " Oscar Ely, Holyoke. 

Franklin — Edwin Baker Shelburne. 

Berkshire — Oliver W. Robbins, .... Pittsfield. 
Berk, and Hamps. — \. S. Fassett, Great Barrington. 

[Copyright 



W'd 16, 

Everett Allen Davis. 

17th Suffolk— Boston, W'd 17, Robert H. Bowman. 

. Alpheus Saneokd. 

i8lh Suffolk— Boston, W'd 18, . . . John Albree. 

Augustus G. Perkins. 

19th Suffolk- Boston. Wd 19, . . Willis R. Russ. 

Lewis G. Grossman. 

20th Suffolk— Boston, W'd 20, Mich'l J. McEttrick. 

John H. McDonough. 

2ist Suffolk — Boston, W'd 21, . Henry S. Dewey. 

Francis W. Kittredge. 

22d Suffolk— Boston. W'd 22, . . John E. Heslan. 

23d Suffolk— Boston, W'd 23, . Pelatiah R. Tripp. 

. William G. Baker. 

24th Suffolk— Boston, W'd 24, . Henry P. Oakman. 

Thomas W. Bicknell. 

25lh Suffolk— Boston, W'd 25, . James W. Harvey. 

26ih Suffolk— Chelsea, 1 Franklin O. Barnes. 

W'ds I, 2 3, I . David E. Gould. 

:, 1890.] 



690 



ROSTER OF TIIF, COMMONWEALTH. 



27th Suffolk— Chelsea, Wd 4, Willard Howland. 



Revere, 
Winlhrop. 
ist Essex — Salisbury. 

Amesbury, . . 
Merrimac. 
West Newbury. 
2d Essex — Haverhill, Wd's 

1 , 2, 4, 6, 
3d Essex— Haverhill, Wd's 

3> 5 

Methuen, . . . 
Bradford. 
4th Essex — Lawrence, W'ds \ 

1. 2> 3, 
5th Es.sex — Lawrence, Wd s , 

4. 5. 6, ' 

6th Essex — Andover, . . . 

North Andover. 
7th Essex — Groveland. 

Georgetown. 

Box ford, . . . 

Topsfield. 
8th Essex — Newburyport, W'ds i, 

2. 3. 4. 5, 6, Arthur C. Richardson 
Newbury, 

■9th Essex — Ko«ley. 

Ipswich, . 

Hamilton. 

Wenham. 
loth Essex — Gloucester, / . 

W'ds I, 3, 4, . 

S. 6, 7, S, ( . 

Essex. 

Manchester, 
nth Essex — Gloucester, W'd 2, 

Rockport, 
1 2th Essex — Beverly, . . . 
13th Essex— Salem, W'ds r, 2, 
14th Esse.x — Salem, W''ds 3, 5, 



\\'arren Fenno. 



. . . H. G. Leslie. 
Herbert O. Delano. 

Henry H. Johnson. 
.1. Otis War dwell. 

. Makiin L. Stover. 
William K. Rowell. 

. . John O'Brien. 

John F. Howard. 

Richard A. Carter. 

John H. Hulford. 

Charles Greene. 



John Parkhurst. 



. . Luther Dame. 
Frank T. Goodhue. 



Edgar S. Taft. 
. . Epes Davis. 
Isaac N. Story. 



Jami.s S. Wallace. 

W'lLLIAM D. SOHIER. 

Benj. p. Pickering. 
William E. Meade. 



i.';th Essex — Salem, W'ds 4, 6, William H. Stear.ns. 
i6th Essex — .Vlarblehead, . 
17th Essex — Swampscott. 

Lynn, M'''ds 2, 

iSth Essex — Lynn, W'd 4, 

Nahant. 
igth Essex — Lynn, W'ds i, 

Lynnfield. 
2olh Essex — Lvnn, \\''ds 6. 



2ist Essex- 



Saugus. 
-l^eabody. 



. . Benjamin Day. 

, . John J. Salter. 
I Edwin A. Tirrett.s. 
Charles H. Baker. 
. . Elihu B. Haves. 

j John MacFarlane. 
' . RuFus Kimball. 

I Langdon H. Holder. 
I . Alonzo Penney. 

Stephe.n S. Littlefieli). 



22d Essex — Danvers R(ibi:kt K. Sear.s. 

.Middleton. 
ist Middlesex — Cambridge, 

W'ds I, 5, 
2d Middlesex — Cambridge, 

Ward 2, 

3d Middlesex— Cambridge,A\'d 3, John W^ Coveney, 
4lli Middlesex— Cambridge, \ Frank W. Dallinger 

Ward 4, } Ch.as. W. Hender.son, 
5ih Middlesex — Somerville, W'd i, Joshua H. D.avis, 
6th Middlesex — Somerville, Wd 2, F. H. R.aymond. 
7'.h Middlesex — Somerville, 

W'ds 3, 4, 

8th Middlesex — Medford, . . J. Henry Norcross. 
9th Middlesex — Maiden, W'ds ( H. E. Turner, Jr. 

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, I Thomas E. Barker. 



( . Otis S. Brown. 
' William B. Durant. 
1 Horace E Clayton. 
' Andrew J. Radv. 



Frederick w. Kilmer. 



10th Middlesex — Everett John S. Cate. 

::th Middlesex- Melrose. . . William E. Barrett. 
i2th Middlesex— Stoneham, . . Myron J. Ferrin. 
13th Middlesex- Wakefield, William S. Greenougii. 

14th Middlesex— Woburn, ' ■'""■'*' ^- '^'^'-'^ (deceased). 
' ' . . Charlie A. Jones. 

Reading. 
15th Middlesex — Arlington, William H. H. Tuttle. 

Winchester. 
i6th Middlesex — Watertown. 

Belmont, . . J 

17th Middlesex — Newton, Wards 1 

1,2,3,4,5,6,7, I 

iSlh Middlesex— Waltham, W'ds I 

1,2,3,4,5,6,7, ' 

Weston. 
19th Middlesex — Lexington. 

Lincoln, 

Concord. 

Bedford. 

Burlington. 
20th Middlesex — Chelmsford, . 

Billerica. 

Tewksbury. 

Wilmington. 

North Reading, 
21st Middlesex— Lowell, W'd i, 
22d Middlesex — Lowell, W'd 2, 
23d Middlesex — Lowell, W'd 3, 
24th Middlesex— Lowell, W'ds t 



Henry Fletcher. 

. G. D. Oilman. 

. F. J. Ranlett. 
Henry S. Milton. 

Charles Moore. 



Charles S. Wheeler. 



Charles W. Flint. 



25th Middlesex- 
2eth Middlesex- 
27th Middlesex- 

28th Middlesex- 



Michael J. Garvey. 
Daniel H. Varnum. 
Owen M. Donohoe. 
Charles E. Carter. 
' Charles H. Hanson. 
Thomas H. Connell. 
Tyngs borough. 
Lowell, Ward 6, Richard B. Allen. 



4. 5. 
Dracut 



Natick, 

Hopkinton, 

Ashland. 

Holliston. 

Sherborn. 

Franiingham 

Wayland, . 
29th Middlesex — Marlborou.^di 

Hudson, 

Sudbury. 
30th Middlesex — Maynard. 

Stow. 

Boxborough. 

Littleton. 

Acton, . . 

Carlisle. 
31st Middlesex — Westford. 

Groton. 

Pepperell. 

Dunstable, . 
32d Middlesex — Ayer. 

Shirley. 

Townsend, Charles F. Worcester, 

Ashby. 
1st Worcester — Athol. 

Royalston. 

Phillipston. 
2d W'orcester — Gardner, . 

Winchendon 

Templeton. 

Ashburnham. 
3d Worcester — Barre. 

Dana. 

Petersham. 

Hardwick. 

Rutland, . \\'alter A. Wheeler 



Frank B. Tilton. 
Alonzo Coburn. 



. James L. Brophy. 
Charles H. Boodey. 

Francis C. Curtis. 

Hermon C. Tower. 



Aaron C. Handley. 



James .M. Swallow. 



C. ^V'ALDO Bates. 

. George Kendall. 

Morton E. Converse. 



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691 



Moses C. Goodnow. 



Louis E. P. Mokeau. 



Lewis C. Prindle. 



Richard H. Warren. 



Nathan H. Sears. 



James M. Farnum. 



. James Quigley. 
George P. Cooke. 



4th Worcester— Westminster. 

Hubbardston. 

Princeton, 

Holder. 

Paxton. 
5th Worcester — Brookfield. 

N. Brookfield. 

W. Brookfield. 

New Braintiee, George K. Tufts. 

Oakham, jESSE Allen. 

Sturbridge. 

Warren. 
6ih Worcester — Spencer, . 

Leicester. 
7th Worcester — Charlton, . 

Dudley. 

Southbridge. 
Sth Worcester — Webster. 

Oxford. 

Auburn, . 
9th Worcester — Douglas. 

Millbury, . 

Sutton, 
loth Worcester — Cxbridge, 

Northbridge. 

Upton, 
nth Worcester — Blackstone. 

Mendon, . . 

Milford. . . 

Hopedale. 
12th Worcester — Westborougb, John W. Fairbanks. 

Northborough. 

Southborough. 

Berlin, Lvman Morse. 

Shrewsbur) . 

Grafton, 
i.^th Worcester — Boylston, 

Bolton. 

West Boylston. 

Clinton, . . . W'. E. Pahkhurst. 

Harvard, Stanley B. Hilhreth. 

Lancaster. 

Sterling. 
-Leominster, 

Lunenburg. 
-Fitchburg.W'ds 1 John W. Kimball. 
I) 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, * . M. J. Murray. 
-Worcester. W^'d i, H. C. Wheaton. 
-Worcester, W'd 2, . Wm. H. Rice. 
-Worcester,W'd3, E. M. Moriarty. 
-Worcester, W'd 4, Peter A. Conlin. 
-Worcester. W'd 5, Patrick J. Quinn. 
-Worcester. W'd 6. . . F. B. W^hite. 
-Worcester.W'd 7, . Wm. B. Sprout. 
-W^orcester,W'd 8, . 
-Xorthampton.W'ds 
1,2,3,4,5,6,7, 

Easthampton. 

Southampton. 
-Chesterfield, . 

Cummington. 

Goshen. 

Huntington. 

Middlefield. 

Plainfield. 

Westhampton. 

Worthingion. 
3d Hampshire — Hatfield, . . 

Hadley. 

South Hadley. 

Williamsburg. 



i4lh Worcester- 
15th Worcester- 

i6th Worcester- 

17th Worcesler- 
iSth Worcester- 
19th Worcester- 
20th Worcester- 
2ist Worcester- 
22d Worcester- 
23d Worcester- 
ist Hampshire- 



2d Hampshire- 



Henry Cook. 



E 



H 



B. Glasgow. 
A. G. Hill. 
A. Kimball. 



Talcott Bancroft. 



KoswELL Billings. 



4thHampshire- 

5th Hampshire- 



Amherst. 
Belchertown, 
Granby, . . 
Enfield, . . 
Greenwich. 
Pelham. 
Prescott. 
Ware, 
ist Hampden — Chester. 

Blandford, 

Tolland. 

Granville. 

Southwick, 

Agavi'am. 

Montgomery 

Russell. 

Westfield, 



. Chester Kellogg, 
Lysander Thurston. 



DwiGHT H. Hollister. 



2d Hampden- 



3d Hampden- 

4th Hampden- 

5th Hampden- 
6th Hampden- 



\ . Oren B. Parks. 
' Robert B. Crane. 
W. Springfield. 
Holyoke, Wards 

5, 6, 7, ... John Hildreth. 
■Holyoke, Wards 

I, 2, 3, 4, . William P. Buckley. 
■Chicopee, . George D. Eldredge. 
-Springfifld, W'ds \ Geo. W. Miller. 



I, 4i 



Hiram B. Lane. 



7th Hampden— Springfield, W'd 5, John McFethries, 
Sth Hampden 



9th Hampden- 



loth Hampden- 



-Springfield.W'ds 

2, 3, 6, 7. 
-Longmeadow 

Hampden. 

Wilbraham. 

Monson, 

Wales. 
-Ludlow. 

Palmer, 

Brimfield. 

Holland, 
ist Franklin — Greenfield, . 

Shelburne. 

Hernardston. 

Warwick. 

Orange, . . 

New Salem. 

Erving. 

Shutesbury. 
^Northfield. 

Gill. 

Montague. 

Wendell, . . 

Leverett, 

Sunderland. 

Whately. 

Deerfield. 

Conway. 
5th Franklin — Ashfield. 

Buckland. 

Charlemont, 

Colrain. 

Hawley. 

Meath. 

Leyden. 

Rovve. 

Monroe. 
1st Berkshire — New Ashford. 

Williamstown. 

North Adams, 

Florida. 
Clarksburg. 



H. Buckholz. 
C. H. Bennett. 



2d Franklin- 



3d Franklin 



4th Franklin — 



Carlos M. Gage. 



Horace H. Sanders. 



Nahum S. Cutler. 



EnwARD A. Goddakd. 



William W. Hunt. 
. Alfred F. Field. 



George E. Bemis. 



\ H. TORREY CaDY. 

' Henry S. Lyons. 



692 



ROSTER OF THE COMMONWEALTH. 



2d 


Berkshire — Adams, . . . 


Andrew J. Bucklin. 


7th Plymouth — Mattapoisett. 






Cheshire. 




Marion, . . . 


John W. Delano. 




Savoy. 




Wareham. 




3d 


Berkshire — Hancock. 

Lanesborough. 




Rochester. 
Carver. 






Lenox, . . 


William Mahanna. 


8th Plymouth — Middleborough, . 


Jared F. Aloen. 




Windsor. 




Lakeville. 






Peru. 




Halifa.M. 






Hinsdale. 




gth Plymontli — Bridgewater, . . 


Geo. M. Hoofer. 




Washington. 




East Bridgewater. 





Richmond. 
4th Berkshire — Pittslield, . . Peter J. McDonald. 

Dalton, . . Ansel E. Chamberlin. 
5th Berkshire — Stockbridge. 

Lee. 

Becket, . . SiDNEV H. Cheeseman. 
6th Berkshire — W. Stockbridge. 

Alford. 

Egremont, Emekson G. Harrington. 

Gt. Barrington. 
7th Berkshire — Monterey. 

Otis Philo Smith. 

Sandisfield. 

New Marlborough. 

Sheffield. 

Mt. Washington. 

Tyringham. 

ist Norfolk — Dedham, . George Fred Williams. 

Norwood. 

2d Norfolk — Brookline, George N. Carpenter. 

3d Norfolk— Hyde Park, . . Wilbur H. Powers. 

4th Norfolk— Milton. 

Canton, . . AiGUSTfS Hemenway. 

5th Norfolk— Quincy, JosiAH Qui.s'cv. 

,,. .. \ Joseph A. CusHiNG. 

Wevmouth, ..■]■' „ 

I Louis A. Cook. 

6th Norfolk— Braintree, . . . . Ansel O. Clark. 

Holbrook. 

7th Norfolk — Randolph. 

Stoughton, . . HENgv W. Britton. 

Avon. 

Sharon. 

Walpole Robert S. Gray. 

8th Norfolk— Franklin. 

Foxboroiigh. 

Wrentham, . . . JAJIES D. Lincoln. 

Bellinghant. 

Medway, . . . Daniel S. Woodman. 

Norfolk. 

gth Norfolk — Needham. 

Dover. 

Medfield. 

Wellesley. 

Minis, Moses C. Adams. 

ist Plymouth— Plymouth, . Everett F. Sherman. 

2d Plymouth — Marshfield. 

Plympton. 

Kingston. 

Duxbuiy, . . . Thomas Alden. 

3d Plymouth — Scituate. 

Norwell. 

Hanson, . . . Edwin T. Clark. 

Pembroke. 

4th Plymouth — Cohasset. 

Hingham. 

Hull Lewis P. Loking. 

5ih Plymouth — Rockland, . . Charles S. Millet. 

Hanover. 

6th Plymouth— Whitman, BENJAMIN F". Peterson. 

Abington. 



W>st Bridgewater. 

loth Plymouth — Brockton, W'ds4, 5,6, E. D. Herrod. 

nth Plymouth — Brockton, W'ds 2, 3, Hiram A. jMonk. 

i2th Plymouth — Brockton, W'ds i, 7, H.O.Thomas. 

1st Bristol — .'\ttleborough. 

I N. ."^ttleborough, . Stephen Stanley. 

[ Norton. 

Seekonk, . . . Horatio Carpenter. 

2d Bristol— Mansfield 

Easton, . . Lorenzo B. Crockett. 

Raynham. 

3d Bristol — Taunton, W'ards t S. Hopkins Emery. 

I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, - Edward Mott. 

7, S, I William M. Hale. 

Berkley. 

4th Bristol — Fairhaven, .... James A. Lewis. 

Acushnet. 

Freetown. 

5th Bristol — New Bedford, W'ds \ Haile R. Luther. 

I, 2, 3, I David B.Kempton. 

6th Bristol— New Bedford, W'ds \ Geo. F. Tucker. 

4, 5, 6, ' Wm. M. Butler. 

7th Bristol — Westport, . . . Albert C. Kirby. 

Dartmouth. 

o.v, 13 • . 1 r 11 D- n-.j I John J. McDonough. 
8th Bristol — Fall River, W ds 1 -^ -^ 

, ', John Edwards. 

I, 2, -1, 4, 6. -^ 

'■"^ ' John T. Hurley. 

gth Bristol— Fall River, W'ds 5, \ W. J. D. Bullock. 

7,8,9, I Pardon Macomber. 

loth Bristol — Dighton, .... Alfred W. Paul. 

Somerset. 

Swansea. 

Rehoboth. 

ist Barnstable — Falmouth, . . George E. Clarke. 

Bourne. 

Sandwich. 

Mashpee. 

Barnstable, . . . Nathan Edson. 

Yarmtiuth. 

Dennis. 

2d Barnstable — Harwich, . . George N. Munsell. 

Chatham. 

Brewster. 

Orleans. 

3d Barnstable — Eastham. 

Wellfleet. 

Truro, .... RiCHARD A. Rich. 

Provincetown. 

Dukes — Chilniark. 

Cottage City. 

Edgartown, . . Cornelius B. Marchaxt. 

Gay Head. 

Gosnold. 

Tisbury. 

Nantucket— Nantucket, . . . .\nthony Smalley. 

E. A. McLaughlin, Clerk of the House. 

J. W. Kimball, Assistant Clerk. 

D. W. Waldron, Chaplain. • 

J. G. B. Adams, Sergeant-at-Arms. 



ROSTER OK THE COMMONWEALTH. 



<J93 



U. S. SENATORS. 



Henry L. Dawes (1893), 
Geo. F. Hoar (1895), . . 



Pittsfiekl. 
Worcester. 



REPRESENTATIVES 51st CONGRESS. 
District No. i — Chas. S. Randall, . New Bedford. 
" 2 — Elijah A. Morse, . . . Canton. 

" 3 — John F. .Andrew, . . Boston. 

" 4 — Joseph H, O'Neii Boston. 

" 5 — Nath'l p. Banks, . . Waltlram. 

" 6 — Henry Cabot Lodge, . . Nahant. 

" 7— \Vm, Cogswell, .... Salem. 

" 8 — Frederic T. Greenhai.ge, Lowell. 

" 9— John \V. Candler, . . Broolcline. 

10 — Jos. H. Walker, . . Worcester. 
" II — Rodney Wallace, . . Fitchburi;. 

12— Francis W. Rockwell, . Pittsfield. 

JUSTICES OF SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT. 

Cliief Justice — Marcus Morton, .... Andover. 
Walbridge a. Field, . . Boston. 
Chas. Devens, .... Worcester. 
Wm. Allen, . . . Northampton. 

Chas. Allen Boston. 

Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., . Boston. 

Marcus P. Knowlton. . Springfield. 

Henry A. Clapp (Cleik), Boston. 

JUSTICES OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. 



Chief Justice — Lincoln F. Brigham, 
RoBT. C. Pitman, 
P. Emory Aldrich, . 
Hamilton B. Staples, 
Caleb Blodgett, 
Albert Mason, . . 
Jas. M. Barker, . . 
Chas. P. Thompson, 
John W. Hammond, 
Justin Dewey, . . 
Edgar J. Sherman, 
Jas. R. Dunbar, . . 
John Lathrop, . . 
Robt. R. Bishop, . . 



. Salem. 

Newton. 

Worcester. 

Worcester. 

Boston. 

Brookline. 

. Pittsfield. 

Gloucester. 

Cambridge. 

Springfield. 

Lawrence. 

Newton. 

Boston. 

Newton. 



Jos. a. Willard (Clerk), Boston, 
DtSTK/Cr A TTORNEVS. 
Suffolk Dist., Suffolk Co.— Oliver Stevens, Boston. 
Northern Dist., Middlese.x Co.— P. H. Cooney, Natitk. 
Eastern Dist., Essex Co. — Wm. H. Moody, Haverhill. 
So. Eastern Dist., Norfolk and Plymouth 

Co's. — C. W. Sumner, 

(deceased), Brockton. 

Middle Dist., Worcester Co. — F. A. Gaskill, Worcester. 
Southern Dist., Barnstable, Dukes, Bristol, 

and Nantucket Co's. — H. M. 

Knowlton, .... N. Bedford. 
Western Dist,, HampJen, and Berkshire 

Co's. — C. E. HiBBARD, . . Pittsfield. 
No. Western Dist., Hampshire, and Franklin 

Co's. — D. W. Bond, . Northampton. 

DISTRICT POLICE. 

Chief— Rufus R. Wade Somerville. 

Jas. P. Campbell (Clerk), . . . Lowell. 

COMMISSIONERS. 
Board 0/ Agriculture. 

MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO. 

His Excellency John Q. A. Brackett, Arlington. 
His Honor Wm. H. Haile, . . . Springfield. 
Hon. Henry B. Peirce, Sec'y of 

the Commonwealth, .... .-\bington. 



Chas. A. Goessmann, State Agricultural Chemist. 
Henry H. Goodell, Pres. Mass. Agric'l College. 

AI'POI.STED BY THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL. 

Jas. W, Stockwei.l. Sutton. 

Jas. S. Grinnell, Greenfield. 

Geo. B. Loring, Salem. 

OTHER MEMBERS ARE CHOSEN BY THE COLNTV SfJtMETIES. 

Board 0/ Arbitration. 

Chas. H. Walcott Cambridge. 

RicllD. P. BarrV Lynn. 

Ezra Davol Taunton. 

B. F. Supple (Clerk). 
.-irmory. 

John W. Leighton Boston. 

Jo.s. N. Peterson Salem. 

JosiAH Pickett, Worcester. 

State Aid. 

Chas. R. Ladd Springfield. 

Sam'l Dai.ton, Boston. 

Chas. W. Hastings (also Clerk), So. Weymouth. 

Cattle. 

Levi Stockbridge .'Vmherst. 

A. W. Cheever, Dedham. 

O. B. Hadwin Worcester. 

Civil Service. 

Chas. Theo. Russell, Jr., . . Cambridge. 

E. P. Wilbur Boston. 

Arthur Lord Plymouth. 

Henry Sherwin, Chief Examiner, . Boston. 
Warren P. Dudley, Stc'y, . Cambridge. 

Controller 0/ County Accounts. 

Edward P. Loring Fitchburg. 

Board 0/ Registration in Dentistry. 

Luther D. Sheparh, Boston. 

E. V. McLeod N. Bedford. 

J. S. Hurlbut Springfield. 

J. F. DowsLiiv, Boston. 

G. E. Mitchell Haverhill. 

Board 0/ Education. 

Milton B. Whitney, Westfield. 

Francis A. Walker, Boston. 

Elmer H. Capen Somerville. 

Elijah B. Stoddard, Worcester. 

Alonzo a. Miner, Boston. 

Alice F. Palmer Boston. 

Admiral P. Stone Springfield. 

Kate Gannett Wells, Boston. 

J. W. Dickinson (Sec'y) Newton. 

C. B. Tillinghast (Clerk and Treas.), Boston. 
G. A. Walton, G. H. JL^rtin, . 

A. W. Edson, G. T. Fletcher, , Agents. 
H. T. Bailey, \ 

I-'ire Marshal 0/ Boston. 

Chas. W. Whitcome, Boston. 

Inspector-General of Fish. 

Jesse H. Freeman, Brookline. 

Foreign Mortgage Corporations. 

Ebi-.nezer M. McPhersun, . . . E. Boston. 
J. Brimblecom (Clerk). 
Gas. 

A. B, Coffin Winchester. 

F. E. Barker, Worcester. 

E. T. Rowell Lowell. 

W. S. .\LI.EN (Clerk). 

Inspector of Gas and Gas Meters. 

Chas. W. Hinman Boston. 



694 



RUSTEK OF THE COMMONWEALTH. 



Harbor and Land. 

JiiHN E. Sanford Taunton. 

John I. Baker, Beverly. 

Chas. H, How land, Plymouth. 

D. KOPPMAN (Engineer). 
Board of Health. 

Henry P. Wai.cott, Cambridge. 

Frank W. Draper Boston. 

T. K. LOTHROP Beverly. 

J. H. Appleton, Springfield. 

E. U. Jones, Taunton. 

J. W. Hastings Warren. 

H. F. Mills Lawrence. 

S. W. Abbott (Sec'y). 
Inland Fisheries. 

E. A. Brackett, Winchester. 

E. H. Latiirop, Springfield. 

Isaiah Young, Wellfleet. 

Insurance. 

Geo. S. Merrill, Lawrence. 

Wm. S. Smith (Deputy). 
Bureau of Statistics of Labor. 

Chief — Horace G. Wadlin, . . . Reading. 
C. F. Pidgin (ist Clerk) 
Inspector of Leather. 

C. Osgood Morse Boston. 

State Librarian. 

J. W. Dickinson Newton. 

C. R. TiLLINGHAST (Asst.). 

Assayer and Inspector of Liquors. 

S. P. Sharples, Cambridge. 

Surveyor-General of Lumber. 

John W. Wiggin, Boston. 

Metropolitan Sezuerage. 

HosEA Kingman, Brockton. 

Tilly Haynes, Boston. 

ROE'T T. Davis, Fall River. 

H. A. Carson (Engineer). 

E. P. FiSK (Clerk). 
Assayers of Ores and Metals. 

S. Dana Hayes, Boston. 

S. P. Sharples Cambridge. 

H. L. Bowker Boston. 

W. F. Smith, Sonierville. 

C. R. Fletcher Boston. 

C. Palmer, Lynn. 

A. D. Little \\atertown. 

Board of Police for the City of Boston. 

Albert T. Whiting Boston. 

Wm. H. Lee Boston. 

Wm. M. Osborne, Boston. 

Pilots for the Port of Boston. 

Nath'l Spooner, Boston. 

Thos. p. Howes Boston. 

Prisons. 

C. F. Coffin, Lynn. 

Emma F. Cary Cambridge. 

Wm. a. Wilde Maiden. 

Margaret P. Russell, Boston. 

EusT.ACE C. Fitz Chelsea. 

F. G. Pettigrove (Sec'y). 
Board of Registration in Pharmacy. 

Henry M. Whitney, Lawrence. 

John Larrabee, .Melrose. 

H. A. Esterbrook Fitchburg. 

J. H. Manning Pittsfield. 

F. H. Butler, Lowell. 



Public Records of Parishes, Towns and Counties. 

R. T. Swan, Boston. 

Railroads. 

Geo. G. Crocker Boston. 

Everett A. Stevens Boston. 

Edw. W. Kinsley Boston. 

Wm. a. Crafts (Clerk). 
State House Extension. 

John D. Long, Hingham. 

Wm. Endicott Salem. 

Benj. WHiTCOJUi, Boston. 

Tax. 

Commissioner — Gko. A. Marden, . Lowell. 

Chas. Endicot I", Deputy Com. and Com. 

of Corporations Canton. 

Topographical Snrz'ey and Map of Massachusetts. 

Fran'cis a. Walker, Boston. 

N. L. Shaler Cambridge. 

H. L. Whiting, Tisbury. 

STA TE INSTITVriOXS. 
State Almshouse and State Fartn. 

Wm. T. Carolln Lowell. 

We.wer O.SBORNE . Fall River. 

J. H. Hecht, Boston. 

J. W. Belcher, Randolph. 

Lyman A. Belknap Andover. 

Mrs. A. F. Prescott Boston. 

Mrs. Sarah D. Fiske Maiden. 

C. Irving Fisher, . . . (Sup't Almshouse). 
H. M. Bl.\ckstone, . . . ( " Farm). 
Perkins Institution and Mass. School for the Blind. 

John S. Dwigh r Boston. 

Francis Brcx)Ks, Medford. 

Thus. F. Temple, Boston. 

Wm. L. Richardson, Boston. 

Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary. 

Willard p. Phillips Salem. 

I. N. Stoddard, Plymouth. 

Mass. School for Idiotic and Feeble Minded Youth. 

John S. Damrell Boston. 

Wm. W. Swan, ... Boston. 

Wm. a. Dunn, Boston. 

Elizabeth E. Cooliuge Boston. 

Erskine Warden Wahham. 

John C. Milne Fall River. 

Board of Lunacy and Charity. 

John Fallon, Lawrence. 

C. C. Coffin, Boston. 

R. L. Hodgdon, Arlington. 

Anne B. Richardson, Lowell. 

Edw. Hitchcock, Amherst. 

Chas. F. Donnelly, Boston. 

Henrietta G. Codman, Brookline. 

D. Webster King, Boston. 

C. \. Denny, Leicester. 

J. D. Wells (Clerk), .... Cambridge. 
S. C. Wrightington, Supt. In-door Poor. 

H. S. Shurtleff, Supt. Out-door Poor. 

A. R. Moulton, Inspector of Institutions. 
Lunatic Hospital — Danvers. 

S. W. HoPKINsoN Bradford. 

O. F. Rogers Boston. 

Florence Lyman, Boston. 

Augustus Mudge Danvers. 

D. S. Richardson, Lowell. 

Harriet R. Lee, Salem. 

Solon Bancroft, Reading. 

Chas. W. P.\ce (Supt.). 



KOSTEK OF 11 IK COMMONWEALTH. 



6g5 



Lunatic Hospital — Northampton. 

John L. Otis, Northampton. 

Mrs. S.\RAH T. ■\VnoD\viiRi'M, . . . Chicopee. 
Mrs. Sar.^h JI. Butler, . . . NorthamptoD. 
A. C. Deane, ....... Greenfield. 

H. W. Taft, Pittsfield. 

L. D. James, Williamsburg. 

N. A. Leonard Springfield. 

Edw. B. Ni.vis (Supt.). 

Lunatic Hospital — Taunlou. 

Le Baron Russell, Boston. 

Mrs. Ruth S. Murray, , . . . N. Bedford. 

Mrs. Gr.\ce S. Bartlett Taunton. 

Qakes a. Ames Easton. 

Geo. Howland, Jr . N. Bedford. 

W. C. LOVERING, Taunton. 

Simeon Borden, Fall River. 

John P. Brown (Supt.). 

IVestborougli Insane Hospital. 

Chas. R. Codman, Barnstable. 

F'RANCis A. Dew.son, Newtonville. 

Mrs. Emily Talbot, Boston. 

A. H. Grimke Hyde Park. 

G. B. Richmond, N. Bedford. 

Eliza C. Durfee, Fall River. 

I". P. Goui.DiXG, Worcester. 

N. Emmons Paine (Supt.). 

Lunatic Hospital — Worcester. 

Francis C. Lowell, Boston. 

Mrs. Ellen S. Hale, Boston. 

Frances M. Lincoln, Worcester. 

A. G. Bullock, Worcester. 

T. H. Gage, Worcester. 

H. S. NouRSE, Lancaster. 

RocKWOOD Hoar, W'orcester. 

John G. Park (Supt.). 

Supt. of Prisons. 

Wm. S. Greene, Fall River. 

State PriSi^n — Charlestown. 

Warden — Edw. J. Russell, . . . Worcester. 
Chaplain— Rev. J. W. F Barnes, . . Boston. 
Ag't for aiding discharged convictt: — 
Dan'l Russell, Boston. 

S'ate Primary and Reform .Schools. 

Melvin H. Walker, .... Westborough. 

H. C. Greeley Clinton. 

Elizabeth C. Putm.\n, Boston. 

MiLO Hildreth, .N'orthborough. 

Chas. L. Gardner, Palmer. 

Jas. J. O'Connor, Holyoke. 

Mrs. E. G. Evans, Boston. 

Industrial School for Girts— Lancaster. 
Mrs. Luann L. Br.\ckett (Supt.). 

Lyman School for Boys — Westborough. 
TiiEo. F. Chapin (Supt.). 

Primary School — Monson. 

Amos .'Andrews (Supt.). 
Mass. Reformatory — Concord. 

Gardiner Tufts (Supt.) Lynn. 

Reformatory Prison for Women — Shcrborn. 

Ellen C. Johnson (Supt.) Boston. 

Ag't for aiding discharged female convicLs. 

Sarah E. Frye, Boston. 



STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS. 

Boston Art. 

Principal— Geo. H. Bartlett. 

Bridgexvatei-. 

Principal— A. G. Boyden. 
Framingham. 

Principal — Miss Ellen Hyde. 
.Salem . 

Principal — Dan'l B. Hagar. 

irestfield. 

Principal— Jas. C. Greenough. 

Worcester. 

Principal— F. H. Russell. 

COUNTY OFFICERS. 

BARNSTABLK COL'NT)\ Incorporated ibSs. 
.Shire Town, Barnstable. 



Judge of Probate 

and Insolvency. H. P. H.akriman, 
Register of Probate 

and Insolvency, F. H. LoTiiROr, 
Sheriff, .... J. Whitcomb, . 
Clerk of Courts, . S. K. Hopkins, . 
County Treasurer, C. A. Freeman, 
Register of Deeds, A. F. Sherman, 
Countv Com's, 



Wellfleet. 

Barnstable. 
Provincetown. 

Barnstable. 
. Chatham. 

Barnstable. 
. Wellfleet. 

Barnstable. 
. Chatham. 



I. C. Young, 

Sam'l Snow, 

S. E. Hallett 
Special Com's, F. Hoxves Yarmouth. 

J. H. Hopkins, . Provincetown. 
Com'sof Insolvency, E. S. Whittemore, . Sandwich. 

W'. Reynolds, . . Barnstable. 

F. C. Smith, . . Yarmouth. 
Trial Justices, . C. F. Chamberi.ayne, Bourne. 

E. S. Whittemore, . Sandwich. 
T. F. B.^ssett, . . . Hyannis. 
S. K. Hopkins, Barnstable. 

S. B. Kelley, . . . Harwich. 

G. T. Wver, . . . Wellfleet. 
G. Godfrey, . . . Chatham. 
W. F. Baker, .... Dennis. 

BERKSHIRE COUNTY . Incorporated 17I11. 
Shire Town, Pittsfield. 

Judge of Probate 

and Insolvency, J. T. Robinson, 
Register of Probate 

and Insolvency, E. T. Slocum, . 

Sheriff John Crosby, . 

Clerk of Courts, H. W^ Taft, . 
County Treasurer, Geo. H. Tucker, 
Registers of Deeds, 

No. District, . E. E. Merchant, 

Middle District, H. M. Pitt, . . 

So. District, . J. C. New, 
County Com's, 



Gt. 



C. H. Ingalls, 

J. H. Manning, 
W. H.Spaulding,W. 
Special Com's, . J. W. Ferry, 

A. TiNNEY, . 

C>)m'sof Insolvency, W. H.\WKINs, 

F. H. Wright, 
T. A. Oman, . 

Trial Justices, II. J. DUNHAM, 

W. C. Spaulding.W 

G. A. Shepard, 



No. .\dams. 

Pittsfield. 
Pittsfield. 
Pittsfield. 
Pittsfield. 

. . Adams. 

. Pittsfield. 

Barrington. 

No. .\dams. 

. Pittsfield. 

Stockbridge. 

. Lee. 

. Adams. 

. PittsfieJd. 

Barrington. 
. Pittsfield. 
Stockbridge. 
Stockbridge. 

Sandisfield. 



696 



KOSTER OK THE COMMONWEALTH. 



Taunton. 

. Taunton. 

Taunton. 
. Fall River. 

Taunton. 



BRISTOL COUffTV, Incorporated ibSS- 
Shire Toivns^ Taunton and Ne7v Bedford. 
Judge of Probate 

and Insolvency, W. E. Fuller. 
Register of Probate 
and Insolvency, J. H. G.\llig.4N, 

Sheriff A. R. Wright, 

Clerk of Courts, S. Borden, . 
County Treasurer, G. F. Pr.\tt, 
Registers of Deeds, 

No. District, . J. E. Wilb.\r, . . . Taunton. 

So. District, G. B. Richmond, . N. Bedford. 

County Corn's, . F. Gr.\y, .... Fall River. 

F. S. B.^BBITT, . . . Taunton. 

W. S.^.n'ders, . . N. Bedford. 

Special Corn's, . G. N. Cr.^ndall, Attleborough. 

H. A. Slocum, . . Dartmouth. 

Com'sof Insolvency. G. E. Willi.ams. . . Taunton. 

M. W^ Lincoln, . . Raynham. 

Mastersin Chancery, H. J. Fuller Taunton. 

H. K. Br.\lev, . . . Fall River. 
E. M. Reed Mansfield. 

E. L. Barnev, . . N. Bedford. 
C. A. Reed, .... Taunton. 

DUKES COUNTY, Incorforatid 16S3. 
Shire Toiun, Edgartown, 
Judge of Probate 

and Insolvency, Jos. T. Pease, . . Edgartown. 
Register of Probate 

and Insolvency, H. Vincent, . . Edgartown. 

J. L. De.xter, . . Edgartown. 

S. Keniston, . . Edgartown. 

J. S. Smith, . . . Edgartown. 

T. R. Holley, . . Edgartown. 

H. RiPLEV, . . . Edgartown. 

F. H. Lambert, . . Cliilmark. 

B. B. Smith, . . . Tisbury. 
W. A. Vanderhoop, Gay Head. 
F. A. Veeder, . . . Gosnold. 

Com'sof Insolvency, W. J. RoTCH, . . . Tisbury. 

C. G. M. Dunham, Edgartown. 
Trial Justices, . C. J. McIlvaine, Edgartown. 

B. T. Hillman, . . Chilmark. 
ESSEX COUNTY, Incorporated ibj4. 

Shire Toivns, Salem, Lawrence and Newbtirvport. 
Judge of Probate 

and Insolvency, R. E. H.armon, . . . Lynn. 
Register of Probate 
and Insolvency, J. T. Mahonev, . . . Salem. 

Sheriff H. G. Herrick, . . Lawrence. 

Clerk of Courts, . D. Pe.abody, .... Lynn. 
County Treasurer, E. K. Jenkins, . . . Andover. 
Registers of Deeds, 
So. District, . C. S. Osgood, .... Salem. 

No. District, . J. R. Poor Lawrence. 

County Corn's, . D. W. Low, . . . Gloucester. 

J. W. Raymond, . . Beverly. 

E. B. Bishop, . . . Haverhill. 

Special Corn's, . A. S.WVVER, .... Amesbury. 

J. M. Danforth, . . Lynnfield. 

Com'sof Insolvency, S. Nelson, . . . Georgetown. 

VV. L. Thompson, . . Lawrence. 

H. I. Bartlett, . Newburyport. 

MastersinChanccry,H. N. Woods, . . . Rockport. 

C. W. Richardson, . . Salem. 
N. J. HoLDEN, .... Salem. 

J. H. SiSK, Lynn. 

A. C. Stone, . . . Lawrence. 
W. C. Fabens, . . Marblehead. 



Trial Justices, 



Sheriff, 
Clerk of Courts, 
County Treasurer, 
Register of Deeds, 
County Corn's, 



Special Com's, 



N. P. Frye. . . 
N. C. Bartlett. 
J. S. Todd, . . 
AV. M. Rogers, 
O. B. Tenney, 
G. H. Poor, . 
A. Merrill, 
W. Nutting, Jr., 
C. A. S.ayward, 

S. GlLiMAN, . . 

J. T. Wilson, . 



No. Andover. 

Haverhill. 

. Rowley. 

Methuen. 

Georgetown. 

Andover. 

Peabody. 

Marblehead. 

. Ipswich. 

Lynnfield. 

. Nahant. 



FRANKLIN COUNTY, Incorporated iSri. 
Shire Town, Greenfield. 
Judge of Probate 

and Insolvency, C. C. Con.\nt, . . . Greenfield. 

Register of Probate 

and Insolvency, F. M. Thompson, . . Greenfield. 

G. A. KiMUALL, . . . Greenfield. 

E. E. Lyman, . . . Greenfield. 

C. M. Moody, . . . Greenfield. 

E. Str-ATTON, . . . Greenfield. 
L. A. Crafts, . . . Whately. 

F. G. Smith Greenfield. 

F. L. Waters, .... Orange. 
B. W. Fay, . . . New Salem. 
A. J. Denison, .... Leyden. 

Com'sof Insolvency, H. M. Puffer, . . . Shelburne. 

E. F. GuN.v, .... Montague. 

A. A. Smith, Colrain. 

Masters in Chancery, F. G. Fessenden, . .Greenfield. 

S. O. L-AMB, .... Greenfield. 

G. D. Williams, . . Greenfield. 



Sheriff, . 
Clerk of Courts, . 
County Treasurer, 
Register of Deeds, 
County Com's, 



Special Com's, 



Trial Justices, 



S. D. Bardwell, Shelburne Falls, 



H. W. Billings, 
Silas Bi.ake, 
c. po.meroy, . 
W. S. Dana, . 

E. F. Gunn, . 
R. D. Ch.\se, . 

F. L. Greene, 

D. F. H.\GAR, 



Conway. 

Ash field. 
Northfield. 
Montague. 
Montague. 

. Orange. 

Greenfield. 

Deerfield. 



H.4MPDEN COUNTY, Incorporated jS/2. 
Shire Town, .Springfield. 
Judge of Probate 

and Insolvency, W. S. Shurtleff, . Springfield. 
Register of Probate 
and Insolvency, S. B. Spooner, . . Springfield. 

Simon Brooks, . . . Holyoke. 

R. O. Morris, . . Springfield. 

M. W. Bridge, . . Springfield. 

J. E. Russell, . . Springfield. 

H. D. B.iGG, . . W. Springfield. 

L. F. Root, .... Westfield. 

L. Clark Springfield. 

B. F. Burr Ludlow. 

W. H. Brainerd, . . Palmer. 
Com'sof Insolvency, H. C. Bliss, . . W. Springfield. 

W. S. Kellogg, . . Westfield. 

D. E. Webster, . Springfield. 
Masters in Chancery, H.W. Bosvvorth, . Springfield. 

Allen Webster, . Springfield. 
Trial Justice, . . C. F. Grosvenor, . . Ludlow. 

H.-IMPSHIRE COUNTY, Incorporated lbb2 
Shire Toion, Northampton. 
Judge of Probate 

and Insolvency, W. G. B.\ssett, . Northampton. 
Register of Probate 

and Insolvency, H. M. .'Vrbott, . Northampton. 



Sheriff 

Clerk of Courts, . 
County Treasurer, 
Register of Deeds, 
County Com's, . 



Special Com's, 



ROSTER (IF THE COM.\[0.\\VEALI'H. 



69; 



Sheriff, .... J. E. CLARK, . . 


Easthampton. 


NORFOLK COUNTY, Incorporated //«?. 


Clerk of Courts, . W. H. Clapp, . 


Northampton. 


Shire TozL'ti, Deuham. 




County Treasurer, Lewis Warner, 


Northampton. 






Register of Deeds, H. P. Bili,ings, . 


Northampton. 


Judge of Probate 




County Corn's, . W. W. Strong, . 


Northampton. 


and Insolvency, Geo. White, . . 


. . Wellesley. 


1". Gaylord, . , 


. Amherst. 


Register of Probate 




E. A. Edwards, 


Southampton. 


and Insolvency, Jno. Cobb, . . 


DedhanL 


Special Corn's, C. E. Blood, . . 


. . Ware. 


Sheriff .A. B. Endicott, 


. . Dedham. 


C. K. Brewster, 


Worthington. 


Clerk of Courts, . E. Worthington, 


Dedham 


Corn's of Insolvency, AsiiER Pe.\sf,, 


Middlefield. 


County Treasurer, C. II. S.mith, . . 


Dedliam 


BvKox Smith, . 


So. Hadley. 


Register of Deeds, J. H. Burdakin, 


Dedham. 




. . Hatfield. 


County Com's, . J. Q. A. Field, . 


. . Quincy 






G. W. Wiggin, 


Franklin. 






M. P. Morrill, . 


Hyde Park. 


MIDDLESEX COUNTY, I near f orated lb43. 


Special Com's, G. P. Morey, 


Walpole. 


Shire Towns^ Cambridge {East) an 


iLoive/l. 


B. F. Baker, . . 


. Brookline 






Com'sof Insolvency, G. W. Wiggin, . 


. Franklin 


Judge of Probate 




E. Grover, . . 


. Needhani 


and Insolvency, Geo. M. Brooks, 


Concord. 


R. W. Carpenter. 


Foxbo rough 


Register of Probate 




Mastersin Chancei-y,T. E. Grover, . 


. . Canton. 


and Insolvency, J. H. Tyler, . 


Winchester. 


H. B. Terry, . 


Hyde Park. 


Assistant Register of 




E. Worthington, 


. Dedham. 


Probate and Insol- 




J. E. TIRRELL, . 


. . Quinc;-. 


vency, . . . S. H. FoLSO,\i, . 


Winchester. 


Trial Justices, . E. Grover, . . 


. . Needham. 


Sheriff H. G. Gushing, . 


. . Lowell. 


S. Warner, . . 


Wrentham. 


Clerk of Courts. . T. C. HuRD, . . 


Cambridge. 


A. B. W'entworth 


Dedham. 


Assistant Clerk of 




G. W. Wiggin, 


. Franklin. 


Courts, . . . W. C. Dillingham 


Somerville. 


0. A. Marden, 


. Stoughton. 


County Treasurer, Jos. O. Havden, 


Somerville. 


T. E. Grover, . . 


. . Canton. 


Registers of Deeds, 




H. B. Terry, . . 


Hyde Park. 


No. District, . J. L. Thompson, 


. . Lowell. 


J. C. Lane, . . . 


. Norwood. 


So. District, . C. B. Stevens, . 


Cambridge. 


N. A. Cook, . . . 


Belliiigham. 


County Corn's, \V. S. FROST, . . 


Marlborough. 


C. E. W.\SHBURNE, 


. Wellesley. 


J. H, Rear, . . 


. Westford. 


Peter Daly, . 


. Walpole. 


S. 0. Upham, 


. Waltham. 


R. W. Carpenter, 


Fo.\ borough. 


Special Corn's, . E. E. Thompson, 


Woburn. 


J. J. Feelv, . . 


Walpole. 


Lyman Dike, 


. Stoneham. 






Coin's of Insolvency, K. T. Greenhalge 


. . Lowell. 


PLYMOUTH COUNTY, Incorpor. 


ted lOSj. 


J. C. Kennedy, . 


Newlon. 


Shire Town, Plvniottth. 




G. J. Burns, . . 


Ayer. 


Judge of Probate 




Masters in Chancery, W.alter Adams, 


Framingham. 




S. L. Powers, . 


Newton. 


and Insolvency, B. W. Harris, h 


. Bridgewater. 


J. H. Tyler, . . 


Winchester. 


Register of Probate 




C. H. Co.nant, . 


. . Lowell. 


and Insolvency, J. C. Sullivan, Middleborough. 


G. A. A. Pevey, 


Cambridge. 


Sheriff A. K. Harmon, . 


. Plymouth. 


R. P. Clapp, . . 


. Lexington. 


Clerk of Courts, . E. E. HiMART, . 


. Plymouth. 


W. H. Bent, 


. . Lowell. 


County Treasurer, A. D.wis, . . . 


. \Vhitman. 


Trial Justices, . J.T. JosLiN, . . 


Hudson. 


Register of Deeds, W. S. Danforth, 


. Plymouth. 


Wm. Nutt, . . 


. . Natick. 


County Com's, . Wm. Rankin, . 
J. Dwelley, 


. Brockton. 


G. L. Hemenway, 


Hopkinton. 


. Hanover. 






W. H. Faunce, 


. Kingston. 


The jurisdiction of the County Commissioners 


of Middlesex ex- 


Special Com's, . C. W. S. Seymour 


. Hingham. 


tends over Revere and Winthrop in the County 0: 


Suffolk. 


A. P. Sprague, 


Marshfield. 






Com'sof Insolvency.F. M. Bi-XRV, . . 


. Brockton. 


NANTUCKET COUNTY, Incorpor 


aieti ibqj. 


R. 0. Harris, . E 


. Britlgewater. 


Judge of Probate 




W. L. Chip.man, . 


. Wareham. 


and Insolvency, T. C. Defriez, . 


. Nantucket. 


Masters in Chancery. J. O. Burdett, 


. Hingham. 


Register of Probate 




C. M. Perry, . 


. Rockland. 


and Insolvency, B. F. Brown, 


. Nantucket. 






Sheriff J. F. Barrett, . 


. Nantucket. 


SUFFOLK COUNTY, Incorporated 1643. 


Clerk of Courts, . J. F. MuRPHY, . 


. Nantucket. 


Judge of Probate 




County Treasurer, Sam'l Swain, . 


. Nantucket. 


and Insolvency, J. W. McKiM, . . 


. Boston. 


Register of Deeds, E. B. Hussey, . 


. Nantucket. 


Register of Probate 




Com'sof Insolvency, W. W. McIntosii, 


. Nantucket. 


and Insolvency, Elijah George, . 


. . Boston. 


H. W. Brown, . 


. Nantucket. 


Assistant Register, J. H. Paine, . . . 


. . Boston. 


A. C. Swain, . . 


. Nantucket. 


Clerk, .... J. L. Crombie, . . 


. Boston. 


Trial Justices, . T. B. Field, . . 


. Nantucket. 


Sheriff j. B. O'Brien, . . 


. . Boston. 


\. Coffin, . . 


. Nantucket. 


Clerk Supreme Ju- 








dicial Court, . John Nohle, 


. Boston. 


The Selectmen of the town of Nantucket ha\ 


e the powers anil 






perform the duties of County Commissioners. 


The Treasurer of 


Ass. Clerk Supreme 




tile Town is also County Trt-asurcr. 




Judicial' Court, C. H. Cooper, . . 


. Boston. 



698 



ROSTER OF THE COMMONWEALTH. 



Clerk Superior Court 




(Civil Session), J. A. Willard, 


. Boston. 


Cleric Superior Court 




(Criminal Session) J. P. Manning, . . 


. Boston. 


County Treasurer, A. T. Turner, . . 


. Boston. 


County Auditor, . J, H. Dodge, . . 


. Boston. 


Register of Deeds, Thos. F. Temple, 


. Boston. 


Com'sof Insolvency, M. J. Creed, . . 


. Boston. 


W. B. F. Whall, . 


. Boston. 


F. P. Magee, . . 


. Boston. 


Masters in Chancery, D. H. Coolidge, . 


. Boston. 


H. W. Bragg, . . 


, Boston. 


J. C. Davis, . . . 


. Boston. 


H. H. Smith, . . 


Hyde Park. 


R. I. Burbank, 


. Boston. 


J. H. Sherburne, 


. Boston. 


E. J. Jones, . . . 


. Boston. 


E. H. Darling, 


. Boston. 


G. P. Sanger, Jr., 


. Boston. 


C. E. Grinnell, . 


. Boston. 



In the city of Koston Ihe Board of Aldermen have all the powers 
and duties of County Commissioners, except in relation to trials by 
jury and recovery of damages in such trials, in cases of laying out 
and discontinuing highways, and appeals from assessors for abate- 
ment of taxes. 

n-'ORCESTER COUNTY, Incorporated IJS'- 
Shire Towns, Worcester and Fitchbitrg, 

Judf^e of Probate 

and Insolvency, W. T. Forbes, . 
Register of Probate 

and Insolvency, F. W. Southwick 
Sheriff, .... Sam'l D. Nye, . 
Clerk of Couits, . T. S. Johnson, . 
County Treasurer, E. A. Brown, 
Registers of Deeds, 
Worcester Dist., H. B. Wilder, . 
C. F. Rockwood, 
Chas. J. Rice, . 
H. G. Taft, . . 
E. Stone, . . . 
Howard M. Lane, 
G. W. Cook, . . 
Corn's of Insolvency, R. B. Dodge, Jr., 



Northern Dist., 
County Corn's, 

Special Corn's, 



Westborough. 

Worcester. 
. W'orcester. 
. Worcester. 
, Worcester. 



. Worcester. 
. Fitchburg. 
Wincliendon. 
. U.\bridge. 
Spencer. 
Leominster. 
. . Barre. 
. Charlton. 



A. J. Bartholomew, Southbridge 



J. B. Scott, 
Masters in Chancery, Jos. M.\son, . . 
JoN.vrnAN Smith, 
G. M. Woodward, 
J. H. Hill, . . 

E. P. Pierce, . 

C. R. JOHN.WN, . 

Trial Justices, . C. H. Follansby, 

G. S. DUELL, 

C. W. Carter, . 

H. Mayo, . . . 

Luther Hill, . 

H. W. Bush, . . 

F. B. Spalter, . 
J. W. Tyler, . 
H. A. Farwell, 
S. BoTinvELL, . 



Grafton. 

. Worcester. 

Clinton. 

. Worcester. 

. Worcester. 

. Fitchburg. 

. Worcester. 

. . Barre. 

. Brookfield. 

Leominster. 

Leominster. 

Spencer. 

W. Brookfield. 

Wincliendon. 

Warren. 

Hubbardston. 

Xo. Brookfield. 



COLLEGES IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
AMHERST— Amherst. 

President, Julius H. Seelye. 

BOSTON COLLEGE— Boston. 

President Rob't Fulton. 

B OS TON UNI f ERSI T Y— Boston . 

President Wm. F. Warren. 



CLARK UNIVERSITY— Worcester. 

President, G. Stanley Hall. 

COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS— Worcester 

President, Sam'l Caiiiii,. 

HAR YARD I 'NI I ERSITY^ Cambridge. 

President, ...... Chas. W. Eliot. 

.MASS. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE— Amherst. 

President, Henry II. Goodell. 

S. Ill Til COLLEGE— Northampton. 

President, L. Clark Seelye. 

TUFTS COLLEGE— Somerville. 

President, Elmer H. Capen. 

WELLESLE Y COLLEGE— Wellesley. 

President, Helen A. Schafer. 

WILLIAMS COLLEGE- Williamstown. 

President, Franklin Carter. 

MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER MILITIA. 
commander-in-chief. 
His Excellency . . J. Q. A. Brackett. 

Staff. 
Adjutant-General, . . Maj.-Gen. Samuel Dalton. 
Surgeon-General, . . Brig. -Gen. Alfred F. Holt. 
Judge Advocate-General, Brig. -Gen. E. O. Shepard. 

A ides -de- Ca mp. 
Col. Wm. p. Stoddard, Col. S. M. Hedges, 
Col. S. E. WiNSLOw, Col. E. V. Mitchell. 

Inspector-General (Rifle 

Practice) Col. H. T. Rockwell. 

Assistant Inspector-Generals. 
Col. E. E. Currier, Col. F. W. Wellington, 

Col. R. F. Barrett, Col. G. A. Keeler, 

Col. W. L. Chase (Rifle Practice). 
Assistant Quartermaster-Generals. 
Col. M. O. .\dams, Co'. A. M. Chadwick. 

Col. G. W. Moses, Col. A. H. Goetting, 

Col. W. H. Dyer. 
Assistant Adjutant-Generals . 
Col. S. C. Hart, Col. A. M. Jackson, 

Col. W. A. CouTiiouY, Col. E. A. Buffinton. 

FIRST BRIG. -IDE. 

Brig. -Gen. Com- 
manding, . Benj. F. Bridges, Jr., So. Deerfield. 

Lt.-Col.andAsst. 
Adj. -Gen. . B. S. Parker, Boston. 

Lt. -Col. and Med. 

Director, . H. L. Burrill, .... Boston. 

Maj. and Asst. 

Ins. Gen., . J. W. Sanger, Boston. 

Maj. and Asst. 
Ins. -Gen. Rifle 
Practice, . . C. W. Hinman, .... Boston. 

Capt. and Brig- 
ade Q. M., . C. L. Hayden, . . . So. Deerfield. 

Capt. and Engi- 
neer, . . . Thos. Aspinwall, . . Brookline. 

Capt. and Judge 

Advocate, . H. S. Dewey, Boston. 

Capt. and Pro. 

Marshal, . . CD. Lyford, .... Brookline. 

1st. Lt. and Sig- 
nal Officer, . H. H. .M. Borghardt, . . Boston. 

2d Lt. and Am- 

bul'ce Officer, Myles Standish, .... Boston. 

... . /-. \ Wm. L. Chase, . . . Brookline. 

.^ides-de-Camp -' ^ ' ^ . , , , 

' Thos. F. Cordis, . . . Springfield. 



ROSTER OF THE COMMONWEALTH. 



699 



Colonel, 
Lt.-Col., 
Majors, . 



Captains, 



Colonel, 
Lt.-Col., 
Majors, . 



Captains, 



Colonel, 
Lt.-Col., 
Majors, 



Cap'.ains, 



ist Regiment Infantry. 
Thos. R. M.\the\vs, . 

J AS. F. J.\CKSOS, . . 
CH.AS. L. HpVEY, . . 

Fred. G. King, . • 
\Vm. W. Kf.llett, . 
F. H. Briggs, . . ■ 
I'. W. Dallinger, . 
P. A. Dyar, .... 
J. H. Frothingham, 
R. H. Morgan, . . 
N. O. Danfortm, . . 
R. P. B. Bell, . . . 
H. \V. Atkixs, . . 

C. \VlLLL\MSON, . . 

W. H. Ames, . . . 

E. G. TUTEIN, . . . 

S. L. Bkaley, . . 
id Regiment Infantry. 

Embury P. Clark. . 

F. W. Merrum, . . 
. E. R. Shumway, . . 

P. S. Bridges, . . . 

F. G. Southmayp, . 

. W. A. CONDY, . . . 

H. McDonald, . . 

C. W. Brown, . . . 

T. E. LE.iVITT, . . 

S. T. Ch.\mberlain, 
J. J. Leonard, . . 
E. M. Roche, . . 
R. W. Irwin, . • 

E. G. Th.ayer, 

F. G. Fessenden, 
R. .\. Whipple, 

6lh Regiment Infantry 

. Henry G. Greene, 

. Henry P.\rsons, . 

C. F. Woodward, 

Thos. H. Shea, . 

G. H. ClIAFFlN, 
. G. H. T.AYLOR, 

W. F. P.\GE, 

O. M. Pr.att, . 
P. F. King, . . . 

A. S. FULLFORD, . 
T. E. J.iCKSON, 

C. H. Richardson, 
S. A. Lawrence, . 

F. E. Cutter, . . 
C. F. Hill, . . . 

G. W. Brady, . 

J. T. Berrill, . . 



. Boston. 

Fall River. 

. Boston. 

. Boston. 

. Boston. 

. Boston. 
Cambridge. 

. Boston. 

. Boston. 

N. Bedford. 

Taunton. 

.- Boston. 

. Clielsea. 

Brockton. 

No. Easton. 

. Boston. 

Fall River. 



. . Holyoke. 

No. Adams. 

, Worcester. 

So. Deerfield. 

. Springfield. 

. Worcester. 

. Springfield. 

. . Holyoke. 

. . Orange. 

. . Gardner. 

. Springfield. 

So. Deerfield. 

Northampton. 

Amherst. 

Greenfield. 

. . Adams. 



Fitchburg. 
Marlborough. 
. Wakefield. 
. Fitchburg. 
Southbridge. 
. Wakefield. 
. Fitchburg. 
. . Lowell. 
. Fitchburg. 
.^shburnham. 
Marlborough. 
. . Lowell. 
, Stoneham. 
. . Concord. 
Southbridge. 
. . Boston. 
. . .Milford. 



SECOND BRIGADE. 

Brig.-Gen. Com- 
manding, . Benj. F. Pe.\ch, Jr.. 
Lt.-Col.andAsst. 

Adj.-Gen., . Cii.\s. C. Fry, . . 
Lt.-Col.andMed. 

Director, . Thos. KriTKEi.GK, 
Maj. and Asst. 

Ins.-Gen., . Jos. A. Ingai.ls, . 
Maj. and Asst. 

Ins.-Gen. Rifle 

Practice, . J as. P. FROsr, . . 
Capt. and Brig. 

O. M., . . H. E. Converse, . 



Capt. and Engi- 
neer, . . . W. T. Lambert Boston. 

Capt. and Judge 
Advocate, . Elijah CSeorge, .... Boston. 

Capt. and Pro. 

Marshal, . A. A. Hal.., Boston. 

ist Lt. and Sig- 
nal Officer, . C. M. Halky, Boston. 

2d Lt. and Am- 

bula'ceOfficer, A. W. Clarke Salem. 

_ I N. A. Thomp.son, . . . Boston. 

Aides-de-Camp .^^^^ j^j,^^^^^^ . Boston. 

^th Regiment Infantry. 

Colonel, . . W'M. .\. Bancroft, . . Cambridge. 

1 t -Col.', . . G. F. Frost WaUham. 

Majors, '. . . L H. Whitney Medford. 

G. H. Benyon, . . . Watertown. 

W. H. Oakes Boston. 

Captains, . . Ch-as. French, .... Boston. 

S. T. Sinclair, . . . Cambridge. 

G. C. Applin Newton. 

H. MORRISSEY, .... Plymouth. 

T. C. Henderson, . . Medford. 

G. H. Dickson, . . . Waltham. 

W. C. Parker Woburn. 

W. L. Fox, Arlington. 

W. H. GoFF, . . . Attleborough. 

W. E. Morrison, . . . Braintree. 

G. W. SWAZEY, .... Maiden. 

A. M. MossMAN, .... Hudson. 



. . Lynn. 

. . Lynn. 

Salem. 

. Boston. 

. Boston. 
Maiden. 



Colonel, 
Lt.-Col., 
Majors, . 



Captains, 



Colonel, 
Lt.-Col., 

Majors, . 



Captains, 



f>th Regiment Infantry. 
Francis A. Osgood, . Marblehead. 

J. A. Mills Newburyport. 

G. .v. CoPELAND, .... Revere. 

C. L. Dodge Beverly. 

W. M. Ward, Peabody. 

A. G. Reynolds, . . Newburyport. 

E. W. M. Bailey, . . Amesbury. 
W.B.Potter,. . . Maiblcliead. 

F. IIURR.W Lynn. 

W. E. Perry, Beverly. 

B. II. Jellison, . . . Haverhill. 
Wm. a. Pew, Jr., . . . Gloucester. 

H. F. Staples Salem. 

E. T. Br.\ckett, Lynn. 

W. H. Dunney Peabody. 

A. Reeves, .... No. Andover. 
S. T. Kirk Somerville. 



gtlt Regiment Infantry. 

Wm. Str.\chan. . . 

. L. J. Logan, . . . 

P. J. Grady, . . . 

F. P. Bogan, . . . 
W. H. Donovan, . . 

. D. J. Keefe, . . . 

G. F. H. Murray, 
T. F. 0'D.\Y, . . 
E. Eg.an, .... 
J. G. Fennessey, . 

E. F. O'SULLIVAN, 

Wm. Reg.\n, . . 
G. J. Lovett, . . 

C. E. O'DONNELL, 

C. E. Sh.aw, . . . 

D. W. RlCKER, 

Chas. Conners, . 



Boston. 
. Boston. 
. Boston. 
. Boston. 
Lawrence. 

Boston. 

Boston. 
. Boston. 
. Boston. 
. Boston. 
Lawrence. 
Worcester. 
. Boston. 
. Boston. 
. Clinton. 
. Natick. 

Lowell. 



yoo 



ROSTER OK THE COMMO.WVEALTH. 



ARTILLERY. 

1st Battalion. 
Major, . . . Geo. S. Merrill, 
Adjutant, . . J. A. Newhall, 
Q. M., . . . L. S. Dow, . . 
Surgeon, . . F. M. Johnson, 
Asst. Surgeon, H. L. Chase, 
Paymaster, . S. M. Hedges, . 

Battery A. — Capt. Dexter H. Follett, 
Battery C. — Capt. L. N. Duchesney, 
Battery B. — Capt. Geo. L. Allen, . . 
CAVALRY. 
I St Battalion. 
Major, . . . Horace G. Kemp, 
Adjutant, . . F. L. Locke, . . . 
Q. M., . . . S. B. Newton, . . 
Surgeon, . . Chas. H. Cogswell, 
Asst. Surgeon, C. S. Dunn, .... 
Paymaster, . J. W. Pierce, . . . 
Chaplain, . . Rev. W. H. Ryder, . 
I. R. P., . . J. Bellamy, . . . 
Troop A. — Capt. Edw. B. Wadsworth, 
Troop D. — Capt. D. S. Henderson, . 
Troop /^.— Capt. H. W. Wilson, . . 

INDEPENDENT CADETS. 
1st Corps Cadets. 
Lt.-Col. Com'd'gT. F. Edmands, 



Lawrence. 
. Boston. 
. Boston. 
. Boston. 
Brookline. 
. Boston. 
Boston. 
. Boston. 
\\'orcester. 



Cambridge. 

. Boston. 
Boston. 

. Boston. 

. Boston. 

. Boston. 
Gloucester. 

. Boston. 

. Boston. 

. Boston. 

. Carlisle. 



Major, . . . 

Adjutant, . . 

Q. M., . . . 

Surgeon, . . 
Asst. Surgeon, 
Paymaster, 

I. R. P., . . 



G. R. Rogers, . . 

J. E. R. Hill, . . 

C. C. Melcher, . 
W. L. Richardson, 

C. M. Green, . . 
C. E. Stevens, 
Wm. .\. Hayes, 



Boston. 
Boston. 
Boston. 
Boston. 
Boston. 
Boston. 
Boston. 
Boston. 



Co. A. — Capt. F. H. Api'LETON, 
Co. 5.— Capt. W. H, Alline, . . 
Co. C— Capt. A. Robeson, . . . 
Co. Z),— Capt. H. B. Rice, . . . 

2d Corps Cadets. 



Lt.-Col. Com'd'g J. F. Dalton, 

Major, . 

Adjutant. 

Q. M., . 

Surgeon, 

Paymaster, 

Chaplain, 

I. R. P., 



J. W. Hart, . . 
A. FiTZ, .... 

E. A. SiMONPS, . . 

Benj. R. Svmonds, 
E. A. Maloon, . . 
Rev. E. C. Butler, 
\V. H. MERRirr, , 



Co. A. — Capt. S. A. Johnson, 
Co. ^.— Capt. W. F. Peck, . 
Co. C— Capt. C. W. Osgood, 
Co. Z»,— Capt. C. S. Proctor, 



Boston. 
Boston. 
Boston. 
Boston. 



Salem. 
Salem. 
Salem. 
Salem. 
Salem. 
Salem 
Beverly. 
Salem. 
Salem. 
Salem. 
Salem. 
Salem. 



ANCIENT AND HONORABLE ARTILLERY CO. 



E. E, Allen, . . . 
G. B. Spaulding, 

E. Sullivan, . . . , 

F. W. Dallinger, . , 
Rev. Phillips Brooks, 



Capt., 

ist Lieut., 

2d Lieut., 

Adjutant, 

Chaplain, 

Treas. and Pay- 
master, . . V. Laforme, 

Clerk and Asst. 

Paymaster, . G. H. Allen, 

Q. M. and Ar- 
morer, . . G. P. May, . 

Chief Honorary 
Staff, . . 

Commissary, 

Surgeon, 



Watertown. 

. Boston. 

. Boston. 
Cambridge. 

. Boston. 



W. H. CUNDV, 
C. A. Faxon, . 
John Sullivan, 



Boston. 

Cambridge. 

. Boston. 

. Boston. 

. Boston. 

Boston. 



Towns and Cities of Massachusetts. 



Arranged alphabetically, showing Date of Incorporation, Population according to the last Census (1885), 
Polls and Valuation as officially returned to the Secretary of the Commonwealth in 1SS9, together with 
their appropriate Congressional, Councilor, Senatorial and Representative Districts. 



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s 

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Cities. 


35 a 

^ - 


U 


u 5 

Z !- 

5° 


I/) 




I7I2 


3.699 


1,293 


2,100,335 


ABINGTON. 


2 


I 


I Plymouth. 


6 Plymouth. 


1735 


1.785 


589 


1,311.775 


ACTON. 


8 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


30 Middlesex. 


j86o 


1,071 


244 


612,040 


ACUSHNET. 


I 


I 


3 Bristol. 


4 Bristol. 


1778 


8,282 


1.950 


3.432,168 


ADAMS. 


12 


8 


Berkshire. 


2 Berkshire. 


1855 


2.357 


572 


1,220,047 


AGAWAM. 


12 


8 


2 Hampden. 


I Hampden. 


1773 


341 


98 


220,586 


ALFORD. 


12 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


6 Berkshire. 


1668 


4.403 


2.890 


4,366,120 


AMESBURY. 


7 


5 


4 Essex. 


I Essex. 


1759 


4.199 


1,061 


3,238,000 


AMHERST. 


11 


7 


Wore. & Hamp 


4 Hampshire. 


Z646 


5.7" 


1,262 


4,161,170 


ANDOVER. 


8 


6 


6 Essex. 


6 Essex. 


1807 


4,673 


1,508 


5,209,096 


ARLINGTON. 


5 


3 


t Middlesex. 


15 Middlesex. 


1765 


2,058 


629 


1,000,716 


ASHBURNHAM. 


ri 


8 


Franklin. 


2 Worcester. 


1767 


871 


258 


476.427 


ASHBY. 


8 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


32 Middlesex. 


1765 


1,097 


289 


476,663 


ASHFIELD. 


II 


8 


Franklin. 


5 Franklin. 


1846 


2,633 


710 


1,290,901 


ASHLAND. 


9 


6 


4 Middlesex. 


27 Middlesex. 


1762 


4.758 


1,606 


2,845,205 


ATHOL. 


II 


7 


Wore. & Hamp 


I Worcester. 


1694 


13,175 


1,995 


3,965,377 


ATTLEBOROUGH. 


2 


2 


I Bristcil. 


I Bristol. 


1778 


1,267 


332 


492,647 


AUBURN. 


10 


7 


3 Worcester. 


8 Worcester. 


1888 


1,200 


379 


545.760 


AVON. 


2 


2 


2 Norfolk. 


7 Norfolk. 


1871 


2,190 


637 


1,282,767 


AVER. 


8 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


32 Middlesex. 


I6J9 


4,050 


1,056 


3,156,540 


BARNSTABLE. 


I 


I 


Cape. 


I Barnstable. 


1753 


2,093 


607 


1,407,654 


BARRE. 


10 


7 


Wore. &' Hamp 


3 Worcester. 


1765 


938 


290 


402.344 


BECKET. 


12 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


5 Berkshire. 


1729 


950 


297 


875.367 


BEDFORD. 


8 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


19 Middlesex. 


1 761 


2,307 


536 


814,850 


BELCHERTOWN. 


II 


7 


Wore. & Hamp 


4 Hampshire. 


1719 


1,198 


319 


612,150 


BELLINGHAM. 


9 


2 


2 Norfolk. 


8 Norfolk. 


1859 


1,693 




3,020,600 


BELMONT. 


5 


3 


2 Middlesex. 


16 Middlesex. 


1735 


941 


260 


405.830 


BERKLEY. 


2 


1 


2 Bristol. 


3 Bristol. 


1784 


899 


237 


487, 103 


BERLIN. 


9 


7 


2 Worcester. 


12 Worcester. 


1762 


930 


214 


388,210 


BERNARDSTON. 


II 


s 


Franklin. 


I Franklin. 


1668 


9,186 


2,815 


13,607,975 


BEVERLY. 


7 


5 


2 Essex. 


12 Essex. 


1655 


2,161 


603 


1,698,238 


BILLERICA. 


8 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


20 Middlesex. 


184s 


5,435 


1,599 


2,535.845 


BLACKSTONE. 


9 


7 


2 Worcester. 


II Worcester. 


1741 


954 


237 


366,455 


BLANDFORD. 


12 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


I Hampden. 


1738 


876 


231 


469,467 


BOLTON. 


8 


7 

a" 


2 Worcester. 

1 Suffolk, 

Ward 1. 

2 Suffolk, 
Wards 3, 4, 5. 

3 Suffolk, 
Wards 6, 7, 8. 


13 Wctfcester. 


1630 


390,406 


123,274 


795,433,744 


BOSTOJf. 


^"^:i-s 

"o-a ^^ 




4 Suffolk, 
Wards 2, 12, 16 

5 Suffolk, 
\\^ards 9, 10, II 


I to 25 Suffolk, 












iris 


6 Suffolk, 














^siilT 


« """' 


Wards 13,14,15 














-5 "" ^' 


|. . [i 


7 Suffolk, 














•sri^s 


^"•£" 


Wards 17,18,20 














S3"o; 




8 Suffolk, 














l-sj-^ 




Wards 19,22,25 














-^ « NO,* 


9 Suffolk, 














CO 




Wards 21,23,24 




1884 


1,363 


442 


1,135,050 


BOURNE. 


I 


I 


Cape. 


I Barnstable. 


1783 


34S 


186 


246,705 


BOXBOROUGH. 


8 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


30 Middlesex. 


1685 


840 


217 


656,358 


BOXFORD. 


7 


5 


5 Essex. 


7 Essex. 


1786 


834 


203 


527,740 


BOYLSTON. 


10 


7 


2 Worcester. 


13 Worcester. 


J67S 


3,106 


932 


1,819,318 


BRADFORD. 


7 


6 


6 Essex. 


3 Essex. 


1640 


4,040 


1,321 


3,284.3TO 


BRAINTREE. 


2 


2 


I Norfolk. 


6 Norfolk. 



[Copyright. 1890.1 



702 



TOWNS AND CITIES OF MASSACHUSETTS. 





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Cities. 


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U 


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1803 


934 


250 


533.206 


BRE^VSTER. 


I 


I 


Cape. 


2 Barnstable. 


1656 


3.827 


976 


2,129,070 


BRIDGEWATER. 


2 


I 


2 Plymouth. 


9 Plymouth. 


'731 


1. 137 


3" 


454.860 


BRIMFIELD. 


10 


s 


I Hampden. 


10 Hampden. 
10 Plymouth, 
Wards 4, 5, 6. 


1821 


20,783 


7.342 


15,762,788 


BnOCKTON. 


2 


I 


2 Plymouth - 


II Plymouth, 
Wards 2. 1. 
















12 Plymouth, 


















Wards i, 7. 


1718 


3.013 


919 


1,265,942 


BROOKFIELD. 


10 


7 


3 Worcester. 


5 Worcester. 


1705 


9. "95 


3.003 


42,533,300 


BROOKLINE. 


9 ! 2 


2 Norfolk. 


2 Norfolk. 


1779 


1,760 


422 


521,903 


BUCKLAND. 


II 


8 


Franklin. 


5 Franklin. 


1799 


604 


177 


491.477 


BURLINGTON. 


5 


6 


5 Middlesex. 
3 Middlesex, 


19 Middlesex. 

1 Middlesex, 
Wards I, 5. 

2 Middlesex, 


•633 


59.660 


18,242 


65,132,800 


CAMBRIDGE. 


5- 


^1 

k 


\Vds.,2,4,5 
3 Suffolk, 
Ward 3. 


Ward 2. 

3 Middlesex, 

Ward 3. 

4 Middlesex, 
















Ward 4. 


1797 


4,380 


1,206 


3,616,847 


CANTON. 


2 


2 


I Norfolk. 


4 Norfolk. 


1780 


526 


141 


381.799 


CARLISLE. 


8 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


30 Middlesex. 


1790 


1,091 


214 


613.590 


CARVER. 


2 


I 


2 Plymouth. 


7 Plymouth. 


1765 


958 


291 


347. 79S 


CHARLEMONT. 


II ' S 


Franklin. 


5 Franklin. 


1754 


1,823 


526 


933.370 


CHARLTON. 


ID 7 


3 Worcester. 


7 Worcester. 


1712 


2,028 


593 


802,839 


CHATHAM. 


I I 


Cape. 


2 Barnstable. 


165s 


2.304 


713 


1,593.159 


CHELMSFORD. 


8 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


20 Middlesex. 
26 Suffolk, 


1738 


25.709 


7,732 


20,189,850 


CHEZ,SEA. 


6 


3 


I Suffolk. 


Wards I, 2, 3. 
27 Suffolk, 














[ 


Ward 4. 


1793 


1,448 


370 


721,858 


CHESHIRE. 


12 8 


Berkshire. 


2 Berkshire. 


1765 


i,3>8 


37S 


478.243 


CHESTER. 


12 S 


Berk. & Hamp 


I Hampden. 


1762 


69S 


.78 


294,521 


CHESTERFIELD. 


II 8 


Berk. &- Hamp 


2 Hampshire. 


1848 


11,528 


2,6ig 


6,072,300 


CHICOPEE. 


12 8 


2 Hampden. 


5 Hampden. 


1714 


412 


13' 


210,582 


CHILMARK. 


I I 


Cape. 


I Dukes. 


179S 


708 


'79 


223,343 


CLARKSBURG. 


12 


8 


Berkshire. 


I Berkshire. 


1850 


8,945 


2,626 


5,841,43s 


CLINTON. 


9 


7 


2 Worcester. 


13 Worcester. 


1770 


2,216 


603 


3.580,238 


COHASSET. 


2 


I 


I Plymouth. 


4 Plymouth. 


1761 


1,605 


406 


563.518 


COLRAIN. 


11 


8 


Franklin. 


5 Franklin. 


1635 


3.727 


940 


3.359.037 


CONCORD. 


8 


3 


2 Middlesex. 


19 Middlesex. 


1767 


1.573 


384 


757.606 


CONWAY. 


II 


8 


Franklin. 


4 Franklin. 


1880 


709 


234 


1,469.700 


COTTAGE CITY. 


I 


I 


Cape. 


I Dukes. 


1779 


805 


197 


308.277 


CUMMINGTON. 


II 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


2 Hampshire. 


1784 


2,113 


570 


i,gSi,6i4 


DALTON. 


12 


8 


Berkshire. 


4 Berkshire. 


I«OI 


695 


193 


296,450 


DANA. 


II 


7 


Wore. & Hamp 


3 Worcester. 


■757 


7,048 


1,860 


3.794.525 


DANVERS. 


7 


5 


5 Essex. 


22 Essex. 


1664 


3.448 


736 


1. 799.350 


DARTMOUTH. 


1 


1 


3 Bristol. 


7 Bristol. 


1636 


6,641 


1.754 


5,286,606 


DEDHAM. 


9 


2 


2 Norfolk. 


I Norfolk. 


1682 


3.042 


836 


1.293,018 


DEERFIELD. 


II 


8 


Franklin. 


4 Franklin. 


1793 


2,923 


829 


1,195.544 


DENNIS. 


I 


I 


Cape. 


I Barnstable. 


1712 


1,782 


487 


756,448 


DIGHTON. 


I 


I 


2 Bristol. 


10 Bristol. 


1746 


2,205 


554 


946,932 


DOUGLAS. 


10 


7 


3 Worcester. 


9 Worcester. 


1784 


664 


160 


887,885 


DOVER. 


9 


2 


2 Norfolk. 


9 Norfolk. 


1701 


1.927 


509 


1,368,148 


DRACUT. 


8 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


24 Middlesex. 


•731 


2,742 


637 


984.575 


DUDLEY. 


10 


7 


3 Worcester. 


7 Worcester. 


1673 


431 


117 


286,771 


DUNSTABLE. 


8 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


31 Jliddlesex. 


J637 


1,480 


512 


1. 213. 257 


DUXBURY. 


2 


I 


I Plymouth. 


2 Plymouth. 


1823 


2,Sl2 


845 


1,491.470 


E. BRIDGEWATER. 


2 


I 


2 Plymouth. 


9 Plymouth. 


1646 


638 


164 


226, 764 


EASTHAM. 


I 


I 


Cape. 


3 Barnstable. 


1785 


4,291 


938 


2,292.425 


EASTHAMPTON. 


II 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


I Hampshire. 


1725 


3.948 


1,170 


3.778,861 


EASTON. 


2 


2 


I Bristol. 


2 Bristol. 


1671 


1,165 


364 


712.050 


EDGARTOWN. 


I \ -1 


Cape. 


I Dukes. 


1760 


826 


236 


415,474 


EGREMONT. 


12 i 8 


Berk. &- Hamp 


6 Berkshire. 


1816 


1,010 


284 


611,980 


ENFIELD. 


II i 7 


Wore. & Hamp 


5 Hampshire. 


1838 


873 


294 


348,766 


ERVING. 


II 


8 


Franklin. 


2 Franklin. 


1819 


1,722 


483 


861,587 


ESSEX. 


7 


5 


3 Essex. 


10 Essex. 


1870 


5.825 


2,730 


7,210,300 


EVERETT. 


6 


6 


6 Middlesex. 


10 Middlesex. 


l8l2 


2,880 


602 


1.552,738 


FAIRHAVEN. 


I 


I 


3 Bristol. 

2 Bristol. >. 


4 Bristol. 
8 Bristol, 


1803 


56,863 


17,541 


49,841,691 


FAIL JtlVER. 


' 1 ' 


W'ds 1,2.3,4,6 
9 Bristol, 












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1 


W'ds 5, 7,8.9 



TOWN'S AND CITIES UF MASSACHUSETTS. 



703 





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CO 






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Cities. 


^5 

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u 


£5 


5 


h G 


1686 


2,520 


77' 


4,198,684 


FALMOUTH. 


I 


1 


Cape. 


1 Barnstable. 


1764 


15.375 


6,367 


14,810,768 


FiTrnnuRO. 


11 


7 


4 Worcester. 


15 Worcester. 


1805 


487 


137 


176,465 


FLORIDA, 


12 


8 


Berkshire. 


1 Berkshire. 


1778 


2,814 


772 


1,447,803 


FOXBOROUGH. 


9 


2 


2 Norfolk. 


8 Norfolk. 


1700 


8,275 


2,828 


7,504,500 


FRAMINGHAM. 


9 


6 


4 Middlesex. 


28 Middlesex. 


1778 


3,983 


1,124 


2,246,035 


FRANKLIN. 


9 


2 


2 Norfolk. 


8 Norfolk. 


1863 


I.4S7 


370 


860,965 


FREETOWN. 


I 


I 


3 Bristol. 


4 Bristol. 


1785 


7,283 


2,384 


4,017.422 


GARDNER. 


II 


7 


Wore. & Hamp 


2 Worcester. 


1870 


186 


29 


20.983 


GAY HEAD. 


1 


I 


Cape. 


1 Dukes. 


1838 


2,299 


598 


1,022,195 


GEORGETOWN. 


7 


5 


5 Essex. 


7 Essex. 


1793 


860 


223 


438,356 


GILL. 


11 


8 


Franklin. 


3 Franklin. 
10 Essex, W'ds 


1639 


21,713 


6,033 


'3,393,803 


GLOUCESTER. 


7 


5 


3 Essex. 


',3,4,5,6,7,8 
11 Essex, 
















W'd 2 


1 781 


336 


84 


135.823 


GOSHEN. 


11 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


2 Hampshire. 


1864 


122 


31 


206,565 


GOSNOLD. 


I 


I 


Cape. 


1 Dukes. 


1735 


4,498 


1,244 


2,241,695 


GRAFTON. 


10 


7 


2 Worcester. 


12 Worcester. 


1768 


729 


20S 


452,203 


GRANBY. 


11 


7 


Wore. &Hamp 


4 Hampshire. 


1754 


I, '93 


298 


350,548 


GRANVILLE. 


12 


8 


2 Hampden. 


1 Hampden. 


1761 


4,471 


1,247 


3.170,593 


GT. BARRINGTON. 


12 


8 


Berk. .S: Hamp 


6 Berkshire. 


'753 


4,869 


1,445 


4,781,287 


GREENFIELD. 


11 


8 


Franklin. 


1 Franklin. 


'754 


532 


'58 


265,253 


GREENWICH. 


11 


7 


Wore. ,& Hamp 


5 Hampshire. 


'655 


1,987 


53S 


2,9=7,037 


GROTON. 


8 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


31 Middlesex. 


1S50 


2,272 


575 


900.657 


GROVELAND. 


7 


5 


5 Essex. 


7 Essex. 


1661 


1,747 


448 


9S3.580 


HADLEY. 


11 


7 


Wore. & Hamp 


3 Hampshire. 


'734 


530 


142 


251,228 


HALIFAX. 


2 


1 


2 Plymouth. 


8 Plymouth. 


1792 


850 


251 


800,815 


HAMILTON. 


7 


5 


3 Essex. 


9 Essex. 


1S78 


868 


215 


4'3.=07 


HAMPDEN. 


12 


8 


2 Hampden. 


9 Hampden. 


1776 


6.3 




361,109 


HANCOCK. 


12 


8 


Berkshire. 


3 Berkshire. 


1727 


1,966 


576 


1,146.980 


HANOVER. 


2 


I 


I Plymouth. 


5 Plymouth. 


1820 


1,227 


396 


592,557 


HANSON. 


2 


1 


I Plymouih. 


3 Plymouth. 


1738 


3,145 


758 


1,368,823 


HARDWICK. 


10 


7 


Wore. & Hamp 


3 Worcester. 


1732 


1,184 


333 


947.096 


HARVARD. 


8 


7 


2 Worcester. 


13 Worcester. 


1694 


2,783 


789 


',oii,57S 


HARWICH. 


1 


I 


Cape. 


2 Barnstable. 


1670 


1,367 


369 


935,242 


HATFIELD. 


11 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


3 Hampshire. 
2 Essex, 


1645 


21,795 


6,878 

- 


17,166,392 


HAVERUILL. 


7 


5 


4 Essex. 


W'ds 1, 2,4, 6 
3 Essex, 

W'ds 3, s 


1792 


545 


157 


149,979 


HAWLEY. 


11 


8 


Franklin. 


Franklin. 


'7S5 


568 


149 


170. '39 


HEATH. 


11 


8 


Franklin. 


Franklin. 


■63s 


4.375 


1,160 


3,666,060 


HINGHAM. 


2 


1 


1 Plymouth. 


4 Plymouth. 


1804 


1,656 


470 


719.297 


HINSDALE. 


12 


8 


Berkshire. 


3 Berkshire. 


1872 


2,334 


699 


1,075,640 


HOLBROOK. 


2 


2 


1 Norfolk. 


6 Norfolk. 


1740 


2,470 


678 


1,060,395 


HOLDEN. 


10 


7 


4 Worcester. 


4 Worcester. 


J 78s 


229 


53 


9S.502 


HOLLAND. 


10 


8 


1 Hampden. 


10 Hampden. 


1724 


2,926 


754 


1,585^093 


HOLLISTON. 


9 


6 


4 Middlesex. 

1 


28 iMiddlesex. 
3 Hampden. 


1850 


27,894 


8,053 


21,195,950 


UOIjYOKE. 


XI 


8 


2 Hampden. -J 

1 


W'ds 6,7 
4 Hampden, 
W'ds 1,2,3,4,5 


1886 




381 


1,124,228 


HOPEDALE. 


9 


7 


2 Worcester. 


11 Worcester. 


IT'S 


3,922 


1,107 


2,222,035 


HOPKINTON. 


9 


6 


4 Middlesex. 


27 Middlesex. 


1767 


1,303 


398 


7".4SO 


HUBBARDSTON. 


11 


7 


Wore. & Hamp 


4 Worcester. 


1866 


3,968 


1,328 


2,281.770 


HUDSON. 


9 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


29 .Middlesex. 


1644 


45' 


210 


2,358,031 


HULL. 


2 


I 


I Plymouth. 


4 Plymouth. 


1773 


1,267 


355 


483,S'5 


HUNTINGTON. 


11 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


2 Hampshire. 


1868 


8,400 


2,45' 


7, '20,543 


HYDE PARK. 


9 


2 


I Norfolk. 


3 Norfolk. 


1634 


4,207 


937 


2,328,898 


IPSWICH. 


7 


5 


T, Essex. 


9 Essex. 


1726 


1,570 


479 


1,758,216 


KINGSTON. 


2 


I 


1 Plymouth. 


2 Plymouth. 


1853 


980 


255 


45',8,;4 


LAKEVILLE. 


I 


I 


2 Plymouth. 


8 Plymouth. 


1653 


2,050 


509 


2,715,096 


LANCASTER. 


8 


7 


4 Worcester. 


13 Worcester. 


176s 


1,212 


304 


547,548 


LANESBOROUGH. 


12 


8 


Berkshire. 

f 


3 Berkshire. 

4 Essex, 


1847 


38,845 


11,130 


29,640,947 


LA WREXCE. 


8 


6 


6 Essex. 


W'ds 1, 2, 3 
5 Essex, 
W'ds 4, 5, 6 
















1 


■777 


4,274 


954 


1,978,138 


LEE. 


12 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


5 Berkshire. 


'713 


2,923 


864 


1,945,423 


LEICESTER. 


10 


7 


3 Worcester. 


6 Worcester. 


1767 


2,154 


605 


2,729,318 


LENOX. 


12 


8 


Berkshire. 


3 Berkshire. 


1740 


5,297 


2,118 


4,253,045 


LEOMINSTER. 


II 


7 


4 Worcester. 


14 Worcester. 


1774 


779 


227 


279,275 


LEVERETT. 


" 


8 


Franklin. 


4 Franklin. 


1712 


2,718 


863 


3,193,052 


LEXINGTON. 


5 


3 


2 Middlesex. 


ig Middlesex. 



704 



TOWNS AM) CITIES OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



a 

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2 §8 


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5 


Towns 


J 
< 




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2 ^ 


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Cities. 


go 

6 


55 




^ 


J 809 


447 


95 


■75,966 


LEYDEN. 


II 


1 8 


Franklin. 


5 Franklin. 


1754 


901 


299 


i,3S5,:oo 


LINCOLN. 


9 


3 


2 Middlesex. 


19 Middlesex. 


1714 


1,067 


297 


76S, 770 


LITTLETON 


8 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


30 Middlesex. 


1783 


1,677 


852 


1,042,385 


LONGMEADOW. 


12 


8 


2 Hampden. 


9 Hampden. 

21 Middlesex, 

W'd I 

22 Middlesex, 

W'd 2 


1826 


64,051 


18,975 


59,742,419 


1,0 n JELL. 


8 


6 


7 Middlesex. - 


23 Middlesex. 

W'd 3 

24 Middlesex. 


































W'ds 4, 5 


















25 Middlesex, 


















W'd 6 


1774 


1,649 


400 


848 939 


LUDLOW. 


12 


8 


2 Hampden. 


10 Hampden. 


1728 


1,071 


297 


682,291 


LUNENBURG. 


8 


7 


4 M'orcester. 

f 

r Essex, ' 
\Vds2,3,4,5! 

5 Essex, 1 
W'ds 1, 6, 7 


14 Worcester. 
17 Essex, 

W'ds 2, 3 
iS Essex,W'd4 


1637 


45,S6i 


16,077 


40,024,867 


JyTKX. 


6 


5- 


19 Essex, 

W'ds 1, 5 


















20 Essex, 
















1 


W'ds 6, 7 


1782 


766 


207 


558,219 


LYNNFIELD. 


7 


5 


S Essex. 


ig Essex. 


1649 


16,407 


6,085 


16,133,538 


MALDJJX. 


6 


6 


6 Middlesex. 


9 Middlesex. 


1645 


i,t,j8 


453 


7,101,601 


MANCHESTER. 


7 


5 


3 Essex. 


10 Essex, 


1770 


2,9J9 


907 


1,453,622 


MANSFIELD. 


2 


2 


1 Bristol. 


2 Bristol, 


1649 


7,5 '8 


2,387 


4,609,752 


MARBLEHEAD. 


7 


5 


2 Essex. 


16 Essex, 


1852 


965 


226 


837,390 


MARION. 


1 


I 


2 Plymouth. 


7 Plymouth. 


1660 


10,941 


3.553 


5,474,090 


MARLBOROUGH. 


9 


6 


4 Middlesex. 


29 Middlesex. 


1640 


1,649 


493 


1,098,900 


MARSHFIELD. 


2 


1 


1 Plymoutli. 


2 r^lymouth. 


1870 


3" 


8[ 


159,920 


MASHPEE. 


I 


I 


Cape. 


I Barnstable. 


1857 


1,215 


3'6 


1,544,124 


MATTAPOISETT. 


1 


I 


2 Plymouth. 


7 Plymouth. 


187 1 


2,703 


73" 


1,950,373 


MAYNARD. 


9 


6 


4 Middlesex. 


30 .Middlesex, 


1651 


1,594 


444 


1,196,061 


MEDFIELD. 


9 


2 


2 Norfolk. 


9 .Norfolk, 


1630 


9,041 


2,878 


9279.715 


MEDFORD. 


6 


3 


I Middlesex. 


8 Middlesex. 


171J 


2,777 


788 


1,315.345 


MEDWAY. 


9 


2 


2 Norfolk. 


8 Norfolk. 


1S50 


6,101 


2,195 


6,435,620 


MELROSE. 


6 


6 


6 Middlesex. 


II .Middlesex. 


1667 


945 


265 


551,524 


MENDON. 


9 


7 


2 Worcester. 


1 1 Worcester. 


1876 


2,378 


866 


1,359,296 


MERRIMAC. 


7 


5 


4 Essex. 


1 Essex. 


1728 


4,507 


1,178 


3,054 920 


METHUEN. 


8 


6 


6 Essex. 


3 Essex. 


1669 


5,173 


1,658 


3,046,366 


MIDDLEBOROUGH 


I 


I 


2 Plymouth. 


8 Plymouth. 


17S3 


513 


127 


263,975 


MIDDLEFIELD. 


11 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


2 Hampshire. 


1728 


899 


267 


560, 133 


MIDDLETON. 


7 


5 


5 Essex. 


22 llssex. 


1780 


9,313 


2,561 


4,844,411 


MILFORD, 


9 


7 


2 Worcester. 


1 1 \\'orce5ter. 


1813 


4,555 


I, '39 


1,997,868 


MILLBURY. 


10 


7 


3 Worcester. 


9 Worcester. 


1885 


6S3 


217 


492,775 


MILLIS. 


9 


2 


2 Norfolk. 


9 Norfolk. 


1662 


3,555 


974 


13,521,433 


MILTON. 


3 


2 


1 Norfolk. 


4 Norfolk. 


1822 


176 


109 


77,349 


MONROE. 


11 


8 


Franklin. 


5 l.'ranklin. 


1763 


3.958 


S75 


1 , 769, 206 


MONSON. 


12 


8 


I Hampden. 


9 Hampden. 


1753 


5,628 


i,6;6 


3,256,097 


MONTAGUE. 


11 


8 


Franklin. 


3 Franklin. 


1847 


571 


137 


221,638 


MONTEREY. 


12 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


7 Berkshire. 


1780 


278 


94 


147,335 


MONTGOMERY. 


12 


8 


2 Hampden. 


2 Hampden. 


1779 


160 


45 


78,512 


MX. WASHINGTON. 


12 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


7 Berkshire. 


1853 


637 


187 


. 4,583,149 


NAHANT. 


6 


5 


I Essex. 


iS Essex. 


16S7 


3,143 


889 


2,908,319 


NANTUCKET. 


I 


I 


Cape. 


Nantucket. 


1762 


8,460 


2,625 


5,314,300 


NATICK. 


9 


6 


4 Middlesex. 


26 Middlesex. 


1711 


2,586 


842 


2,193,411 


NEEDHAM. 


9 


2 


2 Norfolk. 


9 Norfolk. 


1781 


163 


46 


81,150 


NE\V ASHFORD. 


J2 


8 


Berkshire. 


I Berkshire. 
5 Bristol, 


1787 


33,393 


9,972 


34,647,666 


XEir TIEDFORD. 


1 


I 


3 Bristol. 


\\''ds 1, 2, 3 
6 Bristol, 
















W'ds 4, 5,6 


1751 


558 


161 


452,55s 


NEW BRAINTREE. 


2 


■ 7 


Wor. & Hamp 


5 W^orcester. 


1635 


',590 


370 


964,046 


NEWBURY. 


7 


5 


3 Essex 
3 Essex, 


8 Essex. 


1764 


13,716 


3,938 


9,221,070 


XE WJS UIl IPO It T. 


7 


s] 


W'ds 1, 2. 
4 Essex. 
W'ds3,4, 5,6,7 


8 Essex. 


'759 


1,661 


348 


618,183 


NEW MARLBORO'. 


12 


8 


Berk. & HampS| 


7 Berkshire. 


I7S3 


832 


223 


289,970 


NEW SALEM. 


11 


S 


Franklin. 


2 I-Vanklin. 


168S 


19,759 


6,185 


34,654,672 


XEWTOy. 


9 


3 


2 Middlesex. 


17 Middlesex. 


1870 


825 


249 


481,893 


NORFOLK. 


9 


2 


2 Norfolk. 


8 Norfolk. 


1878 


12,540 


3.856 


5.883,647 


NORTH ADAMS. 


12 


8 


Berkshire. | 


1 Berkshire. 



TOWNS AND CITIES OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



705 



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s 
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It 


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KG 

a. 

OS 


1654 


12,896 


3.455 


9.494.493 


nOHTflAMl'TON. 


II 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


I Hampshire. 


1855 


3.425 


972 


2,460,896 


N. ANDOVER. 


8 


5 


5 Essex. 


6 Essex. 






1.6/5 


3.702.359 


N. ATTLEBOROUGH 


2 


2 


I Bristol. 


I Bristol. 


1766 


1.853 


527 


1,267,354 


NORTHBOROUGH. 


9 


7 


2 Worcester. 


[2 Worcester. 


1772 


3.785 


1,182 


2,134.315 


NORTHBRIDGE. 


10 


7 


2 Worcester. 


10 Worcester. 


1812 


4,201 


1,218 


1.932,935 


N. BROOKFIELD. 


10 


7 


3 Worcester. 


5 Worcester. 


1713 


1. 70s 


437 


764,710 


NORTHFIELD. 


11 


8 


Franklin. 


3 Franklin. 


1853 


878 


230 


503.400 


N. READING. 


8 


6 


6 JIiddlese.x. 


20 Middlesex. 


I7II 


1,718 


392 


785.775 


NORTON. 


2 


2 


I Bristol. 


1 Bristol. 


1849 


1.589 


475 


876,549 


NORWELL. 


2 


I 


1 Plymouth. 


3 Plymouth, 


1872 


2,921 


1, 096 


2,423,406 


NORWOOD. 


9 


2 


2 Norfolk. 


I Norfolk, 


1762 


749 


208 


347.419 


OAKHAM. 


10 


7 


Wor. &■ Hamp 


5 Worcester. 


1810 


3.650 


1,404 


1,974.420 


ORANGE. 


11 


8 


Franklin. 


2 Franklin. 


1797 


1,176 


343 


470,451 


ORLEANS. 


1 


I 


Cape. 


2 Barnstable. 


1810 


703 


180 


217.375 


OTIS. 


12 


8 


Berk. c*t Hamp 


7 Berkshire. 


I7'3 


2.3S5 


769 


■.337.034 


OXFORD. 


10 


7 


3 Worcester. 


8 Worcester. 


1752 


S.923 


1,512 


2.577.669 


PALMER. 


12 


8 


1 Hampden. 


10 Hampden. 


1765 


561 


145 


288,781 


PAXTON. 


10 


7 


3 Worcester. 


4 Worcester. 


■855 


9.530 


2,474 


7,094,100 


PEABODY. 


7 


5 


5 Essex. 


2 1 Essex. 


1742 


549 


126 


164,508 


PELHAM. 


11 


7 


Wor. & Ham]) 


5 Hampshire. 


1711 


i.3'3 


408 


645.139 


PEMBROKE. 


2 


1 


I Plymouth. 


3 Plymouth. 


'753 


2.587 


910 


1,674,848 


PEPPERELL. 


8 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


31 Middlesex. 


J771 


368 


95 


121,066 


PERU. 


12 


8 


Berkshire. 


3 Berkshire. 


"75* 


I,OJ2 


290 


6oo,g.So 


PETERSHAM. 


11 


7 


Wor. & Hamp 


3 Worcester. 


1786 


530 


150 


272,164 


PHILLIPSTON. 


II 


7 


Wor. & Hamp 


1 \\'orcester. 


1761 


1,446 


4,665 


9,920,249 


PITTSFIELD. 


12 


8 


Berkshire. 


4 Berkshire. 


1785 


453 


147 


148,992 


PLAINFIELD, 


II 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


2 Hampshire. 


1620 


7.239 


2,080 


5.487.500 


PLYMOUTH. 


2 


1 


1 Plymouth. 


1 Plymoulli. 


1707 


600 


.67 


288,029 


PLYMPTON. 


2 


1 


I Plymouth. 


2 Ph'mouth. 


1822 


448 


141 


172.024 


PRESCOTT. 


II 


7 


Wor. & Hamp 


5 Hampshire. 


1771 


1.038 


292 


803,701 


PRINCETON. 


10 


7 


4 Worcester. 


4 Worcester. 


17"7 


4,480 


1.356 


2,265.208 


PROVINCETOWN. 


1 


I 


Cape. 


3 Barnstable. 


1792 


12,144 


4.310 


12,319.245 


OVISCT. 


2 


2 


I Norfolk. 


5 Norfolk. 


1793 


3.807 


1.183 


2,03-5,060 


RANDOLPH. 


2 


2 


I Norfolk. 


7 Norfolk. 


1731 


1.535 


361 


832,869 


RAYNHAM. 


2 


2 


1 Bristol. 


2 Bristol. 


1644 


3.539 


959 


2,630,827 


READING. 


6 


6 


6 .Middlesex. 


14 Middlesex. 


1645 


1,788 


460 


733.810 


REHOBOTH. 


I 


I 


2 Bristol. 


10 Bristol. 


1848 


3.637 


1.342 


4,078,605 


REVERE. 


6 


3 


I Suffolk. 


27 Suffolk. 


1765 


854 


216 


482.828 


RICHMOND. 


12 


8 


Berkshire. 


3 Berkshire. 


1686 


1,021 


221 


476, 100 


ROCHESTER. 


I 


1 


2 Plymouth. 


7 Plymouth. 


1S74 


4.784 


1,601 


2.503.361 


ROCKLAND. 


2 


1 


1 Plymouth. 


5 Plymouth. 


1840 


3,888 


1,226 


2,073,253 


ROCKPORT. 


7 


5 


3 Essex. 


1 c Essex. 


178s 


582 


194 


199.951 


ROWE. 


II 


8 


Franklin. 


S Franklin. 


1639 


1.183 


385 


575.940 


ROWLEY. 


7 


5 


3 Essex. 


9 Essex. 


1765 


1. 153 


347 


623.161 


ROYALSTON. 


11 


8 


Franklin. 


I Worcester. 


1792 


847 


209 


452.570 


RUSSELL. 


12 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


2 Hampden. 


1713 


963 


308 


484.963 


RUTLAND. 


10 


7 


W^or. & Hamp 


3 A\'orcester. 
13 Essex, 

Wds I, 2 


1629 


28,084 


8,331 


26.055.551 


SAZE3I. 


7 


5 


2 Essex. ^ 


14 Essex, 

Wds 3, 5 

15 Essex, 

W'ds 4, 6 


1640 


4,840 


302 


550.275 


SALISBURY. 


7 


5 


4 Essex. 


I Essex. 


1762 


1,019 


232 


386,581 


SANDISFIELD. 


12 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


7 Berkshire. 


1639 


2,124 


464 


898,350 


SANDWICH. 


1 


I 


Cape. 


I Barnstable. 


181S 


2,855 


971 


2,390,861 


SAUGUS. 


6 


5 


5 Essex. 


20 Essex. 


1797 


691 


174 


176,104 


SAVOY. 


12 


8 


Berkshire. 


2 Berkshire. 


1636 


2,350 


643 


1,865,710 


SCITUATE. 


2 


1 


I Plymouth. 


3 Plymouth. 


1812 


1.295 


320 


811,900 


SEEKONK. 


1 


2 


1 Bristol. 


1 Bristol. 


1765 


J. 328 


378 


1,121.641 


SHARON. 


2 


2 


2 Norfolk. 


7 Norfolk. 


"733 


2,033 


483 


goo. 060 


SHEFFIELD. 


12 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


7 Berkshire. 


1768 


1,614 


428 


896,660 


SHELBURNE. 


II 


8 


Franklin. 


1 Franklin. 


1674 


1.39' 


317 


858,2^^ 


SHERBORN. 


9 


6 


4 Middlesex. 


28 Middlesex. 


1753 


1,242 


329 


667.656 


SHIRLEY. 


8 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


32 Middlesex. 


1727 


1,450 


413 


1.076.700 


SHREWSBURY. 


10 


7 


2 Worcester. 


12 \\'orcester. 


1 761 


485 


119 


154.189 


SHUTESBURY. 


11 


8 


Franklin. 


2 Franklin. 


1790 


2.475 


612 


1.012,433 


SOMERSET. 


I 


1 


2 Bristol. 


10 Bristol. 
5 Middlesex. 
A\-ard i . 


1842 


29,992 


10,122 


30,004,600 


SOMKIiVTLLE. 


5 


3 


I Middlesex. • 

1 

1 


6 Middlesex. 
Ward 2. 

7 Middlesex, 
Wards 3. 4. 



7o6 



TOWNS AND CITIES OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



OS 

g 

X 

c 
u 
z 


Population. 
Census 18S5. 


2 




C 
H 
< 

< 
> 


Towns 

AND 

Cities. 


li 


u 


6° 


.4 


h 


1753 


1.025 


273 


491,991 


SOUTHAMPTON. 


II 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


I Hampshire. 


1727 


2,100 


637 


1,453.895 


SOUTHBOROUGH. 


9 


7 


2 Worcester. 


12 Worcester. 


1816 


6,501 


1.588 


3,217,294 


SOUTHBRIDGE. 


10 


7 


3 Worcester. 


7 Worcester. 


1753 


3.949 


1,127 


1,800,519 


SOUTH HADLEY. 


II 


7 


Wore. & Hamp 


3 Hampshire. 


1770 


982 


271 


555.643 


SOUTHWICK. 


12 


8 


2 Hampden. 


I Hampden. 


1753 


8,247 


2,029 


4,065,516 


SPENCER. 


10 


7 


3 Worcester. 


6 Worcester. 
6 Hampden, 
Wards I, 4, 8. 


1636 


37.577 


12,126 


42,073,575 


SPRINGFIELD. 


12 


8 


I Hampden. ' 


7 Hampden, 
Ward 5. 

8 Hampden, 
Wards 2. ■^, 6, 7. 


I78I 


1. 331 


375 


882,762 


STERLING. 


10 


7 


4 W^orcester. 


13 Worcester. 


1739 


2. 113 


5'2 


2.695,832 


STOCKBRIDGE. 


12 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


5 Berkshire. 


172s 


S.652 


1,721 


3.281,950 


STONEHAM. 


6 


6 


6 Middlesex. 


12 Middlesex. 


1726 


5.183 


1.347 


2,196,906 


STOUGHTON. 


2 


2 


2 Norfolk. 


7 Norfolk. 


1683 


976 


279 


846,177 


STOW. 


8 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


30 Middlesex. 


173* 


1,981 


480 


986,814 


STURBRIDGE. 


10 


7 


3 Worcester. 


5 Worcester. 


1629 


1,165 


378 


1,126,235 


SUDBURY. 


9 


6 


4 Middlesex. 


29 Middlesex. 


1714 


700 


210 


416,284 


SUNDERLAND. 


11 


8 


Franklin. 


4 Franklin. 


1715 


3,ioi 


688 


1,312,482 


SUTTON. 


10 


7 


3 Worcester. 


9 Worcester. 


1852 


2,471 


700 


4,038,732 


SWAMPSCOTT. 


6 


5 


I Essex, 


17 Essex. 


1667 


1,403 


399 


732,950 


SWANSEA. 


5 


I 


2 Bristol. 


10 Biisiol. 


1639 


23.674 


6,708 


17,391,576 


TA VXTON. 


2 


2 


I Bristol. 


3 Bristol. 


1762 


2,627 


880 


1,115,871 


TEMPLETON. 


II 


7 


Wore. & Hamp 


2 Worcester. 


1732 


2.323 


436 


1,304,198 


TEWKSBURY. 


8 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


20 Middlesex. 


1671 


1. 54' 


426 


810,460 


TISBURY. 


I 


I 


Cape. 


I Dukes. 


I8I0 


422 


96 


166, III 


TOLLAND. 


12 


8 


2 Hampden. 


I Hampden. 


1650 


I,T4I 


27s 


1.069,555 


TOPSFIELD. 


7 


5 


3 Essex. 


7 Essex. 


1732 


1,846 


518 


992,841 


TOWNSEND. 


8 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


32 Middlesex. 


1709 


972 


272 


327.925 


TRURO. 


I 


I 


Cape. 


3 Barnstable. 


1789 


604 


191 


357.189 


TYNGSBOROUGH. 


8 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


24 Middlesex. 


1762 


457 


"3 


228,111 


TYRINGHAM. 


12 


8 


Berk. & Hamp 


7 Berkshire. 


1735 


2.265 


550 


885,729 


UPTON. 


10 


7 


2 Worcester. 


ro Worcester. 


1727 


2,948 


920 


2,020,620 


UXBRIDGE. 


10 


7 


2 Worcester. 


10 Worcester. 


I8I2 


6,060 


1,945 


4,482,545 


WAKEFIELD. 


6 


6 


6 Middlesex. 


13 Middlesex. 


1762 


853 


224 


293.550 


WALES. 


10 


8 


1 Hampden. 


9 Hampden. 


1724 


2.443 


766 


1,831.423 


WALPOLE. 


9 


2 


2 Norfolk. 


7 Norfolk. 


1737 


14,609 


5.014 


13,958,830 


WALTIIAJl. 


5 


3 


2 Middlesex. 


18 .Middlesex. 


I76I 


6,003 


i,5'9 


3.663,541 


WARE. 


II 


7 


Wore. & Hamp 


5 Hampshire. 


1739 


3.254 


679 


1,611,105 


WAREHAM. 


I 


I 


2 Plymouth. 


7 Plymouth. 


I74I 


4,03' 


1,271 


2,370,628 


WARREN. 


10 


7 


3 Worcester. 


5 Worcester. 


^793 
1777 


662 


169 


276,575 


WARWICK. 


II 


8 


Franklin. 


2 Franklin. 


470 


124 


203,030 


WASHINGTON. 


12 


8 


Berkshire. 


3 Berkshire. 


1630 


6.238 


1,912 


7,038,503 


WATERTOWN. 


5 


3 


2 Middlesex. 


16 Middlesex. 


1780 


1,946 


612 


1,477,565 


WAYLAND, 


9 


6 


4 Middlesex. 


28 Middlesex. 


1832 


6,220 


1. 741 


2,485,965 


WEBSTER. 


10 


7 


3 ^\■orcester. 


8 Worcester. 


1S81 


3.013 


760 


5,677.587 


WELLESLEY. 


9 


2 


2 Norfolk. 


9 Norfolk. 


1763 


1,637 


386 


616,016 


WELLFLEET. 




I 


Cape. 


3 Barnstable. 


1781 


509 


151 


218,837 


WENDELL. 


II 


8 


Franklin. 


3 Franklin. 


1643 


871 


254 


549.225 


WENHAM. 


7 


5 


5 Essex. 


9 Essex. 


1717 
1808 


4,880 


1,384 


2,616,098 


WESTBOROUGH. 


9 


7 


2 Worcester. 


12 Worcester. 


2.927 


669 


1,174.610 


WEST BOYLSTON. 


10 


7 


4 Worcester. 


13 Worcester. 


1822 


1,707 


468 


993,845 


W. BRIDGEWATER. 


2 


1 


2 Plymouth. 


9 Plymouth 


1848 


1.747 


455 


790.376 


W. BROOKFIELD. 


10 


7 


3 Worcester. 


5 Worcester. 


1669 


8,961 


2.734 


6.749.542 


WESTFIELD. 


12 


8 


2 Hampden. 


2 Hampden. 


1729 


2,193 


528 


1,074.750 


WESTFORD. 


8 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


3[ Middlesex. 


1778 


541 


128 


252,198 


WESTHAMPTON. 


II 


8 


Berk. &Hamps 


2 Hampshire. 


1770 


1,556 


471 


767,622 


WESTMINSTER. 


II 


7 


4 Worcester. 


4 Worcester. 


1820 


1,899 


521 


925,023 


WEST NEWBURY. 


7 


5 


3 Essex. 


I Essex. 


1712 


1,427 


496 


2,191,080 


WESTON. 


9 


6 


4 Middlesex. 


18 Middlesex. 


17S7 


2,706 


752 


1,255,300 


WESTPORT. 


I 


1 


3 Bristol. 


7 Bristol. 


1774 


4.448 


1,286 


3,359,667 


W. SPRINGFIELD. 


12 


8 


2 Hampden. 


2 Hampden. 


1774 


1.648 


436 


652,047 


W. STOCKBRIDGE. 


12 


8 


Berk. .S: Hamps 


6 Berkshire. 


1635 


10,740 


3.049 


6.074,185 


WEYMOUTH. 


2 


2 


I Norfolk. 


5 Norfolk. 


1771 


999 


249 


395.295 


WHATELY. 


II 


8 


Franklin. 


4 Franklin. 


1875 


3.595 


1.365 


2,946,400 


WHITMAN. 


2 


I 


I Plymouth. 


6 Plymouth. 


1763 


1.724 


440 


761,201 


WILBRAHAM. 


12 


8 


I Hampden. 


9 Hampden. 


1771 


2.044 


497 


882,767 


WILLI AMSBURGH. 


II 


S 


Beik.& Hamps 


3 Hampshire. 


1763 


3.729 


877 


2,076.264 


WILLIAMSTOWN. 


12 


8 


Berkshire. 


1 Berkshire. 


1730 


991 


318 


656,705 


WILMINGTON. 


8 


6 


6 Middlesex. 


20 Middlesex. 


1764 


3.872 


1,224 


2,016.677 


WINCHENDON. 


II 


8 


Franklin. 


2 Worcester. 


1850 


4.390 


1,260 


4,503,292 


WINCHESTER. 


6 


3 


I Middlesex. 


15 Middlesex. 


1771 


657 


170 


207.047 


WINDSOR. 


12 


8 


Berkshire. 


3 Berkshire. 



TOWNS AND riTIKS OK M ASS.\CHUS?rrTS. 



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S 




25 












6 


3 




ci 


1852 


1.370 


6S4 


3,278,465 


WINTHROP. 


[ Suffolk. 


27 Suffolk. 


1642 


11,750 


3.725 


8,692,463 


»OJ{ UllN. 


5 


6 


5 Middlesex. 


14 Middlesex. 

16 Worcester, 

W'd I 

17 Worcester, 

W'd 2 
iS Worcester, 


1684 


68,383 


23,228 


69.352,101 


WORCESTER. 


10 


7- 


I Worcester, 
Wards 1,4, 5, 

6, 7, 8. 
4 Worcester, 
Wards 2, 3. 


W'd 3 

19 Worcester, 

W'd 4 

20 Worcester, 

W'd 5 

21 Worcester, 

W'd 6 

22 Worcester, 

1 W'd 7 

23 Worcester, 

1 W'd 8 


1768 


763 


206 


3' 1,957 


WORTHINGTOM. 


II 


8 


Berk. & Hamps 


2 Hampshire. 


lb?-? 


2,710 


705 


1,351,133 


WRENTHAM. 


9 


2 


2 Norfolk. 


8 Norfolk. 


1639 


1,856 


535 


1,607,098 


YARMOUTH. 


I 


I 


Cape. 


I Barnstable. 



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